Caramel Oreo Cheesecake Celebration Cake

Posted on September 1, 2019 by soulfoodie92

Are you wanting to create a show stopping cake for a special someone or to just treat the fam? Well do I have the cake for you, Caramel oreo cheesecake cake. The title could be a little confusing so let me explain. Dark chocolate velvet cake with dollops of cream cheese and oreo cookies baked into it creating a baked cheesecake texture. Then layered with cream cheese icing, bakers dulce de leche caramel and finally some more oreo crumb.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cup flour
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tsp. baking soda
250ml water
2/3 cup canola oil
1 tbsp. white vinegar
1 tsp. vanilla
125gm cream cheese
1 cup. oreos, crushed
Icing
2 1/2 cup icing sugar
250gm cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla
To garnish
Bakers of Geraldine Dulce de leche caramel (found at most supermarkets)
1x packet Oreos, crushed

Method:

Pre-heat to 180ºc fan bake.
Line 2x sponge tins with baking paper on base and sides, if you spray with oil the baking paper sticks like a dream.
In bowl sieve together flour, baking soda, cocoa, sugar into a bowl and whisk to add air and incorporate all ingredients.
Add oil, vanilla, water and vinegar to dry ingredients and whisk until batter is smooth. Pour evenly into lined sponge tins.
Add dollops of cream cheese to both tins followed by the crushed oreos.
Bake for 28 minutes until cake springs back when touched.
Allow cakes to cool, remove from tin and place on your cake stand or serving plate.
To make the icing, sieve icing sugar into stand mixer bowl and add vanilla and cream cheese. Whisk for 5 minutes until light and fluffy make sure you scrape down the sides.
Remove lid from caramel jar and microwave for 30 seconds.
Lather half the icing on the base cake, drizzle over caramel and sprinkle with oreos.
Top with second cake and repeat making a ring around the edge with the oreos this time followed by caramel.

Serves 10-12

Blueberry Banana Cake

Posted on August 18, 2019 by soulfoodie92

Bananas are one of the easiest fruit to get your hands on which is great for cake making. Sometimes the kids don’t eat them and they get squished, brown in their school bags or the fruit bowl. Over ripe brown bananas are the best for banana cakes as they get a little sweeter. One of my top berries is blueberries fresh or frozen and they go insanely good with bananas. We were wanting to change the humble banana cake up slightly so I added some blueberries and finished with the easiest vanilla cream cheese icing. The man of the house is very happy he has a sweet treat going into the lunch box this week.

Blueberry Banana Cake

Ingredients

125 gm. butter, softened
1/2 cup. brown sugar
1/4 cup. white sugar
3 eggs
4 ripe bananas
1 tsp. baking soda
2 Tbsp. milked, warmed
2 cup. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup. blueberries
Cream Cheese Icing
125 gm. cream cheese
1 1/2 cup. icing sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 180 degress.
Cream butter, sugar in bowl or stand mixer until it is soft and pale, scrap down the sides.
Beat in eggs 1 at a time followed by the banana. I don’t mash this before hand because it has more texture in my opinion.
Add baking soda to the warmed milk and stir. Sift flour and baking powder into bowl and add the warm milk mixture.
Give a light stir, fold in blueberries and pour into lined cake tin. Don’t over stir as it will make the cake go blue.
Bake for 45 minutes until skewer comes out clean, allow to cool.
In stand mixer or with electric beater, add cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla to bowl and beat for 2 minutes then scrap down sides and beat for 1 more minute.
Cover your cake and enjoy.

Serves: 10-12 slices

Gluten- Free Feijoa and Apple Loafs with Lime Cream Cheese Icing

Posted on May 18, 2019 by soulfoodie92

Gluten-free baking can most of the time be deemed as dry and unpleasant however I have managed to make not only as gluten-free cake be moist and satisfying but also dairy-free. If you use a simple vanilla icing sugar and water icing instead of the lime cream cheese icing it will be both gluten and dairy free however this time I covered mine in lime cream cheese icing. This is a simple plain cake recipe with some Feijoa and apple compote added with some diced dates for added texture. Topped with a generous amount of lime cream cheese icing these are a perfect accompaniment to a cup of tea or coffee.

