Carob Cake

Carob Cake is a modern Fusion recipe for a classic sponge cake that's flavoured with ground carob (which has a distinctive chocolaty taste). The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Fusion version of: Carob Cake.

prep time

20 minutes

cook time

30 minutes

Total Time:

50 minutes

Serves:

Rating:

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As carob has a chocolatey taste (rather like acacia seeds) it makes a very welcome (and different) addition or variation for many cake recipes.

Ingredients:

300g sugar
115g ground carob
115g butter
2 large eggs
2 tsp baking powder
120ml milk
1 tsp salt
450g self-raising flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
240ml boiling water

Method:

Grease a 22 x 33cm pan and line with greaseproof paper. Mix the sugar, carob and butter and cream with a wooden spoon until light and fluffy. Break the eggs in a bowl and whisk then add slowly to the sugar and butter mixture, stirring continually. Add the baking powder, milk and sugar and bake into the batter. Now sift the flour into the batter and mix-in thoroughly. Finally add the vanilla and boiling water.

Tip the batter into your prepared cake tin and place in the centre of an oven pre-heated to 180°C (350°F/Gas Mark 4) for about half an hour, until the cake has set and browned nicely on the top.

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