Orange cake is a cake that is not orange in color 😜 but made with fresh Oranges 😊.Like they say, "Necessity is the mother of all inventions", I also invented this recipe likewise, I mean, out of necessity to feed my cranky little boss who is quite picky when it comes to eating fruits. Now I understand my mother more, why the heck she used to hide those veggies and camouflaged them in different ways to look like a yummy snack.
Those times I used to roll my eyes at her clockwise. Then she used to curse me in a non-cursing way,"You will only understand what and why I am doing all these for you,when you will become a mother ." And I would be simply mimicking her, trying to lip-sync her and LOL as if she was delivering a famous dialogue from an Indian movie.
Fast forward now, I am rolling my eyes anti-clockwise and her words came true finally. Well, moms are always right! I am also following her footsteps now, sneaking veggies and fruits inside the real food and praying that my little boss will munch on it for sure without a miss. I feel victorious when it happens. But it is not an easy feat always !!
Likewise, I came out with this cake recipe as my little one was insisting one day that she wants to eat a cake. Oh ! I was thrilled and my brain hatched a plan - to sneak in those oranges she refuses to eat otherwise. And here I was, baking a yummy orange cake with fresh homemade orange juice with full enthu. But who is the real boss ? ...😎 my daughter's (Read:THE baby boss !) mood changes like season. The current mood was ,"I don't want a cake anymore.Period."
However, my hubby who is not a fan of sweets loves most of the bakes/cakes I make.So, I was half satisfied, though my real mission was unaccomplished !! The little boss looked at the cake and me and said, "You are fired !" (Like our President Trump !)
Since I have got a "Never give up " attitude, I still didn't lose hope. So, I transformed those cakes into cake lollipops covered in the irresistible melted chocolate. It worked till the chocolate was left. Then as always she carefully handed over the leftover to me so that I can finish it off and end the story ASAP.
For a happy ending with a heavy heart,I finally made her some faux chocolates and THAT disappeared into her mouth like icecream. #RepurcussionsOfBeingAMother #Hallelujah 🙌🙇🙆
Third time is indeed a charm !!
No wonder why they say ,"Child is father to a man." Ohooo..why just father ,I would say a parent would rather justify that quote. All parents agree ??
Well, the Orange cake came out good, moist and deliciaso and as always I eventually had to complete it. Time to buy new dresses ...my waist feels stuck ...God,my hubby is losing weight and I am gaining..Karma is a b**** !!(Excuse me 😉😆)
Before I become sad about how voluptous I am becoming (Thank God I am a south Indian,our men like their women to be just like this 😜😁😂💞)
Before my mind and writing become very very dirty ,let's talk about oranges,I mean the sweet little things - Orange cake .(Deep breath!) So,this is how I made this delicious Orange cake peeps .
ORANGE CAKE
Ingredients
All-Purpose flour , sifted -1 &1/2 cups
Sugar, powdered -1&1/2 cups
Butter, melted - 1/2 cup
Eggs - 4 Nos.
Baking Powder-1 and 1/2 Tsp
Vanilla essence 1 Tsp
Milk -1/4th cup
Orange zest 1 Tsp
Orange juice (Small Mandarins) - 3 Nos.
9 inch cake pan
Preparation method to make Orange cake :
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degree F .
2.Take a deep bowl and beat the melted butter and sugar until they are creamy and smooth with a hand beater . (Scrape down the sides of the bowl when needed)
3.Add eggs one by one preferably and not all at once .Beat everything until well-combined .
4.Then add baking powder,vanilla essence,orange zest,milk and orange juice and beat until well-combined.
5. Finally,add flour little by little and beat until well-combined into a thick well-mixed batter !
6.Grease a pan with butter.
7.Pour the batter into the cake pan .
8.Tap to release any air trapped.
9.Place the cake pan carefully into the oven .
10.Close it and bake for 30-60 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean .
11.Once,baked,put off the oven and place the cake pan outside to cool off a bit.
12.AND THE WAIT IS OVER.Slice it ,eat it and savor it bit by bit and get lost to heaven ...oops that's what cakes or sweets do to me ...You know what I mean ...enjoy the damn sweet thing peeps!
NOTE:
1. The eggs and milk should be kept at room temperature.
2.Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
3.Creaming butter and sugar until it is smooth is must.
4.Add eggs not all at once and flour little by little .
5.Here I prefer using Mandarins,small size oranges than the real oranges .
5.Since the baking system may vary from oven to oven,the time to bake the cake may differ .Keep an eye.Poke here and there on the cake to make sure it is indeed completely well-cooked.
So,this is how I make my orange cake, and now how I turned this into a cake lollipop and my faux chocolates .
Orange Cake Lollipops
Ingredients
Orange cake slices
Round cutter
Thick Straws or sticks the size of the straw
Baking chips - 1 cup
Hot water
Two containers
Preparation method to make cake lollipops
- Slice the cake into thick pieces.