Gluten- Free Feijoa and Apple Loafs with Lime Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cup. gluten-free flour
3/4 cup. caster sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. baking soda
300ml water
100ml canola oil
2 tbsp. cider vinegar
1/4 cup. dates, chopped
1 cup feijoa and apple compote
Lime Cream Cheese Icing
3 cup. icicng sugar, sifted
250gm cream cheese
1/2 lime zest and juice

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 180 fan bake.
Sift gluten-free flour, baking soda, caster sugar and cinnamon into a bowl and whisk in water, oil, cider vinegar until you have a smooth batter.
Stir in 1 cup of Feijoa and apple compote and chopped dates.
Spray silicon mini loaf tin with rice bran or canola oil.
Fill with 1/2 cup of batter and bake for 26 minutes until tested with a skewer and it comes out clean. If you only had one loaf tin like I did you can bake the other half once the 1st batch is cooked or make in a muffin tin.
Combine cream cheese, sifted icing sugar, zest and juice of half a lime.
Whisk in stand mixer for 1 -2 minutes until thick and fluffy.
Top your cakes and enjoy

Makes: 10-12 mini loafs or muffins

You can garnish further with a thin slice of feijoa and lime zest.

Cinnamon Pear and Honey Apple Cake

Posted on March 31, 2019 by soulfoodie92

Pears, apples and cinnamon go hand in hand when it comes to baking. Perfect Autumn cake slightly tart apples, pears and cinnamon with a hint of lemon baked into a brown sugar cake with vanilla glaze. I enjoyed a piece of this warm I couldn’t resist.

Cinnamon Pear and Apple Honey Cake

Ingredients:
2 cox orange apples or granny smith
2 brown pears
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 lemon, juiced
1 dsp honey
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup canola oil
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 cup self raising flour
Icing
3 cup icing sugar
2 cap vanilla essence
4 tbsp. water

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 180 degress bake.
Dice apples and pears mix with cinnamon, honey and lemon juice.
Line cake tin with baking paper you can use a circle or square tin just ensure the baking paper goes up the sides.
Combine vanilla, eggs, brown sugar oil in a bowl stir well. Sift in flour and baking soda and stir to combine.
Add milk and mix to form a smooth batter.
Scatter half the apple and pear mixture on the base of the lined cake tin, followed by the batter. Smooth this out evenly and top with remaining apple and pear mix.
Bake for 60-70 minutes until when tested with a knife it comes out clean.
Allow to cool.
Sift icing sugar into a bowl and add 2 caps of vanilla essence and 4tbsp of cold water, stir well until you have a thick consistency.
Pour icing over the cake starting in the center and smoothing it evenly with a spoon.

Serves: 8-10

Chocolate Plum Cake

Posted on February 10, 2019 by soulfoodie92

Layered with chocolate and tart plum, this cake is a show stopping treat and must make for anyone! Summer is here and the amazing produce that it brings is here too! However it is coming to an end so are the rays of beautiful sunshine, lets make the most of it and get ahold of some seasonal summer plums.

The base to this cake is vegan and if you substitute the butter for margarine in the icing the cake will be fully vegan and even the non vegans will be happy!

Chocolate Plum Layer Cake

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups flour
2 cup sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
2 cup cold water
2 tbsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup canola oil
2 tbsp white vinegar
2 cups plums, sliced
2 cups icing sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
200gm butter, softened
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp water

Method:

Pre-heat oven 180 degrees bake.
Line two sponge tins with baking paper.
Sift all dry ingredients into bowl, whisk in oil, vanilla essence, vinegar and water. Whisk well to combine and no lumps in the batter.
Pour batter evenly over both tins and scatter plums over both tins.
Bake for 45minutes until cake springs back when touched.
Allow to cool
Soften butter, in a stand bowl sift icing sugar and cocoa add softened butter and vanilla essence. Beat until light and fluffy around 3-4minutes.
Turn one cake out of the tin and spread with icing, place second cake on top and spread remanding icing.
Decorate with cut plum, thread coconut and ground chocolate oreos.

