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RECIPES

These are some of my favourite recipes is use at home on a regular basis, ENJOY xx

Anita's Best Ever Lemon Syrup Cake

                                                                                                         

 

 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, melted and slightly cooled

  • 2 cups of unrefined golden sugar

  • 4 eggs, room temperature

  • 2 teaspoons lemon extract

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

  • 3 cups self raising flour

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 1 cup milk

  • 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel

 

Syrup: Juice of 3 Lemons and 225gm of Granulated Sugar

 

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180c. Line your 10" round pan with baking paper. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after adding each egg. Beat in lemon and vanilla extract. Combine flour and salt. Add to creamed butter and sugar alternating with milk. Stir in lemon peel. Pour into prepared pan. Bake until done for about 45 min, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan. Turn out onto your cake plate. Brush over with the syrup until all soaked in. Enjoy xx

Dark Chocolate Guinness Cake with Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

Recipe By SWAH www.loveswah.com

 

Prep time

20 mins

 

Cook time

1 hour

 

Total time

1 hour 20 mins

 

Serves: 12

 

Ingredients

Dark Chocolate Guinness Cake

  • 250ml Guinness beer (1 cup)

  • 250g butter (1 cup + 1 tbsp)

  • 100g cup cocoa powder (2/3 cup)

  • 400g caster/superfine sugar (1¾ cups)

  • 140ml sour cream (2/3 cup)

  • 2 eggs

  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract

  • 250g plain flour (2 cups)

  • 2½ tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda

 

Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

  • 500-600g sifted icing sugar/powdered sugar (4-5 cups)

  • 100g butter at room temperature (1/2 cup)

  • 250g cream cheese at room temperature (8oz)

  • 4-6 tbsps Baileys Irish Cream (to taste)

 

 

Instructions

Dark Chocolate Guinness Cake

  1. Preheat oven 180°C/350°F and butter and line a 23cm (9") springform tin.

  2. Melt the butter into the Guinness in a saucepan over low heat.

  3. Whisk in the cocoa and sugar and take the saucepan off the heat.

  4. Beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla in a separate bowl until combined, than add to the beer mixture.

  5. Whisk in the flour and bicarb until combined.

  6. Pour the cake batter into the tin and bake for an hour. The middle of the cake may still be slightly wet when you take the cake out, but it will firm up as it cools down.

  7. Leave to cool completely in the tin as it is quite a damp cake and could collapse.

 

Baileys Cream Cheese Icing

 

  1. Cream the butter and icing sugar together until well mixed.

  2. Add the cream cheese in cubes slowly until incorporated.

  3. Add in Baileys. Continue mixing for 5 minutes until the icing is light and fluffy.

  4. Dollop lashings of the icing onto the top of the cake to recreate the froth on a glass of Guinness. If you are feeling particularly dexterous, slice the cake length-wise and fill the cake with the icing too (there will be definitely be enough icing).

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