Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Heart Cupcakes n Rainbow Icing for Ciona

Ahhh.... the joy of baking for kids..... They're just adorable.... That's Ciona.... She's a cute little kid who has this running joke with me... मिठाई से कपरे धोते हैं....['indian sweets are used to wash clothes' cause the small white ones look like bars or soap, n she loves to wash clothes.. all sorts of clothes, even washed clothes :-) ]

The rainbow icing was my experiment with leftover icing..... lesson learnt... butter icing in summers is very difficult to handle.... it's either too hot in the kitchen so it melts and doesn't hold shape or if put in the fridge... it hardens and doesn't flow well to ice the cupcakes.....

The heart shape cupcakes happened from the Mini Heart Silicone Wilton Baking Cups bought by my sister from USA.... They did give a nice shape to the cupcakes.... did have to use a knife though to wedge in the join on the top to make the heart shape more pronounced. Over all, was happy with the effect.
Had asked her mom to refrigerate these for storage and heat in the microwave for 10 seconds before eating, when i sent them over..... forget refrigerate.... They were polished off, the second the kids lay their hands on them. Ciona's teenage elder sister, disha refused to be photographed.[super conscious teens :-)]

Email from Ciona
Thank you Nachi di.
I couldn't wait for mom to even bring me a spoon to eat the yummy looking cupcakes.
It was the yummiest I ever had.

tks
Ciona

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Orange Butterfly Cookies for Gunjan, The Little Imp


Butterfly In The Wind

A child is........

A butterfly in the wind,
Some can fly higher than others;
but each one flies the best it can.
Why compare one against the other?

Each one is different!
Each one is special!
Each one is beautiful!

Author Unknown

Gunjan is my friend Yogita's daughter..... She's such a cutie....

Her expressions are just brilliant... She has the ability to wrap her parents around her fingers and make them do exactly what she wants in the most adorable way....

The minute she saw a box passing from me to her mom, she just had to know what was in it.... it was opened instantly and oh the look on her face..... made the entire day's effort worthwhile on 'Orange Butterfly Cookies with Chocolate Ganache'.....

She even had a butterfly bib.... infact she herself was looking like a fairy in a white n pink frock...
Since she's had the cookies..... She's been eating out of my hands.... and what a poser she is :-)

The glee n joy in her eyes was so apparent...
I want more.... I want more.... I want more.... I want more.... I want more....

Mommy n baby... gunjan's mimicking the 'googly woogly woosh' of the ponds cold cream ad...

So Readers, What would you do to eat cookies, have you broken jars as kids?

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Gunjan n Anuraag's Birthday Cookies n Chocolate Cake ~ Eating Your Words 2010

Happy Birthday Gunjan and Anuraag.....
They are both born on 1st of March... Different years ofcourse..... ;-)
Both of them work in the tech team of 99acres.com at Infoedge with me.....


We had a small cake cutting party in the lunch room.... [much after everyone left.... they just didn't want to share this cake....] so what did they do??????????????? They had got another cake from Nirula's which was used for smearing on their faces..... :-)
That's Sahil... Gunjan's hubby, who joined in for the celebrations... and got smeared along with them. He's very sweet and came all the way last year aswell ..... isn't that adorable... :-)

Bhaskar is our perpetual camera man... finally captured in front of the camera.... and Puneet also our photographer got smeared......

Bahut dino ke baad haath aaye ho.... holi bhi nahin kheli thi.... to lo phir.... cookie khao..... ;-)

My sister in the US came visiting and got me a load of goodies.... icing colours came calling when Gunjan asked me to make her cake COLOURFUL......... where i really got stuck was.... this was a common cake for a guy and girl.... what should I do?

After a lot of craziness in my head... decided that balloons are for celebrations irrespective of the gender...... took out my cookie cutter and baked away.....

The cake was a Chocolate Black out Cake, soaked with lots of rum and fabulously Chocolatey Ganache on top.....

This Post is off to Eating Your Words... 'Write, spell or draw’ using food or drink. A fun challenge hosted by Savor The Thyme and Tangled Noodle. Their Round up [Eating Your Words Roundup, Part I || Eating Your Words Roundup, Part II] for the last event was really fun....

So here's my entry for it... Cookies which spell the names of the Birthday gal and guy..... ANURAAG & GUNJAN....

Happy Birthday to both of you... :-)

Update: Eating Your Words... 'Write, spell or draw’ using food or drink, round up has been published by Savor The Thyme at Eating your Words 2010 Round Up and Tangled Noodle at Eating your Words 2010 Round Up