Eid Baking.

Cake is an essential when it's Eid time - That's when the baking hits it off. So since Eid is tomorrow, I thought I'd share with you guys a quick recipe on how to make a simple 2 layered sponge cake. To find out more, follow the link for a little treat...

Ingredients:

Cake:

• 175g of margarine or softened butter

• 175g of caster sugar

• 175g of self raising flour 

• 3 large eggs

• 1tsp of baking powder

• 1tsp of vanilla extract

Icing:

• Double cream

• Icing sugar

• Vanilla extract

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C and make sure you have all of your ingredients ready to start baking. 

• Lightly grease two round cake tins with a little bit of extra butter or margarine and cut a piece of greaseproof paper or non stick baking parchment to fit the base of the tins.

• Put all the ingredients into a large mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or a hand-held mixer until the mixture is smooth.

• Pour or spoon the mixture into two tins equally, smooth the tops and bake on the middle shelf for about 45 to 50 minutes. 

• The cake is cooked when it looks well risen and golden or when the top springs back up when lightly touched by a fingertip. Another test is to insert a skewer into the center of the cakes - it should come out clean.

• Let the cakes sit in the tins for 5 to 10 minutes, before trying to decorate with icing. 

To make the icing, all you have to do is:

• Beat together, using an electric mixer, double cream and icing sugar

• Add a bit of vanilla extract to the mixture and wait until the mixture is completely smooth

Tips:

• If you want to make a larger cake, just double the ingredients (that's what I normally do)

• If you don't like seeing lumps in your mixture, the best thing to do would be to sift your caster sugar and flour 

• Instead of adding all of the ingredients together straight away, mix the butter or margarine first, to prevent any future lumps

• When I use this recipe, I usually hand mix the mixture with a wooden spoon, as I think I get a better result than using an electric mixer

• Always keep an eye on the cakes when they're in the oven

• Try not to over mix the double cream, because you won't be able to get it back to the right consistency 

• Stick with your instincts... if you think the cakes and/or the icing is done, then it probably is

• Have faith

So that's it for now. Hope everyone has a good Eid and hopefully I'll be doing a post soon on my outfit, hijab and makeup.

 

xoxo