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Foundation Butter Cake
125g butter or margarine
4 drops vanilla extract
¾ cup castor sugar
2 eggs
2 cups S.R. flour
1 cup milk
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and grease a
20cm round cake tin or similar.
2. Using a bowl, break up shortening on
'LO' speed 1, add vanilla and sugar, and
cream on speed 3 until light and creamy.
Approximately 2 minutes.
3. Add eggs one at a time beating well
between each addition.
4. Reduce to speed 1 and mix in sifted
flour and liquid alternately. Be careful
not to use high speeds as flour will go
everywhere! Mix for 3-4 minutes until
cake batter is rich, smooth, thick and
creamy.
5. Scrape batter into prepared tin. Bake for
30-35 minutes until golden brown.
Variations to this recipe:
Lemon or Orange Cake
Add the rind of one lemon or orange into the
cake batter, and or with the addition of butter
and sugar and fold 2 tablespoons of poppy
seeds into the cake batter makes an
interesting and tasty cake.
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Coffee Crumble
Mix in 2 tablespoons of instant coffee powder
into the cake batter. On top of the cake
batter sprinkle with a mixture of 1 tablespoon
butter, 2 tablespoons plain flour, 2
tablespoons sugar, ½ teaspoon of cinnamon
and 2 tablespoons of instant coffee.
Chocolate Cake
60g unsweetened chocolate - melted and
combine with milk from the recipe above and
mix well into the cake batter before baking.
Marble Cake
Divide batter into 3, leave one plain, add
pink food colour to second portion and 2
tablespoons of cocoa, 1 / 8 teaspoon
bicarbonate of soda and 1 tablespoon milk to
the remaining cake batter. Drop spoonfuls of
alternate colours into a 20cm ring tin, or
place each coloured cake mixture into 3
separate tins and bake. Then cut into 2cm
thick fingers and sandwich together with the
fluffy frosting (recipe in icing section, page
19). As sandwiching fingers together create a
3x3 finger cake, decorate with extra frosting.
Berry Cake
Add 2 cups of fresh, frozen or canned mixed
berries to the top of the cake batter in tins
before baking. Make sure that berries are well
drained if canned.
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