BLACK CURRANT CAKE
Soft black currant cake, easy to make and full of flavor. This rustic looking currant cake is what you need if you happen to get your hands on some berries. Only 6 ingredients.
Provided by Adina
Categories Cakes
Time 55m
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Remove the butter from the refrigerator a few hours before baking to allow it to get soft. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius/ 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Butter and flour a springform (20 cm/ 8 inches) or line the bottom of the springform with parchment paper.
- Clean and dry the black currants. Set aside.
- Cream the butter and the sugar, about 3-4 minutes. Add the eggs, one by one, mixing well in between. Mix the flour and the baking powder and sieve them over the mixture. Mix shortly again.
- Place the batter into the prepared springform. Cover with the berries. Bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Leave cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, remove and let cool on a wire rack. Serve as suggested above.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 slice, Calories 282 kcal, Carbohydrate 45 g, Protein 5 g, Fat 10 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, Cholesterol 90 mg, Sodium 90 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 22 g, UnsaturatedFat 4 g
HOW TO MAKE AN OLD FASHIONED CURRANT CAKE
How to Make an Old Fashioned Currant Cake. This recipe is reputedly over 250 years and still going strong! It's a spice-filled cake featuring currants, ideal for a hearty afternoon tea or supper by the fire. Preheat the oven to around...
Provided by wikiHow
Categories Fruit Cakes
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to around 180ºC/350ºC (moderate). Line or grease the cake pan.
- Cream the butter and sugar.
- Fold in the egg yolks. Add the golden syrup and sour milk. Stir to combine.
- Add the sifted flour, cinnamon, mixed spice and nutmeg. Alternate gradually with the addition of the currants, raisins and ground cloves.
- Beat the 3 egg whites until stiff. Fold into the cake batter.
- Add the dissolved baking soda and mix through.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
- Place in the oven. Bake for around 2 hours. The cake is ready when a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven once baked. Cool on a wire cooling rack.
RED CURRANT CAKE
A very simple and rustic cake with a moist center and a crumbly topping. Red Currant Cake is an easy and gorgeous summer dessert! Easily prepared with fresh currants during harvesting season, or with frozen currants throughout the winter months!
Provided by Lord Byron's Kitchen
Categories Dessert
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare a 9 inch spring-form cake pan by greasing it with butter. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, using a hand-held mixer, beat together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes.)
- Add the eggs, vanilla extract, and milk. Beat into the sugar and butter mixture until just incorporated. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add this mixture to the wet ingredients and beat until just mixed together.
- Add the red currants and fold into the batter with a rubber spatula.
- Pour into prepared spring-form cake pan and set aside.
- Add all ingredients (with the exception of the red currants) to a bowl and mix together with your hands, pressing the butter into the other ingredients until a crumbly mixture has formed.
- Loosely crumble this mixture over the cake.
- Top with the remaining 1/4 cup red currants. (Optional)
- Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Once you remove the cake from the oven, it is very important to leave the cake in the pan. Place the pan onto a wire cooling rack. Leave the cake to cool for 30 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and allow to fully cool before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 248 kcal, Carbohydrate 37 g, Protein 4 g, Fat 10 g, SaturatedFat 6 g, Cholesterol 50 mg, Sodium 128 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 21 g, ServingSize 1 serving
CURRANT CAKE
Home made currant cake
Provided by elaineoconnell
Time 1h
Yield Makes Cake
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 200ðC/400ðF/Gas 6. Lightly dust a flat baking tray with flour.
- Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into a mixing bowl. Add the sugar and mix well.
- Rub the margarine or butter into the dry ingredients until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sultanas or raisins and mix through.
- Finally, add the egg and sufficient milk to make a soft dough, not too wet or sticky! Turn onto a lightly floured board and gently knead, just enough to bring the dough together.
- Transfer to the prepared baking tray and shape into a round 1 1/2â deep. Cut a cross on top and bake for about 40 minutes until golden brown.
CURRANT TEA CAKES
Came across these while looking for a tea biscuit recipe in all of my cookbooks. Not exactly what I was looking for, but very good and easy.
Provided by Karen..
Categories Breads
Time 30m
Yield 36 cakes
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Cream butter, lemon peel and lemon juice until light.
- Add sugar and cream until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and blend well.
- In another bowl, mix flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture, beating well until blended.
- Stir in currants.
- Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased and floured baking sheet.
- Bake at 350* for 10 minutes or until set.
- Remove to a wire rack to cool.
CURRANT CAKES
The old-fashioned Christmas drop cake from the New England chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Provided by Molly53
Categories Drop Cookies
Time 30m
Yield 72 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375F and grease baking pans very well.
- Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy; add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition.
- Add a little of the flour, rind and juice of lemon and salt.
- Work the rest of the flour in slowly along with the currants.
- Drop by spoonfuls, pressing flat with a knife as the cakes are better when very thin.
- Bake until lightly browned, about ten minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 100.9, Fat 5.6, SaturatedFat 3.4, Cholesterol 31.2, Sodium 50.6, Carbohydrate 12, Fiber 0.4, Sugar 7.7, Protein 1.2
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