Lemon Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients for Cake:

1. 1 ½ cup flour
2. 4 eggs
3. 2 tsp ovalette
4. 1 tsp vanilla
5. Grated rind from 1 lemon
6. Juice from 1 lemon
7. 1 ¼ cup castor sugar
8. 1 cup Planta @ margarine @ butter   

Steps:

1. Beat margarine with sugar until fluffy (about 15 minutes).
2. Add vanilla, grated lemon rind and juice. Beat for a while.
3. Add eggs one by one and finally add flour.
4. Bake at 150 degrees Celsius for 45 minutes.

Ingredients for Frosting:

1. 125g of Cream Cheese softened at room temperature.
2. ¼ cup of butter (about 2 tsp) softened at room temperature.
3. 1 cup icing sugar
4. 1 tsp vanilla

Steps:

1. Beat together cream cheese, vanilla and butter.
2. Slowly add sugar until it is thick enough to apply on cake.

For layer: canned lychees or any kind of fresh fruit or canned fruit (nak letak durian pun bleh Senah oi!!!) For decorating: chocolate rice and almond flakes

Steps:

1. Cut the cake into two layers.
2. Layer the bottom half with cream cheese frosting.
3. Arrange the lychees.
4. Put the other half of the cake.
5. Layer it with the remaining cream cheese.
6. Sprinkle some chocolate rice and almond flakes.

p/s: if you like sweet tasting frost, by all means just add more icing sugar. I have sweet tooth but I tend to halve everything sweet in my cooking. If you like more cream, double the ingredients for frosting. 

Moist Egg-less Butter-less Chocolate Cake

So I was browsing this blog at 12midnight and stumbled upon this egg-less butter-less chocolate cake recipe. After baking the two chocolate cakes for my birthday, I knew that I need another chocolate cake recipe for the ganache, as the cake was too dense, even for the original chocolate butter-cream frosting. And then I found this!

This super moist, super easy, super surprisingly egg-less (I had like, two eggs left in the fridge), butter-less (I have one 250gm butter that I keep in the fridge for those "just-in-case") cake recipe! One hour later, here I am writing this entry.

This, is definitely my new favorite chocolate cake recipe!

 yummy babycakes!

Dry ingredients:

2 cups of cake flour

3/4 cocoa powder (I use Tudor Gold)

4 tbsp powdered milk (I use Anlene. The only powdered milk I had in my kitchen.ha!)

*Combine everything above and sieve, pour in mixing bowl.

After sieved, add:

2 cups of brown sugar, and mix everything well

Wet ingredients:

1 cup of corn oil

2 1/4 cold water (not ice water, water kept in the fridge)

2 tsp vanilla essence

1tsp chocolate emulco (I didn't have any, didn't know what it looks like so I didn't put it in. Works just as well for me)

Pinch of salt (forgot to put this one)

2 tsp Sunquick or lemon juice (I used lemon juice)

Using the mixer in medium speed, pour water, corn oil and vanilla essence until the ingredients mix well. Add sunquikc/lemon juice and continue mixing. 

Pour the batter (it will be very very watery, but don't worry, it will rise) on a 7-inch pan or cupcake pan and bake in 170C for about 45-55 minutes. 

Once baked, let it cool for about an hour before cutting it, or you risk eating cake lump instead of cake slice.