Super Bowl Sunday 2012- Football Cake for Game Day

I'm assuming all you football lovers out there must be getting all the food ready for munching during NY Giants & New England Patriots Game today for 46th Super Bowl. We are also all set, with no major cooking done today at home it's gonna be store bought chips with some home made salsa(will post the recipe later) and pizza from Papa John's with garlic sauce(R decided that 2 weeks in advance) and o'course we have dessert "Super Bowl Cake" to honor both the finalist teams. As R(my 10 yr. old) is mainly a Eagle fan(we lived in Philly suburbs for a long time) and when they are not in the game, her strategy is to cheer for the team who is more closest to us.....geographically....distance wise.....so her vote goes to NY Giants this Super Bowl. So here's to both the teams & some fun time.....

No recipes only the clicks & a little description. It's an egg less vanilla cake with whip cream & chocolate chip filling and most amazing frosting. I had few different icing/frosting/ganache in the fridge from last few baking projects. So I kinda mixed buttercream icing, chocolate glaze and some home made caramel sauce and believe me the taste is so awesome.

Happy watching & snacking everyone.

Back to blogging and a Flower Cake to share

First of all thanks to new followers & my readers who asked for my well being thru emails and sorry also as I could not respond to those mails or for that matter any mails during past 6-7 weeks. There I was back in mid of September, working on one of my post which I never get to complete and sudden plan for trip to India, my mind started working on another post just to tell the Blog world about my break & I never get to write that too. Now in the middle of night, making good use of jet lag, while I'm writing this post I'm thinking what happened to all that time where did it go, some of that is captured in camera as life long memories, some of it is in suitcases(in terms of shopping I did there) which are still lying every where in my living room but most of it is in our mind and hearts.....the time spent with family, watching kids playing and fighting with their cousins, urge to eat every single food which we like over there (still missed on so many), watching my little one that how she picked up new words and now her favourite word is "nahi" instead of "no" which is basically hindi for no only.....instead of "give me" now it's "lele" (hindi for take it)......list goes on & on.

Now, coming to the cake part this is the cake I baked for my DD's 8th birthday party this year back in April but never get to post it. So, I thought why not share it now. It was a basic egg less chocolate cake with butter cream frosting. This was my first public debut cake I would say, not that I have not baked cakes for friends & family before but in terms of real cake(decorated one) as my daughter say, this was the first one. I have always loved to bake cakes & my family and friends always enjoy it also but back in march when I told my DD how about I bake cake for your b'day party this year, reply was "Ohhhh.....no...no...no!!!". But once cake started to take shape she was on the cloud nine and me too..... it was a relief when the cake was totally done.

Here's another look....ready to go to party place....

tried my hands on making figures(using some help from the net) with fondant to give it a  little 3-D look, worked wonderfully

some leftovers after serving around 25 guests and getting few best compliments of my life

finally my helping hands

If anyone wants any details on the cake let me know I'll be happy to answer. That's it for now, will be back soon.