Well, all you have to do is follow every step with love and care and your cake will be ready in no time. Do not expect your cake to be a smooth and even mass of sweet tasting bread the first time around. You become better with practice. And every time you make it you will discover something new. So go easy on yourself while you bake that simple cake.

Things that you will need:

• A baking pan
• An oven
• Cake Flour (Maida)2 and a half cup flour
• Sugar 1 cup sugar
• Unsalted butter 2 tablespoons of butter
• Salt
• Baking powder 2 teaspoons
• Vanilla flavour drops
• A blender
• A spatula
• Bowls, jars and measures
• Some salt

The Process :

• Smear the baking pan with butter. Do it just right. You can use a brush to smear the butter inside the pan. Not too less and not too much.
• Now sprinkle some flour on it and dust the excess of. Your baking pan is ready. Let it set.
• Pour the cake flour in a bowl. Sieve the flour before you use it so that you do not have any bulbs of flour that are hard to mix and blend. Ensure you have smooth flowing flour without any flour bulbs.
• Now take the butter in a bowl and keep adding sugar as you whisk it. Start whisking with a spatula or use a blender. Keep adding butter and sugar and keep whisking until it all blends together. Keep whisking until it turns very fluffy.
• You can add some drops of vanilla flavour to the butter sugar mix.
• Drop a pinch of salt in it.
• Take the sieved flour in a big bowl and add the sugar and butter mixture. Mix it together with a spatula. You can add the flour little by little so that you do not have any lumps. Keep mixing it until you have a smooth mixture that looks fluffy.
• Add the baking powder now and blend it in the mixture. Do not overuse baking powder. Overusing baking powder can alter the taste of your cake.
• Pour this mix now in the pan you smeared with butter and sprinkled with flour. Pour and shake it so that the cake mix settles well in the pan. Once you have poured the cake mix flatten the top using a spatula. Give it a shake.
• Now put it in the oven at 375^oF
• If you have your knife coming out clean then your cake is baked. Avoid over baking the cake, it will harden it.
• Once the baking time is over and you have checked your cake, remove it from the oven. Wear a pair of thick gloves to remove it. Keep it on the table and let it set.

Your basic cake is ready and you can decorate or frost your cake in a number of ways.

Things you will need to make icing
All you will need is icing sugar, artificial food colour, water, lots of small sized bowls and a kettle for heating water.

How to make icing

• Let your cake cool down completely or you will have icing running all over it. Let it cool at room temperature for a while or better refrigerate it for thirty minutes.
• Now take confectionary sugar or icing sugar. Do not use the granulated form of sugar. For a medium sized cake you will need a cup of icing sugar.
• Heat little water in a kettle and pout two teaspoons of water in that cup of icing sugar. You do not need a very thick or a running consistency of sugar. You just need it thick enough to be spread on your cake with ease and steadiness.
• Once you have a good consistency you can add drops of the colour you want your cake to have. Use colour carefully. A drop can give you a lot of colour. You do not want the people’s mouth green or a blue. So use colour with car. Start with a drop and see the effect.
• You can remove take a little frosting aside and brush it with the coloured icing to see the effect and then use it on the entire cake.
• Use a paint brush and keep applying strokes of icing. If your icing hardens due to keeping it waiting you can simply it in the microwave for 10 seconds and it will be ready for use again.
• You can make different designs on your cake. Suppose you are painting a field you can use shades of green to paint it. You can then decorate it with a cone of frosting or with premade decorations or marzipans.
• On pastries, you can simply pour the icing and let the icing drip. It gives a great appetising effect to the food.
• You can also spread the layer of icing with the help of a spatula. Pour in the centre and then spread on the sides. You can use a toothed comb like tool to run on the side of your cake and give an absolute professional look.

You can dress the cake my colouring the frosting or using icing from a bag. You can even fill jellies, syrups and fruit shavings onto the cake. You can use these creatively and create unique cakes. So now that you know the tricks  of the cake why not bake one for the next occasion.

