The aroma of a freshly baked cake is unmatched. Be it around a bakery that you pass or at your home, the aroma of a cake layered with ganache, nut or fruits and whipped cream is irresistible. Thick vanilla, sinful chocolate or a nutty delight, cake in any form is never a bad idea and a guaranteed cause of celebration. Birthdays, anniversaries, promotion, farewell or just about any occasion is incomplete without cutting a cake, isn’t it?
But post the pandemic, how do you do that? While ordering in is one option, but why take that risk too when you can easily bake one at home! Yes, you read that right, here are 4 types of cakes you can easily bake at home.
1. Biscuit Cake
Your simple digestive biscuits, layered with coffee and chocolate icing and baked to perfection! Biscuit cakes are perhaps one of the easiest of the lot as you literally don’t need any exotic ingredients except a couple of biscuits, cocoa, coffee and chocolates!
2. Pound Cake
A kind of butter cake, pound cake gets its name from the fact that it can be measured in proportion- a pound if sugar, a pound of eggs, butter or flour. Pound cakes are generally lightly flavoured and are served topped with a light icing or glazed with sugar and are baked in a loaf.
3. Sponge Cake
A cake recipe that needs no baking soda, powder but just a couple of egg whites, sugar and flour! Yes, it is that simple to bake a sponge cake. You can layer it with your favourite chocolate sauce, whipped vanilla cream or just some nuts and dry fruits!
4. Flourless Cake
Often made in a pan for easy removal, flourless cakes are made without flour so to give a more fudgy, airy texture with the eggs that are whipped and folded into the batter.