- Using a round cutter cut out round thick pieces and keep them aside.
- Insert the straw into the round cake pieces gently so that it looks like a lollipop .Keep them aside.**
- Pour hot water into a container preferably not plastic and place the other container onto the top that should not touch the water . (Double boiler method)
- Pour all the baking chips into it and keep on stirring until melted.
- Make sure no water gets into it or it will spoil the melted chocolate .
- Then remove the container with melted chocolate .
- Now immerse the cake lollipops** into the melted chocolates and make sure that they are completely covered .
- Gently shake the excess chocolate off .
- Place them into a glass and let them dry completely.
- Once they dry totally , TADA,choco orange cake lollipops are ready to munch.
- Eat and say eeeeehaaa :D
- Pour the leftover chocolates into the mould and let them dry.
- That's it my lazy ,quickie ,tasty homemade chocolates are ready to eat.
- Eat them and say 😎....Right .Eeeeeeehaaaaaaaaa.....Dil se👏😉😄
So, where I had been / what was I up to ...away from my blog?
I am back - juggling and hustling with my quintuplets (God ,I wanted only triplets though ! )- My little boss,Honey D,my big boss,Honey P,my home,my plant kids and my Youtube channels ....had to put my sixth baby, my blog to sleep like Kumbkarana though ...(thought of giving a few readers I've, some much deserving break from my word-ly torture,up until NOW ....Bijli giraney mein hu aayi,kehthey hai mujhko Annabelle ya dehathi nahi, Mulan /Lady Mogambo ,behan aur bhaiii 😎...💃💥😉😆😋😈) waahhh..I love myself 💞...
You see, Honey P,my hubby had an amazing 8 months of bachelor life here in US ,as myself and little one was stuck in India and how dare he? 😎 ...I am busy watt lagaying (read seva karr rahi hu ) ,bheja fry kar rahi hu 😜...A good husband should be a little bit afraid of his wife, right ladies ?? (I can see married men rolling their eyes 😁🙊🙈 )....and my hubby was afraid of Corona, more than me 😐..now tell me how fair is that !!
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| The last one, a typo..it should be except your wife ...eeeehaaaa...😎😉😂😇💪 |
Being a self-proclaimed annoying wife at his service, I am eating his brain in person after such a long gap ...I missed that taste...After all, his highness under-estimated that ,"True love can't stay far for long ."...True yet jokes apart, it was a mutual decision that we will wait for the vaccine to come out and then travel safe. It is good to be back to my home, hubby, and the most favorite place at my home, my kitchen ....💁🍴
I am very happy that my little boss had a great time in India. She can speak our mother tongue, Malayalam fluently (almost) . She enjoyed playing with mud, water, in nature in India, just the way I envisioned her childhood days to be, thoroughly. She and my parents were a gang .
Like "The karate kid" (movie), she learned life lessons in a hard yet humble way - to enjoy the simplicity yet hardships of life. She would help my mother and father whatever they were doing more than I did. She could look at the sky and predict,"Everyone inside, it's gonna rain today !" ...Like Mr.Miyagi,I am proud of my little one ! Yaaaa....hoooo ...
I enjoyed my mom-made foods for a long. Also got a few cooking lessons from the expert.
My hubby terribly missed me. Even though not a super cook or a YouTube star, my hubby feels content only after eating food made by me than any 5-star restaurant foods or his mama's food or my mamma's food for that matter (though I am nowhere near to those experts !!).
Initially, he was like I am doing awesome here (in the US) , cooking this and that, having a great time (I was glad !😍) but later confessed that he used to in fact watch my youtube videos to make a few recipes. I thought my videos not being up to mark may cringe him as it does to me.So,never told him to do. However, he said, it was the holy grail for him.😁Those were videos doing ok though .😀Finally, I am glad that I made those videos.😊
He finally came to India, followed the quarantine rules - stayed in a hotel for a week, and once he was tested COVID -ve, he headed to an Ayurvedic resort and took the required natural treatments for all his health issues, did meditation, etc and then by God's grace we all safely traveled back to the US without any problem. Thanking God for watching over us!
Since he was reading my blog (in the US) and I was kinda micromanaging him / situations through my blog from India (Proud to be a blogger !😂). He worked out/gym-med instead of working in his office 24/7, ate well, took care of himself. I am glad that he didn't misunderstand me and he did the right thing after coming to India, which was my intention after all. Looks like my hubby, God, and celebrities listen to me through my blog for sure. 😉😋😅🙌
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| 🙌💗Thankful for all blessings !! |
However, every year I should go to India by myself for months I think ...it's refreshing, kinda a renewal...I feel like a newly married bride. 😂 #AGOG-SunteHo
My blog somehow has the angelic power to solve lots of problems it seems ...I will keep on updating especially if honey P is taking care of his health properly or not. 😎👍.I don't mind being the bad guy/gal for a good cause ...👿❤ ...That is an inbuilt trait in me ...
