Banana Cake with Bhura

For a lazy weekend spent reading, here’s a moist banana cake. Since it is not very sweet, it goes well with tea. Instead of brown sugar, I used ‘bhura’ which gave it a nice earthy taste. ‘Bhura’ is a sweet powdery form of jaggery. 

Chocolate Mud Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache & Marzipan Honey Bee

Cup Cakes

Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A light and delicate cake works well with sweet and salty Cream Cheese layer and frosting.

Here’s the history of the Red Velvet Cake, courtesy Google.

Apparently a chef at the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City created the Red Velvet Cake and it was a popular dessert at the hotel's restaurant. A patron of the hotel wrote to the chef requesting the recipe. He did send her the recipe along with a bill for $350 which upset her. She bought the same and ensured revenge by mailing the recipe out to hundreds of others in the form of a chain mail! So the recipe is no longer a guarded secret.

White Chocolate Cream Cake with Marzipan fruits

Layered and topped with fruits, white chocolate and whipped cream and decorated with marzipan miniature fruits like orange, pear, apple, cherry 

Chocolate Mud Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache and Sugar decorations

In Slovenia, a kitchen witch is considered to bring in good luck and ward off bad spirits.

Since this was for someone passionate about travelling, rather than designing regular literal objects representing travel, a different perception from a diverse culture seemed more interesting.