Tea and Cake

Why not try these yummy cakes. So easy to make and so tasty.


Fairtrade Recipes


Fresh Fruit Cake

 

 

Ingredients:

300g FT golden castor sugar

3 eggs

300mls sunflower oil

2 ripe FT bananas

300g plain flour

1 teasp. Bicarbonate of soda

100g fresh  FT pineapple chopped (should also work with tinned)

50g chopped FT brazil nuts

1 teasp. Vanilla essence

 

Icing make a butter icing mixed with FT orange juice.

 

This mixture makes 2 small tray bakes. 1 to eat and 1 to freeze perhaps!

Line tins approx. 9” by 6” with baking parchment

Preheat oven elec. fan assisted140c or gas mark 4

Place eggs and oil in liquidiser goblet and whiz to amalgamate

Add large slices of banana and repeat

Finally add sugar and whiz until all well mixed

Tip into a mixing bowl and sieve and fold in flour and Bicarbonate of Soda

Add vanilla, pineapple, and nuts. Fold all in gently.

Divide between tins.

Bake for approx 40 mins. The cake is ready when it springs back from slight pressure.

Cool then ice, (Icing make a butter icing mixed with FT orange juice) also good just as it is.

 

 

Date and Walnut Cake

 


8fl.oz water

6oz FT soft brown sugar

1oz butter

1 teasp bicarbonate of soda

4oz FT dates chopped

2 eggs beaten

8oz wholemeal plain flour

4oz FT walnuts chopped

 

Bring water to the boil add sugar, butter, bicarbonate of soda and dates.Reduce heat and stir gently over a low heat until the sugar dissolves.

Cool.

Stir in beaten eggs. Mix thoroughly then add flour and walnuts.

Put mixture into a lined 1lb loaf tin and bake at 190⁰ c, gas mark 5 for approx. 45 minutes. 

Enjoy.