Our delicious cake recipes from the Golden Cup Cafe

So many of you have asked us to share our recipes for our delicious Bundt cakes we sell in the Golden Cup Cafe so here they are:

Basic mixture

225g butter

450g sugar

4 eggs

350g plain flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon Bicarb of Soda

250ml plain yoghurt

Heat oven to 165C

Prepare bundt tin – brush with cool melted butter sieved flour making sure all areas are covered

Combine dry ingredients

Mix wet ingredients together

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

Add eggs one at a time

Add some of dry mix, then wet mix and repeat until all combined

Carefully pour into cake tin, tap to set cake mixture into place

Place on baking tray and cook for 1hr 30 mins, test with a skewer, it should come out clean

Cool in tin for 15mins

Oh so gently place cooling rack on top of the cake and turn upside down and hope the cake drops out odf the tin in one piece!

Decorate as the mood takes you…..

For variety in the bake try:

1 teaspoon of orange, lemon or almond extract

Spices like ginger with 3-4 chopped balls of stem ginger + 4 teaspoons of ground ginger

Lemon and poopy seeds, vanilla and lavender, chocolate chip 100-150g , marinated fruits or nuts

Swap the yoghurt for jam, marmalade, curds

With thanks to the ever brilliant Jane Whittaker from Knead It Bakery