6 cakes a day !!!

It seems that Saturdays are "THE DAY" to have all parties. They are our busiest days. From simple cakes to cupcakes to full on designer cakes , we've done each and everything in the span of this one day

Now 6 cakes might not seem much to you, but when each is cake takes a minimum of 3-4 hours (Excluding baking and icing time) , it is a hell of a lot of work .

 We start at approx 12 in the afternoon ( we are super lazy humans , but yeah working till 5 the previous night does also kinda add to the late waking up :P) and work for 10 hours straight. I'm sure you've started calculating 3 hours * 6 which is 18 hours but they are saying 10. Lol , Rome wasn't built in just one day ( That is if this even correct to use here ? *Blush* ) Anyhow, just like that, designer/customised cakes aren't made in one day. The process starts at least 2 days before.

We start by baking the cakes and freezing them . ( Yup all those people who tell you they bake and create on the same day , ALL THE TIME , are either super efficient or not telling you some vital details). When you sculpt a cake, it needs to be slightly hard and if done otherwise will start falling in pieces.  So yeah a day earlier we ice the cakes and cover them with icing ( depending on the client requirement).  Now it sounds honky-dorky but its a lot of work. You have to colour the icing according to what the client needs and then individually roll it out and then put the icing on top of each cake. The process itself takes at least 45 mins - 1 hour.

On the day itself is when we start working on all the details , the small , tiny elements that are soo important on a cake. Each element is researched on ( Google is our God) and made using various tools. It takes time but we know how important those are. Finally, the time comes to integrate the elements with the cake . That done, the cake is given a final touch- up and boxed to be picked up by the client.

Now imagine all this * 6 in one day. ( The 6 pictures above done in various colours is proof of what we are saying) That is what our Saturdays are all about. Its been hell for our social lives but oh what a pleasure for us :)

Thank You

Avani Malhotra
For www.fortheloveofcake.in

The First Cake

My First Fondant Cake - it was for my childhood best friend Naina Dayal who had just seen us on facebook. 

When we were children , Naina and I were inseparable. Went out everywhere, hung out with each other, constantly stayed at each others' houses and refused to let anyone else enter this cosy world of two. However life happened. She shifted to Kuwait as her dad got transferred there. Her mum was a school teacher in our school and one of my favourites , Mrs. Payal Dayal - gentle , loving and caring with just the right amount of strictness is how I remember her. When they got back , she enrolled in another school and thus slowly over the year we lost touch, only to reconnect in College where for obvious reasons the relationship was not the same. But it was still nice to reconnect to an old friend, a friend who had been the centre of your life for a whole while.


8 years down , my business happened and she turned out to be one of the first clients. It was like " LIFE" once again. And who was the cake for ? Her mum - " Yes this was as scary as it could get !!"


Thus came the day before the delivery. I was jittery , panicky and obviously very very nervous.  I called 2 of my friends(Jeevika Chhabra and Mehak Gandhi) to come over to spend the night and "help me" and they like poor, good friends came. (If you ask them , they say I gave them no choice). 
Moving on , we spent the entire night (9 hours) working on a 1 kilo cake - it was torture. We covered the cake twice(coz the first time the entire lower layer looked like it had cracks ALL OVER), I forgot how to make roses , we made the wrong colours to put on the cake, piping lines down the cake was torturous and I forgot how to breathe(LITERALLY). One friend gave up and slept on the table itself , the other refused to and kept egging me on. The sister decided it was time to sleep , but would come back every minute to check on the progress. It seemed like an impossible dream and I kept thanking God that I had the foresight to make the cake a day in advance. Each tiny line was cheered on and each time I messed up "groans" were heard. 


Finally 9 hours , 4 friends and many "hold my breath " moments later, it was ready. The first fondant cake I had ever made and what happened after that ? - WE CRASHED. (Yup, that was our Happy Ending)


Naina liked the cake and I got fantastic feedback for it. Its till date one of my favourite cakes (as they say, you can never forget your first:) ). 


So to all you bakers out there, if this happened with you too, don't panic. Call your friends over and see miracles happen. If you have a good support system , even miracles happen frequently. Share your first cake stories with us  to show us we aren't alone :)


Avani Malhotra
For www.fortheloveofcake.in