Baking (continued)

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 unsweetened 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, ¹⁄³ 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.

Classic Sponge Cake

Serves 8

1 cup wheaten cornflour

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

½teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 4 eggs

¾cup caster sugar

300ml thickened cream, whipped

1.Preheat oven 180°C. Grease and line bases of two 22cm round cake pans. Sift the cornflour, cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda together twice.

2.Using the small Mixmaster benchtop mixer bowl, beat eggs and sugar on High speed (9-10) until thick and creamy. Using a large metal spoon, gently fold in sifted flour mixture until combined. Divide mixture among cake pans. Bake for 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Allow to stand in cake pan 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.

Serving suggestion: sandwich sponges together with your favourite jam and whipped cream. Dust with icing sugar. Or sandwich together with cream and spread with passionfruit icing. White Chocolate

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Sunbeam MX003 manual Lemon or Orange Cake, Coffee Crumble, Chocolate Cake, Marble Cake, Berry Cake, Classic Sponge Cake

MX003 specifications

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