Vanilla Grape Cake

Vanilla cake

Vanilla Grape Cake

Ingredients :

Ready made cake mix (1 box)
Eggs - 3 Nos
Oil - 1/3 Cup

Optional :

Coffee Powder - 1/2 Tea Spoon
Vanilla Essence - 1/2 Tea Spoon
Nuts - Chopped - 1/4 Cup
Raisins - 1/2 Cup
Dried Cherries - 1/4 Cup

Preparation :

• Mix Cake mix, Egg content and oil
• Ensure no lumps are formed and there are no air bubbles
• Using a beater, either manual or electric, beat the mixture for either 2 mins of 50 hand beats. If no beater is available, you can run the mixture through a mixie for 2 mins
  
• Once the mixture is fluffy and soft, mix all the optional ingredients and keep mixing for another 30 seconds. Do not use any beater
• In a cake pan, put a little butter and apply it all over
• Put some all purpose floor (maida) and dust the entire pan so that the cake does not stick to the pan after baking
• Pre-heat the conventional oven to 350 C
• Now, place the pan into the oven and bake

Baking Time :

• Simple thumb rule is, wait for a minimum of 35 mins and then poke a small stick or fork into the cake, deep into the cake and remove it
• Check if there is any liquid left over in the bottom of the pan. If yes, then allow to bake for another 5-10 mins as required.
• Repeat above operation until cake is completely baked. Do not worry about crust sides and top of cake
• Once the cake is baked, remove the pan from the oven and allow to cook for 30 mins
• Once cake is cooled, remove cake from Pan and transfer onto a flat plate or tray
  

Decoration :

• If the sides of cake is crusty, use a long knife and gently trim off the crust
• Cake, after bake, would have a bulged top and hence gently trim off the top to make a flat surface
  
• Now turn the cake upside down. Since the down part is flat, we will it for decoration. The intent of flattening the cake in the above step was to have a flat bottom.
• Use cream frost available in market and the frost once is at room temperature, apply all over the cake and the sides. Do not perform this operation in a warm place as the frost might meltdown
• Once the cake is covered with the frost, put it into the freezer for 5 mins to ensure the frost is not melting
• Cut your favorite fruits and freeze them to keep them fresh. Ensure as many colors fruits as possible
• Remove cake from freezer and start decorating the fruits on the cake
• Freeze once again until fruits stick completely to the cake
• After 10 mins of freezing, remove cake from freezer and store it in normal refrigeration compartment
  

Serve Chilled