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RECIPES
BANANA CAKE WITH LEMON ICING
Serves 10
INGREDIENTS
200g butter, room temperature, chopped
1 ½ cups caster sugar
2 x 60g eggs
1 ½ cups (approx 3 large) very ripe mashed
bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ¼ cups self raising flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ cup buttermilk
METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 180°c no fan (160°C
with fan). Grease and line base and sides
of a 23cm cake pan.
2. Combine butter and sugar in a bowl
and beat on speed 10-12, until well
combined. Add eggs, one at a time,
beating well between each addition. Add
bananas and vanilla and mix well.
3. Reduce to speed 2-3, and add sifted
dry ingredients and buttermilk in two
batches; mix until just combined.
4. Spoon mixture into prepared pan and
bake for about 60 minutes or until
cooked when tested with a skewer.
5. Allow cake to cool in pan for 5 minutes
before transferring to a wire rack to cool
completely.
Serve with Lemon Icing
GLAZED CITRUS POPPY SEED CAKE
Serves 16
INGREDIENTS
2
⁄3 cup milk
½ cup poppy seeds
250g butter, softened
1 ½ cups caster sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated orange rind
1 tablespoon finely grated lime rind
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 x 60g eggs
2 cups self raising flour
Glaze
2 teaspoons orange rind
½ cup orange juice
½ cup lemon juice
1 cup caster sugar
METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 180°C no fan (160°C
with fan). Grease and line and 22cm cake
pan.
2. Combine milk and poppy seeds in a
small bowl and soak for 10 minutes.
3. In a bowl cream butter, sugar, rind and
vanilla on speed 12 until light and fluffy.
4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well
between each addition.
5. Reduce to speed 3 and add flour and
poppy seed mixture in two batches; mix
until just combined.
6. Spread mixture into prepared pan and
cook in oven for about 1 hour and 20
minutes or until cooked when tested
with a skewer.
7. Meanwhile for the syrup, combine
the rind, juices and sugar in a small
saucepan. Stir over a low heat until the
sugar has dissolved; bring to the boil,
simmer for 2 minutes.
8. Turn cake out on to a cooling tray with a
baking tray underneath. Using a wooden
skewer, poke several holes into the cake
then pour the hot syrup over the
hot cake.
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