Moist Chocolate Cake

This is my chocolate cake recipe. I promised to Carolyn that I will post this recipe so that everyone can also try this.

Black Princess

(Natilla-Filled Chocolate Cake)

Cake:

2/3 cup cocoa powder

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 3/4 cups sugar

1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon fine salt

2/3 cup butter

1 cup water

3 large eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder

Natilla:

1/2 cup condensed milk

1 cup milk

1 egg yolk

1 tablespoon cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 tablespoon butter

Chocolate Icing:

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoon coffee

2 cups evap milk

1 cup condensed milk

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

2 teaspoon baking soda

1 tablespoon butter

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F.

2. Grease and line two 9-inch round pans.

3. Sift first 6 ingredients together. Set aside.

4. Cream butter until fluffy. Add sifted ingredients alternately with water and mix until smooth. add eggs, one a time and vanilla. mix until well-blended.

5. Pour into prepared pans. bake for 40 minutes or until ineserted toothpick comes out clean. Let cool.

6. Combine all ingredients for natilla except butter in a double-boiler and cook until thick. Remove from fire. Stir in butter.

7. In a heavy bottom saucepan, mix together all ingredients for chocolate icing except baking soda and butter. Cook until thick; stir in baking soda and butter.

8. To assemble: Spread the natilla between the layers of cake. Ice decoratively with chocolate icing.

Source: Maya Cakes and Pastries book

My Sister's Birthday Cake

This is a banana-chocolate fondant cake I made for my sister Espie when she celebrated her birthday last October.

I wish to give her a gold bracelet as a gift but I think, making a cute cake for her is sweeter, plus definitely cheaper, hehe.

I believed she appreciates her cake a lot because she didn't take a bite on this but packed it nicely and brought to her officemates in Laguna, which is about four to four and a half hours drive from here in Nueva Ecija.

And I was told that her cake after receiving admiration from fellows vanished in a snap. To my understanding, it meant they enjoyed my cake and found it yummy. Mmmm...

Pablita Cakes, finally!

This is a long time dream to have a cake business.

Though not the conglomerate type, actually, a little cake shop in a little town, I believe Pablita Cakes is going to be a stable home business.

It's been over a year since I accepted made-to-order cakes for all occasion. And I didn't have a name for my home business. First, I called it All About Cakes, then I changed it to Sugar Passion, then Cakes by Jamaica, then Cake Ni Mica, which is similar to Cakes by Jamaica.

Finally, after much deliberation from family members, we concluded in having it called Pablita Cakes.

It's like a tandem of a grandpa and a very cute lil girl, hehe. I got the name from my daughter's second name, a female variation of my father's name Pablito.