400 g
tin butter beans (235g rinsed and drained, or pretty much any cooked white beans/chickpeas of your choice, e.g. canellini beans - chickpeas are a little stronger though) [256 calories]
120 g
softened butter, salted (or use extra virgin coconut oil, the solid white variety if you want to make it dairy free and increase the calories and add a pinch of salt) [884]
170 g
golden caster sugar (or your preferred sweetener in appropriate quantities, e.g. rapadura, coconut sugar etc.) [680]
5 eggs
(UK medium, i.e. 58g each) [438]
1/2 tablespoon
(7.5ml) good vanilla extract [22]
15 ml
tbsp almond extract (to taste, I use 1 full tbsp) [135]
100 g
ground almonds [645]
1 teaspoon
(gluten free) baking powder [3]
1/2 teaspoon
bicarbonate of soda
250 g
raspberries or cherries (or half of each if you can't decide!), frozen and defrosted is fine (you could use a reduced quantity of French glacé cherries if you want an enormous sugar hit, and don't mind the extra calories, but they're a bit sweet for my taste!) [81 or 130]
35 g
flaked
160 C
fan oven for about
1 hour
and 15 minutes (around 35, if making cupcakes) for a tray bake cake. If you would like this as a hot pudding, it will only require 45 minutes in the oven (the centre will have risen, and a skewer will come out clean), however at this point it will be too moist to be cut into squares which will hold their own (if you feel it is too moist when you take it out of the oven, it's perfectly fine to put it back in again for a bit longer - the fruit content means this is quite a moist cake). Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes,
Tips
160 C
fan oven, and line your cake tin with greaseproof baking paper
Moist and zingy, with little crunches from the coconut and a slightly crumbly texture - if you love lemon cakes, you will love this and you'll have fun getting people trying to guess what the 'secret ingredient is'
If you're not looking to make the GF DF variety, and just want normal cake bottoms, you could make plain or chocolate cake batter, and just put a tbsp or so in the bottom of muffin tins instead - or, you could make Jaffa muffins by using the orange and melted chocolate toppings on top of muffins - or even better, on top of chocolate MagicBeanCake muffins, for a really delicious twist
'Feed' the cake once a week or so with more brandy (or alcohol of choice), stopping a week before you intend to ice it, to allow the top of the cake to dry out a little
and rice, or rice noodles (or cauliflower rice, courgette/zucchini 'noodles') if serving as a main course - don't forget to add calories for the rice and salad
I served it with fresh orange segments (pith removed, by peeling the whole orange with a sharp knife then cutting out the segments) and some Greek yoghurt (or you could whip up some cream) with a little orange zest and honey whipped into it, scattered with chopped pistachios
Raspberry Jam. In a large bowl, beat all the cake ingredients together. About half fill the paper cases with batter, leaving about a teaspoon of batter in the bowl, to top each cake
) and wanted to convert it and share my version with my friends who don't have a Thermomix or similar (this method also includes the Thermomix instructions in italics - ignore anything in italics if you're not using a Thermomix)
Raspberry and almond cake is my all-time favourite cake recipe for three reasons. Throw all your ingredients - the ground almonds, butter, sugar, flour, eggs and vanilla extract into a bowl together and mix until well combined
When I had a tub of glacé cherries in the fridge left over from baking my Christmas cakes I was instantly drawn back to the Bakewell and so began the birth of my Bakewell loaf cake with a grown up twist of a kirsch kick
CherryBakewellCake is a proper, all-round crowd pleaser. Due to the flavour and texture of the almonds, this cake also works exceptionally well with dairy-free margarine, compared to other cakes
Just in case you think I'm in the habit of buying very expensive items on a daily basis (see MagiMix), I had a bike accident a couple of months ago and my previous trusty-partner of a bike was sadly no more
You may have seen a previous post of mine where I raved about this CherryBakewell recipe. Plus, it has raspberries in, so we can count that as one of your five-a-day too
These cupcakes make for a sweet afternoon tea treat, the flavours from the Sugar and crumbs cherrybakewell flavoured icing sugar in the buttercream complement the raspberry jam beautifully and it certainly evokes the senses with fond memories of the classic bakewell tart
Or if you just want to make a mouth-watering chicken pie, then you could roast one just for this (or cheat and grab a rotisserie chicken on your way home - one large bird should give you enough for this with a little bit left over for sandwiches - but shhh, don't tell anyone I said that
If you or your children (or fellow grown-ups. Also, at times, my methods may be a little cavalier, because I'm cooking for my family and friends, just like you are - and sometimes it's easier to illustrate them, than to describe each manoeuvre in minute detail (for both of us, trust me
These are lovely, soft and pillowy bread rolls - delicious warm and buttered on the side of a hot bowl of soup, or as burger buns, or encasing juicy thick slices of sizzling butcher's bacon
It is mainly made with napa cabbage (also known as Chinese leaf lettuce) and/or a large white Japanese radish known as daikon or mooli (or a few other things), brined or salted and then flavoured with other ingredients such as red pepper flakes, fish sauce and/or anchovy sauce, garlic, ginger and spring onions (scallions)
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