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Cream Cheese Frosting
250g softened cream cheese
¼ cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups icing sugar mixture
¼ cup passionfruit pulp
Combine cream cheese, butter and vanilla in
a small bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat
until smooth. Add the icing sugar mixture
and beat until smooth. Reduce speed and
add passionfruit. Spread over cooled cake.
Chocolate Cake
1½ cups self-raising flour
½ cup cocoa
1½ cups caster sugar
pinch of salt
150g butter or margarine, at room
temperature
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1. Preheat oven to 180°C, grease and line a
20cm cake tin.
2. Using the processing bowl fitted with the
processing blade
, process self-raising flour,
cocoa, sugar and salt on speed 3, until
well combined.
3. Add butter or margarine and eggs to
mixture and continue to process
on speed 3.
4. Remove the food pusher and add milk
through the feed tube and process for 5-10
seconds.
5. Remove the processing bowl cover and
scrape the sides of the bowl. Replace the
cover and continue to process on speed 3
until well combined.
6. Remove the processing blade and pour
mixture into the greased cake tin. Place
cake tin into the oven and bake for 30-35
minutes or until cooked, when tested with
a wooden skewer.
7. Allow the cake to cool for 5 minutes then
remove from baking pan. In the meantime
prepare the Chocolate icing (see below).
Once the cake is completely cooled, ice
with the chocolate icing.
Chocolate Icing
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons cocoa
3 tablespoons milk
2 cups icing sugar
1. Using the processing bowl fitted with the
processing blade, process all ingredients
until well combined.
Basic Buttercake
185g butter or margarine, at room
temperature
1 cup caster sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
3 cups self-raising flour
¼ cup milk
1. Preheat oven to 190°C, grease and line a
23cm cake tin.
2. Using the processing bowl fitted with
the
processing blade,
process butter or
margarine, sugar and vanilla on speed 3,
until well combined.
3. Add eggs to the mixture and process until
combined.
4. Add the flour and milk and continue to
process on speed 3, until combined.
Note:
Be careful not to over process.
5. Remove the processing blade and pour
mixture into the greased cake tin. Place
cake tin into the oven and bake for 40-50
minutes or until cooked, when tested with
a wooden skewer.
6. Allow the cake to cool slightly and remove
from baking pan.
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