Of Musa’s Birthday & My Chocolate Cake
PART I
Celebrated Musa’s b’day last Saturday. Birthday dia on 24th …. Thursday. Invitation was at 2.00 pm (later 2.15pm ..psst.. just to give me a little bit more time to get things organized). Playmates around the neighbourhood came - Luqman Hakim, Luqman Zariff, Ijam, Muaz and Hakimi. Absent - Faris went for MSSM school trip, Amat tidoq, Ahmad Cikgu Adnan (oops..sorry lupa nak jemput). Others – Lisa, Fikri, Sarah, Nana & Balkish “Please excuse makcik. Takut tak boleh cater…”
So came the boys…….. AT 12.00!!! Had to make them go away.. told them to go home first or play ping pong at the Surau.
PART II
My cake was baked the day before. I had planned to fill the chocolate cake with blueberry fillings and the whipped cream (I used a non-dairy whipping cream) I had used it a few times. Whipped up very nicely. . The filling was quite nicely done…. Then the frosting. It was supposed to be chocolate ganache .. just pour it on the cake.. had done it so many times.. BUT this itchy fingers just wanted to try something different (next time Mama .. don’t try anything new on that very occasion .. knock yr head)
Hahh..hhahhaaa.. I’m cryinglah.. I mixed the melted chocolate into the already whipped non-dairy whipping cream. It curdled almost immediately. Panic2…
Alhamdullillah, there was another half of the chocolate left. No more unwhipped whipping cream, no more milk, not even butter.. only Mother’s Choice spread (bolehlah). Melted the chocos & added some margarine spread. Then, there it goes on the cake. Not the cake I imagined for this occasion but bolehlah.
(Nasib baik tetamuku budak2.. kalau tak aahh)
PART III
Started the b’day with Walid reading the doa’. Quite a long one too.. touched my heart as I look at my children and their friends. THEN… cut the cake. Apologised to the kids for the ‘not the usual cake’ they see on birthdays. But hey!! They came back for a second piece.
I had prepared mee kari earlier. Thanks KakCik for the mee kari recipe. Hubby said the gravy was very nice. Guest the boys were really hungry. They had two go at the cake and gulp down two bowls of the noodles. Hope they say their Bismillah…
The mee kari… will post it at COOKIN buzz.