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Melt N Mix Coffee Cake 125g butter,chopped;130g brown sugar;75g caster sugar;125ml milk;2 tsp instant coffee;2 eggs;225g s.r flour. Grease a 14x21cm loaf pan,cover base with baking paper. Combine butter,sugar,milk & coffee in med saucepan,stir over low heat,without boiling,until butter is melted. Stand 10 mins.Stir in eggs & flour.Pour into pan. Bake in mod oven about 40 mins.Turn onto rack to cool.Top cold cake with coffee glac'e icing and walnuts if desired.

Biranmac! Thankyou for those cake recipies!YUM!

Coffee Glac'e Icing 240g sifted icing sugar;1 tsp soft butter;3 tsp instant coffee;2 tbsp milk approx. Sift icing sugar and coffee together.Stir in butter and enough milk to give a firm paste. Stir over hot water until icing is spreadable;do not overheat. Spread icing over cold cake immediately.

NEVER fail Sponge I never had success with a sponge til I used this recipe
4 eggs.3/4 cup sugar
2 Tablesp.water.1 1/3 cups cornflour.1 heaped teasp Baking powdervanilla
Beat the egg whites well
Boil water & sugarthen add to whites while hot
Beat again.add yolks.beat
Fold in dry ingreds
Bake at 185 C for 15 mins
USE 2 biground tins ( approx 22cms ) If you have smaller tins make 3/4 of the recipe

Aunty Daisy's Block Cake 2 heaped cups flour, 230g butter, 1 cup sugar,
450g raisins, 100g cherries,
75g peel, 450g sultanas, or the last 4 can be replaced with 1 kg mixed fruit,
75g almonds, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk (+ 1 tblspn),
1 teaspn baking soda, 1 ½ teaspns vanilla, 1 tblspn plum jam (op).

Rub butter into flour until like crumbs, add sugar, mix well.Add fruit and nuts.Break eggs into milk, beat well, microwave full power 1 ½ mins, stir well.Allow to stand until cool but not cold.Add vanilla.Pour into flour mixture, mix baking soda with extra milk and add.For darker cake, add the jam, but it can easily be omitted.Bake in roasting dish 2 hours, 150, or 2 tins about 1 hr 10 mins.

Chocolate Cake for a Crowd 225g butter, 2 cups sugar.
Creamed together then add:
2 tblspns golden syrup, 2 eggs.

Then alternately:
4 cups flour, 4 tblspns cocoa, 4 teaspns baking powder.
with:
2 teaspns baking soda dissolved in 600ml milk, plus 1 teaspn vanilla.

Bake in meat dish 170 for¾ hour.

Cold Tea Cake Boil together for three minutes:
225 g butter, 225 g sugar, 2 teacups cold tea. (quite nice if one of the cups is Earl Grey or herbal!)

When cool add:
450g mixed fruit, 2 tblspns jam, 450g flour,
2 teaspns baking powder, 2 teaspn mixed spice.
170 about 1½ hours.

Orange Cake 175g flour, 2 teas baking soda, 1 teas baking powder,
50g butter, 2 tblspns marmalade, 75g sugar,
2 eggs, ¼ pint boiling water, 2 teas grated orange rind.

Sift dry ingredients together.Melt butter, sugar, marmalade.Pour onto dry ingredients beating well.Add eggs and lastly boiling water and orange rind.Beat until bubbles appear on the surface.Pour into lined tin, 170 50 mins.

I know this following recipe does needing creaming Katalin, but it's excellent, an Alison Holst, and I make three of them every Christmas cos my husband is such a guts and loves it, and I have made these for all my girls' weddings, doubled etc the quantities and made three tiers.It's so yummy.I don't ice it for a Christmas cake, just put cherries and nuts over it before I bake, but for the wedding cakes had them iced professionally, and they were superb I have to say.

Pineapple Christmas Cake 225g butter, 1 cup sugar, ½ teaspn vanilla,
½ teaspn lemon essence, 1 teaspn cinnamon, 1 teaspn ginger,
1 teaspn mixed spice, ¼ teaspn nutmeg, 3 cups flour,
6 eggs, 500g sultanas, 500g currants,
500g mixed fruit, 1 cup drained crushed pineapple,
blanched almonds, cherries. ¼ cup brandy.

