SLC21W3 // Making a Cake Filling

Greetings and welcome. Thank you for this enlightening class and am glad to be a part of the lecture.

Have you prepared any cream to fill your cakes at home? Tell us about your experience.

No, today is actually my first time to prepare a cake cream and hence I was very excited to try it out.

Initially I was skeptical but as I followed the step by step tutorial of the teacher, it came out well and am excited to have learnt something new.

My experience with preparing this cake filling was awesome as I watch the magic happen. I like it. I didn’t have most of the ingredients at home hence I had to go and buy them and I was glad I could participate in the class.

Make the cake cream (detail ingredients and step by step) and indicate if you followed the recipe we provided or prepared your traditional recipe for cake filling.

To make my cake cream, I had to get ready my utensils and ingredients.

Utencils includes:

	Utensils

• Measuring cup
• Wooden paddle
• Hand whisk
• Pot and a bowl

The Ingredients I used were;

	Ingredients

• 400ml of Milk
• 115 gram of Sugar
• 2 Egg yolks
• 1 cc of Butter
• 50 gram of Cornstarch
  1 cc of Vanilla and
  A Lemon peel

Procedure:

• I started by pouring half of the milk into a pot and I added my lemon peel and I table soonnof vanilla and allowed them to infuse.

• Then I added my corn starch to the remaining milk and stirred constantly.

• I placed the two yolks of egg in another root and added the sugar to it. I continued to stir it with my hand whisker until it turned white.

• I proceeded to pour in the milk plus the cornstarch into the mixture of the white egg yolk and sugar and tiered until I obtained a smooth mixture without lumps.

I removed the lemon peel from the infused milk and added it to my mixture annd continued stirring gradually.

• I proceeded to add butter to the mixture and began to cook it over low heat while I stirred it continuously until the cream thickened and has a smooth and creamy texture.

• I removed it from the heat and transit to my plate to be stored in the refrigerator until am ready to use it.

What was the most difficult thing for you in preparing the filling?

Initially I thought making this was going to pose some form of difficulty to me but amazingly, I didn’t encounter any difficulties when when my cake filling.

I noticed that while I was stirring the sugar and egg mixture, my hand was getting a bit fired but I got a sit and sat down and continued until it was white. Everything else was easy for me as I followed the exact step my step instructions given by the teacher.

What additional ingredients do you think can be added to the cake cream to give it a special touch?

The special touch one wants can be perculiar to individuals and what they want to make their cake cream unique. One can use different types of flavors. Here we used vanilla but trying out other Flavours like banana flavour, cinnamon, Strawberry etc would be great.

Some people are known to add liquor, extracts and fruits purée especially in fruit cakes or in chocolate cakes in other to get the extra touch they need. It all boils down to want one wants.

Do you have any special tips for making cake cream? Share it.

To get the perfect cake cream we want, we must ensure that the ingredients are mixed in the right proportion. This is the basics of baking. If the ingredients like the corn starch, egg yolks and the sugar misting are not adequately combined, we may get a mixture with an uneven taste, hence we should ensure tactless with the quantities we work with. Do not over mix the ingredients.

The act of stirring effectively should be put into good consideration. We have to ensure that we stir well so that our ingredients can be properly mixed to get the right consistency we need to avoid lumps and sticky outcome.

In as much as it’s good to experiment with things and flavours that we want to use to make our cream unique, we should be careful not to incorporate ones that would defeat the general purpose and outcome of the cream.

Thank you for read through as I ask @ruthjoe, @joivta3 and @ngozi99 to participate in the engagement.