Hurry Up Cake With Variations Food

HURRY UP SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine the brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Add the butter and mix until crumbly. Then mix in the nuts.
• Preheat the oven to 350º Fahrenheit. Spray a 9x13 baking pan with cooking spray.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the shortening and sugars.
• Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until combined.
• Add in the milk and mix again.
• Add the remaining dry ingredients and mix at medium speed for about 2 minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan.
• Sprinkle half of the nut topping over the batter.
• Then pour the remaining batter in the pan. Spread it lightly to cover the topping.
• Sprinkle the remaining topping evenly over the batter.
• Bake for 45-55 minutes or until the top springs back when you touch it.

HURRY UP CAKE WITH VARIATIONS

Steps:

• Frosting choices: Sift icing sugar over or chocolate butter icing or lemon/orange butter icing.
• Simple butter icing- icing sugar, butter, cocoa, tiny bit of milk, for chocolate, just measure amounts that look right and whip them all together.
• Lemon or orange butter icing: the same as chocolate except instead of cocoa, use lemon or orange zest, and a teaspoon of vanilla or a tiny bit of the lemon or orange juice.
• Sift before measuring,cake flour, resift with sugar.
• add soft butter, eggs,milk, salt baking powder and vanilla.
• Beat these ingredients vigorously with a wire whisk or electric beater for 2 or 3 minutes.
• Bake the cake in a buttered 9 x 13 inch pan or in two 8 inch buttered, round layer pans in a moderate oven (350°F) for about 1/2 hour or until tester inserted in middle comes out clean.
• Variations-----------.
• Spice cake: add to flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon cloves.
• Chocolate cake: Use 4 tablespoons less flour and add to flour 4 tablespoons cocoa.

BUTTER CAKE WITH VARIATIONS

Steps:

• Grease a loaf tin.
• Preheat oven to 175°C.
• Sift flour and salt 3 times.
• In a mixing bowl cream butter and castor sugar with vanilla essence until mixture is white, light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each.
• Fold sifted flour into creamed mixture alternating with milk, beginning and ending with flour.
• When mixture is smooth, pour into prepared tin.
• Lightly smooth top and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a fine skewer will come out clean.
• Cool cake on few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
• VARIATIONS.
• Lemon Cake - add the grated rind of 1 lemon and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, omit the vanilla essence.
• Orange Cake - add the grated rind of 1 orange and 2 teaspoons of orange juice, omit the vanilla essence.
• Sultana Cake - add 4 to 6 ounces of sultanas and 1 teaspoon of spice. (now 3/4 cup sultanas and 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon or mixed spice).
• Seed Cake - add 1 tablespoon caraway seeds to mixture and sprinkle extra teaspoon of seeds on top before baking.
• Spice Cake - sift 1 teaspoon spice with flour, add 4 ounces chopped dates or chopped walnuts to mixture. (now sift 1 teaspoon spice - ground ginger, cinnamon, cardamom or mixed spice with the flour and add 3/4 cup chopped dates or walnuts to the mixture).
• Chocolate Cake - add 2 ounces of unsweetened chocolate, dissolved in a little milk. (now - add 60 grams melted dark chocolate to creamed mixture, before the flour).