The other reason I took a break from my blog is to stay away from the unnecessary attention that I was getting. They say it takes 21 days to make or break a habit.So, I hope by now everyone forgot me....
I have got a girl gang in WhatsApp, we named it "Spice girls " which I've lately renamed to "spy girls" because I've stopped paying any attention to any Indian celebrity news or follow them on social media as my girlfriends say, the number of celebrities rooting for me especially from Bollywood were increasing day by day and even though I am thankful to them for their precious time showing their support, it really makes me uncomfortable seeing them doing this and that for me.
I used to think celebrities are self-absorbed people😋. I have no idea how to stop these elite, genuinely kind people. I value their time and I am grateful beyond words that they are somehow finding time for me when the people I know - friends, relatives, who silently read my blog, watch my videos, and probably hope that one day I will just stop doing all these. You see like it was said in Hindi movie,3 idiots ,"Dost fail ho jaye toh dukh hota hai, lekin dost first aa jaye toh zyada dukh hota hai... "
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| Self-motivation and self-love Jai ho !😁😻 |
Like a lioness, I walk alone (with maa Shakthi beside me...) and roar at times 😺.....Whoever tries to put me down are my best motivators! What doesn't kill me, just makes me stronger !!💪🙏
There are people I know who use fake IDs and comment harshly on my videos that are doing well, hoping that I will react badly there and may therefore put a bad impression on any future visitors to my YouTube channel and thereby lose subscribers. I know by the tone of writing plus I have got an app to decode who is doing that...The atrocities people do silently...
There are many famous YouTubers who talk behind my back with a long note or a quote and or copy my content and become more famous, that hurts though. Then I wish if only I was also very successful like them!! ..Anyways, that pushes me more, not to stop ever,no matter the consequences! ...Unlike them, it is not a full-time gig for me or a source of living ...All I can do is try my best with the little time I get ...Like Lord Krishna said in our Holy scripture, Gita,"Karam mein dhyan do,phal mein nahi." / Pay attention to your work not the outcome . So, whatever God decides for me,I will be content !!...Well,thoda hai bass thodi ki zaroorat hai...
SO,I will always be grateful to all those celebrities who were kinda cheering me up , who made me smile and giggle, who made me seen and special especially our girl gang wanna thanks (Ranveer sir,Arjun K Sir,Varun sir,Shahid sir specially for doing silly things to make ME smile (with due respect to their partners) ).There are many big personalities I feel -Shahrukh sir,Hrithik sir,Salman sir ,Karthik sir,Vicky sir and many...How did this miracle happen I wonder? I know very well who has got the best intention for me and I am just thankful to all my angels in disguise.Dear God,tussi great ho 🙏🙌
As I was figuring out how to deal with Mollywood, came Bollywood and I also noticed but pretended I didn't see just so that they don't continue doing so,like Tollywood ..Our Arjun Reddy ,the talented hunk,Vijay Devarakonda garu ."Illu chaala baoondi sirrr."😊, chaala chaala thanks sir for everything and also Mahesh Babu garu and Namrata Ma'am,Chala thanks .😊
Having said that ,I am not looking for anyone's favor ,sympathy ,likewise though..#NotAtAllPridefulOrThrowingAttitude
Even though grateful beyond words,I felt like a Nemo surrounded by Whales and sharks (harmless and kind). Me, being a backbencher since school days (so that I can do all my mischiefs without anyone noticing), I guess, almighty is trying hard to make me a front seater. But,too much attention makes me very uncomfortable.
When I write anything on this blog or post any video, I pretend no one is reading/watching because that is the only way I can be raw and unfiltered with my own colors and style ...Which may offend many which are not at all my intention and I've no intention to impress anyone too...Simply being me!...
Maybe I should put a disclaimer : "I have a heart of a child and the right part of my brain is that of an old lady and the left part of my brain is that of a child." With that weird feature in me,I work....I am a little embarrassed that now the whole world (sorta) probably knows what a notorious beast I am ...😏😟😐
So,I no longer check any social media or read celebrity news, simply minding my own things. However, my girl gang does! They also keep track of people we mutually know or hardly know who are like my backstabbers, insecure, jealous people, and then we have something called "Roast of the day ", where we pick someone who has no good intention towards me and they roast them so badly.
These girls are very brutal. They only use cuss words and are totally out of control. I simply ROFL.Baap re baap BUT they are my rock, my moral support forever. I've asked even them to just be moral supporters only. By the way, they are very gorgeous, single, smarta** and professionals like Teacher, Nurse, Lawyer, NGO,IT professionals...🙌😘💓👭
There are many well-known and unknown people especially females who seem to be offended by me in some way. Like someone said,"I never gave you a reason to hate me. You’re just creating your own little drama of pure insecurity."
