Baking can be fun particularly if you know what you are doing and you have all the right ingredients and tools available. Who said baking had to be hard? It can be just a piece of cake! Here are some simple cake recipes to start you off on the path 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:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degree F (150 degree C).
2. Butter 2 (8-inch) round cake pans. Line with parchment paper, then grease and flour the pans.
3. Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt together.
4. Combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla in another bowl.
5. Slowly add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine.
6. Add the coffee and stir until combined.
7. Empty the batter into the cake pans and bakes for 35-40 minutes or when a skewer comes out clean.
8. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 30 minutes.
9. Remove the cakes and place 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 mildly beaten
1 1/2 cups White flour
2 teaspoons Baking powder

Directions

1. Preheat oven at 300 degree F.
2. Line a 6-inch circular cake tin using greaseproof paper.
3. Put the apple sauce, water, sugar, and dried fruit in a saucepan.
4. Bring to a boil and allow to simmer for 20 minutes.
5. Allow to cool.
6 Mix the egg whites into the fruit mixture.
7. Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixture.
8. Stir to create a stiff batter. Add water if needed.
9. Empty into the cake pan and scatter brown sugar on top.
10. Bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, when a skewer comes out clean.

Novelty cakes are cakes that are baked and decorated in different designs. These cakes have become popular at events especially birthday parties. They are available in three kinds:
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 desired.
3. 3-Dimensional where the cake is made in an imitated object that positions erect.

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

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