I used to hate food tech at school. Weird but true, I didn't understand why anyone would want to follow a recipe mindlessly without any sort of creative flair. Plus there were so many different things that could go wrong in a cookery classroom, like buring, scalding, getting the recipe wrong and generally messing up. I wanted to make lots of exciting new things, not follow any kind of boring recipe.
Unfortuantely I didn't understand food groups and structures well enough to create my own recipes, or atleast ones that would have been edible! So when I got a place of my own and started wanting to bake things no one was more suprised than me!
My favourite thing to make is big juicy cake, preferably with lots of icing and cream filling. This cake was made for the Jubilee weekend, here's a quick run down of the recipe:
100g (4oz) maragarine
100g (4oz) caster sugar
2 medium eggs
100g (4oz) self raising flour
- Mix the sugar and margarine together in a large bowl
- Add eggs and mix in carefully
- Add self flour and fold into the mixture
- The topping of the cake is butter cream icing (50g butter and 100g icing sugar combined together) and decorated with fruit. You can also add butter cream icing to the middle of the cake, if you want this particular cake to hit around 5000 calories a slice!
I usually add a couple of drops of vanilla essence to the mixture too which I think makes the cake taste better. This is the mixture for many basic cakes, to which you can add many different ingredients to make new and exciting cakes.
My next cake adventures is to attempt some chocolate orange cakes with the left over oranges from Dad's latest marmalade experiment.
Happy Crafting!
L x
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