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CELEBRATION CAKES
Foundation Butter Cake
125g butter or margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¾
cup caster sugar
2 eggs
2 cups self raising flour
1 cup milk
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and grease a 20cm
round cake tin or similar.
2. Using the mixing bowl, break up
shortening on ‘LO’ speed 1, add vanilla
and sugar, and cream on speed 3 until
light and creamy. Approximately 2
minutes.
3. Add eggs one at a time beating well
between each addition.
4. Reduce to speed 1 and mix in sifted
flour and liquid alternately. Be careful
not to use high speeds as flour will go
everywhere! Mix for 3-4 minutes until
cake batter is rich, smooth, thick and
creamy.
5. Scrape batter into prepared tin. Bake for
30-35 minutes or until cooked when
tested with a skewer.
Variations to this recipe:
Upsidedown Peach cake
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a
20cm round cake tin.
2. Select 4 peaches. Cut each peach in half
and remove their stones. Place cut side
down in prepared cake tin. Sprinkle over 3
tablespoons white sugar and 20g chopped
butter.
3. Follow steps 2 - 4 from the ‘Foundation
Butter Cake’ recipe.
4. Spoon into cake tin. Level and bake for
40-45 minutes or until cooked when
tested with a skewer. Allow cake to cool
for 5 minutes before removing from cake
tin.
5. Serve peach side up. Makes 1 cake.
Variation:
Fresh pineapple slices, mango halves,
peaches, pears or apricots can be used. Well
drained tinned fruits such as plums can be
used as well. Frozen mixed berries also work
well.
Serving suggestion:
Serve cake cut into
wedges and spoon a dollop of thick cream
over the top.
Lemon or Orange Cake
Add the rind of one lemon or orange into
the cake batter, and or with the addition of
butter and sugar and fold 2 tablespoons of
poppy seeds into the cake batter makes an
interesting and tasty cake.
Coffee Crumble
Mix in 2 tablespoons of instant coffee powder
into the cake batter. On top of the cake
batter sprinkle with a mixture of 1 tablespoon
butter, 2 tablespoons plain flour, 2
tablespoons sugar,
½
teaspoon of cinnamon
and 2 tablespoons of instant coffee.
Chocolate Cake
60g unsweetened chocolate - melted and
combine with milk from the recipe above and
mix well into the cake batter before baking.
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