DESSERTS

FOOD & CREATIVITY…ART YOU EAT #1-CHOCOLATE!

2008/02/09 / 10 Comments
“Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.”
Julia Child
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My canvas on chocolate…Julia Child’s words ring so true!

Why would I post this cake again? All thanks to an idea from Holly…a mom to 2 sweet boys obsessed with all things cooking & baking. Passionate like me & a buncha foodies on the net!!
AYE1%2B %2BChocolate Holly’s had an idea: “We all want our creations to look as wonderful as they taste and there are tons of absolutely gorgeous examples out there of the amazing creations that all you beautiful bloggers create. Why not hold an event that shares the decorating and presentation tips as well as the food? After all, if someone is going to try to recreate your masterpiece, shouldn’t it look spectacular too?” YES!!
IMG 1627My mantra…’Do It From Scratch’! It must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too!
Quoting from her blog…”Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus defines artistry as a noun that means “creativity“. Each month we will hold an event that will focus on a different kind of decorating theme, medium, idea, holiday, etc. That way we can all go for variations on a similar theme for that month and end up with lots of ideas to choose from! It should be fun to see all the variations we come up with.“

IMG 1681 Great idea…I think food as an art rocks! A platform for creativity & just my kind of therapeutic pleasure!

Have posted the recipe & making of my ‘Chocolate Strawberry Cake’ a few weeks ago. You can find the complete procedure HERE. Pictures of the process follow. This cake has been tried by 2 people I know. Purnima even sent me pictures & she did a SPLENDID job! It was just amazing & I was so glad I shared it!

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Chocolate Strawberry Cake…Quite the Ultimate Combination

Since Valentine’s Day is almost here – and because it is what it is – Holly chose CHOCOLATE to kick this off with. This means chocolate in any type, but not cocoa. She wants to see what you can do with the stuff you melt, or chop, or curl, or mould, or whatever.

IMG 1668 There you go Holly…this is what I did!
IMG 1864 Once the honours were done…peep inside the cake!

IMG 1817 The final one…a slice of cake!

I really & truly enjoyed making this cake. It wasn’t a lot of hard work, as I did it in bits & bobs, but the end result was very satisfying. You can do the sponge a day in advance to reduce doing everything altogether. A rested mind gives a fresh perspective & makes a world of a difference!! Thanks to ‘Art You Eat’, this cake is seeing light of day again!!
Posted by Deeba @ PAB

About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.

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10 Comments

  • la tribu'

    2008/02/09 at 6:30 pm Reply

    Hi! here I am to post you the english version of broccoli frittata, sorry to be late!
    Heart of broccoli omelette with heart of mozzarella cheese:
    Broccoli are a tipycal green italian vegetable, belonging to the family of cabbages; Recipe for 5 people: 8 beat eggs with a pinch of salt, 300 gr of broccoli (cooked in boiling water for few minutes), 1 cup of whole milk, 1 handful of grated parmesan cheese, 1 handful of bradcrumbs and pepper. Then put into a pan slightly brushstroke of butter, arrange pieces of mozzarella in random order and bake in the oven at 180° for 25 minutes. When it is cooked, with a heart-shapes tool get the heart of omelette taking care that inside there is melted cheese. See you soon, I hope you will enjoy this recipe Elga

  • AYE Admin

    2008/02/09 at 5:53 pm Reply

    Hi! Thanks so much for joining in the fun. This cake is beautiful and looks almost too pretty to eat…almost. (As if I’m not going to eat it!)

  • Trupti

    2008/02/09 at 11:52 pm Reply

    Wow, what a wonderful creation. Thanks for sharing this cake with us. Wish I can do such creation. I will try to make this cake very soon.

  • Raaga

    2008/02/10 at 1:02 pm Reply

    so beautiful… I am back now… and will try to ice a cake… let’s see how far I go 🙂

    Decided about giving me classes? 🙂

  • Sujith

    2008/02/10 at 4:20 pm Reply

    That cake just looks great. I am not a baker myself. I am more into cooking dishes. I finished a short course on baking and pastry skills and i loved it. I did a similar chocolate cake and guess what that was the first one ever. I just enjoyed the results. Great Job!

  • Arfi Binsted

    2008/02/11 at 1:49 am Reply

    i will eat this kind of cake. i just love eating cakes with fruits. they taste so much fresher!

  • The Caked Crusader

    2008/03/15 at 4:27 pm Reply

    What a beautiful cake! I’ve never tried making the ‘cobweb’ design on top of a cake before – yours looks stunning!

  • Jayasri Ravi

    2011/05/24 at 5:59 pm Reply

    Hi Deeba, sorry to bother you, I have been looking the whole of your blog searching for chocolate strawberry cake recipe, I couldn’t track it down at all, this is the third time I have done this, the last two times, I thought of mailing you, which never happened, can you tell me where I can find the recipe and send me the link please thanks in advance

  • Beryl

    2012/05/27 at 1:25 am Reply

    Howdy! Someone in my Myspace group shared this website with us so I came to look it over. I’m definitely enjoying the information. I’m book-marking and will be tweeting this to my followers!

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