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Chocolate lager cake with hot cross bun cream cheese icing

45 minutes

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Vanilla cake with pistachio icing

Serves 8

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cooking Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

For the cake:

240 g flour
1/2 t salt
2 1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t bicarbonate of soda
150 g sugar
2 free-range eggs, beaten
1 cup Ideal milk
115 g butter, melted and at room temperature
1 T vanilla paste

For the icing:

50 g sugar
1/2 cup water
100 g shelled pistachios
a pinch salt
1/2 cup cream
icing sugar, for dusting

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 20 cm springform cake tin. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and sugar. Make a well in the centre.

2. In a small bowl whisk together the eggs, Ideal milk, butter and vanilla. Fold the wet mixture into the flour – a thick batter will form.

3. Spoon the batter into the cake tin and bake for 15–20 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.

4. While the cake is baking, prepare the icing. Heat the sugar and water in a saucepan until a maple-coloured caramel is formed. Place the pistachios on a tray lined with greaseproof paper. Pour over the caramel and allow the caramel to set.

5. Once set, chop into pieces and blend with the salt and cream until a smooth icing is formed. Serve the cake with a dollop of the pistachio icing, dusted with icing sugar.

Cook's note: Soak the leftover cake in a syrup and serve with fresh berries and crème fraîche, or more Ideal milk.

Find more cake recipes here.

Photographs: Jan Ras
Food assistant: Marcelle De Wet

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