Out Of The Frying Pan!

Straight from Velveteen's Kitchen and today's Out Of The Frying Pan...

Maple and pecan cupcakes

Equipment-

Mixing bowl or two

Spatula

Wooden spoon

Chopping board

Knife

Paper cases

Cupcake tin

Cooling rack

Pallet knife

(Piping bag if you want to get fancy)

Ingredients-

115g softened butter

50g soft brown sugar

160ml maple syrup

2 eggs

115g self raising flour

60g pecan nuts finely chopped

50 softened butter, 435g icing sugar and 3 tables spoons of maple syrup for the icing.

Oven at 180C/360F , 15/20 minutes

Victoria Sponge

Equipment-

Mixing bowl

Wooden spoon

Spatula

Two cake tins

Baking paper

Cooling rack

Pallet knife

Ingredients-

200g Self raising flour

200g Caster Sugar

200g Softened butter

4 eggs

1tsp

Vanilla extract

Strawberry/Raspberry jam

Caster sugar to scatter

Oven at 180C/360F, bake 20 minutes, cool completely.

Coffee and walnut cake

Equipment-

Mixing bowl or two

Wooden spoon

Spatula

Two cake tins

Baking paper

Cooling rack

Pallet knife

Chopping board

Knife

Ingredients-

cake-

175g softened butter

175g caster sugar

175g self raising flour

3 eggs

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

75g walnuts, finely chopped

1 1/2tbsp instant coffee mixed with 2 tbsp boiling water

syrup-

1tbsp instant coffee

60g demerara sugar

1 1/2tbsp boiling water

buttercream-

225g softened butter

1 1/2 tbsp milk

3 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 5 tsp boiling water

525g icing sugar

Oven 180C/360F, bake for 25 minutes, remove, cool for 10-15, brush with syrup, cool completely. Remove from tins, peel off paper. ice.

Flourless chocolate cake

Equipment-

Mixing bowl

Wooden spoon

Spatula

Cake tins

Baking paper

Cooling rack

Ingredients-

400g Chocolate, melted

250g softened butter

250g caster sugar

8 eggs, separated

400g ground almonds

oven at 150C/300F, 40 minutes, remove and cool.

Lemon and vanilla shortbread

Equipment-

Mixing bowl

Wooden spoon

Metal tray

Baking paper

Rolling pin

Ingredients-

225g butter,

175g caster sugar

300g plain Flour

Vanilla extract, or, the seeds from 1 vanilla pod

Zest of one lemon

Oven at 150c/300F, 20 minutes, until golden brown. Cut while hot.