Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, tottenham cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Tottenham cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Tottenham cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
Since returning back to London from the holidays in Colorado and Connecticut This cake was invented by Quakers who lived in Tottenham, in north London. Tottenham Cake is a local well-known delicacy, sold country-wide. It is a tray-baked sponge cake The origins of Tottenham Cake and how it was made was showcased on 'The Great British Bake Off.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have tottenham cake using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Tottenham cake:
- Take 170 g Margarine or butter
- Get 170 g caster sugar
- Take 3 eggs
- Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 225 g plain flour
- Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Prepare Milk
- Get 100 g icing sugar
- Get Pink food colouring
- Get Desiccated coconut/ chocolate stars optional
- Prepare 2 teaspoon icing sugar
- Make ready Warm water
Tray-baked light sponge cake square coated in jam, desiccated coconut Tottenham Religious Society of Friends at www.tottenhamquakers.org.uk report that; "Ted Willis. Tottenham is a suburb of London, England. Tottenham may also refer to: Tottenham Hotspur F. C., an Association football club in London.
Instructions to make Tottenham cake:
- Grease and line a 22cm by 30cm baking tin (9x12 inches). Preheat the oven to 150 Celsius
- Cream margarine and caster sugar together
- Mix flour and baking powder together and add to mixture gradually with eggs. Add each egg one at a time with a third of the flour to mix in evenly to the creamed mixture.
- Add vanilla essence and milk to mixture until it is a consistency that it drops easily from a spoon.
- Transfer mixture to the baking tray and cover the top with foil to get an even bake. Bake for 50 minutes.
- Use a cake tester or knife to ensure cake is cooked, tester when inserted in cake should be clear of mixture. Allow cake to thoroughly cool down after baking.
- Once cooked make a watery sugar syrup using a teaspoon or two of icing sugar and warm water. Drizzle over cake.
- In a bowl sieve the 100g icing sugar and then add food colouring. I used food gel and a little water for mine as gel not liquid enough. Mix together gradually to get a consistency that runs of the spoon but not to wet that it slides of the cake. Be quick to spread the icing quickly on the cake before it sets.
- Trim cakes edges for neatness, decorate if desired and slice into rectangular blocks. Approx 16 slices depending on what portion size you require. I tried to use icing sugar to lighten up my vivid pink, which did not work so I opted for white chocolate stars!
Tottenham (UK Parliament constituency), in London, England. Municipal Borough of Tottenham, a former administrative district in England. I often bake cakes and things and take them into work, where they rarely last more than five minutes! However, someone has given me the challenge of making a Tottenham Cake as its their favourite. Experience the world of cake decorating like never before with Cake Central Magazine!
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