Slice of Almond CakeCakes

Almond Cake

When I was young, I bought a recipe book titled “The Victorian Kitchen Book of Cakes and Cookies”.  It contained a recipe for “Fine Almond Cake”.  The cake looked delicious so I decided to try it.  The recipe contained no baking powder nor did it call for self-raising flour.  At the time, I wondered if neither of these were invented back then, …

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Banana Cake, slicedCakes

Banana Cake

Sometimes a recipe happens because I don’t have the exact ingredient or amount of it that I would like.  Such was the case with this Banana Cake.  When initially creating the recipe, I decided to start with one cup of mashed banana.  To my dismay, the only two ripe bananas that I had, mashed into just ¾ of a cup.  In fact, …

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Carrot CakeCakes

Carrot Cake

I’m generally not a fan of eating the icing on cakes, but I am partial to cream cheese icing on carrot cake!  The downside is that the cake then needs to be kept refrigerated because of the cream cheese.  I usually take the cake out of the fridge about half an hour prior to serving as I find it more pleasant …

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Hazelnut Coffee CakeCakes

Hazelnut Coffee Cake

Since posting my recipe for Chocolate Almond Slice, I have been pondering the possibility of a cake that contains neither butter nor added oil.  The result is this Hazelnut Coffee Cake in which moisture is provided by the oil in the hazelnuts.  I should acknowledge my work colleagues who were (probably unsurprisingly!) more than happy to taste test each version of …

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Sponge CakeCakes

Sponge Cake

When my mother was growing up, her mother ran a home bakery in Napier. This is her sponge recipe that she used to make sponges and lamingtons. She would start baking in the early hours of the morning with only two small household ovens and no electric mixer at her disposal! The sponges and lamingtons were so popular that by …

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GingerbreadCakes

Gingerbread

The first recipe in this post is gluten-free gingerbread.  The original recipe (included at the end of this post) on which this one is based was given to me many years ago by the mother of one of my school friends.  Often when I was at their place we would have hot gingerbread fresh from the oven smothered in butter.  The melted …

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Never fail chocolate cake, platedCakes

Never-Fail Chocolate Cake

This chocolate cake recipe was given to me many years ago by one of my cousins.  True to it’s title, I have never had a failure with it!  The mixture is runnier than many cake batters but the baked result is light and fluffy. I have created a gluten-free version which I now bake more often than the original.  (The …

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