Things you will need

• Baking Flour
• Baking Soda
• Cocoa Powder
• Sugar
• Prune puree
• Resins
• Chocolate chips
• Butter
• Salt
• A stand or board
• A knife
• A bowl
• A blender
• A spatula
• A baking pan or brownie moulds
• Butter paper

Process of making yummy brownies

• Decide what shape of brownies do you want? If you want square pieces then use a baking pan or if you like round ones use a mould.
• Suppose you decide to use a mould then smear the mould with some butter. Cut out butter paper and put it in the mould. Keep it aside and let it settle.
• Now start preparing the batter for the brownie. Sieve the baking flour in a bowl and add cocoa powder, sugar and butter cream to it. Start blending it all together.
• Make a mix of sugar and butter separately. Add sugar and butter alternatively and whisk it till the mix turns fluffy. Keep it aside.
• Now make a prune puree. Grind the prune with honey in a mixer-grinder. Pour in a pan and leave it on low flame to simmer till it becomes thick. Make sure you don’t burn the puree making it bitter. Use gentle simmering to get a thick puree and keep stirring till it starts thickening.
• Now remove it off the flame and let it cool a bit. Wait till it becomes warm.
• Now add the butter-sugar mix and the prune puree to the flour batter you made. Blend it all together and while you blend it add some baking soda. Keep it just proportionate, not too much.
• Now drop some chocolate chips in the mix. Mix it with a spatula.
• Now pour this brownie batter in the moulds or a baking pan smeared with butter and flour. Tap it gently making sure the batter settles down with no air pockets.
• Put it in an oven at 350 F for 30 minutes. Check if it is done by piercing a knife. If the knife comes out clean the brownies are done. If not bake it for another 5-10 minutes. When it is out piping hot sprinkle some chocolate chips or sugar on top.
• Once done remove it from the oven and let it cool off.  Allow it at least 30 minutes to cool down. Now with the help if a spatula empty the moulds or the baking pan on a tray. Cut the brownie in the baking pan into small square pieces. Line them up in a tray.

Wasn’t this whole process fun?

Now that you know how to make your own brownies go ahead and have some fun. Serve your guests, sell them to your clients or best eat them yourselves and give yourself a treat!

Things you will need

• Baking flour
• Cocoa powder
• Blocks of plain chocolate
• Sugar
• Salt
• Bowls
• Spatula
• A blender
• Baking Soda
• A scraper
• A brush
• A baking pan
• An oven
• Thick Gloves
• Honey
• Butter
• Butter cream

The process of making a chocolate cake

• Take the baking pan and smear butter with a brush, inside it. Now dust some flour on this and remove excess. Let the baking pan settle.
• Now take a bowl and sieve the baking flour in it. Make sure there are no lumps of flour. It should be smooth and fine.
• Now add cocoa powder and sugar alternatively in the flour. Start adding butter cream. Blend the mix steadily and with gentle hands. Keep blending it until you have a bubble free, smooth mix of chocolate flour. Use a spatula to check for lumps.  Keep this mix aside.
• Now take butter and sugar in a bowl and start whisking it. Keep adding butter and sugar alternatively and keep whisking until you get a fluffy mix. Keep it aside once done.
• Now take butter cream in a bowl and add the blocks of chocolate in it. Put it in the microwave for 2- 3 minutes. Once you remove it you will get a melted mix of chocolate and butter cream. Add honey to this mix and mix it well. Make sure it’s a thick mix and not very loose.  Set it aside to cool. Do not refrigerate.
• Now add the butter and sugar mix to the chocolate-flour mix. Sprinkle one or two pinches of salt to it.  Add the baking soda. Now mix all this together.
• Once the mixing is done pour the mix in the baking pan smeared with butter and flour. Divide the mix in the two baking pans. Shake the pans and tap them lightly on the table to let the mix set well. Flatten it with a spatula.
• Now set the oven on 375 F and shove the baking pan inside for next 45 minutes to an hour. As the cake rises, pierce it with a knife and check if it is done. If your knife comes out clean then the cake is done. Avoid over baking.
• Now remove the baking pans and let them cool. Dip your knife or spatula in butter and run it around the edges of the pan to free the cake off the pan.
• Now turn the cakes over on a sheet of butter paper. Let them cool down. You do not want crumbs falling off when you frost it.
• After twenty to thirty minutes get the chocolate and honey mix you prepared and start frosting the cake. Put the frosting in the centre and keep moving it on the sides as you flatten it with a spatula.
• Now put this frosted cake on a cardboard covered with foil paper. Now keep the next cake on it and frost it similarly. Also apply frosting on the sides with the spatula. Flatten the frosting with parchment paper to give the cake an even look.
• If you want to give you cake a fun look then tap the spatula lightly on the frosting and pull it upwards. It will create spikes on the cake.
• Now take a chocolate bar and scrape it. Sprinkle the shavings on the cake.

Your chocolate cake is ready to serve and eat. Wasn’t this easy? Make your chocolate cake with a lot of love and you will surely create a masterpiece. Enjoy!

