Homemade Yummy Goodies

My daughter asked me to help her bake a cake for her teacher's birthday party in class next week. As a key member of the organizing team, she has volunteered to make a birthday cake or more like she has volunteered me to make the cake for her.

After some pondering, thought it is time to modify my basic pound cake recipe for another mutation. This time round, Orange Pound Cake.

I believed in using natural ingredients as much as possible, not necessarily the expensive organic stuff but at least not those off-the-shelf stuffs with unknown chemical substitutes.


For the cake next week, I concocted up some Orange Extract (as in the picture) based on a recipe I found in Recipezaar (http://www.recipezaar.com/Orange-Extract-340691) as a base flavoring agent. More to be reported next week. I will take some pictures and post the progress.



Also concocted some Vanilla Essence which will only be ready in December, just nice for Christmas goodies. Used about 300ml of Rum and 4 Vanilla pods, split, seed removed and added to the Rum together with the split pods.