Fast & Furious cake
This is one of my ‘go-to’ recipes if I’m looking to cook up a quick breakfast or dessert. What makes this truly, ‘fast & furious’ is that — using a silicone cake form I can put this in my microwave oven at approx.750°C and within 7 to 8 minutes, have a good looking cake to serve up! But I must also add that the microwave version will dry out very quickly, and so it’s best with the addition of some jam in the middle, or even with a scoop of ice-cream or a drizzle of cream, custard or sweet sauce if you are serving it as a dessert.
Yield: About 12 slices
Simple, fast & furious cake
Simple cake recipe to whizz up all in one go in your kitchen robot
Prep Time:
15 minutes
Cook Time:
35 minutes
Additional Time:
5 minutes
Total Time:
55 minutes
Ingredients
- 200g Flour (can be self-raising, plain or wholemeal)
- 200g butter or margarine
- 200g sugar (demerara is ok too)
- 1 x 16g packet of raising agent
- 4 medium eggs
- Optionals:
- Flavouring if desired
- Chocolate chips or chopped nuts
- Icing sugar to dust top of finished cake
- Fruit jam of choice to spread in the middle of the cake
Instructions
- Turn on your oven to 160°C
- Prepare the baking tin (27cm diam.) by rubbing all over with small knob of butter and then dusting lightly with flour.
- Prepare the robot with a non-cutting blade
- Sift together flour & baking agent -- if using wholemeal flour, first sift & then add the chaff which remains behind in the sieve.
- Spoon into your robot along with any flavouring eg. cinnamon, vanilla etc.
- Add the sugar
- Cut the butter into small pieces, then add to robot.
- Turn the robot on at half-speed until the butter is mixed with the flour, then increase the speed for about 30 seconds.
- Break the eggs, one by one, into a cup so that you can check for pieces of shell, before adding each into the flour mixture
- Turn on the robot full speed until the mixture becomes smooth & slightly shiny. That should take a couple of minutes.
- At this stage, if you want to add some chocolate chips, throw them into the mixture & turn on the robot for just a few seconds so they mix in evenly.
- Carefully transfer the mixture to the cake tin, & if the oven has reached temperature, slide on to the top shelf.
- Cook for about 35 minutes, checking a few minutes before the end of cooking time with a wooden skewer in the cake to see if it comes out dry or moist. If too moist, you may have to extend cooking time a few extra minutes.
- When cooking time is up, take the cake from the oven and leave it to stand for 5 minutes before turning out onto a cake rack to cool
- When the cake is cool you can add a little extra interest by slicing it in half horizontally & adding a jam spread in the middle -- or more simply, by just adding a dusting of icing sugar on the top
Notes
Cooking utensils:
- Round cake tin 27cm diameter
- Kitchen robot
- Kitchen scales or measuring jug
- Sieve (for flour)
- Spatula
- Spoon
- Knife
Made by Hand
