CURRY AND SPICE: BUTTERCUP CARDAMOM CAKE

Monday, 9 December 2019

BUTTERCUP CARDAMOM CAKE

This home loves Swiss rolls, butter scotch / strawberry / vanilla cream cakes, my baked plain cakes. They would love to have a swiss roll made by me, this mediocre hardly ventures out of known area. Baking plain cakes & cookies I started in my teens, that too in an electric, round oven meant for basic cakes. That had high possibilities of electrical shortages, yet I used it on weekends until marriage. I think the totally damaged one is kept in storage loft of my parental home. Our mother is not in habit of throwing off stuffs, how much I say. Else that home could be beautifully decorated.

I believe we need not have money but aesthetic sense to decor home. Like I do not spend at all on home decor, may be because of family I belong to; the other reason is my aversion to spend my husband's hard money. I cannot be spendthrift because no one in my side of the family are, we value money. In such scenario, my urge to blog about simpler, homely recipes using regular ingredients in kitchen is quite natural. This vegetarian cake BUTTERCUP CARDAMOM CAKE is one. We get here varied kind of fruit mixes, this home has no dearth of mixing them in wine, follow a decent recipe, work on it, who will eat? Some at this home get busy separating fruit mixes from cake; I hate wastage. Nut Cakes are okay for them, pastries I get for them from local bakeries if not always from branded chains. I like small bakeries who sell fresh stuffs. I found a small eatery who bakes butter croissants in store. I will go there regular for chilled soy milk, fresh croissants, chicken pies.

It's raining since morning. That's worrying me.

After two days of sitting at home, eating non-stop, I have to go out at least down below in pool! I do not like hitting gym, neither yoga. Yoga is best form of exercise you can gift your body; I firmly believe one can't be benefitted from something they don't enjoy. I am not the kind who would want to sit at home, watch television. I am not that level of romantic to whom consistent sound made by raindrops may seem like Yanni's. Let us see how the day shapes, until then, let me finish writing recipe of vegetarian cake, simply done with minimal ingredients BUTTER CUP CARDAMOM CAKE.

You see, for an Indian, Amul Butter is synonymous to butter; I am no exception. At times, it happens that there has no supply of it for days or even for more than a month; hence, I use substitutes for my bakes like buttercup, oil. I am not comfortable with margarine. Even the mother never got it. We did not believe it, later doctors declared margarine may not be healthy. This cake was made few months back which has used condensed milk. Recently, I stopped getting condensed milk; evaporated creamer works wonder.