Things you will need

• Baking flour
• Cocoa powder
• Sugar
• Baking soda
• Butter
• Butter cream
• Ice cream pack (family pack –vanilla flavour)
• A Spatula
• A chocolate bar
• Chocolate frosting
• A baking tray
• A freezing tray
• A cardboard covered with aluminium foil paper
• Salt to taste

The process of making an ice cream cake

• Begin by making a butter and sugar mix in a bowl. Add them alternatively and whisk them together. Keep whisking until the mixture is fluffy. Keep it aside.
• Remove the ice cream from the pack put it in a tray and spread it in a baking pan. Take a pan similar to the one you are using to bake the cake.
• Now let it freeze until it is hard.
• Now smear butter inside the baking pan and dust it with flour. Keep it aside.
• Now sieve the baking flour in a bowl making sure there are no lumps of flour. Add butter cream to this flour. Add sugar, cocoa powder, a pinch of salt and blend it all together. Once the batter is well blended add baking soda and the butter-sugar mix and blend again. Taste the batter to check of the sweetness is just the way you want it to be.
• Put this batter in the baking tray. Use a spatula to put entire content s of the bowl into the pan. Tap the baking pan gently on the table to let the batter set well.
• Now put the baking pan in the oven at 375 F for the next 35- 40 minutes.
• Check if the cake is baked once the time limit is crossed. Pierce a knife into the cake to check if it is done. If your knife comes out clean your cake is done.
• Now remove the pan and let it cool. Let it cool until you can touch it with no fear. A cool cake is easier to remove from the pan and you won’t have crumbs falling. Once the cake is cool, free the edges of the pan with a spatula or a knife and turn the cake upside down on a tray.
• Slice this cake from the centre horizontally and divide it in two.
• Now keep the first slice on the foil covered cardboard. Now remove the ice pan from the freezer. Free its edges with a knife and turn it upside down on the first cake. Now place the next slice over the ice cream layer.
• Quickly get the frosting and start frosting the cake. Begin from top and keep flattening it out to the sides. Go on the sides and moves the spatula around the edges of the cake covering all three layers.
• Now take the chocolate bar and scrape it over the cake. Use chocolate kept in a freezer to scrape over the cake.
• You can even use icing to create a design on the cake or write something if you do not want to use chocolate shavings.

If you do not wish to cut the cake then you can bake two separate cakes and use them as layers. You can even have just two layers – the first of ice cream and the next of cake. It is absolutely what shape you want to give your creativity with a cool and chocolaty ice cream cake.

Things you will need

• Baking Flour (Maida)
• Baking Soda
• A baking pan
• Salt to taste
• Cherries
• Cookies
• Butter
• Sugar
• Condensed Milk (Sweet)
• Whipped Cream (Fresh)
• A plain chocolate bar
• Cocoa powder
• A knife
• A few bowls
• A baking oven
• A spatula
• A foil covered cardboard
• Mint leaves
• Aerated Cola

How to prepare a Black Forest Cake

• Smear melted butter in a baking pan with the help of a brush. Now powder some cookies and lay it over the buttered bottom. Dust flour on the sides of the baking pan. Set this aside
• Now take a bowl. Sieve the baking flour into the bowl. Ensure there are no lumps in the flower.  Now take add butter, sugar and condensed milk to the flour. Blend it. While you are blending it add baking soda, cocoa powder and salt in this mixture. Now blend it well. Blend it with care so that there are no air pockets in the mix.
• Now add aerated cola to this batter and mix it well. Just make sure the mix does not become watery it has to thick dough like, brownish batter.
• After this mix is ready, lay this batter slowly into the baking pan smeared with butter and with the layer of cookie.
• Shake the baking pan and tap it lightly over the table so that the batter sits flat.
• Smoothen out the fine lines with a Spatula.
• Put the baking pan in the oven at 350F and bake for 45 minutes.
• If you see the cake rising, pierce it with a knife and check if the knife comes out clean. This means the cake is ready.
• Once the cake is baked remove it out and let it cool. Let it cool for at least 30 minutes. Then slice the cake horizontally. Never try to do this when the cake is hot or you will have the cake breaking into crumbs.
• When you turn the baking pan over the top covered with crushed cookie layer will be the last one.
• Lay this layer on a cardboard covered with foil paper first.
• Now take the cream and whip it. Whip it till is light and fluffy. Now frost the cake. Spread cream and crushed cherry on the cake and start making layers of cake and cream.
• Now frost the cake with whipped cream and top it with cherries and mint.
• Now scrape the chocolate bar and dress it all over the cake.

