So obviously I have birthday cakes on my mind. I always use a fantastic butter cake recipe from the Australian Womens Weekly which is really yum. The recipe is below and in the recipe section so I recommend you give it a go and am sure it will become one of your staples as well.
Jonty wants something to do with dinosaurs and would like a carrot cake (he is not into sweet things). Eamon is obsessed with wiggles and Greta loves any type of cake so long as it is sweet with lots of icing. So the plan in my head is...
Jonty - a slab cake iced green to look like grass with some individual dinosaurs on it (one as a carrot cake), maybe a tree? I'm not the best decorator so who knows...
Eamon - Cupcakes with wiggles cupcake toppers.
Greta - A large cupcake shaped cake with lots of frosting and sprinkles.
I will put up photos of my successes or disasters after the birthdays. In the meantime try this recipe, or some of the variations I suggested. Let me know what you think.
AWW CUT KEEP BUTTER CAKE
This recipe is such a fantastic basic. Throw everything in the mixer at the same time, no creaming butter and sugar, no separating eggs, so easy and a great result everytime!! Change it up, make into cup cakes with buttercream frosting. Put in some citrus zest for a zing, even pour over a citrus sugar syprup or make into a tea cake by pouring melted butter on top straight from the oven and dust with sugar and cinnamon. Good luck and I hope you find it as good as I do.
125g butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1¼ cups (275g) caster sugar
3 eggs
1 cup (150g) plain flour
½ cup (75g) self-raising flour
¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ cup (125ml) milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1¼ cups (275g) caster sugar
3 eggs
1 cup (150g) plain flour
½ cup (75g) self-raising flour
¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
½ cup (125ml) milk
METHOD
Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease deep 20cm-round cake pan; line base with baking paper.
Beat ingredients in medium bowl on low speed with electric mixer until just combined. Increase speed to medium; beat about 3 minutes or until mixture
is smooth and pale in colour.
Spread mixture into pan; bake about 1¼ hours. Stand cake in pan 5 minutes before turning, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool. Dust cake with sifted icing sugar, if desired.
Beat ingredients in medium bowl on low speed with electric mixer until just combined. Increase speed to medium; beat about 3 minutes or until mixture
is smooth and pale in colour.
Spread mixture into pan; bake about 1¼ hours. Stand cake in pan 5 minutes before turning, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool. Dust cake with sifted icing sugar, if desired.
Enjoy!
Bridie
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