Oven 190 C, 375 F, Gas mark 5 A greased two pound loaf tin 6 oz butter 6 oz caster sugar 3 medium eggs or 2 eggs and the whites from another recipe 4 oz self raising flour 2 oz ground almonds ( for a different texture, you can use all flour though) 1 tablespoon …
Tag: cake
Recipe – Marmalade Cake
My husband does not like jam but loves Marmalade so I make him cake or buns and he puts marmalade in the middle so I thought I would experiment with a real marmalade cake just for him! He likes the 'no peel' marmalade but you can use either. Oven 180 C 350 F Gas Mark …
Recipe – Orange & Chocolate Chip Cake
Is it OK to say I do not like chocolate cake? I do make chocolate cakes and I do eat some chocolates, like Maltesers but I have never been a fan of rich chocolate cakes so I make this orange flavour cake and put chocolate chips in and it is good. You can of course …
Recipe – Carrot Cake
I love carrot cake but I am not keen on it with lots of spices and dried fruit and certainly not nuts so I have been experimenting with various recipes and I think I have come up with a good one. It uses oil instead of butter and just a little ginger to jazz it …
Recipe – Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake again? You ask. Well there are a number of recipes for chocolate but this one is a favourite of my dentist and we had an appointment the other day. The dental nurses had given up chocolate for Lent but cocoa powder is not chocolate so the opinion was that a chocolate cake made …
Recipe – Coconut & Orange Cake
This is not the ordinary cake that we usually make, this one is made by a rubbing-in method which some people find easier. The rubbing-in method puts the air into the cake mixture just as the beating of the butter and sugar does with the creaming method. It can produce a much more open …
Eccles Cake
Recently, English Tea Store has had requests to carry Eccles Cakes and we are now proud to feature them on our site! They are still mostly unknown in the United States. While they are beginning to gain popularity here, they have been well known by British people for many generations. Eccles cakes are flaky, round, …
Recipe – Battenburg Cake
This is the most fiddly cake I have ever made but the taste makes up for it! Finding red food coloring was not easy either, my first attempt at this cake turned out green and yellow instead of pink and yellow. When I have made this in the past with my Mum we used cochineal …
Recipe – Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet cake is basically a chocolate cake with red coloring so you can use a Betty Crocker cake mix or use the chocolate cake we made earlier in the year and add some red coloring. You can also use a tub of Betty Crocker Cream Cheese style icing or you can make an icing …
Recipe – Christmas Cake
Now I realize a lot of you will not be making your own Christmas cake, it seems to be a British tradition at Christmas, some people do and some do not, I think every household in the UK who make their own cake will have their own recipe for Christmas cake. I always make my …
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