Blueberry Yoghurt Cake

Baked this cake a day before for Fern's birthday. Recipe took from a magazine.

Ingredients:-
125g butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 and 1/4 cups self-raising flour
200g blueberry yoghurt
3/4 cup frozen blueberries, plus extra to serve
icing sugar and thick cream, to serve

1. Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease and line the baking tin with baking paper.
2. Use an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and creamy.
3. Add egg one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Sift flour over batter. 
5. Add yoghurt + blueberries. Using a large metal spoon gently stir until well combined.
6. Spoon into prepared tin and bake for 40-45 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.
7. Stand for 5 mins before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
8. Transfer to a serving plate. Dust with icing sugar.
9. Serve with cream and remaining blueberries. 

Apple & Cinnamon Tea Cake

Guest post by Fernie. I baked this "Apple & Cinnamon Tea Cake" yesterday morning. This cake is very easy to bake and is extremely yummy. I decided to bake this cake after I bought a kilo of green apple.

Ingredient:

185g (6.5oz) butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
2/3 cup caster sugar 
3 eggs 
1.5 cups plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup milk

Topping:
4 small green apples, peeled, halved and cored
1 teaspoon sugar 
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup apricot jam, warmed

1. Preheat the oven to 140°C . Place the butter, cinnamon and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until light and creamy.

2. Gradually add the eggs and beat well. Sift the flour and baking powder over the butter mixture, add the milk and stir until combined. Line the base of a 22cm (8.5 inch) springform tin with non-stick baking paper and spoon in the mixture.

3. To make the topping, cut a row of deep slits in each apple half and arrange over the top of the cake mixture. Combine the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over the apples.

4. Bake for 50 minutes. Brush the cake with warm apricot jam and return to the oven for 10 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer.

Banana Muffins

Guest post by Fernie; I have two leftovers organic bananas that turned very ripe that I need to get rid off. So I wanted to bake something with the ripe bananas. Found a very simple recipe in my recent purchased baking cookbook. This recipe makes around 18 muffins. I have given 3 muffins to a friend who is visiting and the rest is our breakfast and tea for the next week. 


Ingredient:
250g self raising flour
75g oat bran
185g caster sugar
60g unsalted butter, melted
170ml milk
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 ripe bananas, mashed

Instructions:
1) Preheat Oven to 210 Celsius
2) Lightly grease a 12-hole muffin tin.
3) Sift the flour into large bowl and add oat bran and sugar. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients
4) Combine the butter, milk, eggs and banana in a separate mixing bowl and add to the flour mixture all at once. 
    Use a wooden spoon, stir until just mixed. (Do not overbeat as the batter should remain lumpy.)
5) Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin holes. Bake for 15 mins, until puffed and golden brown. 
6) Transfer the muffins to a wire rack to cool.