A good black forest cake tastes good if it is light and spongy. So go easy on the baking soda, less sugar and a loving hand. So the next time you want to celebrate a special birthday bake a special black forest yourself!

Things you will need for a nice soft sponge cake :

• A medium sized baking pan
• An oven
• Butter
• Baking Flour
• Baking Soda
• Salt
• Sugar
• Vanilla flavour
• Butter cream
• A Spatula
• A Blender
• A Knife
• A bowl
• A handy napkin
• A brush

The Making of a Sponge Cake

• Smear butter with the help of a brush in the baking pan. Dust it with some flour and shake the excess off. Keep it aside to let it set.
• Begin by sieving the baking flour. Sieve the flour in the bowl and keep it aside
• Now take another bowl and add butter and sugar alternatively. Start blending the two. Use a light hand to make the mix. Do not over mix but make sure you have a nice fluffy looking mix. Mix little by little.
• Now take the baking flour and start adding the butter cream, use a blender to blend the two. Add a little sugar to this mix. Keep blending. Keep adding ingredient one after the other as you go on blending.
• Once the mix of butter cream, baking flour and sugar is ready you can add the sugar and butter mix you prepared earlier.

• Start blending it together gently and bit by bit. Add baking soda to this mix and blend it well. Do not forget those drops of vanilla flavour.
• Now pour this mix in the pan you smeared with butter and flour and set it with a spatula. Check if there are any air pockets in it. Shake the pan and tap it lightly on the table to let the mix settle.
• Now turn the oven to 375^oF and put the pan inside. Allow the mix to bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Once you see it rising, you know it is baked and ready. However pierce the cake with a knife and pull it out gently to check if it is really done. If any mix sticks to the knife it still needs baking. If the knife come out clean, voila! your sponge cake is ready.
• Turn off the oven and remove the pan. Let it cool for five to ten minutes.
• Now while you are wearing your hand gloves, you can take a cardboard covered neatly with foil paper and get it ready to lay the cake on. The board can be a circle or a square depending upon the shape of your cake.
• Run the knife around the pan to free the cake of the pan. You can apply a little butter to the knife before you run it around.
• Now turn the pan upside down on the foil covered cardboard.

Your sponge cake is right in front of you. Let it cool before you serve it with coffee, tea or sodas. You can decorate your sponge cake with chocolate, cocoa powder, berries or fruits.

Designer Wedding Cake
If you want to make your wedding cake something as special as the warm fuzzy feeling of saying the vows then get yourself a designer cake. You can special cakes in heart shapes with elaborate decorations. You can try a letter cake with the first letters of the groom and bride set in a heart. You can even try a cake made to look like a wedding ring with real Swarovski set in it. What could get more special than this? (Just decide who takes the crystals) Try a photo cake with the photos of yourself and your partner. It will be hard to cut but surely memorable when you look back at your wedding cake snaps.

The Classic Wedding Cake
If you are having a traditional white wedding than what better than the traditional three tier wedding cake. Make a white cake with immaculate decorations on the sides. Dress it in fresh flowers if that is what you like. Use white orchids, yellow roses or just petals of pink roses. You can even make a chocolate three tier wedding cake if the groom and bride’s favourite flavour is chocolate. (By the way chocolate is also a great aphrodisiac)

There are many pre-made decorations that are available which can help you dress the wedding cake. You can even use a groom and bride doll on the cake or wedding bells.

Wedding Theme cake
Weddings are now theme based. Why not the cake? The cakes too can be in tune with the theme of the wedding. If the theme of the wedding is a ‘beach wedding’ then the cake could be like a beach with sand like decorations, blue waters and the couple doll on the beach. If the theme is a royal wedding the cake could be a crown, a weapon or a carriage.  So depending of the theme of the wedding the wedding cake can be easily customized. Just keep in line with the theme and the wedding cake isn’t hard to find.

Special Flavour Wedding Cakes
We almost forgot the special flavours. Have you felt surprised if you ate a vanilla cake and found chocolate cubes inside your mouth? That’s the magic of special flavours. Wedding cakes can be of special flavours and move beyond the usual variety of chocolate and vanilla. How about making a butter rum cake, a champagne cake, a mint cake or a mocha hazelnut cake? You can give the cake an absolute twist with the flavouring and ingredients you add to it. Find out the flavours your partner savours and try to use it in your wedding cake. It will be a delightful treat and surprise. Watch the expression your partner’s face when he takes that first bite on finding a new taste melting in his/her mouth. Try it you might like it… And for that wedding, it will be another memorable moment that you can’t capture in a picture!