Serves: 8-10 slices

Feijoas yes please!

Posted on May 9, 2016 by soulfoodie92

I love feijoa’s hence this is my second post on feijoa’s today ! Make the most of them while they are nice and cheap and are available. If you get a your hands on to many you can always peel and freeze for when you have a feijoa craving!

This is one of easiest cake recipe out! You put all the ingredients in the food processor so no mixing or hand beating requires! It a moist upside down feijoa and lime yoghurt cake, it goes down a treat warm with a cup of tea. Would be perfect served warm with ice-cream for a different dessert but is just as good cold!

Upside Down Feijoa and Lime Yoghurt Cake

Ingredients:
5 feijoa’s, peeled and slice thick rings
2 limes, zest and juice
1 lemon, zest and juice
1 cup canola oil
1 cup yoghurt
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees.
Combine all ingredients in food possessor apart from the feijoa’s!
Puree until combined scrap down sides and blitz once more.
Line a loaf tin with baking paper and arrange the feijoa slices along the bottom making sure there are no gaps.
Pour over cake batter and bake for 40-50 minutes until golden brown and a knife comes out clean when tested.
Remove from oven and allow to cool in tin for 5 minutes until turning onto serving plate.

Serve warm or cold.

*this can be made in either a loaf tin or cake tin but it is important that you line it or it wont turn our of the tin.

Cinnamon Pear Upside Down Cake

Posted on October 12, 2015 by soulfoodie92

I must admit it has been along time since I’ve done a post on here. Life gets away with you sometimes. Anyway back to food! With having 3 days of which is very rear I cleaned the kitchen and set to creating something new for you all. Here is a great recipe to use up left over pears. I got a bag of 8 pears for $1.34 I absolutely love getting bargins!

Cinnamon Pear Upside Down Cake

Lightly spiced caramelized pears baked into a vanilla cake perfect served warm with a spoonful of plain yogurt or fresh cream.

Ingredients

6 pears peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 lemon zest and juice
3 eggs
3/4 cup white sugar
1 tbsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup melted butter
3 tbsp canola oil
1 1/2 cup white flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp white vinegar
Coconut vanilla glaze
1/2 cup icing sugar
1/4 cup long thread coconut
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
To serve:
Dusting of icing sugar and yogurt or cream

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 170 degress.
Line spring form cake tin with baking paper on the sides and base.
Peel, core and thinly slice pears add to bowl with brown sugar, lemon zest and juice and cinnamon. Stir and pour into the bottom of the lined cake tin.
In stand mixer whisk eggs and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Whisk in melted butter, vanilla and vinegar.
Sift flour, baking soda into egg mix and fold through, pour ontop of the pears and bake for 35-40 minutes until tested with a knife come out clean.
Mix together icing sugar, vanilla, coconut and boiling water, stir until thin icing has formed, drizzle over the cake. Dust with icing sugar.
Serve warm with yogurt or cream.

Slices: 10-12

Almond Orange and Rosemary Cake

Posted on August 24, 2014 by soulfoodie92

Almond Orange and Rosemary Cake

Orange, rosemary caramel with delicious lemon and orange scented almond cake these are flavours that pair perfectly against each other!!
It turned out simply divine, served it just warm with mascarpone and rereduced orange vanilla bean syrup and a cup of Earl Grey this was the perfect sunday baking treat! Yum

Would you like to try this recipe out?
Comment below for the recipe.

P.S Did I tell out this beauty is Gluten and Dairy Free!!!

Seductive Cake

Posted on May 11, 2014 by soulfoodie92

Cinnamon, apple and lemon velvet cake.

