So I utterly failed to post every day during National Baking Week ... life got rather busy on Friday and then Saturday I was off to the land of the far South West and Cream Teas, Cornwall. I have had the most peaceful week walking the dogs around the Lanhydrock Estate, enjoying the sunshine visiting port towns and eating too many cream teas; I am avoiding standing on the scales!! Obviously the internet is slower & sketchier in Cornwall, must be the fact that it is further away from London or something like that?! My friend seems to have the same problem with her internet ... in far south west Wales; geographically roughly the same ... could be valid!!
Here is my ode to Autumn. Everything about it screams Autumn and goes perfectly with a cup of tea by a log fire ... tried, tested and verified!
Serves 10-12
Pre-heat the oven to 180°C
Bake to perfection for 22 minutes
You will need the following:
Cake
200g Butter
100g Caster Sugar
75g Light Soft Brown Sugar
50g Dark Muscavado Sugar
4 Eggs
225g Self Raising Flour
1Tbsp Baking Powder
1Tsp Nutmeg
1Tsp Cinnamon
1 Drop of Vanilla Extract
2Tbsp Pressed Apple Juice
(or the juice of half an Apple)
Icing
275g Icing Sugar
1Tbsp Plain Yoghurt
25g Butter
1Tsp Apple Juice
Filling
4Tbsp Hedgerow Jam
Decoration
A handful of Flaked Almonds & Crushed Walnuts to scatter
x2 8" Cake Tins
Method:
Measure out your butter
Combine the sugars and butter
Till pale and fluffy, then add in the eggs one at a time
Sift in the flour, spices and vanilla extract
Fold in
Add in the apple juice
Finally fold in the baking powder
Grease the two tins with butter, then sift in a bit of plain flour
Coat the tins in the flour and dust of any excess
Fill the two tins with the mixture
Place just below the centre of this oven
&
bake to perfection for 22 minutes
Whilst baking, make the icing sugar
Mix together the butter and icing sugar
Add in the yoghurt & apple juice
Ice your cake
Top with flaked almonds and crushed walnuts
Spread the jam on the base layer and then sandwich the two layers together
Sprinkle your cake with crushed walnuts and flaked almonds
Enjoy ...
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