I started baking in high school, my ex-classmates will attest to this. I started off with a simple chocolate cake recipe, twisted and tweaked it to suit my fancy, played around with the ingredients and ended up with my signature chocolicious cake.
To kick this blog of i have a recipe which is a spin off from my signature chocolate cake. I made this cake at my aunt's house in KK during the Christmas holidays. Hope you like it.
Festive Fruit Cake with Baccadi What you will need
1 pack fruit mix
1 pack raisins
1 cup Baccadi (you should actually use Brandy which we ran out of)
**soak these in an air tight container for at least 2 days. The longer the better though
2 cups flour
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup coco
1 Tspn baking powder
1 Tspn Vanilla essence
1 cup milk
3 eggs
1 Tbspn coffee
Making it work:
- Pre-heat over at 180C, Grease a 8 inch baking tin and line with baking paper.
- Sift the flour, coco, baking powder and set aside.
- Separate eggs.Whisk Egg whites till stiff. ( this means till it turns white and fluffy)
- In a cup mix coffee powder with milk.
- Cream the butter and sugar. When it turns pale add in one egg yoke at a time. Then finally add the vanilla essence.
- Next, fold in the flour and milk, fruits which were soaking in bacadi and nuts if you want more bite to your cake.
- Lastly fold in the egg whites.
- Spoon mixture into greased baking tin and if you wanna get creative you can decorate with pecans or almonds.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes. insert a skewer (or toothpick),if it comes out clean, your cake is done. Let it sit in the over for about 5 minutes then take it out and let cool for another hour.
You can add a hand full of chopped peacans, sliced almonds, and macadamian nuts for a bit of added crunch to your cake. If you are in a hurry, its ok to not pre-soak your fruits, simple dump it all into the batter mix and add in about half a cup of Brandy. If you prefer the Halal version, just use fruits and nuts! Happy Baking
xoxo
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