Bloglovin!

<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/5136621/?claim=cn4udnqgtyn">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>

What a great find.. now for a piece of cake and a hot chocolate to start some bedtime reading!

Happy Spring Tulips !

Celebrating Spring ...I give you Tulips...



Fruit At The Bottom? Secret to unsunken fruity cakes.

Tip For All Over Fruity Fruit Cakes!

 

Don't you just hate it when all your fruit sinks to the bottom of your lovingly made cake? I passed this tip over this week to a friend and it worked for them too..

 

All you need to do is to coat your fruit after soaking or washing. Wash it and when wet, roll in a tea towel and let air dry for an hour. Then take some flour and roll your fruit in the flour to create a barrier between cake and fruit. Follow the recipe as normal to add your fruit.

 

Try it and let your cake be all over fruity like ours!

 

What are you baking tips, love to here? What works for you?

 

Happy baking!

My Italian Almond & Chocolate Cakes

Perfect with a strong coffee and light enough to have more than one..!

I have not have much time to blog in the last week due to work, illness and a teething daughter. But tonight, I thought, it's time to go in the kitchen and create a new recipe.


It's been a while, so with a need for a good strong coffee I bring you my Italian inspired almond and chocolate cakes. And they really are perfect with a good proper coffee made with beans and hot milk. The cakes use rice flour to give a bit of bite which is unexpected but makes the texture not as light and fluffy as a fairy cake.

So, if you like me only have the kitchen for 30 minutes, cook up some delights and put your feet up!

To make 12 cakes you will need -

125 grams unsalted butter

125 grams sugar

2 free range medium sized eggs (mine weighted 125 grams for those who read my post on weighing your eggs!)

75 grams self raising flour

50 grams rice flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon almond essence

2 tablespoons good quality cocoa

1 tablespoon milk

12 cake cases and a cake baking tray

Let's Create!

1. Set the oven to 180C or similar check your manual.

2. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

3. Beat in the eggs one by one.

4. Add the almond essence.

5. Sift the baking powder and flour into the mixture then fold in the rice flour too.Fold in big movements to give lots of air to the mixture.

6. Fold in the cocoa and stir in the milk.

7. Add a heaped tablespoon to each cake case.

8. Bake until soft and bouncy on the top and a knife is clean when tested on the cake.

9. Cool on a wire rack before serving.