i want to make some cakes cause my best friend is coming round but i dont know what to make any ideas?!
Answers:
Simple cakes but with her name iced on them. Simple cakes with a letter of her name on each one. Cakes made of chocolate, vanilla and red(red food colouring) all marbled. Chocolate cakes and a bowl of melted chocolate and let her dip her own cakes. Vanilla with cream and then a piece of fruit. Make them special and unique and she'll love them!!!! Check out: BBC Food for some recipes on cakes.
One of my fav cakes is the lemon drizzle cake
Ingredients
For the cake
225 g butter, softened
400 g caster sugar
3 lemons, finely grated zest only
4 eggs
375 g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
235 ml milk
For the glaze
3 lemons, juice only
150 g granulated sugar
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Method
1. For the cake: preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4. Grease and flour a 25cm bundt tin.
2. Cream the butter and sugar with the lemon zest until pale and thick. Beating the lemon zest will help draw out the oil making the cake lovely and lemony.
3. Stir in the eggs, one at a time. If the mixture threatens to curdle, add a tablespoon of the flour to stabilise it.
4. Mix in a little of the flour and baking powder with alternate glugs of the milk until all the ingredients are incorporated.
5. Spoon the mixture into the bundt tin and bake for 1 hour – 1 hour 10 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a rack. Prick all over with a toothpick.
6. For the glaze: mix the lemon juice and sugar, just swirling gently so the sugar doesn’t completely dissolve.
7. Drizzle the lemon glaze all over the warm cake - it will seep into the holes leaving a delicate sugar crust on the surface. Decorate with flowers and eat the day you make it.
have fun!
Try making some cupcakes' they are easy to make and you can top them with anything! Try different colours of icing and fondants for the tops! Scrummy. Good luck! :) www.cupcakerecipes.com This is Sarah by the way I've been told to make people aware not Steve my hubby!! lol :)
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