Half-Term Baking!

During Half-Term I cooked 3 delicious cakes - Welsh Cakes, Banana Cake and Chocolate Courgette Cake.

1) Welsh Cakes

Ingredients:
250g self-raising flour
1/2 tsp salt
100g unsalted butter
100g caster sugar
100g currants
1 egg, beaten
1 tbsp milk

Method:
Rub the butter into the flour and add in the sugar, salt, currants, egg and milk to form a dough. Roll or pat out to 6-7 mm thick and cut into circles about 6 cm wide. Heat an ungreased pan and drop the cakes into it and cook for about 3 minutes or until golden brown on both sides.

2) Banana Cake

Ingredients:
4oz Self Raising Flour
2oz Butter/Stork Margarine
3oz Caster Sugar
2oz Sultanas/Raisins
2oz Glace Cherries/Dried Apricots
½ oz Chopped Walnuts (or more !!)
1 Egg
½ pound Bananas (about 2)

Method:
Rub the fat into the flour
Add the sugar sultanas cherries and walnuts, mix together
Make a hollow in the centre and add the beaten egg and mashed banana
Mix well and turn into a lined loaf tin
Bake at about 180c for approx 45 minutes
Cool slightly before removing from the tin

3) Chocolate Courgette Cake

Make a chocolate sponge and simply add 400g of finely grated courgette!