Hot Toddy Pudding Cake Food

HOT TODDY FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Mix the hot tea, whisky and marmalade in a large bowl until the marmalade melts. Stir in all of the dried fruit, peel and cherries, then cover and leave to soak overnight.
• Next day, heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3 and grease and double-line a 20cm round, deep cake tin with non-stick baking paper. Using electric beaters, cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition, then fold in the flour and spices, followed by the lemon zest and soaked fruit. Add any liquid that hasn't been absorbed by the fruit, too. Spoon into the prepared tin, level the top, then bake for 1½ hrs. Turn the oven down to 140C/fan 120C/gas 1 and bake for another 1½ hrs or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack in the tin.
• While the cake is still warm, use the skewer to pepper the cake with holes, poking it all the way down. Dissolve the sugar in the tea, add the whisky or orange juice, then spoon over the surface. If you're making the cake ahead of time, feed it with a fresh swig of hot toddy every week, but take care not to make the cake soggy. Can be kept for a month well-wrapped in an airtight container in a cool, dry place. If short on time, the cake can be made the same day that you decorate it.

LEMON POUND CAKE PUDDING WITH HOT TODDY SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Place butter in an electric mixer. Add sugar slowly until well mixed. Slowly add eggs, beating after each addition.
• Sift flour and mix with baking powder. Alternately add the flour mixture and buttermilk to the cake mixture. Combine well and stir in lemon zest. Bake in greased loaf pan for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. Remove from pan and cool
• Beat yolks well. Add lemon zest, juice and sugar over double boiler. Add melted butter and continue stirring. Cook until the curd coats the spoon and thickens. Refrigerate.
• Dissolve the sugar in the creams over low heat. Beat the eggs and yolks well. Slowly add the warm cream.
• To Assemble:
• Lightly grease a 9 by 11inch baking pan. Slice the cake into 1/4-inch slices. Place the cake slices over the bottom of the pan and spread with 1/2 of lemon curd. Repeat the 2 layers and pour custard over the top. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes Serve with Hot Toddy Sauce.
• Hot Toddy Sauce 12 tablespoons butter 2 2/3 cups brown sugar 8 tablespoons lemon juice 1 1/4 cups bourbon whiskey
• Warm butter in skillet and stir in brown sugar and lemon juice. Cook over medium high heat, stirring occasionally until bubbly. Add bourbon and return to a boil. Remove from heat and serve

LEMON PUDDING POUND CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a Bundt pan.
• Whisk together the flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Beat the butter, oil and granulated sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment at medium-high speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until pale and fluffy, 4 to 6 minutes. Reduce the speed to low and add the eggs, one at a time, beating until the yellow disappears after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract, lemon zest and lemon juice just until combined.
• Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk in 3 additions, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat just until the ingredients are combined.
• Scrape the batter evenly into the prepared Bundt pan and bake until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean with only a couple of moist crumbs, 1 hour 5 minutes to 1 hour 10 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the cake and invert onto a cooling rack to cool completely, about 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the lemon drizzle: Whisk together the confectioners' sugar, lemon juice and vanilla until thick. (If it's too runny, add a little more confectioners' sugar.) After the cake is cooled, pour the lemon drizzle over the top.

HOT FUDGE PUDDING CAKE II

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350'F.
• In medium bowl stir together 3/4 cup granulated sugar, flour, 3 Tbls. cocoa, baking powder and salt. Blend in milk, butter and vanilla, beat until smooth.
• Pour batter into 8- or 9-inch square baking pan.
• In separate bowl, stir together remaining 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar and remaining 4 tablespoons cocoa; sprinkle mixture evenly over batter.
• Pour hot water over top; do not stir.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until center is almost set.
• Let stand 15 minutes; spoon into dessert dishes, spooning sauce from bottom of pan over top.
• Garnish with whipped topping.

JEWELLED FRUIT, NUT & SEED CAKE

Steps:

• Make the Hot toddy cake (see link, right) in a loose-bottom tin, holding back about 2 tbsp of the mix for later. While it bakes, bake the fruit and nut topping. Melt the butter and golden syrup together, then toss with the nuts, dried fruit and seeds. Set aside; the butter mix will start to cool and thicken.
• Take the cake out of the oven 30 mins before the end of cooking, then gently spread over the remaining cake mix with the back of a spoon. The cake will still be quite soft but will take the weight, don't worry about it sinking. Scatter the fruit and nut mix over the top in an even layer. Bake for the remaining 30 mins until the cake is cooked and the nuts golden. Test for doneness by poking a skewer through the topping and into the cake. If it's underdone, but the nuts are golden, just cover with foil and give it another 10 mins; then test again.
• Leave the cake to cool completely in the tin, so that the nutty topping firms up. Loosen any obviously sticky edges, then push the cake out of the tin from the bottom. Transfer to a cake board or plate and fix the ribbon around the base before serving. Can be kept in an airtight tin for up to a week.

TRADITIONAL HOT TODDY

Steps:

• Heat water in a glass measuring cup in the microwave for 2 minutes.
• Place honey in a large mug. Add hot water and bourbon; stir until honey is dissolved. Squeeze lemon wedge into the mug and discard. Stir with cinnamon stick; leave in the mug. Drop the thin slice of lemon into the mug for garnish.

PEANUT BUTTER AND HOT FUDGE PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, the 1/4 cup sugar, and the baking powder.
• Add milk, oil, and vanilla.
• Stir until smooth.
• Stir in peanut butter.
• Transfer batter to an ungreased 1 1/2 quart casserole.
• In the same mixing bowl stir together the 1/2 cup sugar and the cocoa powder.
• Gradually stir in the boiling water.
• Pour the mixture evenly over batter in casserole.
• Bake in a 400 degree oven about 30 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
• If desired, top with fudge ice-cream topping.
• Sprinkle with chopped peanuts.