It was my mum’s
birthday yesterday so I made her a special cake but before I did I wanted to
make sure that I would be able to make a good cake. Originally I was going to
make Madeira cake but then settled on a normal sponge recipe. I found a great
tip for sponges: weigh the eggs (however many you are going to use) WITHOUT the
shells and use equal amounts of butter, sugar and flour. It will work
perfectly. I made a sponge but didn’t have anything to do with it so I
experimented and made some simple cream and strawberry cakes and some chewy chocolate
truffles. I will link the sponge recipe after I write it!
For the strawberry
cakes I used a circular cutter to cut the sponge, whipped up some double cream
with a bit of sherry (I’m not 70 but it tastes good!), spread it on the cakes
and topped with a whole strawberry. Simple but scrumptious.
For the chewy chocolate
truffles:
About an ⅛ of a plain
vanilla sponge which I guess is approximately 200 g!
100 g fruit and nut
chocolate, melted
50 ml cherry brandy
(alcoholic theme here!)
100 ml double cream
Put the oven on a low
temperature, not more than 100oC, crumble the sponge, put it on a
baking tray and dry it out in the oven for about 15 minutes. Be careful not to
burn it. Put the crumbs in a bowl, add the chocolate, cream and brandy and mix well.
Divide them between mini muffin cases and chill in the fridge. These were
completely made from whatever I had in the cupboard but I will definitely be
making them again – when I got up in the morning my boyfriend had eaten all of
them!!
And here they all
are!
Strawberry cakes
Chewy chocolate truffles
Chewy chocolate truffles
Strawberry cakes
I hope you like them!
Lizzi :)
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