Cakes

Apricot Choc Chip Cake

1 cup chopped dried apricots 1 cup apricot nectar

2/3 cup raw sugar 125 gms margarine
2 eggs separated 1 ½ cups coconut
1 ½ cups s.r. flour 1/5 cup choc chips
Icing sugar for dusting

Soak apricots in nectar for 1hr. Cream sugar and margarine until light and fluffy. Add egg
yolks and coconut. Beat well. Stir in apricots and nectar, sifted flour and choc chips. Beat
egg whites until soft peaks form and fold in to mixture. Pour into deep, greased 20cm round
pan with base lined with paper. Bake @ 160c for 50mins. Stand for 5mins before turning out.
Dust with icing sugar and serve with whipped cream.

Boiled Chocolate Cake

2 cups water 3 cups sugar

250gms margarine 5 tblspns cocoa
2 tspns bicarb soda

Place in large saucepan and simmer for 5 mins. Then add: 4 beaten eggs, 3 cups s.r.flour.
Mix well. Place in 20cm baking tin lined with baking paper and cook @ 185c for 1hr 10mins.

Sponge Cake

4 eggs 1 tspn vanilla essence

¾ cup sugar 1 tspn cream of tartar
1 cup corn flour 1 dessertspn plain flour
½ tspn bicarb soda

Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla for 15mins. Add sifted flours and mix well. Bake in tin lined with
baking paper @ 180c for 30mins.

Marg’s Banana Cake

½ cup butter 1 cup sugar

2 eggs 2 cups s.r. flour
1 tspn vanilla essence ¼ cup sour cream
1 tspn mixed spice 1 cup mashed banana

Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla and eggs. Add flour mixed with spice. Add sour cream.
Fold in banana. Cook for 30-40mis @ 180c or until brown on top.

Low Fat Banana Cake

1 ¼ cups s.r. flour 120gms brown sugar

4tblspns golden syrup 2 eggs
4 tblspns low fat milk 4 tblspns sunflower oil
2-3 mashed bananas

Sift flour and add sugar. Add syrup, egg, milk and oil. Mix well. Add banana and mix well.
Bake @ 180c for 55mins in 20cm tin lined with baking paper. Cool before turning out.
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Sultana & Sherry Cake

500gms sultanas 90ml sweet sherry
2 tspns cornflour 250gms margarine
1 cup + 2 tblspns castor sugar 3 eggs at room temperature
2 cups plain flour 1 tspn baking soda
Combine sultanas, sherry and 90ml water in a saucepan. Bring to the boil over medium
heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 5mins or until liquid is absorbed. Remove from
heat and cool completely. Preheat oven to 150c. Combine ½ cup water with cornflour and
mix until dissolved. Cream margarine and sugar and add cornflour. Add eggs, and beat well.
Sift flour, baking soda and a pinch of salt over butter mix. Fold in only, then fold in cooled
sultana mix. Bake for 2 to 2 ½ hrs in lined 20cm pan and cook until skewer comes out clean.

Sultana Cake
1 cup sugar 2 tblspns margarine
1 ½ cups sultanas soaked in milk 1 cup boiling water
2 cups s.r.flour 1 egg
Cream margarine and sugar. Add sultanas. Add boiling water and let cool. Stir in flour, then
add beaten egg. Bake @ 180c for 45mins in lined tin
Lorelei’s Fruit Cake
500gms sultanas 250gms raisins
125gms currants 125gms glace cherries
125gms dates diced 125gms chopped almonds
½ cup orange juice 250gms margarine
250gms brown sugar 2 tblspns marmalade
4 eggs 2 ¼ cups plain flour
¼ tspn nutmeg ¼ tspn cinnamon
½ tspn mixed spice 2 tspns Parisian essence
Soak all fruit in orange juice for 24hrs. Cream margarine and sugar. Add marmalade and
eggs one at a time. Fold in soaked fruit and chopped almonds. Sift flour and spices together.
Add to fruit mix and mix well. Bake in a 20cm deep pan lined with baking paper @ 150c for
3-3 ½ hrs or until skewer comes out clean.
Christmas Pudding
Microwave safe Pudding basin 100gms sultanas
100gms raisins 100gms diced dates
50gms chopped dried apricots ½ cup pie apples
50gms glace cherries ½ cup brandy
125gms softened margarine ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
¼ cup golden syrup 2 eggs
125gms quality dark chocolate ½ cup sifted plain flour
¾ cup breadcrumbs from day old bread ½ tspn mixed spice
½ tspn cinnamon ½ tspn nutmeg
Heat brandy in glass bowl in microwave for 2 mins. Add all fruit to brandy in glass bowl.
Cover with plastic wrap and set aside, stirring occasionally. Beat margarine, sugar and
golden syrup until thick and pale. Add eggs one at a time beating well. Add melted chocolate
and fruit. Stir well. Add apple, flour, breadcrumbs, spices and stir well. Add mix to lightly
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greased basin and cover with 2 layers of baking paper. Secure lid. Cook on defrost (350w)
for 20-30mins or until skewer comes out clean.

White Mud Cake

300gms Cadbury Dream White Chocolate 220gms margarine

250mls milk ¾ cup castor sugar
1 tspn vanilla essence 2 eggs lightly beaten
¼ cup s.r.flour 1 cup plain flour

Preheat oven to 160c. Melt white chocolate, margarine, milk and sugar together over low
heat. When completely smooth, allow to cool for 15mins. Add vanilla, eggs and mix well. Add
s.r.flour and stir to combine. Add plain flour and mix until batter is smooth. Pour mix into
20cm pan lined with baking paper. Bake for 1-1 ¼ hrs or until skewer comes out clean.
Cover with a cloth and allow to cool to room temperature in tin. When cold spread with white
chocolate ganache.

Ganache

250gms white chocolate 110gms sour cream

Melt white chocolate over low heat. When completely melted, remove from heat and stir in
sour cream. When smooth, spread over cake.

Smoko Cake

1 cup warm mashed potato 2 tblspns butter

2 eggs 2 cups sugar
1 ½ cups warm milk 4 cups s.r.flour
1 dessertspn salt 1 cup sultanas

Mix butter and salt into warm potato, beat in eggs and sugar. Add milk, then flour and fruit.

Topping

Mix together 1 cup plain flour, 1 cup sugar, ½ tspn salt, ½ tspn nutmeg and 120gms
margarine. Add to top of cake and bake @ 180c for 25-30mins.