The most important thing to do first is to keep in mind whose birthday are you celebrating. That will give you enough ideas for how to make the birthday cake special for the occasion and person.

A Boy’s birthday
If it is a little boy’s birthday you can go for a basic square chocolate cake. If you want to have more fun, then think about his favourite cartoon or book characters. Think about what he likes to do. Does he like swimming, football, cricket or cars? Just think and you will get an answer. If he likes cricket you could make him a nice cricket pitch with his favourite players. You can make a rectangle or circle cake and give it a green frosting. You can buy some cricket figures to decorate the cake. Put some stickers at the edges like ads on the ground boundary.

Now make the wickets with candles. Make the pitch with brown cocoa shavings. Place the cricketers all over the ground. Give the batsman a toy bat and put a bowler in a bowling action. Have a scoreboard that shows the name of the child and his age as the scores. Isn’t this fun? You can whip up many more such ideas to a little boy’s delight and fancy of celebrating his birthday.

A Girl’s birthday
If it is a girl’s birthday then you have to think about the colours the girl likes? Is it red, purple, pink, yellow or green? Think about what the girl likes most.  Does she like books, Barbie, does she play a musical instrument, follow some hobbies or is she a cartoon fan. If she likes fairytales you can make her, her favourite fairytale. You can choose from Snow White and the seven Dwarfs, Cinderella or the Power Puff girls. You can bake a plane cake with her favourite colour frosting and place her favourite characters on it. You can add her photo next to the character. Add a happy birthday tag to the cake. Write her name in beautiful icing. Or write it with choco chips. She will surely love it. You can try ideas depending upon her likings.

A Grown-up’s birthday
If it’s a grown up’s birthday you can experiment with basic cakes or with foods in the cake that the person likes to eat. If the person’s birthday you are celebrating likes strawberries you can bake a strawberry cake. If he or she is a chocolate lover than nothing other than chocolate can make that person happier.  So just find out what that person prefers and use that ingredient as a flavour, ingredient or decoration on the cake.

Here’s an idea. If the person likes strawberries then use chunks of strawberry in the cake mix. Give it a butter cream frosting and layer it with a strawberry jelly coating. Decorate it with strawberries on the sides and top it with mint leaves. It will turn out to be an amazing strawberry cake.

How you can make your cake special
There are many ways to make your cake special. You can try innovating in a million ways. You can use exotic chocolates to create flavours, coffee flavours, dry fruits, jellies, cheese or fruits. You can choose different varieties of icing. Place pre made decorations innovatively.  Just let your imagination soar.

Do a little research
Before you start your cake business do a little research on who is already in this business. Go and talk to them. They might be unwilling to help but some will surely help. But it will give you a fair idea of how the cake world is working.

Start small
Don’t invest too much. Do not buy 10 kgs of flour when you do not know the number of confirmed orders of cakes. Buy little, start small and spread the word of your business. Start from your family or neighborhood and keep expanding. Tell your friends about it.

Prepare a presentation
Prepare a small presentation on what kind of cakes you prepare, who you are and why you like to make cakes. Give a menu at the end for reference. Leave the presentation with people whom you have presented it too. You can even email this presentation to corporate houses who might need your services.

Send samples
Send small samples of your cake in the form of pastries to existing clients and friends. It will help them remember you.

Take a note of occasions
Make a note of special occasions before they arrive and talk to the concerned people of they need your services or send them a mail. Before New Year mail all your friends and ask if they would like to have your services. Send pictures of your work. It will really help. Give them offers and complimentary goodies.

Use the internet
Use the internet to start your own cake blog or a webpage. While you are networking write about your new business. Check the internet for what others around are doing in the cake world, it will serve as inspiration and learning. Read about cake making techniques and tools. Check what instruments are on sale that can help you make outstanding cakes. Show it, the whole world is watching.

Meet other cake experts
When you are online or even in the real world try and meet other cake experts. Keep in touch with them and share ideas. Staying in touch with experts with help you learn expert ideas and learn from their experiences. They can even give you helpful business tips. Even the smallest of tips counts.

Stay updated
Stay updated about the markets. Keep a tab on rates of sugar, flour, milk and other foods that go in cake making. Check what other cake makers are serving. Eat different cakes and learn from them.

Be professional
Be Professional always. Deliver on the promised time. Avoid having  goof-ups. Even if your cake is not as good looking but is absolutely tasty it will win the customer because nothing can replace a tasty melt in the mouth cake.

Even if you have started your business, you can enjoy reading the above and even picking a few nuggets of information that can help take your business to the cream.