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कभी किसी को मुक्कमल जहाँ नहीं मिलता ,कहीं ज़मीन तो कहीं आसमान नहीं मिलता.....

This is not about poetry or me being hit in the head by something hard....no,once in a while I just realise what I'm missing because I don't have a daughter.I am not complaining,I love my mad hatter for a son,and am really happy that he is all that he is....but that thought does rear itself once in a while.......almost like a Naag or Naagin.
I wish....my son had a sister.

Cant help the melodrama,but that's what I am....

Glad that Sanskriti Sawhney will soon be around,For all those who do not know-she is my new niece......waiting for her to come back to India.

This was a practice session.

Glad to have a neighbour in the meanwhile,Mahika Bhartari...so I decided to make the princess cake for her.

The doll was store made ,and BTW,Mahika is also called Piya....

I used three cakes,all round.

One 2 pound and two 1 pound cakes.

In easy language,the two pound cake is made of 8 eggs and the one pound cake is made of 4 eggs.Plenty of eggs here.....almost enough to start a poultry farm.

For the

Princess Cake...

you need

One Barbie Doll

One 2 pound Vanilla Sponge Cake

Two 1 pound Vanilla Sponge Cakes

250 gms Mixed fruit jam-I used Kissan---enriched with calcium you see,You can use any flavour you want.It is needed ,so don't skip the calories from the jam or fruit preserve.

200 mils cold milk

1 kg fresh cream

200 gms icing sugar...(Icing made with butter is easier to work with though)

Food colour

Colourful sprinkles

An Immense amount of patience(As if it is available in the market...I know people who would kill for it)

A couple of shelves in the fridge!

Lets get started.

First whip the cream with the icing sugar till it is thick.

That's the first sponge,in which I made a hole using a glass ,a cookie cutter is never so deep.Kept the cup cake like thing for that only -the cup cake.

Sliced in the centre.

The jam in a bowl,ready to be whipped smooth.

Now it is,dont leave any lumps....bad Karma..

Sprinkle about 30-40 mils of milk on the cake and then wait a minute for the sponge to soak it up.Now spread the jam on the cake.

And now spread the cream over this layer.

Now that you've done that ...

Place the second half over this carefully.

Again the milk and jam,but not totally the second layer cake is smaller.Too much cream makes the cakes shaky,the jam is glue enough...

Same process ,the milk and the jam and the cream....

Three layers remember???

Now ,sine the doll was really tall...we needed a feat of engineering.....some cutting and pasting at the top....narrow the waist.

And now the carving.....to cut off the sides so this looks like a skirt.Whatever I cut off I pasted ...used the cake crumbs to shape the skirt.

Don't fret,we will make it pretty.

Now the crumb coat,a thin layer of cream just to seal the crumbs.

Now the skirt needs to chill to set the cream.In the meanwhile wrap the doll in cling film,you don't want cream in places that are difficult to clean.Bring put the cakes after half an hour,and smooth over loads of cream in the skirt.Once you are happy with the cream then insert the doll in the center and again chill.

I dropped some colourful sprinkles on the cake,polka dotted skirt.