baby blueberry cakes

 Baby Blueberry Cakes

This weekend I met up with an old friend who was passing through San Jose. She asked me how my food blogging was going. All I could do was try and think how long ago it was since I had baked and blogged... shame on me, it was ages ago!

So here goes a Monday morning special, baby blueberry cakes, just for you Amy - too bad you're not here to share them with us!


*Ingredients*
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. baking powder
A pinch of salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
60 g. butter, melted
1 egg
1/4 soft brown sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup blueberries (dried ones soaked in boiling water)

1.Preaheat the oven to 200°C.

2.In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar. In another bowl mix the vanilla essence, butter, eggs and milk and whisk until smooth.

3.Pour the liquid micture over the dry ingredients and combine well. Fold in the blueberries and divide the batter between two baby bake tins. Bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of a cake comes out clean. 

best banana cake

I've made quite a few banana bread/cakes in my day, but this one is by far the yummiest. It's very simple and the results are fantastic.The texture is very fluffy but at the same time moist, I feel like having some more right now!

ingredients

• 2 eggs, whisked
• 1/3 cup buttermilk (or 1/6 cup milk + 1/6 cup plain yoghurt)
• 1/3 cup sunflower oil
• 1 1/2 cup mashed ripe bananas (i used 4 ripe bananas)
• 1/2 cup white sugar + 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg

directions

Preheat oven to 175 degrees celsius. Grease your cake pan with butter.

Blend together the eggs, buttermilk, oil and bananas.

Sift together the sugar, flour, baking powder and spices. Add to banana mixture. Mix well.

Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake about 40 mins or until you smell banana cake in the kitchen and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.

pound cake

And I'm back! Not from outer space, but near enough. To get things kicking this year I've started off with a simple yet delicious pound cake.

Ingredients
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1/2 tsb baking powder
• pinch salt
• 110 grams butter
• 1-1/2 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon rind
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup plain yoghurt + 1/4 cup milk

Directions


1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube pan. Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

2. In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar. Mix in the eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the lemon rind and the vanilla. Gently mix in flour mixture alternately with the yoghurt milk mix. Pour batter into the prepared pan.


3. Bake in preheated oven for 90 minutes. Do not open oven door until after one hour. When cake begins to pull away from the side of the pan it is done. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.