Sunday, September 28, 2008

Apple Cake

I found another food blog that seems interesting. They post a monthly recipe and participants bake it and post about it. I decided to take part in the September bake at Sweet and Simple Bakes' when I noticed it was to do with apples. Seeing that we are trying to go eggless I used baking powder and vinegar instead of the eggs. I didn't have any vanilla so I left that out. I also used a larger cake pan so it came out flatter. I especially liked the cinnamon and sugar topping!

Sunday, September 14, 2008

White Cake

I had some guests for dinner last week and I wanted to make a cake but as I'm trying to be eggless the recipe couldn't have eggs in it. I used a basic white cake recipe but with less corn starch and ½ water, ½ orange juice. When I took the cake tins out of the oven the middles of both of them fell. After I let them cool 10 minutes, I turned them out onto a cooling rack and the middle of the bottom of one of them was still quite moist so I put it back in the oven. I didn't have time to make new ones so I decided to serve them anyway. I used the whipped cocoa cream from this recipe for the icing (we could probably eat it without any cake!). Everyone took a second slice and seemed to enjoy it. I'll use the recipe again.