Saturday, August 23, 2008

The wet cake



The wet cake was the snack that could be made to be alternative camilan. Normally was eaten in the morning or in the afternoon. The wet cake generally soft, soft, and did not last long (only remained several days). Usually was made from wheat flour, sago,

sugar, in fact was that have material coconut milk or sticky rice. That including in the category of the wet cake among them: sweet martabak, lemper, spring rolls, pastel, the cake sus, the pancake, the layer cake, the layer cake, the flow cake, bakpia, the cup cake, mochi, the cake pukis, bika Ambon, the doughnut, bolu, the pancake cake, risol et cetera.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Filosofi of Keranjang Cake


One of the typical cakes celebration New Year Imlek was the basket cake. The similar cake dodol have the shape of round that was penganan obligatory that must be available in the community's Tionghoa house that celebrated Imlek. According to the ancient belief, the people Tiongkok believed that the brazier in the kitchen in each house was inhabited by the God Tungku, the god who was sent by Yik Huang Shang Ti (King Surga) to supervise each house in providing cooking every day.

Each date 24 months 12 Imlek (six days before the change in the year), the God Tungku will come home to Heaven to report his task. Then to avoid matters that did not please for the people, emerged the idea of providing the pleasant serving the God Tungku. All the resident afterwards provided dodol sweet that was served in the basket, was acknowledged as the Keranjang Cake.
The Keranjang cake or Nian Gao or more often was acknowledged as the Kranjang Cake (tii kwee) was the obligatory cake imlek. This cake became famous from his edition that was made from the basket. Nian personally weigh down the year and Gao meant the cake but also canned be heard like high words, therefore the basket cake was often compiled high or stratified.
Increasingly above increasingly became smaller the cake that was compiled, that that gave the meaning of the increase in the matter of fortune or prosperity. In ancient the number or the height of the basket cake indicated prosperity of the house of the owner's family. Usually the basket cake was compiled above with the coloured cup cake red on the top. This was as the symbol of the sweet life that increasingly climbed and blossomed like the cup cake.
In the Hokkian dialect, tii kwee meant the sweet cake, so the person did not have difficulty guessed if this cake tasted sweet. Cakes that were served in the public holiday the New Year Imlek generally far more sweeter than usually, because therefore was hoped in the forthcoming year destiny could become again sweeter than in years beforehand.
The Keranjang cake have the shape of round, contained the meaning so that the family that celebrated this Imlek could continue to be united, harmonious and determined in faced the year that will come. Because of being made from sticky rice flour, the basket Cake became sticky. The meaning was overturned "was close him" this was the close association. So each one of the family's members must eat the cake as the symbol of glue or the closeness of inter-member relations the family.
Have you enjoyed sweet and sticky him the Keranjang Cake together your family's member this year?


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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Graduation Cake Ideas



Yippee!! It’s finally the graduation day! Years of academic endeavor are gone-by memories and its worth’s left to be proved in the ‘big world’ out and open. So, celebration’s on the cards and why not? After all one ought to make the graduate feel special on this special moment! Still cracking your heads on the graduation cake ideas and party arrangements for your kid? (Ah! I understand him being still a kid for you!) Or for years-along buddy, who has to part ways now to earn his bread or for the school/college gang now having a last blast in its dugout? Graduation cake ideas should be given this special piece of thought; one doesn’t graduate every year!! So let’s carve an indelible etching on the pages of life on our loved one’s graduation day!

