Fresh Moist Raspberry Cake

The golden crusted Moist Soft Raspberry Cake

We went Berry Picking this Fall and came home laden with delicious freshly picked Balckberries and Raspberries and the outcome of the fresh berries is the just out of the oven light and airy sweet scented moist Fresh Rashberry Cake. The cake has a nice crust on it from the sugar and was a real winner with my family

I picked the receipe from http://www.kitchenbounty.com/2011/04/fresh-raspberry-cake.html and followed his buttermilk variation which made it light and less in calorie.

The Batter with the Raspberries

Ingredients:

•All Purpose Flour: 1 cup
•Salt: 0.25 tsp
•Baking Soda/ Soda Bicarbonate : 0.5 tsp
•Baking Powder: 0.5 tsp
•Butter Softened : 0.5 cups - 4 tbs - 0.5 stick
• Sugar : 2/3 cup + 2-3 tbs to sprinkle on the top
•Eggs : 1
•Vanilla essence - 0.5 tsp
•Buttermilk- 0.5 cup
•Fresh or Frozen Raspberries - 1 cup


Procedure:

•Preheat the oven to 400F . Line and grease a cake pan or tin that is 18cm/7 in square.Dust it with All Purpose flour.

•Sift together 1 cup of plain/all-purpose flour, 0.25 tsp salt, 0.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda, 0.5 tsp baking powder.

•In a food processor, cream 0.5 cups softened butter until soft and fluffy and slowly add the sugar until well mixed Add the vanilla  and the  egg. Finally add the Buttermilk and mix well.

•Mix the dry Ingredients to the wet mixtures in small batches until combined.

•Pour the batter into the cake pan and level the top and add the raspberries to it. Sprinkle with sugar.

•Bake in the middle rack for about 25-30 minutes till the knife comes out clean. Cool before inverting the cake.

•Can be served with whipped cream

The Cake filled with Raspberries

Fabric Painting on a Saree

Pinks.. Greens.. Yellows
 

 

Having finished 2 Salwar Embroidery for my friends I got to do Painting on a Saree for another friend of mine. It was a Kota Saree with Applique border in Pastel Pink ,  Pastel Green and a bright Yellow.. I was asked to add a punch of colour and design and make it flamboyant. As the applique was a floral design I went for a floral motif of a Bunch of Flowers.

 

 

The Applique Border of the Saree

I used  2 shades of Pearl Pink, Pearl green with a mix of Sap Green of Fevicryl Fabric on the Floral Design. I didn't use a medium to thin out the paint as Kota Fabric byitself is a very thin fabric and the colour bleeds if it is thin and watery.  I had placed the flower motif a regular intervals and accentuated the Saree.

The Bunch and Single Flowers Alternate eachother.

 A part of the bunch was added as Single flower motif to further make it more beautiful and also in the Pallu.

The Play of Colours
 

Beads in Embroidery

THE NECKLINE

Yet again lots had happened. I have moved back to US- Camp Hill, PA and am trying to find my roots here. Am Yet to establish my craft table and my crafty things but I have quite a lot of my past work which I can showcase. !!!!

THE FLOWER MOTIFS DETAILED WITH BEADS

A LITTLE MORE DETAIL WITH LAISY DAISY STITCH

In Continuation of the Surprise Embroidery, Painting I took up commercially for friends and family I was asked to accentuate an already printed Kameez. As it already carried a design I had less choice to work with. It was beige dull colour with marron and green circle and leaf motif. I went for beads of thr same colour but it overall added a shine under light and green and pink thread which would show off in the otherwise dull colour of the kameez. I worked on the existing design and created a neck line and at the base. Also worked with Laisy Daisy (Individual Chain Stitch) at the Border and the Sleeves She liked it immensely Hope to do manymore of this kind till I start my Work as a Architect designing spaces.

THE NECKLINE AND THE BEADWORK AT THE BOTTOM

A SERIES OF DIAMONDS ARE WORKED WITH BEADS