Lancashire Courting Cake Helped Lasses Land A Husband Food

LANCASHIRE COURTING CAKE HELPED LASSES LAND A HUSBAND

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare 2 or 3 cake pans by lining the bottoms with parchment paper.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Taking time at this stage will result in a much lighter cake.
• Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Beat in 2 teaspoons vanilla.
• Sift flour, baking powder, salt into medium bowl. Fold into butter mixture.
• Gently mix in milk to make a dropping consistency.
• Divide batter into your prepared pans. To remove extra air bubbles give your pans a good whack on your counter before putting into the oven. Think about an ex...it will help!
• Bake cake for 25- 30 minutes, or light brown and firm to the touch. Let cool completely on wire racks.
• If you have made two layers and have lots of berries, you can carefully slice each layer in half horizontally with a long serrated knife so you have four layers.
• Otherwise, just place one layer on a decorative plate, layer with sweetened whipped cream (or flavoured non fat yoghurt) and sliced strawberries.
• Top with the next layer and repeat until complete. Some prefer to place the final layer with the cut side up to make it more flat, but topping covers all sins.
• Dust with powdered sugar. Arrange more berries atop cake.
• Refrigerate the cake for at least an hour before serving to let the flavours blend. Good luck!

COURTING CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 190°C/375°F.
• Grease and line the bases of three 7-inch round cake tins.
• Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy.
• Gradually add the eggs, a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Fold in the flour, and then add enough milk to give a soft dropping consistency.
• Divide the mixture evenly between the prepared tins and bake for 25-30 minutes, until well risen and firm to the touch, swapping the position of the top and bottom cakes halfway through the cooking.
• Turn out and leave to cool on a wire rack.
• Whip the cream until it just holds its shape.
• Sandwich the cakes together with the cream and the strawberries, reserving a few for decoration.
• Dredge the top with icing sugar and decorate with the reserved strawberries.