Morning! Hope you all had a fab weekend. We had a bit of a gastronomic feast, well not quite but we ate very well this weekend. All of our children love to bake and take turns each weekend. This weekend was Ambers turn and she chose to bake a chocolate cake that she could ice using Drew's rather cool piping tool. After getting through several piping bags I invested in a really good set for Drew's birthday last year, which is proving a great buy. If I remember who it is made by I will let you know!
Anyway I digress, chocolate cake. I have made sponge cake so many times over the years that a fab all-in-one recipe is firmly etched into my memory and is versatile enough to be used for fairy cakes or victoria sponge cakes. It can also be flavoured really easily and can be iced or filled with buttercream or fresh cream and strawberries or....the list goes on. Anyway I thought I would share this recipe with you today and also share Ambers rather yummy choccy cake for the photos!
Ingredients
180g Self Raising Flour
180g Caster Sugar
50g Cocoa Powder
180g Soft Magerine or butter (I use Stork magerine)
3 eggs
This would make a 7" victoria sandwich or about 18 fairy cakes.
1. Preheat the oven to 180C or 160C fan oven for sponge cake or 200C or 180c for fairy cakes.
2. Grease your sandwich cake tins or place fairy cake cases into trays.
3. Weigh all ingredients and place together in to a large mixing bowl.
4. Mix ingredients together until combined, using either a wooden spoon or electric mixer.
5. Share mixture equally into two sandwich tins or spoon into cake cases.
6. Bake in the oven for 20 mins for sandwich cake or 15 mins for fairy cakes. Cakes should spring back if lightly pushed in middle.
7. Leave to cool in tins for 15 mins then place on a wire rack to cool completly.
Amber chose to spread strawberry jam in between the two sponges and use vanilla buttercream to ice the top of the cake.
Try other flavours
Add the zest of an orange or lemon or both!
Add a tablespoon of strong coffee.
Add a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Add a teaspoon of almond extract and then make a thick glace icing for the top and pop glace cherries on for a cherry bakewell cake!
Add a teaspoon of ground ginger or cinnamon.
Add chopped glace cherries or chocolate chips.
The list is endless. Let me know what you try, I also love to try new flavours.
Have a yummy day
Zoe
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