I love baking and trying out new things since its a lot easier. For the cinderella cake mentioned else where in the blog, I used a basic sponge cake recipe, topped it with fondant frosting and used food color to paint on it as you would on paper or canvas.
For the basic sponge cake
you will need
3 cups of all purpose flour
vanilla flavoring or any other flavoring of your choice
sugar about 1 1/4 cups
10 Fl oz of water
3 tablespoons of cornstarch
3/4 cup of butter or sunflower oil
oil for greasing the pan flour for dusting the pan.
3 teaspoons of baking powder
Melt the butter and add the sugar to it, cream the butter and sugar, add the vanilla extract or any other flavoring of your choice. Dissolve the corn starch in water and beat together with the sugar and butter or oil mixture. sieve the flour and baking powder together and add to the liquid constantly stirring and mixing it. pour the batter in a prepared cake tin and bake at 350 deg centigrade in a preheated oven till toothpick inserted in it comes out clean. Double or triple proprtions as per requirement.
first frost the cake and plaster it with buttercream frosting. Then for the fondant you will require
1/3 cup of softened butter
1/3 cup of light corn syrup
a pinch of salt
desired flavor
1 lb of confectioners sugar
food colors and cornstarch for dusting. You will find some good results for laying, trimming the fondant etc. online with a few quick searches. The most important ingredient is devotion and the key secret is to pray to Campakalata Sakhi who is expert at making desserts for the pleasure of Sri Radha Madhava and fashioning things using her hands. With this attitude to please devotees and the divine couple everything seems to become easier and an inner intelligence guides you to become more creative and explore various possibilities. I hope this helps my readers.
HareKrishna NityaNavina Mataji,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Guru and PRabupada.
Tried the cake yesterday. Our Gauranga had them. We too had the prasadam. But I noticed that the cake didnt rise, meaning there was no volume in it. Did you by chance miss out any of the ingredient. Kindly let me know. It would be of great help.
Thank you.
HareKrishna
Akhila.
PAMHO, AGTSP
Hare Krishna Akhila Mataji
I just re read the ingredients and have listed them all. The only possibility could be old baking powder. They say that the best way to test it is to put about a teaspoon of baking powder in 1 cup of warm water, if it fizzes immediately, then its fresh. The second thing that i can think of is an unevenly heating oven. In baking cakes, the measurements have to be perfect. You will know how your end result is going to be even as you mix the batter. If the batter feels light, fluffy and well aerated the cake will be spongy. In any case eggless cakes do not rise as much as ones with eggs. These are the reasons that I can think of. Hope this helps
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nitya navina dasi.
mataji, how to make the fondant with ingredients u have gave..janmashtami is nearing.. ur help wud be kindly appreciated..
hare krsna!
hare Krishna Vimal.
For making fondant, you have to mix all the ingredients and make it into a dough and then efrigerate it . Dust your countertop with cornstarch and roll out the dough. You have to frost the cake first with a thin layer of buttercream frosting. I prefer to use the regular buttercream frosting instead of fully covering it with fondant and then making shapes with the help of fondant cutters, etc to make the other decorations. You can google for working with fondant, some videos will give you good results on how to make fondant roses etc. Unfortunately i do not have any links that i can provide. Hope this helps.