The Rayzin Cake Mixing

The Rayzin Cake Mixing

Cake mixing has become part of Indian culture for some time now. One does not have to religious to let the yuletide spirit to cast a spell of warmth and bonhomie on all of us. Rayzin played its part to spread joy and essence of winter festivities by organizing a cake mixing ceremony with friends and family at the bakery on 23^rd November, afternoon.

The ritual began with mixing the dry fruits like cherries, cranberries, glazed dates, candid oranges, lemon rinds, prunes, cashews, pistachios, almonds,  sultanas and black currants freshly chopped and washed.

The next step was to coat this mixture of dry fruits with exotic, freshly ground spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. These spices were roasted and grinded and mixed well with the dry fruits to enhance the flavour.

This was followed by soaking the dry fruits coated with spices in liquors like brandy and rum and orange juice to mature and soften them.  The ingredients mixed with spices and juices were then put in a big drum for 2 weeks before it would be mixed with cake ingredients like eggs and flour to make and bake the traditional Christmas cake.

The cake mixing is especially fun for the participants, as all get together and mix, churn and blend the ingredients, mingling with each other, sharing the joy and vitality of others. The handling of the ingredients is pure bliss, as all know the outcome will be the product of love and care and spirit of friendship and kindness that is within us and that is the soul of celebration anywhere in the world and for all religions alike.