Baking love Archives - Weekend Waffler

June 25, 2020August 14, 2020

Lemon-blueberry cake with white chocolate frosting

Lemon infused, studded with sweet blueberries and draped in a white chocolate frosting—this cake is a celebration of summer itself. I cannot let a single summer go by without baking this cake. Blueberries are available all year long in the place where I live. But nothing beats the flavor and sweetness of berries during summer when they are in season. Eaten whole or baked into a dessert, blueberries are the ultimate summer treat for people who love them.

May 28, 2020August 14, 2020

Buttery Pound Cake

My earliest memories of baking dates back to those days when I could barely reach up to the kitchen table and watch my mom painstakingly mixing butter and sugar with a spoon. She would sometimes ditch the spoon and instead use her hands to attain the right fluffy consistency of the butter, sugar and eggs. Much later when my older brother was capable enough, mom let him do the beating and mix up the batter. As I was the younger child, my turn to mix came much later. The plain sight of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour coming together and becoming something else fascinated my young eyes. Peeking through the oven door and seeing the batter rise and slowly becoming a cake was a pleasurable feeling. It was mathematics and chemistry coming together to create the most beloved treat of our family.