Cooking with My Baby

  Madeleines,,,,,,           I was first introduced to these treats in starbucks cafe where sugar bowl madeleines are sold. I wasn't too keen to taste these cakes, but one bit of these and I became a ife long fan of these french cookie cakes... they just melt in your mouth .. How can I describe them ..... they are light and melt in your mouth bursting with flavours of butter and sugar... Trust me,,, you just gotta taste once and you will fall in love with these beautiful shell shaped french tea cakes...                I was desperately waiting for madeleine pan.. I searched almost every shop in Mumbai n Bangalore for these pan, but could not find them. I was behind my sister's life when she was coming back from USA for good to find metal madeleine pan for me.. but all she found were too big to fit in my oven.. Finally my brother in law managed to get one silicon mold for us which we cut into two and are both thrilled to posses.. I dedicate this post to my dear elder sist

Lightning Mcqueen ..... If you have a boy of any age, you will surly know Lightening Mcqueen.. He is the adorable red car from the movie Cars n Cars 2. Neil had his 2nd birthday just few days back and when I asked him what cake does he want for his birthday, he very quickly answered "LIGHTNING MCQUEEN" So it was decided by Neil Its gonna be Mcqueen for his birthday.. By the way he also asked for few more cakes of Holly shiftwell, Finn Mcmissile, Mater and "Franko loli" ( thats the way he used to call Francesco  Bernoulli ) We made a deal with him, the day you start saying Fran cesco bernoulli properly , he would get the all the racing cars from the movie..  and started practicing the name for a week and now he can say all the 10 names of the racing cars and is a proud owner of all the cars,,, Lets get talking about the cake now... I googled about the cake and came up with many sites and videos on youtube  instructing how to make the car. But finally the ca