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10/12/2017

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 a marble cake. Which is really just a Victoria sponge with chocolate added to half the mixture. Here is how I made the one on yesterday's post.

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For the first time I used gluten free flour.This one is a blend of rice, potato, maize, buckwheat and tapioca, and it made a lighter cake so I will use it again.

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I always have a jar of caster sugar with a couple of vanilla pods in it and I use this to line the cake tin. After you grease the tin, put in a couple of teaspoons of the vanilla sugar and lifting the tin tap it lightly till the base and sides are coated with the sugar. It gives the cake a slight yummy crunch on the edges. I use granulated sugar in the cake itself.

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I beat the eggs lightly with a splash of vanilla essence, before adding half of it with half the flour, beating (lightly) with a wooden spoon into the creamed marg and sugar, then add the rest and spoon half the mix into the tin.

(That spoon is my very favourite spoon. It's the one my patient and kind Mum taught me to bake with when I was a child. This is her recipe.)

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I then sieve a tablespoon or two of cocoa or drinking chocolate to the rest of the mix and dollop it into the tin smoothing it over slightly.

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In my oven this cake takes about 25 mins near the top at 180. To check if it is ready I open the oven door - slowly - and feel the top of the cake. If it has a slight crust and springs back when I press it a little it is ready to come out  and cool for 5 minutes in the tin before turning it out.

This amount makes one in an 8 inch tin, but for a birthday cake, which yesterday's was, I make two and sandwich them together with strawberry jam and dust the top with icing sugar.

Here is Mum's recipe

4oz marg
4oz sugar
4oz SR Flour
2 med eggs
few drops vanilla essence
1 - 2 tblsps cocoa or drinking chocolate.

Oven 180  20 -25 mins

It's taken a long time to explain (though it gave me a nice excuse to make another!) but it really is a simple and quick basic cake. It freezes well too..which is what will be happening to this one.
8 Comments
Mary
11/12/2017 03:51:36 am

Great tutorial (and a wonderful excuse to make another cake).

Funny about favorite spoons - I have my mother's small teaspoon (literally, a spoon for stirring tea--smaller than a regular spoon). It was always in her sugar bowl. Can't even imagine how many cups of tea this spoon stirred over the years--especially as my mother always said a cup of tea could cure anything--broken hearts, broken legs, broken dreams....and we shared many a cup of tea over the years.

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Lotta
11/12/2017 11:56:02 am

Spoons - yes! I have a favourite wooden spoon from my childhood.

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Freda
11/12/2017 02:19:14 pm

It's lovely to have a memento like that isn't it.

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Lotta
11/12/2017 11:52:49 am

Family recipes bring back lovely memories don't they? I have some in my grandmother's handwriting which remind me of her more than anything else would. Including one for the most delicious 'refrigerator cake' which I can no longer eat, but can still taste from memory!

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Freda
11/12/2017 02:19:51 pm

Precious spoons and memories..

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Jennie
12/12/2017 12:25:59 am

As soon as I saw gran's recipe I could visualise it in her writing. I guess we must have used it lots of times x

Lotta link
12/12/2017 10:44:10 am

Handwriting really carries the essence of the person doesn't it?

Julia
12/12/2017 04:50:22 am

Thank you for this gift to all of us from your mum, freda...:-) I’ve got my grandmother’s bread bowl. And i feel the same about it as your spoon...how many loaves of bread have been prepared in all these years?

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