"Auntie, can we eat cake now?"
Although they could eat Shen Wenxiu's cakes from time to time, the children still craved them.
The main problem is that making cakes is more complicated. You have to make a cake base and cream, which makes the process much more complicated than making bread.
Moreover, cakes need to be frosted with cream, and without refrigeration, they cannot be kept for long, so Shen Wenxiu rarely makes them.
The few times I did it, both family members and outsiders loved it.
Moreover, even people who eat cake often will not get tired of eating it when they encounter a particularly delicious cake; instead, they will want to eat more.
Shen Wenxiu's skills in making bread and cakes are getting better and better, and the bread and cakes she makes are becoming more and more delicious. The children can't resist such deliciousness.
Shen Wenxiu smiled at their adorable appearance and asked Zhou Min to cut the cake into pieces.
"I made this cake not too sweet on purpose, you can try it."
The cream was too sweet, so Shen Wenxiu added some tart passion fruit to the passion fruit jam inside, so that the sweetness wouldn't be too cloying.
Zhou Min finished the bread in a few bites and then used the bamboo knife her father had made to cut the cake.
They have several bamboo knives like this at home. Bamboo is a material that is always available, so it doesn't matter if the bamboo knives don't last long.
We often make these bamboo knives at home to cut fruit, bread, or cakes. Even if they get moldy and unusable after a few days, it's not too wasteful.
Unusable bamboo knives can be used for firewood after being dried in the sun; nothing is wasted.
The passion fruit cake has a slightly yellowish-green color and is decorated with other fruits, such as strawberries grown at home.
However, instead of jam, whole strawberries were used as decoration on the cake.
Of course you can eat them. Even if they're just strawberries used as garnish, they're still strawberries and they're super delicious.
Zhou Min used a bamboo knife to cut the cake into triangles larger than her palm, and then put them into bowls to distribute to the others.
The bowls and plates they used for eating cakes were also specially made; Zhou Qingyun used the factory's machines and materials to make the stainless steel bowls and plates.
These stainless steel bowls and plates are lighter, so they won't be too heavy to hold cakes, and you don't have to worry about children dropping them and breaking them.
Zhou Min placed the first plate of cake in front of her mother, saying, "Mom, please try this passion fruit cake. My sister-in-law is amazing."
"Look how beautiful the cross-section of this passion fruit cake is! It must taste delicious too."
Chen Suwen nodded and accepted it. Everyone had their own spoon to eat the cake, so she directly used her own spoon to scoop out a bite of cake.
This spoonful contained cake base, cream, passion fruit jam, and a little bit of strawberry pulp.
One bite reveals the flavors of strawberries and passion fruit, with neither fruit overpowering the other's taste.
Perhaps because there was less strawberry pulp, its flavor wasn't as prominent as passion fruit's, nor did it mask its taste.
Moreover, Shen Wenxiu even added passion fruit juice to the cake base, giving it a subtle passion fruit flavor.
The jam is also very sweet and fragrant, with a perfect balance of sweet and sour flavors, neither too sweet nor too sour, making it taste just like eating real passion fruit.
The cream was whipped exceptionally well, complementing the cake base perfectly. It was a truly perfect cake.
"Very good, a very delicious cake." Chen Suwen gave Shen Wenxiu a thumbs up. This daughter-in-law has made rapid progress; in just a few months, she has been able to make such a delicious cake.
Moreover, she was very quick-witted. Chen Suwen didn't teach her in detail which ingredients could be used to make which flavor of cake, but she could figure it out on her own and do it exceptionally well.
Chen Suwen was quite satisfied with having such a talented "student".
Once Shen Wenxiu is trained, her life will be much easier. She won't need to cook anything she wants anymore; she can just tell her daughter-in-law.
Everyone else was giving Shen Wenxiu a thumbs up while they ate, and they all thought that Shen Wenxiu had done a particularly good job.
Such delicious cakes! They can eat them so often. My sister-in-law/third sister-in-law/little aunt are really amazing. They are so lucky to have such good family members who make such delicious food for them.
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The Shen family.
"What's wrong with that ungrateful, unfilial daughter, Shen Wenxiu? She made so much bread, and I heard she even made a cake, but all she gave us was a little passion fruit?"
"Who would want to eat this sour fruit? Why didn't she send bread and cake instead?"
"Especially the cakes, she's made them so many times, why didn't she just send some back?"
"Mom and Dad, you are her biological parents who gave birth to her, raised her, and nurtured her for so many years. How could she not have thought of you at all?"
"She's so unfilial; she doesn't even know to give her parents good things."
After becoming lame, Shen Wencai, whose temper was unpredictable, became particularly jealous of others. He was jealous of his older brother, and even more so of his twin sister, Shen Wenxiu.
They were even more jealous of Shen Wenxiu after learning that she could make bread and cakes and "sell" things to the supply and marketing cooperative to make money, even though she didn't have a formal job.
He lost his job, but Shen Wenxiu got a "job" to earn money. How could he balance this out?
From childhood to adulthood, he received more attention than Shen Wenxiu. His parents loved him more than Shen Wenxiu, and people around him paid more attention to him because he was a boy. Shen Wenxiu seemed particularly dim and insignificant next to him.
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