Given's Tower of Treats
RECIPE BY: Given
VANILLA
6 cups of flour
12 tsp of Royal Baking Powder
1 tsp of baking soda
2.5 ml of salt
12 large eggs
60ml of oil x6
125ml of amasi x6
125ml of sugar x6
15ml of vanilla essence
STRAWBERRY
10 blended strawberries
Pink colour
Strawberry essence
LEMON
1.2 tsbp lemon essence
1 tsp of poppyseeds
Method:
- Preheat oven at 150°
- Grease baking tins
- Sift all dry ingredients together at least four times(except sugar)
- Separate egg yolks and egg white into two bowls, set aside egg white
- On egg yolk bowl, add vanilla, oil, sour milk, and sift your normal white sugar in, then beat until sugar has dissolved, don’t over beat, less than 1 min it is very important.
- On the same bowl of wet ingredients, add your flour mixture and beat for few minutes until fully incorporated then set aside.
- Add 1 teaspoon of vinegar to egg white and beat until stiff.
- Fold in egg white to flour mixture with spatular
- Bake for 30 minutes
Cream cheese icing
125g of cream cheese
180g of Clover butter
250g of icing sugar
1 tsp of vanilla essence /strawberry/ lemon
Buttercream Icing
500g of softened Clover butter
6 cups of Icing sugar +2
Method:
- Beat with a spetula, add 2 cups of Icing at a time
- Add flavouring and beat
- Frost your cakes then add fresh strawberries, lemon zest, blue berries.