60th Birthday Cakes Biography
Source(google.com.pk)
Ingredients
250g raisins
200ml medium or sweet sherry (try using Amontillado or Pedro Ximénez)
150ml thick natural yogurt
150ml vegetable oil
3 eggs
140g plain flour
100g ground almonds
2 tsp baking powder
100g light muscovado sugar
icing sugar, to serve
Method
Tip the raisins into a bowl, pour over the sherry, then leave for at least 30 mins to soften. Meanwhile, heat oven to 180C/ fan 160C/gas 4. Lightly grease a deep 20cm round cake tin, then line the bottom with a circle of greaseproof paper.
Mix together the yogurt, oil and eggs. Put the remaining dry ingredients into a large bowl, pour in the yogurt mixture, then stir together until smooth. Scoop half the raisins out of the sherry, then stir into the batter. Spoon into the prepared tin and smooth the surface with a spoon. Cook in the oven for 50-55 mins until the top springs back when pressed lightly and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Take a skewer and prick all over the cake. Pour over 5 tbsp of the soaking sherry and let it soak in. You can make up to this point 3 days in advance and store in an airtight container. Serve warm or leave to cool, then dust with icing sugar. Warm the rest of the soaked raisins and sherry, then serve alongside the cake with some vanilla ice cream.
Birthday bug cake
Ingredients
Easy vanilla cake and syrup mix (see recipe below)
100g white chocolate (I used Milkybar)
Basic vanilla buttercream mix (see Easy vanilla cake recipe below)
12 giant chocolate buttons, 6 cut in half
treat-size pack chocolate buttons
2 chocolate sticks (I used Matchmakers)
hundreds and thousands
multicoloured candles
red (or whatever colour you like) writing icing tubes (I used Asda)
multicoloured candles
Method
Bake the Easy vanilla cake in a greased, lined deep 20cm cake tin as in the basic recipe; drench with syrup and leave to cool. Leave the oven on.
Break the white chocolate into cubes into a microwaveable bowl, and heat on High for 1 min (or melt over a pan of simmering water). Stir, then leave any remaining lumps to melt in the warm liquid chocolate. Once just-warm, beat the chocolate into the buttercream.
Start the butterflies. Put the whole giant buttons on a flat baking tray on non-stick baking paper, then put into the oven for 20-30 secs or until the chocolate looks shiny. Take out, scatter with hundreds and thousands, then leave to set completely before cutting in half with a large non-serrated knife.
For the ladybirds, pipe dots of icing all over the already cut giant button halves, then leave aside to dry.
Spread the buttercream over the cake, then start to arrange the butterflies. Cut each Matchmaker into 3 – these will make the bodies. Press onto the cake, then stick four giant button halves around each body to make ‘wings’. For the ladybirds, place two spotty button halves together, then use a small button for the head. Scatter more hundreds and thousands all over the cake, then poke in the candles.
Summer celebration cake
Ingredients
Easy vanilla cake mix (see recipe below - you won't need the syrup)
2 x 170g punnets raspberries
225g punnet blueberries
225g tub crème fraîche
icing sugar (optional)
Method
Butter and line the base and sides of a round, loosebottomed 23cm cake tin with non-stick baking paper. Make the Easy vanilla cake batter (see 'Goes well with'), spread half of it into the tin, then mix half the berries into what is left. Spoon this over the first layer and smooth the top. Bake for 1 hr 30 mins; check with a skewer - it should come out clean.
Cool for 30 mins, then remove from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack. Once completely cold, put onto a plate, smooth the crème fraîche over and pile the remaining berries on the top. Dust with icing sugar, if using. The cake is best eaten fresh, but will keep in the fridge for up to 2 days; return to room temperature before topping with the cream and fruit and serving.
Ingredients
250g raisins
200ml medium or sweet sherry (try using Amontillado or Pedro Ximénez)
150ml thick natural yogurt
150ml vegetable oil
3 eggs
140g plain flour
100g ground almonds
2 tsp baking powder
100g light muscovado sugar
icing sugar, to serve
Method
Tip the raisins into a bowl, pour over the sherry, then leave for at least 30 mins to soften. Meanwhile, heat oven to 180C/ fan 160C/gas 4. Lightly grease a deep 20cm round cake tin, then line the bottom with a circle of greaseproof paper.
Mix together the yogurt, oil and eggs. Put the remaining dry ingredients into a large bowl, pour in the yogurt mixture, then stir together until smooth. Scoop half the raisins out of the sherry, then stir into the batter. Spoon into the prepared tin and smooth the surface with a spoon. Cook in the oven for 50-55 mins until the top springs back when pressed lightly and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Take a skewer and prick all over the cake. Pour over 5 tbsp of the soaking sherry and let it soak in. You can make up to this point 3 days in advance and store in an airtight container. Serve warm or leave to cool, then dust with icing sugar. Warm the rest of the soaked raisins and sherry, then serve alongside the cake with some vanilla ice cream.
Birthday bug cake
Ingredients
Easy vanilla cake and syrup mix (see recipe below)
100g white chocolate (I used Milkybar)
Basic vanilla buttercream mix (see Easy vanilla cake recipe below)
12 giant chocolate buttons, 6 cut in half
treat-size pack chocolate buttons
2 chocolate sticks (I used Matchmakers)
hundreds and thousands
multicoloured candles
red (or whatever colour you like) writing icing tubes (I used Asda)
multicoloured candles
Method
Bake the Easy vanilla cake in a greased, lined deep 20cm cake tin as in the basic recipe; drench with syrup and leave to cool. Leave the oven on.
Break the white chocolate into cubes into a microwaveable bowl, and heat on High for 1 min (or melt over a pan of simmering water). Stir, then leave any remaining lumps to melt in the warm liquid chocolate. Once just-warm, beat the chocolate into the buttercream.
Start the butterflies. Put the whole giant buttons on a flat baking tray on non-stick baking paper, then put into the oven for 20-30 secs or until the chocolate looks shiny. Take out, scatter with hundreds and thousands, then leave to set completely before cutting in half with a large non-serrated knife.
For the ladybirds, pipe dots of icing all over the already cut giant button halves, then leave aside to dry.
Spread the buttercream over the cake, then start to arrange the butterflies. Cut each Matchmaker into 3 – these will make the bodies. Press onto the cake, then stick four giant button halves around each body to make ‘wings’. For the ladybirds, place two spotty button halves together, then use a small button for the head. Scatter more hundreds and thousands all over the cake, then poke in the candles.
Summer celebration cake
Ingredients
Easy vanilla cake mix (see recipe below - you won't need the syrup)
2 x 170g punnets raspberries
225g punnet blueberries
225g tub crème fraîche
icing sugar (optional)
Method
Butter and line the base and sides of a round, loosebottomed 23cm cake tin with non-stick baking paper. Make the Easy vanilla cake batter (see 'Goes well with'), spread half of it into the tin, then mix half the berries into what is left. Spoon this over the first layer and smooth the top. Bake for 1 hr 30 mins; check with a skewer - it should come out clean.
Cool for 30 mins, then remove from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack. Once completely cold, put onto a plate, smooth the crème fraîche over and pile the remaining berries on the top. Dust with icing sugar, if using. The cake is best eaten fresh, but will keep in the fridge for up to 2 days; return to room temperature before topping with the cream and fruit and serving.
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