Strawberry cake sempena birthday ibu!

24th January is my mom's birthday. Since the examination was over, I decided to bake a cake; a strawberry cake. There are plenty of recipes on the web, so I have to merge a few recipe us, hence recipe that I'll be showing you now.

For cake batter:
1.5 cups sifted self raising flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup unsalted butter/margerine
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup fresh strawberry
1 teaspoon vanila essence
1/4 cup milk (optional)

Our oven's temperature does not reach 350C temperature, so I just preheat it to the max, i.e 200C.
Basically, just add all wet ingredients together and mix them together.

Then, add dried flour into the mixing bowl. Only if the batter is quite hard, you add into some milk to soften and ease mixing process. If not, it's not necessary to do so. The bottom of my cake was quite moist at first, though it had been baked for 40 minutes. For that, I flipped it over to enhance baking for its bottom layer. I don't know if the mistake comes from extra milk I put. As I told you just now, I merged two recipes, one got  milk in it, and one weren't.

For decoration:
Fresh strawberries
Double cream
Icing sugar

So yeah, the result was still awesome after all. I baked three layers of the batter. After letting them cool down to room temperature, I started to beat double cream together with icing sugar for frosting. The icing frost is to make sure the cake is layered nicely, and to cover all those 'cacat' from the baking. (You could tell what had been going on if you put too much milk later. Haha). After covering the whole cake in white, just decorate it as you wish. I put some strawberry slices around the cake and wrote 'happy birthday ibu' on top of the cake with purple icing. It looked lovely. Alhamdulillah, the taste was lovely too, sweet. Worth the sweat and struggling.

Uh oh instant noodles

My mind is craving for instant noodle now.

Just eat then

No. I'm within examination period

Does it make an effect too? I mean, like immediately?

*Silent*

Ohhh, why? I don't know the answer.

Google?

They just say it's bad for health, if it was to be consumed on daily basis. It takes 4 to 5 days to excrete the wax coating from a normal human body.

Sigh...

So, I asked my friend.

Is it okay to eat a packet? I've been longing for it for so long already...

No need laa... I wanted the same too, but my mother already reminded me not to. Just wait till the exam is over, okay?

Uhhhh.... Fine...

So, I STILL CANNOT eat it. Ah, throw away this nafs'

Sayang badan kan?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terima kasih Allah kerana memberi Aqiedah sebagai sahabatku...

Kerap aku menitiskan air mata kerana kesedihan.

Tapi kali ini aku menangis kerana rasa syukur.

Terima kasih ya Allah kerana meletakkan aku dalam kalangan orang yang mencintai dan menghargai aku

Tatkala membasahkan rongga tekakku dengan cecair jernih, mataku tertangkap pada sebuah bungkusan yang tidak pernah muncul di mataku. Hampir tersedak air yang aku minum. Ya Allah, aku menerima sebuah pemberian yang bermakna, kasih sayang-Mu disampaikan menerusi hambamu yang sangat mencintaimu lebih dari aku. Aku khilaf selama ini. Terlalu jauh jika ku bandingkan diriku dengan Mu berbanding dia.

Sepucuk warkah sempena ulangtahun hari kelahiranku turut dititipkan. Aku tersenyum. Sampul merah jambu yang ditutup kemas dengan sebentuk hati. Perlahan-lahan aku buka warkah tersebut. Aku baca. Disekelilingnya ada perkataan 'Love you'. Aku tersenyum. Sahabatku itu sememangnya jiwang. Tidak ku sangka. Aku tergelak. Habis satu muka surat ku baca. Tinggal lagi sebelah muka surat. 

Kau antara memori terindah yang pernah berlaku dalam tempoh 3 tahun kita kenal di UK

Air mataku bergenang. Terma 'memori terindah' itu menusuk jiwaku. Teringat kembali saat aku mengusiknya.  Tidak pernah sekali dia melenting, tidak pula merajuk. Disebabkan itu, aku gemar mengacau ketenteraman suasana biliknya. Aku tahu suatu hari nanti, apabila dia berumah tangga, suaminya juga akan turut gemar mengusiknya. Pernah tengok drama korea 'Full House' bukan? Begitulah nasibnya kelak. *Gelak jahat*. Tapi, aku mahu kau tahu, aku juga menyayangi dirimu walaupun kau kerap mengatakan yang kau tidak berbakat. Percayalah, Allah mencipta makhluknya berbeza-beza, dan aku yakin bakatmu ada terselit yang kau sendiri belum pernah sedar. 

I love you more lah....

Di akhir warkah, dia menulis 'semoga bermanfaat'. Mataku tertumpu kepada bungkusan 'polka dot' putih merah. Aku buka dan terkesima. Itu adalah sebuah tafsir Al-Quran. Kini, aku punya dua naskah tafsir Al-Quran dalam simpananku. Jika Al-Quran selalu dijadikan sebagai hantaran dalam sebuah perkahwinan, kini aku dipersembahkan sebuah tafsir Al-Quran sempena ulangtahun kelahiranku. Saat umurku menginjak ke angka 22, diriku seharusnya bertambah matang dan bertambah amalan. Ia bukan sekadar hiasan, ia adalah cinta dan sayang Allah dan sahabat baikku.

Semoga hidayah terus diberikan kepadaku. Terima kasih sahabat, terima kasih teman. Terima kasih Allah...