Cinnamon Apple and Lemon Velvet Cake

Here is a heart stopping recipe for a mouth melting cinnamon apple and lemon velvet cake. Soft cinnamon apples with melting lemon cake and a drizzle of tangy lemon icing, you can’t beat this moist velvet cake. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon tea with friends or a rest for the family. This cake is delicious served warm from the oven with a drizzle of tangy lemon icing.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup white flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
pinch salt
250 ml water
1 tbsp. vanilla essence
1 tbsp. white vinegar
1/3 cup canola oil
1/2 lemon, zest
Cinnamon Apples
2 large granny smith apples, peel, core and 3 cm dice
1 tbsp. golden syrup
1 tsp. cinnamon
50gm butter, melted
Icing
1 cup icing sugar, sifted
1 lemon juice

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees, line small cake tin and large muffin tin (6) with baking paper and light coating of oil to elemental the cake sticking.
Sift all dry ingredients into a bowl and whisk until the dry ingredients is evenly mixed, this is also aerating your dry ingredients.
Make a well in the center of your dry ingredients, in a jug whisk together oil, water, vanilla and vinegar. Pour into the well, whisk in a figure 8 pattern until just mixed through. (over mixing makes the cake tough.)
Combine apples, cinnamon, golden syrup and butter in a bowl toss so all apple is coated.
Line cake and muffin tins with cinnamon apples, place pour over cake batter and bake cake for 30-35 minutes and muffin size for 18-20 minutes until golden brown, test with a knife to see if cooked. (when knife comes out clean its cooked.)
Cool in tin, the cake will drop dramatically in size but don’t worry this is how it’s supposed to be. Run knife around the edge of the cakes and flip upside down onto a cooling rack, remove baking paper.
Combine icing sugar and lemon juice plus 4 tbsp. boiling water, stir until runny.
Drizzle over warm cakes and serve with unsweetened plain yoghurt or on its own.

Makes: 6 mini cakes and 1 small cake

Sift dry ingredients.

Add lemon zest.

Combine golden syrup and cinnamon in a bowl.

Combine golden syrup and cinnamon in a separate bowl.

Add diced apple and melted butter.

Mix to coat all apple.

Line muffin and cake tins with baking paper followed by cinnamon apples.

Whisk wet ingredients into dry.

cake batter.

Fill muffin tins 3/4 way full, add remaining mixture to cake tin.

3/4 fill cake tin with batter.

3/4 full muffin tins with batter.

Make lemon icing add lemon juice to icing sugar,

Perfect consistency = runny.

Baked muffins.

Drizzle icing over warm cakes and serve.

Finished large cake.

Turn upside down on cooling rack remove baking paper.

Cinnamon, apple and lemon velvet cake.

Individual cinnamon, apple and lemon velvet cake.

The Feijoa

Posted on May 9, 2014 by soulfoodie92

Finished feijoa and white chocolate upside down cake.

I grew up eating feijos we have 2 large feijos trees at my batch in the Coromandel, and every autumn the trees would be full of feijoas, a sweet fruit with bursts of tang a unique flavour, paired well with sweet ingredients.

While feijoas are in season at the moment and a reasonable price all over the country why not try out this sweet tooth fix with a crunchy edge and delicate moist cake with soft bursting feijos you cant go wrong. the feijoa pairs incredibly with the milky white chocolate and creates a delectable upside down cake.

Why not try it out for mother’s day, get in to the kitchen and surprise mum with this beauty.

Feijoa and White Chocolate Upside Down Cake

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup white flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
pinch salt
250 gm chocolate, melted and cooled
250 ml water
1 tbsp. vanilla essence
1 tbsp. white vinegar
1/3 cup canola oil
12 feijoa’s, halved flesh removed

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees, line large spring form cake tin with baking paper and light coating of oil to elemental the cake sticking.
Sift all dry ingredients into a bowl and whisk until the dry ingredients is evenly mixed, this is also aerating your dry ingredients.
Make a well in the center of your dry ingredients, in a jug whisk together oil, water, vanilla and vinegar. Pour into the well along with melted chocolate. whisk in a figure 8 pattern until just mixed through. (over mixing makes the cake tough.)
Line cake tin with cut in half feijos, place them seed side down, pour over cake batter and bake for 35 minutes until golden brown, test with a knife to see if cooked. (when knife comes out clean its cooked.)
Cool in tin, the cake will drop dramatically in size but don’t worry this is how it’s supposed to be. Run knife around the edge of the cake and remove the sides, place a plate over the top of cake and flip upside down so cake flips onto its top showing the beautiful feijoa bottom.
Serve with unsweetened plain yoghurt or on its own.