[shakyle2906]

Anyone got a recipe for nice cake ?

Sharon
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[YouMeAndThree]

Can't help you I'm afraid - I'm the only one in this house who likes fruitcake ............ and I could really do without it :D

However, I'm currently waiting for the oven to ping - Weetabix (sorry, I'm from the UK and don't intend changing!) cake is almost done, yummy. I've also just finished my first ever batch of ANZAC biscuits. Have a feeling my second batch won't be far behind once the children are up tomorrow.

Lx

[PeteS]

Use the recepie in Delia Smith's complete cookery book. And if you want to make a cake for this year you should have done it in October.

[Jacqi B]

I swear by my adaptation of Mary Berry's Apricot Brandy cake. There is a tutorial on my food blog at http://photodieter.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/apricot-brandy-cake-tutorial-for-stage-one/

Make it now and it will be okay for Christmas but fabulous this time next year (if you remember to feed it)

[adacakes]

Hi Sharon,
I make a lot of Christmas cakes and Wedding cakes and the recipie I use is a variation on a Marguerite Pattern recipe but instead of currants ( I hate currants!!) I use apricots and prunes sound different but delicious.
I'm at work at the moment but I will post my recipie later this evening.
Ada
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[Flutterby]

http://www.imaginativeicing.demon.co.uk/ChristmasCakeRecipe.html

I've used this one a couple of times

[tea drinker]

Mmmm...like the idea of adding apricots. I like lots of nuts and cherries too! :D

My mum always made the family cakes and would add extra nuts and cherries with less currents/sultanas, add a thick layer of marzipan and miss off the icing as none of us liked it.

Would these recipes convert to using wheat free (or gluten free) flour instead of the wheat variety?

[chocolate cake]

On a different take here's a christmas pud recipe, easy to make has it's made in the microwave and can be made in advance.

Ingredients:
50g plain flour
half teaspoon nutmeg
half teaspoon cinnamon
half teaspoon ground cloves
75g white breadcrumbs
100g soft dark brown sugar
100g shredded suet
150g sultanas
125g currants
25g coarsely chopped peel
grated rind and juice of half lemon
2 eggs
2 tablespoon treacle
1 tablespoon golden syrup
75ml stout
2 tablespoons brandy


Method:
Sieve all the dry ingredients together and mix well. Stir in all remaining ingredients until completely mixed. Lightly grease a half litre (1 pint) pudding basin and fill with the mixture. Cover with cling film and make a slit in the top to allow steam to escape. Cook on microwave high for 10 minutes. Allow to stand for 10 minutes after cooking. Sprinkle with brandy and serve.

The pudding can only be stored for a maximum of one month. If you wish to store it reduce the cooking time by two to three minutes and ensure it is wrapped well when cool and store in an airtight container. Reheat before serving.

[adacakes]

Mmmmmm, I like the sound of that chocolate cake,
Here is my recipe it makes a 9 inch cake,

12oz Plain Flour
I teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon mixed spice
4 oz mixed peel
1lb Currants or 8oz apricots and 8oz prunes
8oz raisins
8oz sultanas
4oz chopped almonds
4oz cherries chopped in half
4 large eggs
throw them together in a big bowl put to one side.

In another bowl
8oz butter
zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
8oz of soft brown sugar
1 tablespoon of syrup or treacle
then cream these together and add to the ingredients in the big bowl and add 5 to 8 tblespoons of Brandy/Sherry or milk and mix well.
Chuck it in a well lined cake tin and gently press it down with wet knuckles and put in the oven for about one and a half hours, on 160 degrees for the first 60 mins then turn oven down to 140 for the last 30 mins.
Check it is not gooey in the middle with a clean sharp knife and then leave to cool for a while in the tin before turning out onto a wirerack.

then when totally cool wrap in foil and can be stored for months in an airtight tin. and then feed every few weeks depending how boozy you like the cake.

I make this cake without any alcohol sometimes and it is still quite nice.
It also can be quite nice if you need a cake at short notice.
Hope this can be a bit of use.
Ada

[adacakes]

Hi Teadrinker

I have made this recipie for my mate who has a wheat intollerance, I use Gluten free flour but I make my own gluten free baking powder and I add that to the recipe, it comes out quite good.

If you do want to make your own baking powder just add
1 oz baking powder
2oz cream of tartar
mix together and it will keep up to 3 months in a sealed container.

Just add 1 heaped teaspoon of baking powder to every 6oz of flour.

Ada:)

[Tanya]

CONDENSED MILK CHRISTMAS CAKE


Put in Large saucepan:
½ lb Butter
1 Cup Water
2-3lb mixed fruit(whatever you like)
2 Tablespoons Malt vinegar

Bring to boil, and leave to cool, then add to the saucepan:

1 tin Condensed Milk(large tin)
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 Tablespoons Sherry or Brandy
1 teaspoon Glycerine**

When mixed, add:
2 Cups flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon mixed spice
2 Tablespoons Custard Powder*
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Lemon Essence
1 teaspoon Almond Essence

Put into a lined tin and bake at 160 for 1 hour
then reduce temp to 140 and bake for a further 1 ½ hours.

Ice with Brandy Butter icing :
50g Butter
100g sieved icing sugar
Brandy – as much as you like the taste of!!

Spread over top and then use flat edge of knife to pat icing to make wee peaks to look like fluffy snow!!

Can be eaten straight away – ie doesn’t need to be stored! Lasts well in cake tin.

Enjoy!!

**PS – you can get Glycerine at supermarkets (often next to essences etc) or cake decorating shops. Don’t get it from a pharmacy – theirs is non edible.

*Any type of custard powder works in this – so long as its powder!

I use currants and sultanas because I don’t like the peel etc but if you want to add that, just use it as part of the fruit weight.


Tanya

[diforsyth]

Ingredients:
o 2 cups flour
o 1 stick butter
o 1 cup of water
o 1 tsp baking soda
o 1 cup of sugar
o 1 tsp salt
o 1 cup of brown sugar
o Lemon juice
o 4 large eggs Nuts
o 1 bottle tequila
o 2 cups of dried fruit
Sample the tequila to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the tequila again. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the tequila is still OK. Try another cup... Just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the frigging fruit up off floor. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample the tequila to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Check the tequila. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the tequila and wipe counter with the cat.

Bingle Jells!

[tea drinker]

Thanks Ada :nice1

[Flutterby]

loving the tequila cake recipe, will have to try that!