Archive for the ‘Cakes’ Category
Ingredients:
- Eggs : 4
- Flour : 2 level cups
- Sugar : 2 cups powdered
- Butter : 1 cup.
- Baking powder : 2 tsps
- Scraped coconut : 2 cups.
Method :
Mix everything as for other cakes and bake at 180 degrees C or 350 degree F for about 25 to 30 minutes until done.
Coconut Cake
Heavy Cakes : (kind of not risen well)Heavy cakes mean you have used too little baking powder, or too much flour, the butter and sugar may not be creamed well enough, the flour may be mixed too vigorously and the oven is too slow.
Dry Cake: (when it crumbles)Too much baking powder or flour, Not enough of fat or liquid or you may have left it too long in the oven to bake.
Sunken Cake: ( the middle sinks in) Too much of liquid, Too much of baking powder , sugar , too little flour, Oven door slammed or cake moved doing baking or removed from the oven too soon.
Peaked Cake: ( the center rises too high) Insufficient butter or oil, less of baking powder or soda, Too much of flour or the oven temperature kept too high.
A badly cracked top : The oven is too hot, The cake tin too small, too much of flour or too little liquid.
Fruit sunk to the bottom of the cake : ( for fruit cakes) Fruit not properly dried or coated with flour. Cake mixture too thin or the fruit added before adding the flour.
Ingredients:
- Maida (flour) 180 grams.
- Butter 150 grams
- Sugar 200 grams powdered.
- Baking powder ½ tsp.
- Salt ½ tsp .
- Cocoa 4 tbsps
- Nescafe (instant coffee) 2 tbsps
- hot water 100 ml
- Eggs 2
- Vanilla essence 1 tsp
- Soda-bi-carb ½ tsp
- Vinegar 1 tsp
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 350 deg F. Grease & dust a baking dish.
- Dissolve the Nescafe & cocoa in the hot water. Sift maida , salt, soda & baking powder. Cream the butter with sugar. Beat the eggs, add vinegar , vanilla essence & add the butter. Add maida & the Nescafe mix. Mix well with the hand blender or cut & fold & mix well. Pour into the baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven at 350 deg F for 25 minutes or till done. Put a knitting needle or a toothpic in the middle of the cake .It should come out clean & non sticky .Then it is done.
- Sprinkle Castor sugar over the done cake to get a glazed look.
Chocolate Coffee Cake