Autumn Love Bites

Hiya!

I haven't been baking much but I decided to do some baking today and as a trial and error it was a success especially with Z.

Ingredients:

- 225g Unsalted Butter

- 225g Self-Raising Flour

- 1 tsp Baking Powder

- 100g Golden Caster Sugar

- 100g Light Muscovado Sugar 

- 4 Large Eggs

- 1 Large Orange, Zest.

- Dark Chocolate covering

- Food Colouring paste, Red, Orange and Yellow

1. Mix the butter and eggs together in a bowl and leave to the side.
2. In a separate bowl mix the flour, sugars and baking powder together.
3. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and carefully fold them together.
4. Using half of the orange juice it into the mixture and add the zest.
5. Using a hand mixer, mix the ingredients together for a minute.
6. Separate the ingredients equally into 3 bowls and add your colour paste (about 2 drops each). 
7. Fold the mixture into the food colouring until it is fully covered.
8. Pour the ingredients into a tray alternating the colours and bake for 15-20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
9. Rest the cake for up to 2 hours
10. Melt the hot chocolate covering either using the microwave or place a heatproof bowl above a pan of hot water.
11. Pour the chocolate over the cake and let it rest.
12. Once the chocolate hardens you can cut the cake into squares and ENJOY!!

I added an extra step as I used a cookie cutter and stamped out little love hearts for Z. It was small but still full of flavour. Z and S managed to finished the whole thing by the time I got out of the shower so that was the only picture which I had managed to take. Z left me 1 to try and I loved how it tastes! It reminds me so much of Autumn! Next time I will try and add some cinnamon to the chocolate to give a christmassy feel.

I hope you can try this recipe out

TC

xx

Tottenham Loaf Cake

Hi! 

I love cake and custard and recently I made this Tottenham Cake for Valentines Day and it was so yummy especially with vanilla custard!

Ingredients:

125g Butter, soften

125g Caster Sugar

125g Self Raising Flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

2 Large Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

1 tbsp  Milk

For the icing

150g Icing Sugar

1 drop of Pink/Red food colouring

1 tsp cold water 

Sprinkles (optional)

Preheat the oven at 160'c

1. Place the sugar and butter in a mixing bowl and cream together until white in colour and fluffy

2. Add the eggs 1 at a time into the mixture and beat.

3. Fold in the Self raising flour and baking powder until fully combined

4. Place the Vanilla extract into the milk and pour into the mixture

5. Bake between 12-15 minutes at 160'C until brown in colour or until a skewer comes out clean

6. Leave to cool completely if not the icing will not set

7. Using a skewer poke random holes throughout the cake

8. Mix together 60g of Icing sugar and 3 drops of warm water and pour over your cake. I found that leaving your cake on a cooling rack with a plate or cake tin underneath made the clean up easier.

9. Mix the 150g icing sugar and food colouring together until fully combined. Add the cold water slowly until you have a thick but pourable consistency.

10. Pour over your cake and place some sprinkles on top. Leave the icing to harden and enjoy.

Hope you get a chance to make this yummy cake 

TC

xx

Tea anyone?

Hi!

I love a nice cup of tea but I always have to have something to go with it or it just doesn't feel right so the other day I decided to make a marble loaf.

Ingredients

- 175g Butter, soften

- 175g Caster Sugar

- 3 Large Eggs

- 1/2 tsp Vanila Extract

- 225g Self Raising Flour

- 25g Cocoa Powder

- 2 tbsp Whole Milk

1. Place the butter and sugar into a bowl and beat until white and fluffy.

2. Add the vanilla extract and eggs into the mixture and beat well.

3. Pour the self raising flour into the mixture and using a hand-held mixer mix well.

4. Spoon out half of the mixture in a separate bowl and add the cocoa powder and milk. Mix.

5. Using a lined loaf tin spoon in 2 large spoonful of vanilla batter and then 1 spoonful of chocolate batter. Alternate on the next layer so 2 chocolate and 1 vanilla etc. Once Finished using a skewer make a 8 figure in the batter and bake.

6. Bake at 160°c for 15 - 20 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean

7. Sprinkle icing sugar on top and enjoy

You can be as creative as you want with the marbling or if you really can't be bothered you can make it half and half but I hope you try this recipe and tell me what you think.

TC

xx