Graduation cake ideas are many in existence to hop on but the graduation cake idea has to be as unique as your sweetie-pie chum. Needn’t it? One of the graduation cake ideas would be to keep it simple (like you’ve always been) and order a freshly iced cake with a frosting picture of our triumphant graduate. Elegantly added grad cap and grad diploma made up of fondants or candy or simple toys of those would add to the vibrancy of the graduation cake. Another wonder of graduation cake ideas would be the one to order or prepare the ‘person of the moment’s’ favorite cake in a shape of a book with colorful thick borders of various flavors and yes! A diploma of wafer with writings on it placed on the book (cake). The writing can be any lovable quote or ‘Congratulations to Chubby’ or the school motto or the gang tagline! The mascots of creativity can come up with their own, personalized pop-ups that’ll make the graduation cake and the moment a more touching and more of yours rather than another cake from the bakery!! Nothing of your cup of tea seem till now? Hang on! There are more graduation cake ideas to explore.
This graduation cake idea is one of the most gone after graduation cake ideas and yet is unique to everyone!! That’s the beauty of this graduation cake idea. Take an ice cake and foil it around with a thin wafer paper. A chocolate cream covering or cream covering of favorite flavors with the favorite subject written at its lateral side would make it unique and a graduation cap will make this graduation cake idea the best; just cut the cake at an angle and you’ll be done with that or placing a slice in a shape of a rhombus on a round black cake would be another splendid graduation cake idea.
How about the graduation cake idea of making an entire cake in the shape of a grad cap? Or what say about this graduation cake idea: a cake of a rolled up grad diploma (a roll of pumpkin and ice cake is all you need!) with dark-red tied ribbons and the left-behind class and the passing year inscribed? These are common graduation cake ideas!! I hear some saying that!! But a tinge of favorite’s added (like favorite colors, flavors etc) can make it a unique ballgame indeed! Rather than putting heart and soul for different graduation cake ideas, if the same graduation cake ideas are presented or put up differently, it can make a gem out of that graduation cake idea!!
This one’s an interesting graduation cake idea that’ll give a sense of the yearning that’ll hit upon in the coming time! The School or college logo designed in the cake or the abbreviated name of the four buddies or the school entrance and so on! Its something the little genius has bid farewell too. Sobs..! And what if your eye candy was a prankster and mischief of Dennis the Menace caliber? Well, naughty or cute graduation cake ideas like scribble of his bad handwriting, or a certificate awarding him the title of the ‘naughtiest in the school’ and others on the similar lines making fun (in the right spirit) of the bloopers done by our sweetheart would get some old memories refreshed and create lighter moments of joy and tears in the party. The emotional touch can always be given to cakes! That’s a lovely graduation cake idea too. There’s no point in stowing up one’s emotions! Make a diploma telling him how special he is or telling him how proud you feel on his feat or a sweet apology for you being hard on him!
Hey! What about a combination of all the graduation cake ideas spoken of above?? That’s sounds a great graduation cake idea to me!!

From : http://cakesdot.com/birthday-cakes/graduation-cake-ideas/


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Cake Ideas



There is absolutely no end to the creativity that you can incorporate while creating graduation cake ideas. Personalizing the cake with the name of the person, graduation date and the name of the university can be the simplest way to create a great graduation cake. Cakes shaped like graduation scrolls, books or even graduation hats are quite popular.

In addition to this you can also make use of the latest technology and get a photograph of the graduating person printed on the cake. While planning to bake a graduation cake remember that not everyone can bake a cake that looks like the one on the baker’s display counter. However with simple suggestions and tips you can bake a cake, which scores high on taste as well as decorations and is simple perfect for any graduation party.

Graduation Cake Recipe

Here is a simple and delicious recipe for a graduation cake. Make use of interesting colors and shapes to make the perfect graduation cake.

Ingredients
• Cake Flour – 6 cups
• Baking Powder – 2 tablespoon
• Salt – 1 teaspoon
• Egg whites – 10
• White sugar – 4 cups
• Shortening – 1½ cup
• Milk – 2 cups
• Vanilla extract – 6 teaspoon
• Softened Butter – 1 cup
• Confectioner’s sugar - 8 cups
Preparation

For the Cake :
• Measure the flour and add baking powder and salt. Now sift this mixture.
• Beat the egg whites until it becomes fluffy and once it does, add 1-cup sugar and beat until the egg whites and the sugar are mixed thoroughly.
• Cream the shortening, add 2½ cups of white sugar and cream together until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
• Now gently stir in the flour and the milk.
• Add the milk and flour in several batches of small quantities and smoothen out the mixture after every addition.
• Now add 2 teaspoon of the vanilla extract and egg whites and mix the batter thoroughly.
• Once the batter is ready, add it into two three-inch deep round pans (one with 10 inch diameter and the other 8 inch).
• Line the bottom of the pans with baking paper.
• Fill the pans with the batter. Bake the cakes over 175 degrees C.
• Bake the 8-inch cake for about an hour and the 10 inch one for one hour and ten minutes.
• After baking, take out the cakes on racks and cool them for around ten to fifteen minutes.
• After the cakes have cooled down, loosen from sides of pans and turn out the cakes on the racks.
• Now brush the brush cakes to remove any loose crumbs so that you have two plain and smooth round cakes, which are ready to be decorated with icing.
For the Frosting
• Cream one-cup butter and add confectioners' sugar gradually.
• Add the sugar slowly and keep on blending simultaneously.
• Now mix four teaspoon of vanilla extract and half-teaspoon salt to the mixture.
• Now gently add the milk and the remaining sugar and beat the mixture constantly.
• Use colors of your choice for the frosting. Add a personalized Graduation day message to make the cake extra-special.

posting From : http://www.buzzle.com/articles/graduation-cake-ideas.html

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