Cakes Recipes
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Banana cake
Cook Time1 hr 30 mins
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 ½ cups self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1 cup castor sugar
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 ¼ cups mashed banana (approx 5 large ripe bananas)
- 1 cup oil
Icing
- 100 grams packaged cream cheese
- 60 grams butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 tablespoon apricot jam
- 2 cups icing sugar
Instructions
Cake
- grease a 23cm square slab pan, cover base with paper and grease paper
- sift flour and soda into a bowl
- make a well in centre of flour mixture
- stir in sugar, eggs, banana and oil, and mix to a smooth batter
- pour mixture into prepared pan
- bake in oven for 1 ½ hours, or until cooked when tested
- let cake stand in pan for 10 minutes, turn onto wire rack to cool
- spread icing over cooled cake
Icing
- beat cheese, butter, essence and jam in a bowl with electric mixer until smooth and creamy
- gradually beat in sifted icing sugar and beat until light and fluffy
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Date and Walnut Loaf
Ingredients
- ¼ lb butter
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tspn coffee essence
- 1 ½ cups self raising flour
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup dates
- ¾ cup walnuts
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar
- Add eggs
- Add coffee essence
- Sift flour with pinch of salt
- Add sifted flour to creamed mixture while adding milk
- Add dates and walnuts
- Cook in light? ? for ¾ to 1 hour
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Pumpkin Fruit Cake
Cook Time1 hr
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup pumpkin (dry)
- 2 cups self raising flour
- 1 packet mixed fruit
- vanilla essence
Instructions
- Beat butter & sugar
- Add eggs
- Add pumpkin & fruit
- Add vanilla essence
- Add flour (sifted)
- Bake in moderate oven for 1 hour
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Susan Cake
Cook Time40 mins
Instructions
- Sift 1½ cups self raising flour, ¼ tsp salt and ½ tsp cinnamon
- Add 1 tbsp coconut
- Add 1 tbsp chopped walnuts
- Cream 4 ozs shortening and ¾ cup brown sugar
- Beat until light
- Beat in 2 eggs one at a time
- Add 2 tbsp cocoa dissolved in 2 tbsp hot water (cool before adding)
- Blend well
- Add flour mixture alternating with ½ cup milk, a small amount at a time
- Beat smooth
- Add ½ tsp vanilla
- Bake in 8 x 8 x 2 ins cake pan in moderate oven for 40 mins
- Ice with choc icing
- Mark into squares and decorate with walnuts
