Saturday 31 August 2013

Traybakes - Apple and Plum two ways



There will definitely be recipes on this blog from time to time as I love it, and am baking constantly. In the past week I have experimented with this cake, and made it two different ways, which both turned out lovely but individual results.

First Way - Using Mincemeat


I make lovely Plum and sloe gin mincemeat every year for Christmas (in fact I'm sure I shall post a recipe for it  come November), and my biggest fear every year is that I shall run out of it before the desire for mince pies ends, so I always over make, and this leaves me with a surplus that needs using at some point. Fortunately it keeps well, so here I am in June still using some of it. I've made this a few times and its always been very popular, it ends up being a lovely moist, spicy cake, and has a much more complex flavour then the work would suggest, as all that effort is got from the mincemeat. Any type of mincemeat that you make, and have left over would work well in this recipe.

- 6 oz caster sugar
- 2 oz golden syrup
- 8 oz butter
- 4 eggs
- 10 oz self raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- half a jar of mincemeat (this part isn't very precise, the more you add the fruitier the cake will end up being)

Cream butter, sugar and golden syrup. Then slowly and an egg at a time and beat after each. Then sift in the flour and baking powder and mix. Then stir in the mincemeat.
Bake in a small rectangular pan, at 180 C (gas mark 4) for about 35 mins. Its done when the sponge springs back to the touch, and a knife comes out clean.

Second Way - Using Fruit


This one ends up being more of a "plain cake", but is really yummy, and not too sweet.
- 2 oz caster sugar
- 6 oz golden syrup
- 8 oz butter
- 4 eggs
- 10 oz self raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 apple
- 1 plum
- 3 oz currents
- 2 oz sultanas
- 1 tsp almond extract


Cream butter, sugar and golden syrup and almond extract. Then slowly and an egg at a time and beat after each. Then sift in the flour and baking powder and mix. Chop up apple and plum, then stir in all the fruit.
Bake in a small rectangular pan, at 180 C (gas mark 4) for about 35 mins. Its done when the sponge springs back to the touch, and a knife comes out clean.


Well if you try either of these let me know what you think.
Love Eggs xxx





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