Could someone please...Bake me a cake?

Lynsey · Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 10 Location: glasgow toon.

bake me a cake?!
or at least give me some good cake baking advice? i am not very good.
x

BoB · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject:

You can only but ask Lynsey.
Any preference to what type of cake you want to make or are you game to make them all?

All cake recopies welcome

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mwl · Guest

When I make cakes - I always make sure that tin is well greased.

My favorite cake to make is the Victoria sandwhich

Ingredients:
Butter - 175g (6 oz), softened
Caster sugar - 175g (6 oz)
Eggs - 3
Self raising flour - 175g (6 oz), sifted
Jam - 3 tbsp
Icing sugar - sifted, optional, or caster sugar

Directions:

This popular type of cake is made with a creamed mixture based on equal amounts of flour, sugar and fat. The fat enables it to keep moist longer than the fatless or 'true' sponge.

Serves 8

Prepare two 18cm (7 inch) sandwich tins. Cream the butter and sugar together until very pale in colour, light in texture and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, adding 1 tablespoon of the flour with each one. Gently fold in the remaining flour with a metal spoon.
Transfer to prepared tins and smooth the tops with a knife. Bake at 180 0C / 350 0F / Gas 4 for 25-30 minutes or until well-risen, golden brown and firm. Leave in the tins for 2-3 minutes. Turn out on to a wire cooling rack. Leave until cold. When cold sandwich together with jam. Dust the cake with icing sugar.

VARIATION:

Jam and Cream Sandwich

Follow the recipe and method for Victoria Sandwich. When the cakes are cold, sandwich together with 3 tablespoons of jam and 4 tablespoons of double cream, whipped until thick. Dust with icing sugar.

BoB · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

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BoB · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject:

I am not a cook or a baker.

My son is a baker, I would get him to make it

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Much easier

Lynsey · Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 10 Location: glasgow toon.

i am quite fussy with cakes come to think of it. i don't really like cream in them. it is not nice.

i like chocolate cakes.
but not fruit ones.
no marzipan, nope.

so basically...a chocolate one!

Xcotty · Guest

Lynsey, I will bake you an amazing cake pal.
It's made from mixing Mars bar's, and Tobelerone together.

You need to have ice cream with it, it's magic.

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By the way, I thought you might like your avatar back Lynsey.

Lynsey · Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 10 Location: glasgow toon.

mmm, i love toblerones. and mars bars actually. sounds good already.

and i noticed! happy days

mwl · Guest

Have fun

Woodside Wullie · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 423 Location: Burgh o' Woodside

lynsey,

I am going to teach you how to bake no flour chocolate cake. You will love it. This is Tuesday, I will try to sober up by Thursday and give you the simple recipe. Honest. Well if I'm drunk I might fail, but I will try before the month is oot.

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Woodside Wullie · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 423 Location: Burgh o' Woodside

lynsey,

I am struggling but I will do some chocolate cake. Honest!
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Woodside Wullie · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 423 Location: Burgh o' Woodside

Eeezie Ozzie Choclate Cake

Ingredients:

 100g butter , diced, plus extra for greasing tin
 140g best-quality dark chocolate, with 70% cocoa solids, broken into pieces. (This makes an affa rich cake, so I tend to make it with 70g of dark cocoa solids and 70g of good quality milk chocolate. I buy the chocolate fae LIDL)
 6 large eggs, separated; ( pit the yolks in one bowl and the whites in another and dinna get ony yolk in yir whites, or else it winna work.)
 85g caster sugar
 cocoa powder to sprinkle and crème fraîche, to serve: optional; That means yi’ dinna have to bother wi’ it if you dinna fancy it.

Noo, here we go, here we go, here we go……………………….

1. Preheat yir oven to 170C/Gas 3/fan oven 150C. Grease a /9in springform cake tin and line the base wi’ greaseproof paper . Dust the sides wi’ a wee bit oflour just tae stop it stickin’) Pit the chocolate and butter intae a heatproof bowl set ower a pan o’ gently simmering water. Heat until melted, then remove the bowl from the pan and stir until smooth. Leave for about 5 minutes to cool slightly.
2. Stir in yir egg yolks. Pit the egg whites intae a large bowl, add a pinch of salt and whisk until soft peaks form. Continue whisking, sprinkling in the caster sugar a little at a time, until stiff peaks form. Stir 2 tablespoons of the whites into the chocolate mixture, then carefully fold in the remainder until no traces of white are left. (Actually it disnae matter if there is traces o’ white because you jist want to be affa gentle when stiirin’ in to keep the air in )
3. Spoon the mixture intae ta prepare prepared tin and bake for 30-35 minutes( Ahter about twenty fives minutes or so I would gie it a looksy every so aften cos ovens differ) until well risen and just firm to the touch. Cool in the tin (dinna worry if the cake sinks and cracks slightly – it’ll still be fine). Once baked it’ll keep in the fridge for a few days or else yi’ can freeze, but I’ll tell yi’ this; it winna keep cos yi’ll aye be at it.
4. To serve, remove, the cake from fae the tin and peel awa’ the lining paper.
5. Sift cocoa powder liberally over the top and cut into slices. Serve with crème fraîche. Optional: (See above)

I ca’ this cake ‘Eezie Ozzie’ efter a phlegmatic Australian quine fa’ aye liked to be laid back. She taught me how tae make it aboot thirty-six year ago fan I wis doon in London, and I hiv been makin’ it ever since. (Aye the cake like).

(PS
I think I might pit up a lasagne recipe sometime. I met an Italian quine on a nudist beach in Antibbes. I think it wis 1976 or it micht hiv been 1975)

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