Fruit pastry cake

Heyy people :)

how are you all. Hope everyone is fine. As I mentioned in my Facebook that I wanted to do some baking to free my mind, well I started it out today by baking fruit pastry cake :) I did some mistakes and that made my cake to break into half :( but then I learnt some lesson and I'll write out the mistakes and the solution :)

I guess I need to do more baking to get a perfect cut and a perfect cake..sigh.. but this is good enough for a starter isn't it ?

Without flash

Ingredients :

100g butter [ soften at room temperature]

200g caster sugar 

50g sour cream [ those who are staying in Ipoh, you guys can get it in Aeon Jusco station 18]

3 eggs lightly beaten at room temperature

1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract [ I used rose extract for a change]

1 teaspoon of orange or lemon zest

1 teaspoon baking powder

210g plain flour

500g fruits- tossed with sugar. [ make sure you drain well the water..]

Methods:

1. Wash, cut ( chunks/slices) and drain the fruits. Toss the fruits with sugar and set aside.
2. Grease butter on sides of pan that you use. It can be square/sphere/ rectangular in shape and MAKE SURE YOU LINE THE pan with parchment paper. The mistake I did was, I did not use parchment paper and the cake got stucked with the pan and eventually broke into 2. :(
3. With electric mixer, mix the butter, sugar and sour cream till light and fluffy
4.  Place the eggs gradually and beat till incorporated with the batter
5. Add in vanilla extract or in my case I used rose extract and orange/lemon zest into the batter.
6. Sieve over the flour together with the baking powder and mix it still smooth. * careful don't over mix the batter.
7. Pour batter into the prepared pan and even it with spatula.
8. Arrange fruits as per your wish on top. Don't press the fruits into the batter. [ Fruits that you can use is : strawberry, blueberry, peaches, oranges,bananas, pineapple and many more]
9. Bake in a pre-heat oven at 180degcel for 60-70 minutes. In my case I think my oven is automatically set with above 180degcel so I just bake the cake for around 35-40 minutes.  
10. Leave the cake in pan for 5-10 minutes, cool it down and dust the cake with some icing sugar if you want

 Before going into oven :

After coming out from oven, I dust the cake with some icing sugar

P/s : if you see at top left of the cake is where the cake broke :(

with flash :)

So here I would like to say thank this blogger : http://happyhomebaking.blogspot.com/2010/04/fruit-pastry-cake.html . I took the recipe from here and it turn out well except for the breaking part of cause.

Mom asked me to bake again next week. So I plan to use more different fruits  :)
Happy trying, its a very very simple cake to do with. Trust me you'll enjoy baking. Do leave comment if you want to :)

-Kausy-

-Baking mood is on-

The end of semester..

hey people :)) am back after three months..!!

so a quick update about what I did for the past 3 months..I took 5 subjects this semester that is virology ( studies about viruses and bacterias) , Clinical Biochemistry ( so far the best and my most favourite  subject in my degree life. basically we study about the overall about humans diseases and the biochemical test and stuffss ), Microbiology ( studies about microbes of cause, a little bit about viruses and bacteria's, second most favourite subject especially during the practical time, you are given the chance to play with the microorganisms you know ), Neurobiology ( studies about human's brain and their associated diseases and some biochem related stuffs) and finally Interpersonal Communication ( no comment ) .So semester was going on all well till last month. Finals just ended two days ago..Did my best and leave the rest to god's hand. I just hope i'll get through this semester. I'll be doing my internship in Specialist Centre, Ipoh on the 1st of october for 3 months. Hope that i'll learn a lot during this internship :)

So yeah about the 'bad' part is that hmmmmm I've lost that person that I shouldn't have let go in the first place, but things happens don't they. Misunderstandings, arguments that has no solution at all and main culprit is the egoness. Seriously guys and their egoness really drives me crazy. Do they have PMS like us too?? well anyways a small note for that person, if you read this post I just want you to know this " What makes you think that you know whats best for me? Walking away from " this " is really not the best thing to do!! Fighting for this is!! " !! And you keep blaming yourself for all the things  that happened, okay not all but yes you did! and FYI those blaming part will never help you to solve any problems!! Unfortunately, you left. And if you think that I was the one whom left you , I left because you didn't ask me to stay , but I can't really tell if it's killing me or making me stronger. I was having finals and all you did is made me to take such a decision and in the end making up a situation where I am the one to be blamed. I did not want this, you asked for it and remember I told you, if you want it you have to face the consequences. Don't blame me if there's no more spark, you know what I meant. BUT I really do hope that one day you will realize what you mean to me, because I honestly don't think you have the slightest clue and by that time I would have been gone.....

I actually started to write this post on the 21st September 2012 around 8pm when I received a call, a call that made me to burst into tears, a call that made me to feel like the world is not fair at all.. a call that kills me from the inside...and I stop writing the post and today 26th September 2012 I continue writing and this is what happened..

Few days back, 21st September 2012, I lost someone dear to me, someone who were there for me all the time, someone whom doesn't fail to give me hope and strength, someone whom always believed that I can do and achieve my dreams.. Priya. All I ever wished you were still here and that is all I want, but I guess god loves you more, loves you more than anyone else. Rest in peace priya. If I want I can write a lot of things about you, but I don't want to do that. Let those memories being with you, be with me... I love you so much. You thought me the pain of losing a friend in my life and I don't wana feel and go through the pain again.. :'( Priya, you know your last post in your blog you mentioned about your anniversary with Austin on 14th July and you mentioned 23rd September indeed another day to be remembered? I never thought it would be the day you'll leave all of us dey..I miss you so much and I know you are happy there with all the angels up there in the heaven. One day we shall meet bitchu and I miss you calling me with that name..

P/s: I learnt a lesson, I am in the point of my life whereby I am going to see many of my loved one leaving me, many more heartbreaks to see and feel . Right now all I wish is to be a kid again because skinned knees are a lot easier to fix than a broken heart :|

- Kausy-

- heartbreak is not something easy to handle-

- I miss her alot-