2 thumbs up - Fruit Pastry
This is my 2nd attempt on this pastry. I use cake flour in my 1st attempt, hoping to achieve a moist cake with smooth and fine texture. However, I felt tat it was rather dry. I used apples, canned peach and blueberries and this combo works out really good! There's no pics of the cake then as my camera konked out on me.
So having a free time slot now, I decided to attempt this cake again. I used the same combo of fruits and I switched to self-raising flour this time.
Thanks Vi for posting the recipe at IK.
Here's my modification:
What you need
- 210 gm self-raising flour
- 150 gm sugar
- 100 gm butter
- 3 tbsp sour cream
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp lemon peel
- 3 eggs
- Combo of fruits (1 apple, 1 whole canned peach, abt 15 blueberries)
- Sift self-raising flour with baking powder in a bowl, and set aside.
- Cut fruits into thin slices.
- Preheat oven to 180 C.
- Beat butter, sour cream and sugar together till fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Add lemon peel and vanilla extract.
- Fold in flour and baking powder and mix until everything is smooth.
- Grease a baking pan.
- Place batter in the pan and level nice. Place fruits on top.
- Bake for 40 minutes (test with skewer).
- Let cool on a rack and sprinkle with icing sugar.
Labels: Cakes
7 Comments:
What a delicious loaf - it looks wonderful!
By Patricia Scarpin, at 11:41 PM, July 10, 2007
Thanks Patricia. :)
This is really delicious... plan to bake another loaf soon!
By Baking Fiend, at 9:23 AM, July 11, 2007
Hi baking fiend,
I tried out the fruit pastry using your recipe. The result : Very soft n the sweetness of it is just nice. I used frozen blueberries n canned peaches only. Next time i will add in more variations. Thanks.
Rgs,
Mei
By Anonymous, at 2:00 PM, July 13, 2007
hi baking fiend , do u find the second recipe with using the self raising flour to be more soft . I tried baking once with cake flour also ..and it came out dry as well. Btw yr fruit pastry loooks yummy delicious.
take care
By Unknown, at 2:37 PM, July 13, 2007
Hi mei, happy to hear that yr attempt for the pastry turned out good!
Hi Sue, My initial attempt using cake flour turned out dry and dense. When I tried self-raising flour, the cake rose alot! and resulted in a lighter texture. But this is essentially more like a butter cake, can't expect the texture to be like those of a sponge cake. Why not give this a try and compare? Do remember not to put in the fridge 'coz I find it hardens and take a long time to "thaw". Happy Baking!
By Baking Fiend, at 3:29 PM, July 13, 2007
thanks you ida, i will try using self raising flour in the future.
Does the cake stay soft the next day?
thank you
By Unknown, at 2:46 PM, July 26, 2007
The cake still stay soft the next day. I dun put it in the fridge and kept it in an air-tight container.
By Baking Fiend, at 3:05 PM, July 26, 2007
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