birthday boy

Hello!

okay, actually the pictures are supposed to be from the bottom to up. means the last picture should be on top and the top picture here with this guy here should be last. so yea..up to you la haha.

so, its Hanis's 18th birthday! i had no idea what to get for him since i'm short of money. since i have lots of free time and enjoy cooking, why not bake for him something! so i decided to bake a chocolate cake.

i had no idea how to start. so i decided to ask a friend for recipe. so she showed me this link to a webpage showing all the wonderful recipes. sounds easy to make and the ingredients are also quite okay..so i go ahead with it. i bought the ingredients in the afternoon and went for silat training. after training i started with the baking. okay now, read from the bottom!

8) hope you like the cake Hanis. i made it with tender loving care noe...hahah

well, you're 18 now. legal to buy cigarettes but i would'nt want to see you buy one anyway :)

could not have say more how much i care for you, but insyaAllah, our friendship last till my very last breathe, happy 18th birthday buddy :)

7) wooo..my very first chocolate cake for a special someone on his next day of birthday!
6) taadaa! haha..heres the baked cake! As you can see there are many holes because i checked on it for a few times. luckily it comes out nice chocolate colour and not black!

5) heres the topping part. the thing that makes this cake nice! add in 1 tin of sweetened milk ( can add less if you scared tooo sweeet). add about 125 g of oil, any cooking oil, 1 tspn of vanilla essence, about 70g of cocoa powder and a lil bit of salt. put it into simmer under slow heat. slowly swirl the mix. dont let it for too long. if you hold your hand over the mix and its hot then its okay ordy can take out. dont wait until it boils, like me. luckily i mange to pour it out before the whole mix becomes chaotar!
4) here's the result! add in about 200g of chilled water slowly. gently mix them. put in a tray which has been oiled. bake for about 60 mins at 170 dgree celsius. can check if already baked by poking a stick into the cake. if you pull the stick from the cake and there's some dough on the stick means its not cook yet. but if the stick comes out clean means it ready to be taken out of the oven.

3) this is the flour part. mix together flour (230g), cocoa powder (64g) salt (1/2 tspn) bicarbonate soda (1 tspn) and baking powder (1 &1/2 tspn). after that, add in in this mixture of flour in the butter and sugar just now. put it slowly and slowly mix it together with a spatula.
2) so here it starts. put the butter(170g) in and next the castor sugar(400g) then let the butter soften first. mix it well with a mixer preferably. after the butter and sugar is evenly mixed, add in the eggs, one by one. only 3 eggs is used. after that, add in the nescafe ( 1 tspn) chocolate paste (1 tspn), vanilla essence ( 1 tspn) and also 1 tspn of hot water.

1) so first, this is all the ingredients. eggs, a packet of cocoa powder, castor sugar, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, chocolate paste, vanilla essence, sweetened milk and Nescafe. woo..you can subsitute nescafe with milo.