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Variations to this recipe:
Upsidedown Peach cake
1.Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin.
2.Select 4 small peaches. Cut each peach in half and remove their stones. Place cut side down in prepared cake tin. Sprinkle over 3 tablespoons white sugar and 20g chopped butter.
3.Follow steps 2 - 4 from the ‘Foundation Butter Cake’ recipe.
4.Spoon into cake tin. Level and bake for
5.Serve peach side up. Makes 1 cake.
Variation:
Fresh pineapple slices, mango halves, peaches, pears or apricots can be used. Well drained tinned fruits such as plums can be used as well.
Serving suggestion: Serve cake cut into wedges and spoon a dollop of thick cream over the top.
Lemon or Orange Cake
Add the rind of one lemon or orange into the cake batter, and or with the addition of butter and sugar and fold 2 tablespoons of poppy seeds into the cake batter makes an interesting and tasty cake.
Coffee Crumble
Mix in 2 tablespoons of instant coffee powder into the cake batter. On top of the cake batter sprinkle with a mixture of
1 tablespoon butter, 2 tablespoons plain flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, ½ teaspoon of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of instant coffee.
Chocolate Cake
60g dark chocolate - melted and added at the same time as the milk from the recipe above and mix well into the cake batter before baking.
Marble Cake
Divide batter into 3, leave one plain, add pink food colour to second portion and 2 tablespoons of cocoa, 1/8 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda and
1 tablespoon milk to the remaining cake batter. Drop spoonfuls of alternate colours into a 20cm ring tin.
Berry Cake
Add 2 cups of fresh, frozen or canned mixed berries to the top of the cake batter in tins before baking. Make sure that berries are well drained if canned.
Vanilla Sponge Cake
4 eggs, room temperature & separated
2/3 cup caster sugar
1/3 cup custard powder
½teaspoon vanilla extract 2/3 cup plain flour, sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
1.Grease and flour two deep 20cm cake tins. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2.Place the egg whites and sugar in the Mixmaster bowl and with the bowl speed set on High start mixing on High speed
3.Stop the mixer. Remove beaters and bowl from the Mixmaster. Place bowl on bench and using a large metal spoon or a plastic spatula fold in the triple sifted dry ingredients. Take care not to over beat as you will lose the air bubbles and the mixture will be flat and tough.
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