Lemon Drizzle Cake

This cake had a Pretty Lemony Aroma to it once it came out of the oven and it had a soft sponge texture with a pleasant lemon taste to it. 

Ingredients
225g unsalted butter, diced
225g golden caster sugar
3 medium eggs
150ml milk
225g self-raising flour, sifted
1 finely grated zest and juice of lemon
1 finely grated zest and juice of orange
100g golden granulated sugar

How to make
1. Preheat oven to 170oC and place baking sheet in a baking baking tin about 24cm.
2. Put the butter and caster sugar in a mixing bowl and whisk  until pale and fluffy. add the eggs one at a time.
3. Scrap down the sides add the milk and whizz until creamy.
4. Add the flour and baking powder then add the zest and mix the mixture once again.
5. Put the mixture to the round cake tin and gently move the tin around to even the mixture.
6. Bake for 30 minutes until it becomes golden and the skewer comes out clean from the centre.
7. Leave it to cool and then take it out from the tin.
8. Add the juice of lemon and orange with sugar into a bowl and quickly whisk with a fork.
9. Spoon the mixture over the top of the cake and leave it to allow the juice to sink into the sponge.
10. Then it is ready to be served.

  

Chocolate Shortbread Fingers

The other day I was looking in one of the recipe books that I borrowed from the library and found a simple quick recipe. Chocolate Shortbread fingers. All that was needed was 4 simple ingredients that I could reach out from the cupboards.  It took about 15 minutes to make the biscuits and 20 minute for the baking time. The recipe said to use plain chocolate for the coating but I used white chocolate.
Ingredients 
1cup Soft margarine
1/3 cup icing sugar
2 cups plain flour
200g White Chocolate Melted

How to make
1. Heat oven to 160oC and grease 2 baking sheets.
2.  Put the Sugar, Flour and Margarine into a mixing bowl and rub in the margarine until the mixture starts to look like bread crumbs.
3. Role the mixture out and cut into shapes, then place onto the baking sheets.
4. Let them bake in the oven for about 20 minutes until they are just about golden brown
5. Remove them from the oven and baking sheet and leave them to cool on a cooling rack.
6. when they are cool, dip the fingers into the melted white chocolate half way so that half of the biscuits are coated and then leave them to set.

Recipe Books

So me and my sisters went out today to go swimming and buy a few bits and bobs that we need at our nearby stores. After buying our bits and pieces we still had a bit of time left before the swimming session started, so we decide to go into the library. It was practically inviting us in. So we went to the library and headed into different directions. I went straight into the food and cooking section. It was a small library so there was not many books unfortunately and there were only to books that really caught my attention so I borrowed them. I couldn't look at them much as I was rushed by my sisters. Anyway...
This is what I chose
More Fast Cakes by Mary Berry
Gorgeous Cakes by Annie Bell

I had a quick good look at the books when I came home and they looked really good. So much to do with these books. There is just so much to learn. Anyway, if you're interested then go to your library and browse for them. If there are any other books that you can recommend to me I would love to know.

Toffee Pudding

So my Sister came home and wanted to make toffee pudding. She used this cake mix she brought from Tesco by Jame Martin. It was only £1.99. A simple and easy recipe using a cake mix. The preparation took approximately 15 minute and to cook was about 25 minutes. I think it was a lovely cake. It looked good, smelt good and even taste good. Yep its all good. If you want to make a sticky toffee pudding the easy way, then go to your nearest Tesco and buy this easy recipe mix. 

Ginger Biscuits

During Christmas i wanted to have a go at making some ginger biscuits, well actually I was aiming to make a gingerbread house but that totally failed and fell apart. watching the tutorial on you tube the lady said it so simple and  easy...It wasn't so easy and it if it fell apart. So I instantly gave up as I was running out of time and used the rest of the ginger dough to make cookies. So it all turned out great, and the biscuits tasted Great after all. I looked at various different recipes for the the ginger dough on the Internet and combined them to make the recipe a bit more simple. This is what I used and how I did it :

Ingredients

6 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp baking powder

250g unsalted butter

1 cup dark brown sugar

4 tsp ground ginger

4 tsp ground cinnamon

1 ½ tsp salt

2 eggs

1 ½ cup molasses

Guide

Mix all ingredients together very thoroughly. Put it in a bowl and cover with cling film. Leave in the fridge for an hour.  Take out the dough from the fridge after an hour and roll the dough out flat. Using Cookie cutters cut out shapes from the dough. After cutting it into the shapes you need to put it onto a tray with greaseproof paper over it. Then put it in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.

Unfortunatly I dont have a picture of the cookies, they finished before i could even take a picture. But it did come out great. 1 point i have to make is that the buscuits may need a few more minutes longer in the oven because i found them a little too soft.