The Forty Days Cake Video

The Forty Days Cake from Dilek on Vimeo.

I told you before the celebration dinner  of my baby’s f”orty days.” I made this yummy cake that day.   Finishing forty days from birth is our heritage and a belief. Now my baby is growing up day by day. Her sleeping, feeding,  and excretion look like an adult person’s. All these are new for my baby. When a baby finishes forty days, we celebrate it on the fortieth day. In Turkish we call this “kırk uçurmak”; in English we may translate this phrase  as “fly the forty days”. On the fortieth day of the birth, first of all the baby is washed then mother has a bath. After this mother visits a neighbour with her baby. The neighbour expresses good wishes about the baby and before they leave, owner of  the house gives eggs and sugar then touches some flour to forehead of baby. The egg means production, sugar means good and sweet life and flour means  intelligence.
I made this yummy cake with the egg and sugar that our neighbour gives us. I  name it “The Forty Days Cake” being  inspired by “fly the forty days”. I think it is made  for the honor of her.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
•        A cup of milk
•        A cup of sugar
•        3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil
•        2cups of all purpose flour
•        A cup of corn flour
•        3 eggs
•        1 packet of baking powder
•        1 packet of vanilla
•        2 cups of edible nuts( peanut, hazelnut, walnut, almond)

First of all mix egg and sugar with the help of mixer then put vanilla and baking powder  and pour a cup of milk and put 3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil and add all purpose flour and corn flour in it and mix it with a mixer perfectly. Put edible nuts  in it then mix.
Spread  oil the cake mold with a brush then pour the mixture in it. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF for 25-30 minutes.
Enjoy.

Cake With Turkish Delight

When I was making this yummy cake an idea came to my mind.  Why don’t I use Turkish delight in the cake? Then I decided to put some Turkish delight in my cake. So how was the  result? This is the result you see in this picture above. Marvelous!  I think you must try this recipe. When I decided to put Turkish delight in my cake a song was playing in my radio. Who was singing?  Madonna! Madonna was singing Candy Shop (”I’ve got Turkish delight baby and so much more…”) Turkish delight is  mentioned in the song “Candy Shop”, the first song of the album Hard Candy by Madonna. May be the song of Madonna inspired me so I did it. )

Ingredients:

•     1 cup of milk
•     1 cup of sugar
•     3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil
•     3 cups of all purpose flour
•     3 eggs    
•     1 packet of baking powder
•     1 packet of vanilla
•     Turkish delight (optional quantity) 

Recipe:

First of all mix egg and sugar with the help of mixer then add  milk, all purpose flour, vanilla and baking powder in it and mix it with mixer perfectly.

Put Turkish delights in it then mix. I prefer little Turkish delights but if you want you can put evry kind of Turkish delight.  Spread  oil the cake mold with a brush then pour the mixture in it. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF for 25-30 minutes.

A few hours later you can serve it!

Oscar Cake

Last day there were Academy Awards on Tv and I wondered  who would win Oscar Awards, who would look at the Oscar statuette and cry? I got excited as the stars. I had favourites naturally.

For example, Frost/Nixon. My favourite film candidate was Frost/Nixon. Unfortunately Frost/Nixon didn’t win the Academy Awards.

My husband and I watched the night with this yummy cake. We ate this yummy cake with cups of tea.

 Ingredients:

• 1 cup of milk
• 1 cup of sugar
• 3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil
• 2 1/2 cups of all pupose flour
• 1 tbsp cacao
• 1 packet of baking powder
• 1 packet of vanilla

 

• 1 tbsp nescafe
•  1 cup of milk
• 2 1/2 cups of chocolate sauce

 Recipe:

First of all mix egg and sugar with the help of mixer then add cacao, milk, all purpose flour and baking powder in it and mix it with mixer perfectly. Spread  oil the cake mold with a brush then pour the mixture in it. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF for 25-30 minutes. Pour the milk in a bowl and add nescafe in it then when the cake gets warm, make little holes on it with a knife. Pour the milky nescafe on the cake then pour the chocolate sauce on it.

You can garnish with coconut. A few hours later you can serve it!

We watched Oscar Academy Awards with this yummy cake and Oscar went to “Slumdog Millionaire” on the branch of best picture.