Bannana and Nutella loaf cake recipe

Today I saw this amazing looking cake on Pinterest and decided to have a go myself. The recipe is from 'Zoe Bakes'. It was so delicious that it is now almost all gone!

You will need -
2 ripe bananas
250g caster sugar
125g butter
60ml milk
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
375g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
a pinch of salt
4 tablespoons Nutella

Method - 
Preheat your oven 170c, grease and line a loaf tin. Mix together the butter and sugar in a bowl, then add the egg, milk and vanilla extract.

Combine all of the dry ingredients in a separate bowl then sift them into the milk mixture. Soften the Nutella in the microwave and add half to the cake mixture and stir. Pour your mixture into the lined loaf tin then spread the rest of the Nutella over the top. Pop into the oven for 40-50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean!

The Nutella on the top goes beautiful and crunchy on the outside and soft and gooey on the inside - amazing!

Lemon Drizzle cake recipe card

Last week I baked a lovely Lemon Drizzle cake and a few people have asked me for the recipe, so I thought a recipe card would be a nice way to do it! Feel free to save it and print it out or stick it in your recipe book. (the oven temperature is 180c)

Today is my Mums birthday so we've had a nice day at home, I've been flicking through my vintage tea party books looking for lovely recipes (cake ones incase I hadn't made enough cake already ha) and later on we are going to go to Pizza express, a pollo pesto here I come!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, love Becky x

Songs of the week: Lorde - Tennis court, Lana Del Rey - Gods and Monsters, Awolnation - Sail

A party is just a meeting without cake!

I  was recently contacted by 'Baking Mad' to see if I would like to have a little browse of their fabulous website and pick something to bake, of course the answer was an instant yes!

After getting very into The Great British Bake Off this year and being so certain of who I thought would win (ahem Ruby) I couldn't wait to get baking! I had a good look at the wide variety of cakes and other yummy looking treats and decided on this Victoria sponge cake, it turned out to be extremely scrummy and I couldn't wait to share the recipe with you all, so here you go!

Ingredients

For the sponge

• 175g Butter (unsalted) room temperature
• 175g caster sugar
• 1 Lemon zest grated
• 175g Self-raising white flour
• 1tsp Baking powder
• 3 free range eggs

For the filling

• 150g Strawberries, sliced
• 3 tbsp Strawberry jam
• 150ml Double cream
• 4 Strawberries to decorate

Cream together the butter and sugar until smooth and fluffy

Beat in the eggs and flour and baking powder alternately, until combined and smooth. If you are using lemon zest add it in at this point (I didn't have a lemon so I skipped this bit.)

(roll your mouse of this image for a suprise)

Divide the mixture equally between two lined and greased cake tins and bake for 20 minutes at 180c

Once the cakes are cooled whip your double cream until it forms soft peaks and then spread it over one half of your cake, then spread strawberry jam over the other half. I sliced up some strawberry's and put them in between the cream and jam too., then sandwich your cakes together.

Serve with tea, or if your not a tea drinker like me HOT CHOCOLATE, just in case you aren't about to consume enough calories! 

Other good bakes to try out from Baking Mad -

scones - http://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/scones
cupcakes recipe - http://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/cupcake-recipe

The cake was really simple to make and it tasted delicious, I would love to know if you try this out yourself.

Raspberry cake recipe

I recently saw this recipe on Olivia's blog and it looked so yummy that I had to make it myself, but it was too pretty not too blog about so I hope she doesn't mind me stealing her lovely recipe!

Ingredients:

- 250g caster sugar
- 250g unsalted butter
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- 250g self raising flour
- 75g ground almonds
- 225g fresh raspberries

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Combine the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.

Gradually add in the eggs 1 at a time and before you add the last one add a tablespoon of your flour to stop the mixture from curdling.

Sift in the rest of the flour and mix well, add the ground almonds and then almost all of the raspberries (but saving a few to place on the top)

Then pour you mixture into a greased and lined cake tin,  and place your leftover raspberries on the top. 

To stop the top of it burning in the oven place a piece of greaseproof paper over the top of the mixture with a circular hole cut out.

Bake it in the oven for around 1 hour, untill a skewer comes out clean if you poke it inside.