Baking with Merry

                              Happy Valentine's Day I had two cakes in my mind for baking on Valentine's Day - a Tiramisu Cake and a Strawberry Vanilla Cake. When I asked my Valentine, he preferred former. Unfortunately, I didnt have the mascarpone cheese. So decided to bake the latter....*smiles*...Afterall, it should be all red on Valentine rt?? Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: Parita's World and Spicy Tasty For the Cake All purpose flour - 225gms Condensed milk - 400 gms (1 tin) Vanilla essence - 1 tsp White unsalted butter - 125 gms Baking powder - 1 tsp Baking Soda - 1 tsp Plain Soda - 200 ml For Decoration Heavy Whipping Cream - 400ml Icing sugar - 1/2 cup Pure vanilla essence - 1 tbsp Gelatin - 2 tsp Cold water - 8 tsp For Sugar Syrup Water - 1/2 cup Sugar - 4 tbsps Strawberry essence - 1 tsp Method: Preparing the Cake Preheat oven to 170 C. Sieve the flour, baking podwer and baking soda together and keep aside. Beat together the

This month is a month of disasters for me when it comes to baking...*sigh*......two burnt brownies (smoky oven,narrowly escaped from putting it on fire..phew!); a failed caramel custard (burned my fingers in the process).....Too much of wastes--waste of products, my time and my efforts!!!But you learn through your mistakes....rt??So, all these failures were a kind of lessons to me....*sigh* Luckily I was able to prepare a Tiramisu without much fuss....*smiles*.......I had read about this dessert in many of the blogs I follow, but hadn't given it a try, eventhough the pictures were tempting. Then a few months back, I got to taste it, when dining in an Italian restaurant. It was soo delicious and creamilicious!!! So presenting this sweet Italian dessert to all Tiramisu lovers (and to myself, as an encouragement for all the failures *winks*)....And ya, this is my 25th post.....So Enjoy!!! Ingredients: Recipe Source: Good Housekeeping Hot Water - 2/3 cup Brandy/Rum - 2