Line a 23cm tin with one or two layers greaseproof or baking paper.Measure spices and flour into bowl and set aside.Cream butter, sugar and essences until light and fluffy.Add eggs one at a time with a spoonful of flour mixture after each to prevent curdling.Add prepared fruit and pineapple to remaining flour.Add flour and fruit to creamed mixture and mix thoroughly.Press evenly into prepared tin.Use almonds and cherries to decorate top.Bake at 150 for 1 ½ hours, then at 130 for about 2 hours until skewer comes out clean.Sprinkle hot cake with brandy.

thanks libby I have made this cake regularly too- it is a great recipe!
thanks.

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Melt N Mix Coffee Cake 125g butter,chopped;130g brown sugar;75g caster sugar;125ml milk;2 tsp instant coffee;2 eggs;225g s.r flour. Grease a 14x21cm loaf pan,cover base with baking paper. Combine butter,sugar,milk & coffee in med saucepan,stir over low heat,without boiling,until butter is melted. Stand 10 mins.Stir in eggs & flour.Pour into pan. Bake in mod oven about 40 mins.Turn onto rack to cool.Top cold cake with coffee glac'e icing and walnuts if desired.

Coffee Glac'e Icing 240g sifted icing sugar;1 tsp soft butter;3 tsp instant coffee;2 tbsp milk approx. Sift icing sugar and coffee together.Stir in butter and enough milk to give a firm paste. Stir over hot water until icing is spreadable;do not overheat. Spread icing over cold cake immediately.

Aunty Daisy's Block Cake 2 heaped cups flour, 230g butter, 1 cup sugar,
450g raisins, 100g cherries,
75g peel, 450g sultanas, or the last 4 can be replaced with 1 kg mixed fruit,
75g almonds, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk (+ 1 tblspn),
1 teaspn baking soda, 1 ½ teaspns vanilla, 1 tblspn plum jam (op).

Rub butter into flour until like crumbs, add sugar, mix well.Add fruit and nuts.Break eggs into milk, beat well, microwave full power 1 ½ mins, stir well.Allow to stand until cool but not cold.Add vanilla.Pour into flour mixture, mix baking soda with extra milk and add.For darker cake, add the jam, but it can easily be omitted.Bake in roasting dish 2 hours, 150, or 2 tins about 1 hr 10 mins.

I know this following recipe does needing creaming Katalin, but it's excellent, an Alison Holst, and I make three of them every Christmas cos my husband is such a guts and loves it, and I have made these for all my girls' weddings, doubled etc the quantities and made three tiers.It's so yummy.I don't ice it for a Christmas cake, just put cherries and nuts over it before I bake, but for the wedding cakes had them iced professionally, and they were superb I have to say.

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S'ok pam, I found it in a thread with your name in it and you have posted the recipe, will copy it now, thanks, Tracey :o)

One egg Sultana Cherry Cake 375g plain flour;75g s.r flour;1 tsp baking soda;250g butter,chopped;200g brown sugar;240g sultanas;140g glace cherries,halved;1 egg;180ml milk;60ml white vinegar. Line base & sides of a deep 19cmsquare cake pan with 3 layers of baking paper,bringing paper 5cm above sides of tin.Combine flours and soda in bowl,rub inbutter with fingertips.Stir in sugar,sultanas and cherries,then egg,milk & vinegar.Spread into pan.Bake in slow oven about 2 hrs.Cover hot cake tightly with foil,cool in pan.

thanks Brianmac love cakes where you don't cream. have in fact made Alison Holst's Love Cake- called that cos you only make it for people you love- takes 3 days.and yes, do have to cream butter. and it has 2 cups of ground almonds in it as well as SR flour and the fruit soaked in brandy. sounds yum. But will try above recipe too.

HIII. So wot would be a great cake for the "Golden Cream Cheese Frosing" ! That frosting just sounds soo great!

The frosting is for the ginger cake recipe above it.

Moist Coconut Cake with Coconut ice Frosting This cake is deliciously moist.
125g butter;1/2 tsp coconut essence;1 cup caster sugar;2 eggs;1/2 cup coconut;1 1/2 cups s.r flour;200g sour cream;1/3 cup milk. Grease a deep 23cm cake tin,line base with paper,grease paper. Cream butter,essence and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light & fluffy;beat in eggs,one at a time,beat until combined. Transfer to lge bowl.Stir in half the coconut and sifted flour with half the sour cream and milk,then stir in remaining ingredients;stir until smooth. Pour into prepared tin bake in mod oven about 1 hour. Stand 5 mins before turning onto wire rack to cool. Ice with Coconut Ice Frosting when cold.

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