boyfriend birthday is coming soon.

I decided to bake him a birthday cake but I langsung no idea what to do

need sifu/expert to tunjuk jalan plssss!

what should I do at the beginning? what to prepare? thanks in advance

Got a functional oven with you?

Get an oven. Find out what type of cake you want to make. Google recipe.

nope. i'm still confusing which type of oven should buy

because i heard that all these baking machines got many types punya ehh

i dont know want to buy an oven or not

i keen to buy but my mom said i'm just 3 mins heat, wasted money if just use for only 1 time -.-

I agree with your mom lol, try to some other DIY la...that don't need you to buy a several hundred bucks machine.

Do you have a rice cooker? Some of them have a cake setting.

Can u making a non bake cake?

Some can use steam to bake also..

I did some research, normally those non bake cake are more on cheese cake

unfortunately he dont eat cheese

Just order the cake and ask the shop to write anything you like on it. Usually no additional cost.

If you want to buy oven (convection, not the microwave), then you can Google for any recipe. The simplest one is pound cake, like the one you can buy in Tesco. The reason it is called pound cake is because originally, all ingredients are 1 pound each. So, easy to remember, use same weight for everything, say:
1) Flour -- 300g
2) Sugar -- 300g
3) Egg -- 300g
4) Butter/Margarine -- 300g

Baking powder ... err not 300g ... maybe 2 teaspoon

Bake at 180C for 30~40 min (maybe?? I dunno). Cake is done when you insert a toothpick at the center and it come out clean.

There you go.

Yes. instead of baking in oven, you can steam. the cake is moist and nice

nope, checked. only can cook rice or porridge

i did some research, those non bake cake like have to add on the cheese

but he dont eat cheese. i will do more research on it

ya.. my friend had suggested me to try for non bake cake

still haven make my final decision yet

see how first hehe

there are other cakes that are steamed. the cake decoration is up to your creativity

i see!! are u a sifu in baking?

i have no experience & knowledge in baking, so idk which is more suitable for me

but.. does it weird if make a pound cake as birthday cake? o.0?

seriously? what kind of cake can steam?

i thought baking is a must for every cake

until my friend told me there is non bake cake lol

This post has been edited by memying: May 20 2016, 03:52 PM

Fruit cake is best steam baked

Well, basically cakes are the same. The secret recipe cake are all the same cake layer, which is cheese cake. For blueberry they put blueberry jam/preserve between layer. For other flavor just put different jam

The birthday cake is just same cake inside. Outer layer is just icing and its decoration. I'm not cake expert but I've been making cookies and baking since primary school and so were my brothers. Our mother just let us handle the baking during festival I haven't bake for long time now

Why still limit yourself to baking or cakes? Try some art & craft stuffs if you're too inexperienced in the kitchen, eg sewing, origami, photography, music etc.