Category Archives: Koeke / Cakes

WINDBAG CAKE WITH NUT, BISCUIT AND BAKED APPLE TOPPING
Sponge cake with nuts:
125 g sugar
75 g sieved flour
75 g ground nuts of your choice
6 tablespoons cold water
4 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon gingerbread spice

Separate eggs, make egg whites. Beat the egg yolks with sugar and water for a few minutes until frothy. Carefully fold in the egg whites. Mix the flour, nuts, spices and baking powder and carefully fold in.
Bake in preheated oven at 175 – 180 degrees for about 20min. Let the dough cool, place the cake ring around the biscuit. Continue reading→

CREAM CRACKER CUSTARD SLICES
(makes 30 slices)
1 packet Cream Crackers
1 litre milk
1 cup (250 ml) sugar
50 g butter or margarine
125 ml (½ cup) cake flour
100 ml cornflour
10 ml (2 teaspoons) custard powder
2 ml (½ teaspoon) salt
100 ml cold water
3 eggs, separated
5 ml (1 teaspoon) vanilla essence
500-ml (2 cups) icing sugar, sifted
40 ml boiling water
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RED VELVET CAKE WITH ROASTED WALNUTS AND DRIED CRANBERRIES TOPPED WITH STRAWBERRY-BLUEBERRY FROSTING
3 cups all-purpose flour : 1365 calories
3 cups artificial sweetener : 0 calories
1/2 cup cornstarch : 244 calories
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder : 98 calories
1 tablespoon baking soda : 0 calories
1½ teaspoons baking powder : 3 calories
1½ maldon tsp salt : 0 calories
4 large eggs : 288 calories
100 g buttermilk powder : 360 calories
1 3/4 cups warm water
½ cup vegetable oil : 992 calories
1 teaspoon vanilla extract: 12 calories
1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar : 0.9 calories
2 tablespoons red food coloring : 0 calories
1 cup of walnuts: 785 calories
Dried cranberries: 100g : 308 calories
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CHOCOLATE-CRANBERRY LOAF
Chocolate-cranberry loaf, topped with poached pears, and sprinkled with icing sugar🍽
For the cake: serves 8-10 depending on portion sizes
1 1/2 cups (210 g) all- purpose flour : 682.5 calories
14 tablespoons (70 g) unsweetened cocoa powder (I prefer Dutch-processed in this recipe, but made it with natural cocoa powder and it worked fine) : 159.6 calories
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt : 0 calories
1/2 teaspoon baking soda : 0 calories
1 cup (200 g) sugar : 774 calories
( I used Swerve artificial sweetener : 0 calories)
3/4 cup (168 g) sour cream, at room temperature : 341.3 calories
1/2 cup dried cranberries : 260 calories
1/2 cup (112 g) vegetable oil (I used olive oil) : 955 calories for olive oil
4 eggs (240 g out of shell)
at room temperature, beaten : 312 calories
3/4 cup (6 ounces) warm water (about 95°F)
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EASY PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE
Het die resep in groot muffen pan gemaak sodat elkeen sy eie upside down “koek” kan kry.
Makes 1 (9-inch) cake; serves 8 to 10

For the topping:
Cooking spray
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
½ cup packed light brown sugar
1 (8-ounce) can pineapple rings
8 to 10 maraschino cherries

For the cake:
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour Continue reading→

MILLIONAIRE CHOCOLATE CAKE
½ cup cocoa powder
1 cup boiling water
4 eggs
1 ½ cup sugar
½ cup cooking oil
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
4 teaspoons baking powder
450 ml cake flour

Syrup:
1 ½ cups evaporated milk
1 cup white sugar
6 teaspoons brandy
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
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APPLE CINNAMON CAKE
1 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 cups plain flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
4 cups apples, peeled, cored and diced Continue reading→

30-DAY WHEETABIX FLAX MEAL BUNDT CAKE
A spin on the regular and standard 30-day Muffin, and now I created my own 30-day Wheetabix Flax Meal Bundt Cake
2 cups crushed Weet-Bix
1½ cups GF All Purpose
1 cup Flax Meal
1 tsp salt
2½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 cup coconut
1 cup fruit cake mix (or any other fruit or mix you wish to use)*****
2 eggs
1½ cups Demerara brown sugar Continue reading→

LOLLIE CAKE
1 packet Lollies, approx 190 g Eskimo lollies
1 packet Malt biscuits, approx 250 g
120 g butter
½ can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups desiccated coconut

Break Eskimos by hand into pieces.
Crush biscuits to a rough crumb.
Melt butter and condensed milk over a gentle heat.
Mix all ingredients together, form into a log shape then roll in coconut.
Chill for 4 hours. Slice and keep in the fridge until needed.
1 ste Photo: Tracy Vohra
2nd Photo:  So today I made another lollie cake but didn’t roll it into a log just pressed it into a square dish set it and slices into blocks.