Cakes & Bakes Recipes
Our cookery classes are as much about learning to cook as they are a sociable experience. We hope you enjoyed your day and are ready to recreate the bakes at home.
We Baked:
- Black Forest Gateaux
- Genoise
- Lemon Drizzle
Basic Chocolate Sponge Base
Serves: People
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 200 g butter Or Marg
- 200 g Caster sugar
- 4 Medium Egg
- 175 g Self-raising flour
- 25 g cocoa powder
- 2 / 3 tbsp milk
- 400 g Black Cherry Pie Filling for Assembly
Method
Method:
- Cream butter/marg and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add beaten egg in 3 parts to creamed butter /sugar mix.
- Sift cocoa and flour together.
- If egg mixture curdles (looks like it is separating) pour all of egg in.
- Followed by all the flour and coco.
- Gently fold together.
- Add milk in the consistency is too thick, it should easily fall off the spoon.
- Pour into lined cake tin.
- Bake at 140c for approx. 45 mins until light and springy.
Black Forest Gateaux
Assembly:
- Carefully slice cake into 3.
- Place 1st layer in the centre of the cake board.
- Place thin layer of black cherry filling over the sponge.
- Place 2nd layer of sponge neatly on top.
- Repeat with layer of black cherry.
- Place final layer of sponge on top – make sure all pieces are straight / neat.
- Place cake on turn table.
- Whisk cream until ¾ whipped.
- Thickly spread cream around sides of cake using a palette knife.
- If right handed spread anti clockwise.
- If left handed spread clockwise.
- Spread large amount of cream over top of the cake until coated.
- Using a comb scraper, gently pull comb scraper around sides of the cake until a comb pattern is achieved.
- Indent top of cream cake with the back of a knife blade into 8.
- Pipe rosettes on top of cake.
- Garnish with chocolate curls.
Vanilla Genoise
Serves: People
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- Vegetable oil for greasing
- 4 Medium Egg
- 125 g caster sugar
- 100 g plain flour
- Fresh whipped Cream Strawberries and jam to decorate.
Method
Method:
- Heat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Grease a 20cm loose-bottomed cake tin and line the base with baking paper.
- Whisk the eggs and sugar with an electric hand mixer for 3-5 minutes until light, mousse-like and doubled in size.
- WHISK UNTIL RIBBON STAGE is reached. To test for this, turn off the mixer, lift out the whisks and let the mixture fall back in. It should fall in a ribbon-like trail and hold itself there for a few seconds before sinking back in. If not, whisk more, then repeat.
- Sift the flour over the cake mixture with a pinch of salt. Fold in as above, being as light and gentle as possible, until no traces of flour are visible.
- Pour into lined greased tin, bake for approx. 30/35 mins – 150`c until springy
- Slice in half when cooled and fill with fresh whipped cream and jam.
Chantilly Cream
Serves: People
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 300 ml Double cream
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- Vanilla essence
Method
Method:
- Whip the cream, sugar and vanilla together in a bowl using a hand blender or electric whisk until the mixture forms soft peaks.
- Will keep chilled for a few hours.
Lemon Drizzle
Serves: People
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 150 g butter
- 150 g caster sugar
- 175 g plain flour
- 15 g baking powder
- 3 Lemon Zest of 3 lemons
- 3 Medium Egg
- 125 g milk
Lemon Glaze:
- Lemon Juice of 3 lemons
- 150 g Caster sugar
Method
Method:
- Cream butter & sugar until light and fluffy
- Mix in beaten egg / milk together add flour, baking powder & zest
- Fold together
- Pour into loaf tin
- Bake 160`c approx 30 mins
For the Glaze:
- Mix together 150g sugar and juice of 3 lemons – warm gently
- As soon as the loaves come out of the oven, brush entire lemon juice mix over them.
- Enjoy warm or cold
- Can be finished with water icing and lemon zest
Vegan Lemon Drizzle
Serves: People
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 275 g Self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 195 g Caster Sugar
- 3 Lemon Zest of 3 lemons
- 100 ml Vegetable oil
- 170 ml Water
Lemon Glaze:
- Lemon Juice of remaining 3 lemons
- 150 g Caster sugar
Method
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180c fan and line loaf tin with greaseproof paper. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, caster sugar and zest.
- In a separate bowl, combine the oil and water.
- Pour the wet mixture into the dry and mix with a wooden spoon until combined. Pour the cake batter evenly into the lined tin.
- Place the tin in the middle of the oven and bake for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. You’ll know when it’s down when it is spring to the touch.
For the Glaze:
- Mix together 150g sugar and juice of 3 lemons – warm gently
- As soon as the loaves come out of the oven, brush entire lemon juice mix over them.
- Enjoy warm or cold
- Can be finished with water icing and lemon zest
We hope you enjoyed the class!
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