STRAWBERRY GATEAUX

Mapping Love to be released this May

Serving: 1 kg INGREDIENTS

Flour: 250gms

Sugar: 250gms

Curd: 250gms

Oil: 175ml

Baking Powder: 5gms Whipped French Cream: 250gms Mascarpone Cheese: 175gms Whipped Rich Cream: 175gms Fresh Strawberries (chopped & sliced)

Sliced Roasted Almonds

METHOD

●Add the flour, sugar, curd, oil and baking powder in a kitchen-aid. Mix everything together on speedy level till consistency is smooth with no lumps.

● Take a baking mould and cover the base with foil.

● Pour the mixture till ¾ level of the mould and put it on a baking tray.

● Set the oven at 180 degree celsius. Once the oven reaches 180 degrees, put the baking try in. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.

● Check the sponge by inserting a knife or toothpick. If it comes out clean, then the sponge is cooked.

● Take it out and leave it for cooling.

FROSTING AND LAYERING THE CAKE: ● For the frosting, mix the whipped French cream, mascarpone cheese and whipped rich cream together.

● Take fresh strawberries and divide each strawberry into two parts. Roughly chop half part and slice the other part.

● Cut the cake sponge into three layers.

● Take a sponge layer and soak it in sugar syrup(should not be too sweet).

● Spread the frosting over it equally and sprinkle the chopped strawberries.

● Repeat the above two steps for the second layer.

● On the final layer, put the frosting and place the sliced strawberries on top.

● With the help of a silicon brush, glaze the strawberries with a diamond glaze.

● Cover the sides of the cake with sliced roasted almonds.

Filmmaker Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari turns author for the first time with her novel Mapping Love. The book, set in the jungles of India, is said to be both enthralling and touching.

“As a storyteller, every once in a while there are stories I want to tell in a medium that brings out their true essence,” shares Ashwiny. “It took me three years to type out Mapping Love, and I am filled with happiness."

The book is scheduled to be released in May 2021.

Meanwhile Ashwiny is doing the writing for a biopic on Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murthy, which she will be directing. An announcement on the casting is expected soon.

Nil Battey Sannata, Bareilly Ki Barfi and

Panga are a few of the films Ashwiny has made.