Baking is my earliest form of creative expression. One of my recent favourite cake I have baked is the Hot Milk cake.I was reading a book by my current favourite author, Sally Hepworth. In it, one of the protagonist, Rachel claimed that she “bakes her feelings”!
“ The methodical nature of baking, provided an equilibrium of sorts, an opportunity to process her feelings”.
I immediately identified with this feeling. Even though I never realized it, but that is exactly what baking did for me when I started out at around 10 or 11 years of age. Baking is one of the things that truly helped me glow from the inside. It had such a huge role that I had to write a separate post on it instead of including it in my Glow from the Inside post!
Memories of Baked Goodies
During those days, baked goodies that we would read about in story books like protiferoles,croissant, muffins/ cupcakes of every imaginable flavours, cheesecake, gateaux, pies, tarts were not available in the shops. They were things that we could only read, dream and imagine about.
Also the cakes that were available were an expensive affair and were bought only during special occasions. They did not really address the charmed feeling associated with the goodies we would read about.
My Baking Idols
So the whisk had to be taken into my own hands. Heavily influenced by my cooking gods of those days like Sanjeev Kapoor and Tarla Dalal, my baking journey began. My library helped by giving me access to zillions of recipe books. With the advent of cable TV, I got introduced to the baking goddesses like Nigella Lawson and Rachel Allen.
My support system
Ingredients were difficult to source during those days, but my mother tried her best. She used to call me during the school holidays twice from her office landline(pre-mobile days). Usually during her evening call I would ask her to get some butter or inform her that we were out of eggs. She never said no. On her way back from office, she would walk from the metro station to the market, buy the things and take a hand pulled rickshaw back home. One of my biggest champions,my sister was always super enthusiastic about my baking projects. She was the best sous chef, bowl licker and taste consulter ever!
What baking meant for me…
So on the surface baking started out like a fun hobby created something delicious at the end. In reality , under the surface, it was actually helping the reticent child in me express of my emotions through flour, sugar, butter and eggs. Baking was helping in my emotional development and feeding my creative soul as well. Till this day, baking never fails to give me the warm and tingly feeling, a feeling of high jubilance, a feeling of completeness.
Hot Milk Cake
These days, I am always on the look out for easy and quick cakes to bake. Inspired by an YouTube channel,I found that Hot Milk Cake is one of the easiest, softest and fluffiest cake that I have made in the recent past. Somehow the name itself gives the cake a very wholesome feeling. Also the recipe is very easy and simple requiring only 7 ingredients and does not need much preparations.
Hot Milk Cake
Course: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy15
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minutesIngredients
- For the Hot Milk mixture
3/4cup Milk(75ml)
75gm Butter
- Cake Ingredients
2 eggs
3/4 cup organic brown sugar (75 gm)
Vanilla Extract 1.5 tsp
1 ½ cups All purpose Flour/ Organic maida ( 150 gm)
1 ½ tsp Baking powder
Directions
- Bring the milk and butter mixture to a boil.
- Beat 2 eggs with ¾ cups brown sugar until frothy and thick.
- Sieve in the flour and 1 tsp of the Baking powder.
- Mix by cut and fold method.
- Add in the just boiled milk mixture. Be careful at this stage. The milk has to be hot but not that hot to curdle the eggs.
- Mix well.
- Add ½ tsp of Baking powder and the vanilla extract at the end. Mix well.
- Pour into a lined and greased cake mould.
- Bake at 180 degree celsius for 30 minutes.
- This hot milk cake goes well with tea and coffee or by itself.
Recipe Video
Notes
- Remember to cool the cake before demoulding and cutting into slices.
- This hot milk cake goes well with tea and coffee or by itself.
The full recipe video
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Sounds like a great recipe. I like the idea of following a Youtube method.