Baking

Fruit Cake                             

Ingredients:

• vanilla essences some drops
• 1 lb. raisins
• 1 lb. currants
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 c. butter
• 1 c. sugar
• 1/2 c. corn syrup
• 1/2 tsp. mace
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 2 3/4 c. flour, stir with fork before measuring
• 1/2 c. strong coffee 

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Use pan which should be 10 inches in diameter. Grease it well with vegetable oil.
Cut dates and nuts into small pieces, add raisins and currants. Mix in small bowl. Add 1/2 cup flour to fruit, mix and set aside.

Separate eggs, beat whites until stiff but not dry; set aside. Cream butter and sugar; add yolks one at a time and mix well. Add corn syrup.

Mix spices and baking soda with remaining flour and add to cream mixture by alternating with coffee. Add fruit; mix well. Then spread in greased pan. Bake until top is firm (about 4 hours). Let cool before removing from pan. Store in air-tight container.

May soak cake with brandy before storing to give a festive flair!

Pineapple Cake

Ingredients:

• Flour 1 cup
• Eggs 3
• Ground sugar 1 cup
• Baking powder 1 tsp
• Milk 1 tbsp
• Melted butter 1 tbsp
• vanilla essence essence 1 tsp

 Icing:

•     Fresh cream – 1 packet
•     Ground sugar – ¼ cup
•     Pineapple – 1 small tin

Preparation:
 

Take a bowl and add egg whites and 3 tsp of sugar and beat until white foam appears. On the other hand take another bowl and add egg yolks and remaining sugar, beat until sugar dissolves.
 Then add milk, essence and beat well. Strain flour and baking powder and add in egg yolks mixture along with butter and egg whites, fold with spatula. Bake in preheated oven on 200 degrees for 15 minutes. When it’s done, let it cool down, cut in two layers and now apply pineapple juice on both layers of cake.
For Icing:
Beat cream and sugar until stiff.
Cut pineapple in small chunks and mix in whipped cream.
Apply cream and pineapple mixture on 1st layers then place 2nd layer of cake. Then apply cream all over the cake and decorate it. Really yummy pineapple fresh cream cake is ready to serve.

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

•     Butter   125g
•     Coco powder   ¾ cup
•     Sugar   1 cup
•     Eggs   2
•     Milk  1 cup
•     Baking powder 1 tsp
•     Vanilla essence 1 tsp
•     Flour  1,1/3 cup

Preparation of sponge:

In a greased cake pan of 9 inch, sprinkle coco powder in the base of pan. Now take a bowl and  beat eggs, add vanilla essence as well. Now mix flour, baking powder, sugar and coco powder. Then add flour mixture, milk and butter in egg bowl and mix it well. Now pour this mixture in cake pan and bake in preheated oven on 180ºC or 350ºF and Gas Mark 4 for 25 to 30 minutes. When the cake is done, let it cool down then cut in 2 portions and decorate with icing.

Icing Ingredients:

•     Fresh cream  500g
•     Sugar to taste
•     Coco powder 4 tbsp

Icing preparation:

Take a bowl,beat cream and sugar togather until it becomes like white foam. Than add coco powder and apply on cake, inside and outside. Now yummy and delicious chocolate cake is ready to serve.

 

Vanilla biscuits:

Ingredients:

• Flour 165 gm
• icing sugar 64 gm
• salt 1 pinch
• egg 1
• butter 120 gm
• vanilla essence some drops

Preparation:

Beat butter, icing sugar egg and vanilla essence together with the help of beater.now add flour and mix it with the help of hands. Grease the oven tray. Fill the biscuit mixture in piping bag and pour the mixture on the oven tray with the help of piping bag. bake it in preheated oven at 250c in start and than 70c for 15-18min. Yummy vanilla biscuits are ready to serve.