SEC-S10W2: My favorite cake: Chocolate and Cream Cake

Cakes have a love language because they're being cut on a special occasions when people are happy and trying to show love like on: Birthdays, weddings, and Parties.

At first, cakes were only cut on birthday celebrations. Then it became a compulsory thing to cut on weddings: preferably on receptions.

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These days people have cakes on religious festival too like Eids. People also take the cakes to their relatives while paying them a visit.

Now you would hardly see any person who would refuse to eat. Cakes have become the culture and it's the best thing happened on the earth.

^{A Birthday Cake}

^{Feeling happy? Eat cake

Feeling sad? Eat cake

Feeling excited? Eat cake

Feeling boring? Eat cake

Got promotion? Eat cake

Brokeup? Eat cake to forget your Ex}

Which cake do you prefer and why?

I prefer chocolate cake over any other cake. However there comes a time when chocolate cakes don't feel good or maybe it's the weather that makes them so(in summers mostly).

During these days i like fresh cream cakes. Also when i am on anyone's birthday, i would eat any cake.
I just simply don't refuse to eat cake whether i like it or not. And that's fair enough tell you that i how much i love cakes.

^{The girl who would gulp in chocolate cake but would not spare cream cake too, you feel me?}

^{Cream Cake}

What is your favorite cake that you make at home? If making it at home then what kind of items are required to make this cake and what is the procedure?

My favourite cake to bake at home is Chocolate cake. You can say that anything having chocolate in it, is the love of a girl's life.

When i started baking cakes after watching YouTube videos, it sucked practically. My cakes were not rising evenly, one side of the cake was always taller than the other side. Which always made me cringe but i never quit on them.

^{Home made}

One of my best cakes was the one i made on my sister's birthday. Everything was just perfect from sugar to cocoa powder and baking soda.

It's main ingredients are:

Flour
Sugar
Eggs
Cocoa powder
Baking Powder
Chocolate
Cream

^Ingredients

Recepie

I took flour, 2 cups roughly, added 3-4 eggs in it, and started beating it until it became fluffy.
Next, you need castor sugar which should be less than the flour or it depends on your taste.
Add one tea spoon of baking powder in the sugar and mix it.
Add one cup of cocoa powder in the sugar.
Add one cup of milk on room temperature in the flour and mix it slowly to avoid the lumps.
Now add your dry mixture gradually in the batter and mix it gently.
Add vegetable oil or Fresh butter on room temperature in the batter to make the cake extra soft and tasty.
You can Add vanilla extract for its aroma, just a few drops would be enough for this.
Next take your mould and grease it using butter or oil.
Place the mould containing batter inside a pre-heated oven or you can make it in any container on the stove.
Check your cake after 25-30 minutes for the first time. Then keep checking it using tooth pick, when it comes out clean, your cake is ready.
After first 20 minutes of baking keep your flame low.
I used whipped cream and melted chocolate to make topping cream for the cake. Just whip the cream with castor sugar and melted chocolate to make it fluffy. Keep it in the freezer and spread on the cake when chilled.

^{Dark Beauty}

If ordering from outside then which brand of cake you order. And share how much it costs in your country's money and how much steem you get when converted to steem?

When there is a family get together on birthdays we order it from a shop. Because in panic a baking can go wrong. A week ago we ordered two cakes from Cakes and Bakes.

^Ordered

A two pounds Fresh Cream cake with Almond's topping.
Another was Chocolate cake of one pound.

Price of cake	In Pkr	In Steem
💱	2300pkr	51-52steem

What special occasions do you usually make or order cakes at home?

When it comes to baking we just bake it depending upon someone's birthday or good weather or a good mood.

Nice weather especially encourages to bake. When we want a proper celebration we order.

Last year on my birthday we ordered chocolate cake from Gourmet. However, we didn't like it much, mainly for its hard and dry sponge.

A good cake should be soft and juicy which should melt as you eat.

That's why next time we order again from cakes and Bakes on my sister's birthday in December. It's more fun to eat cakes in chilly winter nights.

^{Sister's Chocolatecake}

Why do you think cake is so popular compared to other desserts?

Because it takes a lot of effort, practice and expertise to bake a cake. Which makes it worthy than other desserts in my opinion.

More decorations are done on cakes than any other dessert.

You can bake a cake and serve it like it is an Eiffel tower. You can give it any shape, size, and height which makes it unique than any dessert.

^{Nephew's Cream cake}

Finally, it's the softness and taste of the sponge that makes it likeable for every age group.

Cakes are easy to eat and that makes all the difference in the world of other desserts

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