Cake #142 - Cup Cake

Tuesday Humour Cake - Cup Cake.

A Nutella cake baked in a cup in the microwave. This must be a joke? Nope. A very nice and gooey cake indeed. Takes less than 5 minutes from the beginning to the end. Who says baking is time-consuming?

There are dozens of recipes for similar cakes, some with very few ingredients. I used this one. 

Cake #141 - Gooey Potato Cake

Monday Mood Cake - Gooey Potato Cake, served with whipped cream and blackberry jam

Monday mood? Would love to be a couch potato for a day! [or two]

It is strange. Even when you would have a chance to spend a day as a couch potato you do not want to! So much going on. Worlds to be explored. New recipes to be tried. Like this one. 

Potato Cake in a Bundt Pan

3 medium-sized cooked potatoes, mashed (or if you have, leftover potato mash, about 250 ml)
150 ml plain flour
100 ml ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
75 g butter, melted
3 eggs
130 ml granulated sugar

1. Preheat the oven to 175 C / 350 F and grease and flour a 2-litre bundt cake pan.
2. Mash the cooked potatoes.
3. Mix together flour, ground almonds and baking powder.
4. Beat eggs and sugar until white and fluffy.
5. Fold carefully all ingredients together until you have a smooth batter.
6. Pour batter into the pan and bake in the oven for about 45 minutes. Let cool a little before removing from pan.
7. Serve cake with whipped cream or ice cream and jam.

Weekend Baking

Savoury Saturday Cake - Carrot and Cheese Loaf with Poppy Seeds.

I prepared the dough using the recipe for my Pizza Boston with 2 tbsp poppy seeds added in it. After the dough had risen I rolled it flat and spread the filling (150g Philadelphia cream cheese and 1 finely grated carrot) on it. Then I rolled it into a cylinder and placed it in a 1 kg greased loaf tin, let it rise another half an hour and then baked it in the oven at 200 C for about 40 minutes. The texture of the loaf was very nice and gooey although the filling did not come out evenly after baking.

Sunday Classic - Red Velvet Cake.

The recipe is from here. I absolutely love the smoothness which buttermilk gives to this cake!

Cake #138 - Je suis Charlie

Friends First Friday Cake - Je Suis Charlie.

For freedom of speech.

Pour la liberté d'expression.

Sananvapauden puolesta.

I made this cake using my Alexander Pastries recipe and I baked the cake in a Ø 24 cm springform pan. The icing is coloured with yellow food colouring and the text is black icing.

Midweek Mix

Wednesday Natural Ingredient / Healthy Cake - Lime and Ginger Cake.

You can find the recipe for this cake here. I left out the icing as I was craving for a simple and harmonic taste with no overflowing sugars so I just simply sieved some icing sugar on top.

Thursday Cat Theme Cake - Giant Cat Pulla.

I baked this using my basic pulla - sweet bun in Finnish, that is - recipe, see the recipe for my Boston Cake, for example. I added one handful of raisins into the dough but otherwise the filling is the same as in the Boston cake. I compiled the cat on an oven tray, glazed it with egg and baked it in 200C for about 25 minutes.

Thursday Extra - Tosca Cake (Swedish Caramel Almond Cake) with Whipped Cream.

You can find the recipe here. Instead of a round cake, I baked a square one, then cut it into two halves and filled the cake with whipped cream to make it more 'deluxe'.

Cake #134 - Gift

Epiphany Cake - Peppermint Brownie Surprise.

End of this Christmas season.

My daughter got the jar with cake ingredients for Christmas - 'just add 250 ml melted butter and 4 eggs' it said on the card. We could see there was peppermint crush and cocoa powder, but what would it turn out...

And it turned out excellent! Tasty, gooey, chocolaty - anything you can wish for!

Cake #133 - Oven Pancake

Monday Mood Cake - Oven Pancake.

Monday mood: Monday mood. The very Monday mood after holidays, to be exact. Too sleepy and too busy is a combination impossible.

For two trays you need:
1 l milk
4 eggs
500 ml plain flour
1 tsp salt
some butter for greasing the trays

1. Mix all ingredients together and let rest for a few minutes.
2. Line two baking trays with parchment and grease the parchment with butter. I usually throw a few spoonfuls of butter on the lined trays, put them into the oven for a minute or two and when the butter has melted, brush the melted butter evenly on the baking parchment before pouring the batter.
3. Bake in the oven at 225 C / 435 F for 15-20 minutes.
4. Cut into squares - pizza cutter or scissors are the best for this! - and serve with jam, peanut butter, whipped cream, Nutella, syrup...