Baking with Merry

This cake was baked a month back for my cousin on her birthday.....Somehow it got lost in the drafts....She wanted a chocolate cake and I needed something less fussy and easy to bake. I had bookmarked this madeira cake long back and finally got a chance to bake it. Ingredients: Recipe Source: Chocolate by Parragon Books For Cake: Oil - 1 tsp, for oiling Self-rising flour - 1/2 cup Baking powder - 1 tsp Unsalted butter - 1/2 cup, softened Superfine sugar - 1/2 cup Eggs - 3, beaten Ground almonds - 1/4 cup Drinking chocolate powder - 1 cup For frosting: Confectioner's sugar - 2 cups Unsweetened cocoa - 1 1/2 tbsp Unsalted butter - 2 tbsp Hot water - 3-4 tbsp Method: Preheat oven to 180 C. Lightly oil and line a cake tin with butter paper. Sift flour and baking powder together and set aside. Cream the butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Then gradually beat in the eggs, adding a little of the flour after each addition. When

This Oven Cold Cream Cheese Pound Cake was  Bake Along #11 . And this had a speciality too!! You needn't preheat your oven like you do when baking normally. Just cream and mix the ingredients and pop it into your oven....simple!  A pound cake is a type of cake traditionally baked with a pound of four main ingredients: flour, butter, eggs and sugar. You could add different flavours or dried fruits for a variation. In this pound cake, I added cream cheese too and guess what I got-- an utterly delicious and yummy yummy cake!! Ingredients: Cake flour- 115 gms Butter - 115 gms, softened Cream Cheese - 115 gms, softened Eggs- 3 Baking powder - 3/4 tsp Salt - 1/2 tsp Sugar - 1 cup Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Method: NO PREHEATING the oven!!  Butter and flour a loaf pan and line the bottom with butter paper. Place softened butter and cream cheese in a bowl and beat using an electric beater until soft and mixed well