Cake in a Jar!

Ever since I started working, I've found that weekends have become more important than they ever had been!

Saturdays and Sundays! You help me nurture my inner Nigella!

You help me mess around with my life. You help me stay spontaneous and crazy!

:)

Well, my typical Saturday may not be your typical Saturday! I spent  am spending my day lounging around in pajamas and eating cake batter and drinking endless cups of tea - and I'm moving in spurts.

Spurts?

Well, there are varying periods of activity coupled with utter sloth-fullness.

I can literally see the dent in the mattress that I've made, sitting in one place, glued to TV!

I know that I'm wasting my time! I mean I could be out there - doing something! But no - for today, Aradhna    has been reduced to a slightly rumpled couch potato. And she loves it :)

But you see, I did do something a wee bit useful with my time! 

For one - You have a blog post!
(I know - I'm killing my blog by not updating frequently, but believe me! There are ideas! But I get so lazy..... :( Forgive me! )

And I also have a DIY for you!

Okay - so some background on this - I love making gifts for people. If I buy something from a store, the reason behind it is either that I can't make that thing or that I really don't like that person! :P

Now I also love to bake. But I can't really bake a cake for someone every time :( Sometimes there's jsut too much going on in my life and it gets hard to manage all things together! 

Enter - Cake in a Jar! (YAY!)

This little jar combines what I want to do and love so easily!

I mean its terribly easy to throw in a few dry ingredients together, stick on a recipe and hand it over!

You give the person the pleasure of baking from scratch, without the mess! No recipe - scouting either!

All you need to do is throw in some butter, eggs and milk and just push the concoction into a hot oven !

Voila!

CAKE! :)



There you have it. A day - well used!

Stay happy :)


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Edit :

I realized that in the event that you're actually following the recipe, you don't have much information about it here. Oops! My bad!

So here's the proper Ingredients + Method thingy below :

Ingredients:

For the Jar Mix :


1 + 1/2 Cup Flour
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
1 tsp Baking Powder
A pinch of salt.






This way, you can simply gift the Jar with instructions, or store it in your pantry for those lazy days when all you crave is cake and can't get off your butt to actually take the long way there!

Now I had an extreeeeemely lazy Saturday. And I was just tooooo vella!!!!












How to use the Jar Mix :

So all you have to do is whip 3 eggs and 1/2 cup + 1/3 cup of butter together, throw in a teaspoon of vanilla essence and 3 tablespoons of milk. 

This is the wet mix, into which you shall eventually incorporate the dry stuff you made earlier.


If the mix comes out to be too dry, don't despair! Just add a few more tablespoons of milk and it'll all be sorted! :)




Baking Instructions : Pour into a greased tin at 180*C for approx 45 mins. (Convection of course!)

Tada!!!!

Numb & Number.


(And it gets weirder from here onwards.)

You know this relationsip thing? It so much like this :


Urgh!

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Disclaimer : Before you start surmising something, they're just observations. Any reference to people, living or dead, is purely coincidental! /:D 

Live. Love. Eat.