Pretty Pink

Today,  the biggest morning tea was held in our club for fundraising.  It was well organised, and people generously brought beautiful food, sandwiches, scones, slices and cakes.  The morning tea was very successful.

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is Cancer Council Australia’s most popular fund raising event and the largest, most successful event of its kind in Australia. This May mark the 21st  anniversary of Australia's Biggest Morning Tea when people have the teas at work, school and in the community.

I am glad that we could participate, and it was good to see that everyone enjoyed the morning tea and donated money for the course.

The pretty pink cake was dedicated to all women who suffer from breast cancer, I hope with more funding and the intensive research of the experts we will get better treatment and cure.

It's a simple raspberry quick mix which I used for a layer cake and also for the cake pops.

To have the best cake, use all fresh ingredients, also make the cake from scratch.

Pretty Pink Cake 

Preparation of the cake pops

The cake pops are fun to make, on a school holiday you can spend time with the children to make them.  What you need is chocolate block-melted, a cake that you can crumb and mix with cream and other flavours, shape them into small balls - as big as a lollypop and the sticks to hold the cake which is available in the cake shop.

I used white chocolate block, melted and I added the colour, on this occasion I added a dash of pink colouring food.

The picture above is self-explanatory, the process of which you could follow easily.

Another cake which is lovely for morning or afternoon tea is coffee cake, the recipe is in an old post.

Recipe of the raspberry cake is simple, and here it is.


Raspberry Cake

Ingredients
2 cups self-rising flour
1 teaspoon  bicarbonate of soda
3/4 cup castor sugar
125 g unsalted butter-softened
1 cup milk
2 eggs
Pink food colouring
24 fresh raspberry or frozen (crushed)

Method
Put the oven onto 160 degrees C (fan forced)
Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl
Mix all the wet ingredients together in a food processor, process it until all combine
Add in the dry ingredients, mix quickly
Add in the crushed raspberry the last, blend to combine
If the batter is too thick, add extra milk to get a smooth and light consistency.
Pour the batter onto two lined and greased 20 cm cake tin
Bake in the preheated oven for 22 minutes
Keep the cake on the tin for a few minutes before turning out, place them on a cooling rack.
To assemble
When they are cold, join them with buttercream.
To make layers: cut the cake into two, so you will have four halves cake.  Then join them with whipped cream or buttercream with raspberry flavour.  I think the buttercream will cut better.




Coffee Cake with coffee buttercream topping, meringue and chocolate topping and the layer raspberry cake with cake pops at the top.

The Pretty Pink Cake
and
Coffee Cakes

The pretty pink is suitable for a birthday cake too.  Enjoy the recipe and happy baking.




Until Next Post
Susy