Fast Cakes: Easy Bakes in Minutes

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To make the filling and topping, measure the butter, honey, almond extract and icing sugar into a bowl and mix well until thoroughly blended. I haven't actually managed to bake any cakes from this book so far but i have read it from cover to cover. I like how brief and un-fussy all the instructions are and how commonplace the ingredients are, meaning the recipes won't all have you rushing out to the shops to get ingredients you've never even heard of before like a lot of recipe books do. Cream the margarine and sugar until light and creamy. Beat in the eggs and almond essence, adding a tablespoon of flour with the last amount of egg. Fold in the flour and baking powder and all the fruit. This old-fashioned celebration cake iced with ‘American frosting’ has three delicate layers of walnut sponge, filled and covered with meringue frosting – a beautiful bake for someone special.

Fast Cakes is an unmissable, definitive new baking book from Mary Berry. Proper cakes that take 10 minutes or less to make and under an hour to bake. If you miss Mary's wisdom and inspiration in The Great British Bake Off , or want a brand-new companion to Mary Berry's Baking Bible , this is the cookbook for you with over 200 easy recipes to make with confidence.

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Measure the baking spread, caster sugar, flour, eggs, baking powder, lemon curd and half the lemon and lime zest into a mixing bowl. Beat together using an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Tip the mixture into the tin and level the top with a spatula. Measure all the ingredients except the cocoa and icing sugar into a large bowl and beat well with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Put half the mixture in another bowl and add the cocoa powder. Mix well. Put all the cake ingredients in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Divide between the two tins, and level out evenly. Put all the remaining ingredients in a large bowl and pour over the cooled sauce. Mix well until evenly coated. Utterly delicious. A can of apricots is added to this cake and gives it its distinctive flavour. Use the juice from the can in a fruit salad or soak sponge cakes in it for a trifle.

Excellent cookbook from Queen Mary. Almost all the bakes in here are great. I have tried a couple of them and they have turned out well. The recipes are all well laid out, short instructions, no nonsense and easy to follow. She doesn't use complicated baking terms, so beginners and kids can have a go with ease. There are scones, buns and biscuits that you can whip up for tea, traybakes and fruit loaves perfect for a school or village fete and of course foolproof cakes for every occasion from everyday recipes such as a Honey and Almond Cake to Mary's First-Rate Chocolate Cake. Mary Berry's Fast Cakes: Easy bakes in minutes is a fantastic recipe book that has all the cakes and bakes you could need in one book! With around 200 recipes it is full of tasty treats and there's sure to be one everyone likes. To make the icing, measure the icing sugar and lemon and lime juice into a bowl. Whisk until smooth, then spread the icing over the cake.

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Turn into the tin, smooth the top and bake in the oven for an hour and a half or until the cake is golden brown and a skewer pierced in the centre comes out clean. Melt the butter in a pan over a gentle heat. Take off the heat and add the biscuits. Mix together very well. Tip into the tin and press flat over the base using a spoon.

In addition to the easy tray bakes and family cakes there are some recipes to interest the seasoned baker such as battenberg cake, or my favorite brandy snaps that need to be rolled around a wooden spoon while still warm to achieve their tube-like form, ready for filling with cream! There are a lot of different flavors to choose from also. Return to the oven for a final 10 minutes, until the cheesecake is just set with a slight wobble in the middle. There are scones, buns and biscuits that you can whip up for tea, traybakes and fruit loaves perfect for a school or village fete and of course foolproof cakes for every occasion from everyday recipes such as a Honey and Almond Cake to Mary's First-Rate Chocolate Cake. Not forgetting recipes you can make with your kids from Happy Face Biscuits to Traffic Lights and Jammy Buns.

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This weekend I made the Scones and the Chocolate Eclairs- neither of which I have made before. They both turned out excellently. Sounds fantastic Moulins! This cake has become a firm favourite in this family . . . the only cake I make nowadays! The recipe has been given to several friends, including a 78 year old widower at the croquet club which is lovely :) Mary Berry is the undisputed Queen of Cakes, well-known for her easy-to-follow, tried and tested, mouth-watering recipes. She wrote the Baking Bible to help everyday cooks learn the basics of what it takes to make a good cake, with a collection of classic bakes, as well as hot puddings and pies, soufflés and meringues, cheesecakes and biscuits to satisfy all your baking needs.