Country Fruit Cake

I admit that I have a “bad” habit which is whenever I come across nice looking baking recipe books, I will definitely “grab them home” with me. Hehe…

There are a few sitting in my bookshelf and I hardly give them a look as yet. Last night I was flicking through one of the recipe books and I decided to give this cake a go.

I was running of out light brown sugar so I replaced it with castor sugar instead. This is why you can see my cake is not as brown as in the recipe book. :D

Ingredients

375g cake flour
2tsp baking powder
½ tsp ground nutmeg
180g unsalted butter, softened
180g light brown sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1tsp vanilla extract
1tsbp milk
200g mixed dried fruit (I used apricot, sultana and cherry)
1tbsp raw brown sugar


What to do

(1) Preheat the oven to 160 degree. Grease and line a round cake pan.

(2) Sift the flours, baking powder and nutmeg into a large bowl. Set aside.

(3) Beat the butter, light brown sugar, eggs and vanilla extract till well combined. Add in the flour mixture and beat well until the mixture us smooth, then stir in the milk and mixed dried fruit.,

(4) Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and smooth level with spatula. Sprinkle the raw brown sugar evenly over the surface.

(5) Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degree.

Marble Cake

This is one of the cakes listed in my “To do” list for quite some time and finally I gave it a try on Sunday morning so that we can have it for our tea later on the day.

The texture of the cake was buttery, moist and smooth.

I like the aroma while the cake was in the oven. The cocoa powder smells so good! It make me mouth –watering while waiting for it to cook. =P

I’ve eaten 2 slices at once as they taste really yummy! What a sinful craves…

 
Ingredients


250g butter
220g castor sugar
5 large eggs
250g cake flour
2tbsp choco powder
2 - 3 tbsp milk


What to do

(1) Sieve cake flour and salt together. Set aside.

(2) In a big bowl, cream butter and sugar until it's pale and creamy.

(3) Add in egg one at a time, mix until it's well combined.

(4) Fold in the cake flour slowly and mix well.

(5) Spoon 4tbsp of the cake batter into another smaller bowl. Mix the cocoa powder and milk until it's fully dissolve.

(6) Scoop the vanilla batter into the baking pan and follow by the cocoa batter and repeat this action again.

(7) Use a chopstick to draw zic-zac on top of it to get some nice marble pattern for the cake.

(8) Bake the cake at 160c for 30 mins or until it's golden brown and the toothpicks inserted came out clean.

Butter Raisin Muffins

Happy 2010! My first baking for year 2010 is this simple yet delicious Butter Raisins Muffins.

All you need is:

Ingredients

140g butter, softened
110g castor sugar
3 eggs
200g cake flour
2tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
45g raisin



What to do
(1) Sieve cake flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
(2) Cream butter and castor sugar till its pale and light (Approx. 2 minutes)
(3) Add in egg one at a time and mix till it's well combined.
(4) Preheat oven at 180 degree.
(5) Fold in flour mixture slowly until finished all the flour.
(6) Lastly, add in raisins and mix well.
(7) Spoon the batter muffin pan and bake for 30 minutes or till its turn golden brown color.

Enjoy Baking~