“There’s your karma ripe as peaches.” Jack Kerouacwho…
Got back recently from a short sojourn in a the hills with a veritable peach monster…LOL! I have never seen any kid eating as many peaches as this guy did. It’s his birthday today so I decided to make him a cake using peaches…
The filling partly inspired by a Bavarian cream from Helen @ Tartlette which used pears. I love hanging around her blog. It’s inspirational!! I used the Bavarian cream part of Helen’s recipe, substituted the pears for peeled & chopped peaches. We shall know how good it tastes later tonight, but it was wonderful to unmold the cake this morning to find a well set Bavarian … with peaches peeking out! YAY!!
Time flies & how. Our baby boy turned 10 today. It’s amazing how soon the years pass you by. We shifted into our house when he was 2 weeks old. He’s a happy kid, always ready to oblige with a smile. A foodie through & through, will sniff his way into the kitchen always! He lives to eat & begins his morning with – ‘Can I have cornflakes with lots of milk, & then a hot-house egg please?‘… predictably followed by, ‘What’s for lunch Mama?’ School days find him eating lunch in school, so the first word as he steps off the school bus is,‘What did you make today?’… trying to figure out if if there’s some delicious dessert in the offing! Food blogging has made a world of a difference here…He’s quite hysterically funny, an out-of-the box thinker, & keeps us in splits! Was a very cute little baby, as was his sister, who he follows around like a pup, & she, much to her teenage horror, can barely tolerate it. Yet, every bit of silly news must get to her first, every cookie must be shared with her, a call from me after dinner for whichever reason results in a loud yell…’Run Meher, there must be dessert!!”
He had a million plans for today. Everything was stage managed … what time he would get up & find me sitting on the computer. If not, then he would wake his sis up, the time the ‘birthday gifts’ were to be given, where he would sit … ye gads, he drove me bonkers. As luck would have it, his dear dad & sis didn’t get up until 8am; he was up since 5.30am, giddy with excitement. “This is the moment I’ve been waiting for for the past 10 days”, he announced. I almost wept. I had snuck out of bed early to get the cake etc done before he emerged … bad timing, & nothing got done. He showered & still no sign of an ‘awakening‘, so I took him out to take a picture. He kept himself busy by taking some of me too … results of the morning session below!
Thankfully his world woke up, by which time the sun was up too, & very hot. The cake had to have chilled butter cream & that was near impossible to achieve. I did some doodling on the top & hated it. Then scraped it off & had another go to make it look decent. Will dress it up with some cake toppings I made with the daughters help. I baked 2 sponges – one a vanilla-almond sponge & the other a chocolate sponge, from a recipe I use often, this one here. It’s a bit like a genoise sponge, but uses oil rather than melted butter to keep it moist. I split each cake into 2 horizontally to get 4 layers.
Layered it like this…base of a vanilla-almond, some thick chocolate ganache, a layer of chocolate sponge, a thick layer of Bavarian cream with chopped peaches. Each layer was first spread with some Peach-Rosemary Jam that I recently made. The cake was then left in the fridge overnight held closely by a spring form cake tin, to give time for the Bavarian cream to get set. Covered the cake with a butter cream this morning…
He’s had a good day so far with his best friend over for the day. Enjoyed a meal of chicken burgers. Even luckily got huge thumbs up from the hub. Bought the buns from the market, but made the patties at home.
Used a very simple, basic kebab mixture for the patties, flavoured with Italian spices & chili flakes, flattened them out in bread crumbs & shallow fried them. Once the patties were ready, I smoked them with a piece of hot caol for about 20 minutes. YUM!! A beautiful flavour…
What followed was a round of cookies & vanilla ice-cream which was hungrily lapped up too. I did a batch of oatmeal cookies with walnuts & chocolate chips the other day, & made a few flat ones in tartlet moulds for dessert. The kids enjoyed this too…
That’s been the day so far… Happy Birthday Rohan!!
