Easy Cake Recipes

Baking can be fun particularly if you know what you are doing and you have all the appropriate ingredients and equipment available. Who said baking had to be hard? It can be quite easy! Here are some easy cake recipes to get you started on the route to great baking.

#1 – Rich Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Butter, to grease the cake pans

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

2 cups sugar

3/4 cup cocoa powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup buttermilk, shaken

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 extra-large eggs

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee

Directions:

Preheat oven to 300° F (150° C).

Butter 2 (8-inch) circular cake pans. Line with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans.

Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt together.

Mix the buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla in another bowl.

Slowly add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix.

Add the coffee and stir until combined.

Empty the batter into the cake pans and bakes for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

Remove from oven and allow to cool for 30 minutes.

Remove the cakes and put them onto a cooling rack to cool.

#2 – Easy Fruit Cake

Ingredients

1/2 cup Apple sauce

3/4 cup Water

1/2 cup Sugar.

2 1/2 cups Mixed dried fruit

2 Egg whites gently beaten

1 1/2 cups White flour

2 teaspoons Baking powder

Directions

1. Preheat oven at 300ºF.

2. Line a 6-inch round cake pan using greaseproof paper.

3. Place the apple sauce, water, sugar, and dried fruit in a saucepan.

4. Bring to a boil and leave to simmer for 20 minutes.

5. Allow to cool.

6 Combine the egg whites into the fruit mixture.

7. Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixture.

8. Mix to create a stiff batter. Add water if required.

9. Pour into the cake pan and sprinkle brown sugar on top.

10. Bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, until a skewer comes out clean.

Novelty cakes are cakes that are made and decorated in different designs. These cakes have become popular at events particularly birthday parties. They are done in three types:

1. A simple round cake with objects or pictures on top.

2. Dimensional cakes when the cake is cut into the shape of the object preferred.

3. 3-Dimensional where the cake is created in an imitated object that positions upright.

These cakes are expensive and difficult to design but not if you purchase a novelty cake pan in the object that you desire. Just bake a normal cake mix using the tin. When it is baked the ridges created by the pan will show you where to put certain extras. Frost the cake in your selection of colours and there you have it, your own novelty cake!

Here is a delicious strawberry short cake recipe.