Solid Wood Serving Tray Rectangular Black Walnut Wooden Food Platters with Grippers for Coffee Wine Cocktail Fruit Meal - Large Size 39 x 29 x 2.4 cm

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Fresh ingredients. Ensure your self-raising flour, baking powder, milk, and eggs are fresh. Because these items can go stale and off. You want them of their best quality so they can create the nice cake you want. Mix the icing sugar and instant coffee powder together. Beginning with 1 tablespoon of preboiled hot water. You may ask why preboiled water, it's because I am old school, and preboiled kills off any bacteria in the water.

Apple sauce - provides additional flavour and moisture. You can swap this out for an equivalent amount of ripe mashed bananas or well-drained canned crushed pineapples.Replace the dado set with a standard blade, raise the blade height to 3/8 inch, and then set the saw fence 7⁄16 inch from the blade. With the bottom edge against the fence and the inside facedown, cut a kerf in each short side. Now adjust the fence away from the blade about 1⁄16 inch, and make another pass through each of the short sides. Step 4: Cut out the handles Self-raising flour - if you don't have self-raising flour you can use plain flour and add 1 teaspoon of baking powder for each cup (140g). Because it is baked in a traybake (Americans call it a sheet cake) tin, there's no fussy layering involved. Simply bake one giant butter cake layer, slather it with delicious homemade coffee frosting and top with crunchy walnuts. It is delectable and easy. Add the remaining flour and instant coffee powder, mixing until just combined. Stir in chopped walnuts.

Sift the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt into the bowl and mix until smooth. Add all but 1 tablespoon of the chopped walnuts and mix again. Scoop the mixture into the prepared tin, spread level and scatter the remaining walnuts and demerara sugar over the top.Coconut - there is not much coconut in this cake - only a quarter of a cup. I think it adds to the texture, and it is not noticeable in the taste. If you don't like coconut, just leave it out, or add extra walnuts. When looking for ideas for new woodworking projects, Tom is often inspired by construction details he spots on everyday objects from the past. In this case, he drew up a plan for a serving tray that relies on the same sturdy joinery found on wood boxes from a century or more ago. Sultanas - I love how the sultanas plump up and add another element of juiciness to the cake. You can use currents or raising, or even swap the sultanas out for diced glace cherries. Spread the frosting evenly and rustically over the cooled cake using a palette knife. Sprinkle with chopped roasted walnuts and coffee beans and dust with a little cocoa powder. Cut into generous squares and serve at room temperature. The butter should be at room temperature, soft enough to easily indent with your finger, but not so warm as to be greasy.

In a separate bowl, sieve the flour, salt, cinnamon, ginger and bicarbonate of soda. Stir in the sugar (image 1 above). If you love walnut cake or banana loaf you'll love the combination of both these flavours in this traybake. Place the cream cheese into a mixing bowl and whisk with an electric beater until softened. You could also use a wooden spoon to do this. The frosting will be very soft. Place the bowl into the fridge for half an hour or so to allow it to firm up.

Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan/Gas 4. Grease and line the base and sides of a 30 x 20cm rectangular cake tin. You can try this apple crumble cake, carrot cake loaf, simple chocolate cake with chocolate mousse frosting, vanilla velvet cake, or easy sponge cake recipe with oil if you need more ideas for cake recipes. Note - when omitting any of these ingredients, try to keep to the stated amounts by increasing the other ingredients. For example, if you omit the coconut, add either an additional ¼ cup of carrots, sultanas or walnuts (or a mixture of all three). Care: Not Dishwasher Safe. To clean, simply wipe with a damp cloth. Must not be soaked or submerged in water as Pour the cake mixture evenly into the prepared tin. Bake for 20-25 mins or until baked through. Test the centre of the cake in different areas with a skewer until it comes out clean.

This is my adapted version of a banana loaf recipe. I love banana loaf but often find it can be a little too moist in the middle. Baking it as a traybake ensures it is fully baked through. Moist, fluffy, and addictive are the best to describe this Mary Berry’s coffee and walnut traybake, a cake you would love to have for your afternoon cuppa. To remove the baking parchment from the bottom of the cake, place a sheet of aluminium foil over the cake and then cover it with a large wooden breadboard. Bicarbonate of soda - because this is a dense cake mixture, it needs a little extra help to rise (even though we are using self-raising flour) and the bicarb provides the extra help it needs.

The baking itself took about 35 minutes. But I had to leave the cake to cool down before completely putting the frosting on. This took me around half an hour.