Vanilla and Blueberry Sandwich Cake

Hey guys! A few weeks ago, i watched The Great British Bake Off and it was cake week, i was inspired by the very complex and beautiful cakes the budding contestants created, so much so that i thought i would give it a go, be inventive and create a beautiful vanilla and blueberry cake, so here is how i made it:

You Will Need:

150g of Self Raising Flour

150g of Caster Sugar

150g of Stork

3 Eggs

Blueberries

Jam

Icing Sugar

Sprinkles

10 drops of Vanilla Extract

2 drops of Blue Food Colouring

Crack the 3 eggs into a mug and beat them for about a minute with a fork.

Sieve the flour and caster sugar into a mixing bowl and add the stork, eggs and vanilla extract. Then whisk these together using an electric whisk or a wooden spoon.

Add about 20 blueberries into the mixture and whisk them in.

Grease two cake tins of the same size and put grease proof paper into the base of the tins.

Spread the mixture evenly between the two tins and then level it the mixture out using a spatula.

 Place them into the oven at 180c for roughly half an hour or until golden brown.

 Once you have taken the cakes out of the oven place them onto a cooling rack to cool down before icing.

 Fill a saucepan a third full with water and put on a low heat, place chopped up chocolate into a bowl and place in the saucepan and mix until the chocolate has melted.

Lay out some grease proof paper and with the melted chocolate make shapes on the grease proof paper and put into the fridge until solid. You will use these chocolate shapes later on to decorate the cake.

Once the cakes have cooled spread jam over the top of one of the cakes.

 Put the other cake on top of the cake with jam on to create a sandwich cake.

Mix icing sugar, water and food colouring to create icing, make sure the icing is stiff so it won't run of the cake but so it's runny enough to spread.

Using a blunt knife spread the icing evenly over the top of the cake, you can dip the knife in hot water if you want as this makes the icing look shiny and smoother.

 Now to the fun bit! Using the sprinkles, blueberries and the chocolate shapes decorate the cake! And now you can eat it!

Cheese Scones

Hey! This is another one of my favourite quick and easy recipes, its for cheese scones and will take you only half an hour but you wouldn't guess it is so quick by the taste, so here we are:

You Will Need:

 175g of Self Raising Flour

A Pinch of Salt

1/2 a Teaspoon of Baking Powder

 25g of Butter

60g of Cheddar Cheese

100ml of Milk

Mix the flour, salt and baking powder and then chop up the butter and add it into the bowl. Then rub the butter into the mixture until it looks like fine breadcrumbs.

Grate the 60g of cheddar cheese and put a third of it to the side.

Add the milk and the two thirds of grated cheese to the mixture and mix with a knife.

 Flour the work surface and then join the mixture into a ball and place onto the work surface.

Roll the dough out, using a rolling pin, until it is about 1cm thick.

Using cookie cutters, cut the dough out and place onto a greased baking tray.

 Brush the scones with milk and then sprinkle the third of cheese that you put to one side onto the scones, before they are cooked.

 Cook the scones in the oven at 220c for roughly 8 minutes.

 Once you have taken the scones out of the oven place them onto a cooling rack to cool down and then you are finished and you can enjoy your freshly made cheese scones!

Cherry Cupcakes

Hey guys! Today i am going to be showing you how to make really quick, easy and one of my favourite types of cakes.....drum roll......cherry cupcakes!!! So here we go:

You Will Need:

50g of Self Raising Flour

50g of Caster Sugar

50g of Stork

2 Eggs

Half a pot of Glace Cherries

A dozen Cupcake Cases

Chop the Cherries into half's.

 Put the flour, sugar, stork, eggs and cherries into the bowl and mix them well.

 Place the cases into a baking tray and using a teaspoon spoon the mixture into the cases.

Cook the cupcakes at 180c for 9-11 minutes.

 Leave the cupcakes on a cooling rack to cool and decorate them if you want!

Hellooooooooooo

Hey!
I'm Lois and this is my blog on baking! I will be showing you some simple recipes and some baking/decorating ideas over my posts! I am doing baking as the skills part of my DofE and so this blog is towards that!
Lois xxx