Another busy baking weekend

A snowy weekend led to lots of baking to pass the time, trouble is full cakes tins means lots of eating.

The Bakewell Tarts are my own recipe so I hope that you enjoy them.

The sponge cake was made as a birthday cake and the biscuits are just so moreish no one will resist them!

 

Bakewell Tarts

Pastry

4oz plain flour

2oz butter

about 5 tablespoons cold water

Rub flour and butter together to resemble breadcrumbs bind together with the water to form a ball, put in fridge for about half and hour.

Roll out and either line a baking tin or put in patty tins.

Put Jam in the bottom of the pastry case.

Sponge Cake for middle of Tarts

2oz Self Raising flour

1oz Ground Almonds

1 egg (beaten)

2oz Caster Sugar

2oz Margarine

1 tablespoon milk

Mix all ingredients together and put on top of the jam.  Bake in a preheated oven Gas Mark 6  200 C or 400 F

Icing for top of tarts

4oz Icing Sugar

Vanilla Extract

1 teaspoon Butter

Beat all ingredients together with warm water until smooth and when the tarts are cold spread over the top finishing them off with half a cherry.

Sponge

8 oz Self Raising Flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

6oz Caster Sugar

6oz soft margarine

3 eggs

3 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

( This recipe can also be used to make a Chocolate Cake by using 6oz SR Flour and 4 tablespoons cocoa powder, Coffee Cake by using 3 tablespoons of made up strong coffee instead of the milk)

Sieved the flour and baking powder together, add all other ingredients together and mix well together with a hand mixer

Line two sponge tins with greaseproof paper and divide mixture into them and bake in a preheated oven for 25mins at Gas Mark 5

Butter Icing

3oz butter

3oz icing sugar

1 teaspoon butter

Beat all ingredients together and when smooth spread, one half with the butter cream and one half with jam and put both together.

Icing for top of cake

6oz icing sugar 

teaspoon vanilla extract

teaspoon butter

warm water to mix 

Sift icing sugar and add other ingredients and beat together, spread over top of sponge cake and add  decoration of your choice

Oatie Biscuits

6oz Self Raising Flour

6oz Oats

6oz Hard Margarine

6oz Caster Sugar

2oz Golden syrup

pinch of Bicarbonate of Soda

Cream together margarine and sugar together, add Flour ,Oats, bicarb, Sugar and Golden Syrup and mix together, I find that I mix and form into balls and the best way is to use your hands.

Roll into ball the size of walnuts and put on well greased baking trays, lightly press with a fork before baking in a preheated oven Gas Mark 4-5 for 15 - 20 mins.. 

I like to press the biscuits again when they come out of the oven but that is my choice it is not in the recipe.

Cool on a wire rack when cold eat and enjoy .............