A Rainy Day

“A rainy day”

… Chocolate Rice and Coconut mimics the beautiful rain drops falling on lush bed of green…

That's the description of this cake in our menu. This was my 2nd project on Monday night. Baked this to give away as a farewell gift to a dear grown up girl who will be leaving for India. She loved this cake the first time I baked it for her family and I thought I'll just bake one for her a few days before her departure. I will definately miss her. Since there's only 3 of them at home and they only had one day to enjoy the cake before everyone needed to fly off to various parts of the world, I divided the cake into 2 portion. 1/2 for home since it's one of dad's favorite as well.

This is one of the MUST cakes during Christmas, if we have Open House that is. Mom's been baking this for as far as my memory can recall, and now I take over baking these as she concentrates on the harder ones :) I keep thinking and thinking what words to describe this cake, but the description above says it all really. It's definately a lush bed of green with Chocolate Rice and Dessicated Coconut on every inch and one have to stop oneself from popping mouthful after mouthful.

One thing I love about cakes from yesteryears is that they are made with biscuit flour. This is one of those. You have to blend the biscuit to make into flour form. It's a whole different world that the normal flour! So sorry, but I won't be able to share the recipe since it's one of our selling item. But do let me know if you wanna give it a try and I might just whisper the recipe to you :)

I present you with... "A Rainy Day". What's with the name you may ask? Sorry, but I don't have the answer to that question! :)

note: Photo was also taken using Lumix :)