Monday 23 October 2017

DB baked

DB fancied doing some baking just before the weekend, must be the influence of the Great British Bake Off. I found him a recipe for a magic custard cake - see here. There are further recipes on the page if you scroll down. From a GF point of view, I think you could easily exchange the flour for a gluten free version. Talking about flour, it took us many similar recipe searches to work out, that in this country, we needed to use Plain (or All Purpose) flour, rather than S.R. Flour.

We don't like things too sweet so reduced the total sugar down to 120g. Also, we didn't think the vanilla flavour from the extract came through so we might add 3 teaspoons rather than the two.

We baked it in a silicon pan (no greasing required), and here it is cooling down for the required 3 hours:
In our electric oven, it took just 40 minutes.

We divided it into 12 and here is one slice:
As Judy Murray would say, "no unnecessary foliage or icing sugar". It doesn't quite look like the picture from the recipe, probably because it isn't in a deep round pan, but tastes nice enough for us to give it another whorl sometime.

We would adapt it again to add the finely zested rind of 1/2 a lemon and may reduce the flour by 25g and add 25g of dessicated coconut instead for a lemon and coconut version. The recipe seems very adaptable as she has shown here.

Well done DB!


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