Showing posts with label Cakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cakes. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Banana Muffins

Ingredients


150g flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
125g sugar
1 egg
50g melted butter
2 medium size ripe bananas

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Chocolate Yoghurt Cake

Ingredients


200g grinded sugar
110g butter
180g plain flour
60g cocoa powder
200 ml heavy thick yoghurt
100ml cup milk
2 large eggs [at room temperature]
3/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla essence
1 ½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt


Saturday, March 9, 2013

Black Forest Gateau



Ingredients



170 g sugar
6 eggs at room temperature 
60 g coco powder
120 g flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp. baking powder

Method


Make a syrup with 5 tbsp. sugar and 5 tbsp water in a pan, Then bring to a boil.Let this syrup cool,set aside.
Sift the flour with coco powder and baking powder 3 times just to aerate it.

Now beat the eggs.Beat it on low speed till frothy.Then increase to medium speed and add sugar 1 tbls at a time.Beat until all the sugar has been dissolved and fluffy.Now add the vanilla and beat it.

Now take a wooden spoon and add in the flour ingredients in 2 installment,Folding it in after each addition.Fold gently to combine,do not over mix.

Pour into your greased pan and bake it for 40 minutes at 170 C.


For icing


350 ml whipping cream
Grated chocolate
Cherries

Chop some cherries and add some sugar over them Leave them to be soft.When the cake is done.
Slice the cake in half.Sprinkle some sugar syrup and spread some cherries on the bottom part.

Beat the whipping cream with 4-5 tbls icing sugar.Beat until the mixture form firm peaks.Spread it on top of cherries.

Next keep the top layer,and brush some syrup and spread whipped cream and cover the entire cake.
Decorate with grated chocolates and cherries.

Chill and serve.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Swiss Roll


Ingredients


3 eggs[eggs should be in room temperature]
75g grinned sugar 
90g plain flour
Pinch of salt grinded ½  tsp vanilla 
1 tsp warm water

TIP: Eggs should be completely at room temperature.Cold egg will not give a good results.Sift the flour 3 times.Do not skip this point.Sifting many times results will be a more soft sponge cake.

Method




Arrange a baking tray (13" x 9") by lining it with greaseproof paper.Sift the flour with the salt 3 times.

Add the eggs and sugar in a bowl. Beat the eggs until it get pale and fluffy.Add the flour into egg in 3 installments.Then fold it with a spatula,very gently.When u adding last of the flour, add warm water and vanilla and fold it 

Now spread it on prepared baking tray.It won't take long time to bake, because This cake is so thin.
It will take 7-8 minutes for baking at 200 C.

Do not over bake the cake,[ it will become hard and will crack when rolling it. So don't wait for the cake to be brown.

When the cake is baking, dust some caster sugar all over a baking paper. It will be used to roll the cake once it's remove from the oven.

Now cut the edges of the cake with a knife.Now you can apply warm jam or hot chocolate.
You need to do this fast when the cake is warm.Then roll the cake gently but make a tight roll.

Then let the cake cool down completely.Decorate the cake as your wish.Whip cream or frosting.

ENJOY!


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