This is one of the easiest and quickest cakes you will ever bake. It is delicious to eat as is and perfect when making trifle!
1 x 385g can condensed milk 4 eggs 60g butter, melted 5ml vanilla 180g self-raising flour 1 x 360g can caramel treat 250ml cream
Preheat your oven to 180℃ and spray a bundt cake tin with cooking spray. Add the condensed milk, eggs, butter and vanilla to a mixing bowl and whisk together with electric beaters. Sift over the flour and beat together on high speed for 1 minute. Pour the batter into the prepared bundt cake tin and bake for 35 minutes. Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before inverting it onto a serving plate. Cool completely. Serve the cake with dollops of caramel treat swirled into the whipped cream.
The best of two worlds!! A delicious chocolatey brownie base with a velvet baked cheesecake topping!
For the brownie base: 115g butter 115g dark chocolate, chopped 200g caster sugar 2 eggs 50ml milk 115g flour
For the cheesecake topping: 500g cream cheese, room temperature 125g caster sugar 3 eggs 5ml vanilla 125ml Greek yoghurt
Preheat your oven to 180℃ and grease a 22cm loose-bottom cake tin. Add the butter and chopped chocolate to a heatproof mixing bowl and place it over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Stir every now and then until melted. Remove the bowl from the head and add the sugar. Whisk until the ingredients are amalgamated. Add the eggs and milk and whisk to mix. Add the flour and stir through until the mixture is just blended. Scrape the mixture into the prepared cake tin and even it out with a spatula. Place in the oven and bake for 25 minutes. Remove and set aside. Lower the oven temperature to 160℃. Add the cream cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat together on high speed until you have a smooth mixture. Scrape the bowl down once or twice in between mixing. Remove the bowl from the mixer and add the yoghurt. Stir the yoghurt through the cheesecake mixture. Pour the mixture onto the baked brownie base. Place in the oven and bake for 55 minutes.
Remove the cake from the oven and place it on a cooling rack to cool completely. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for a minimum of 4 hours, but preferably overnight. Run a knife around the edge of the cake before removing the sides of the cake tin. Cut into slices and drizzle with melted chocolate to serve.
Preheat your oven to 180℃ and line a 23cm X 13cm loaf tin. Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt and cinnamon to a mixing bowl and mix together with a whisk. Add the buttermilk, egg and vegetable oil to a wide-mouth jug and whisk together until blended. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients. Stir until all the flour has been incorporated and you are left with a shaggy, wet batter. Add the chopped apple and nuts and stir through. Scrape the batter into the prepared loaf tin and pat it into the corners. Place the loaf in the oven and bake for 50 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow the loaf to cool in the pan for 15 minutes before removing. Place on a cooling rack to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar and serve.
This is an easy and quick cake loaf that is perfect for afternoon tea.
100g pistachio nuts, chopped 200g caster sugar 150g butter 125ml yoghurt 3 eggs 200g flour 5ml baking powder 5ml bicarbonate of soda 10ml vanilla 4 limes, zest and juice 200g icing sugar 30ml pistachio nuts, sliced
Preheat your oven to 180℃ and line a 20cm X 10cm X 7cm loaf tin with baking paper. Add the pistachios and caster sugar to the bowl of a food processor and whizz until fine. Add the butter, yoghurt, eggs, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, vanilla and lime zest and whizz again until smooth. Spoon the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 55 minutes. Cool the loaf in the tin for 20 minutes before turning it out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
Sift the icing sugar into a mixing bowl and add the lime juice. Spoon the glaze over the pistachio loaf and scatter with the sliced pistachios.
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