My girls can't stand the fact and they forced me to mention for sure in my blog that some people are themselves chupa rustams , don (meow meow,ola :)..decode ) ,Baby doll Panda and some got their eyes also bleached, some are nartakis/dancers who non-stop dance to other's tunes and things they say and do to malign me. (Yes,keep on dancing for us !😂) .My friend says,a serial (killer) yekshi is also there...I only watch Netflix..
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| Amen! Dear God get them 😁🙇 |
Avarkokkey kaanennu annangaloddu onscreen romance cheyyam ,paavam avarudey bharthav maar idokkey support cheyanney vellya karyam thanney ,pinney partyil okkey poyi anangalokkey keti pidichu nilkkum,ithonnum preshnam illa,nammaley avrudey colleague support cheythaal pidikyulla,enthokey kaananam/kelkannam...ellam ariyanney daivam,....Nammal okkey avardey koot onnum famous allannu vicharichu ,ithokkey mindathey ethra kelkkaandey....Then we sing in chorus...#TereKoMirchiLagiTohMeinKyaKaroon
I am indeed a child at heart but not really a kid #GrownUpKid.I know what I am doing and why I am doing .I am not here to convince others of my purpose, impress or depress (made it rhyme) anyone or have to prove anything to anyone.
For me, there is no one as powerful as God! God is enough!
My blog and my YouTube channels are like "Me time things ". I feel lucky whenever I am able to write a blog post or make a video. That itself is a big thing for me. With the limited time I get every day, I am chasing my passions - to cook,to write,to click, and the latest addiction, to make a video without compromising my family and MYSELF.Name,fame,success,money etc are secondary or just bonus. Time is money for me !
So, basically what I am trying to say is that it has been a lonely journey for a long and I am by my God's grace thriving against all odds with breaks every now and then and just going on. So,I will be fine on my own.
With all due respect, admiration, gratitude, I would hereby request all celebrities who spare their precious time for me, to not do so. I've always been a warrior in my life,I will survive whatsoever. I just hope I will be able to do things that make me happy ...and those are very simple things ...
Also ,I didn't ask anyone to read my blog or watch my video,if it makes you feel good /useful,I will be so happy but if it makes you uncomfortable,then stop doing so.But if you are gonna do backstabbing ,I take it as if you are feeling some kind of insecurity.My self-esteem is very high !
Question and Answer sections :
Some people were concerned about my emotionally weak phase in the past...Well, who said life is a bed of roses ? Ups and downs are part and parcel of life ...Being a warrior -spirited,I got this! "Challenges in life are what makes life interesting and not an easy life ." It happens and it's ok. I brood,regroup,rest,recover and bounce back. Thx for your concern ! 😊🙏
(Nisa ma'am ,at your age,pls relax and take a break from YouTube .TC :) )
Some people were concerned that why do I have to work like a maid at my home. That's a very stupid, shallow way of perception.Are you even educated ?? Simple because I don't have a maid here (Most of the women don't have one here ) and my mother taught me, "Self-reliance starts right from the humble kitchen ".Don't wait for any pandemic to teach you that.There is a difference between when a mother cooks for the family and when a maid does. That secret ingredient is love! Well, that's how I see it .Whatever I do for my family is my duty, priority, and happiness!
Besides,Household chores are like mini exercises for me! :))
Well, even when I was working in IT,I did all these by myself and even though I loved my IT work ,I was happiest the day I got a hefty salary only. There was no internal satisfaction.We used to eat out more, travel more, etc but I was not able to take care of my hubby the way I wished to and myself. The health was being compromised!
Basically, I am a very simple homely person and I want to take care of my family and myself at all cost - my top most priority, rest all are not that vital. Problems in life are inevitable regardless !! With a middle-class upbringing, I know very well how to be happy with anything less. Health is wealth ! And I am very thankful to God for all his blessings ...
Then there are a few silly things I wanna do in my life, my passion for cooking, writing, and making videos which I wanna pursue side by side too, that makes me feel like I did something for myself too...
Some hard-hearted men and women were concerned that I am an extremely notorious wife 😂😆...YES,I AM!!😈 Well,my hubby knows very well that I am nice AND naughty which according to him is SEXY and interesting = "WORTHY !"😎😉😀😇👄💞💋
Some wondered why I've so many YouTube channels : It just happened.One thing led to another .But I wish I had it all under one channel name though...Nothing was planned, didn't even expect,I will be able to continue at least one channel.
That's it for now , I feel emotionally exhausted to reply all 😁. The smallest post I've ever written😎😋 .Well,the bottomline is ,"If dear zindagi/life gives you Oranges, make everything with it as much as you can ,to your heart content and ENJOY "!!
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