Today I’m not as hungry as last week when I published my sister’s recipe for skinny pancakes.
Thank goodness, I’ve been getting better. I don’t feel nauseous all the time (though it still happens from time to time) and I don’t have to sleep sitting up in bed. I still get tired very easily and people tell me that to recover from flu takes a very long time.
And this is where my sister come in.
Now that she lives thirty minutes’ drive away from us, she’s come to look after me. She is actually looking after us because she’s helping cook, organise the house a bit and prepare for the grand birthdays celebration on Sunday: we’ll have family around to celebrate my birthday (passed), John’s birthday (tomorrow) and Suzi the Dog’s birthday (on October 31 she will be one year old).
My sister is a great cook.
She is even better at making pastries – I already told you about her buhti. For Sunday she will make her specialty cake which is nothing short of a sweet delight made of eggs, sugar and custard (I’ll share the recipe for this one next week but my one and only attempt to make it didn’t end so good).
Tonight she decided to make her fantastic Fanta cake.
Here is what I’m talking about.
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup of sugar
- ½ cup of oil (vegetable or sunflower oil)
- 1 cup of Fanta
- 5 cups of flour;
- 1 tsp of baking powder;
- Vanilla (several drops)
Preparation
Break the eggs in a large bowl.
Add the sugar and whisk until the sugar has dissolved.
Add the oil and continue whisking. Add the Fanta while whisking the mixture.
Start adding the flour gradually while whisking the mixture. When the mixture becomes a bit more compact change the extensions of your hand mixer.
Add the baking powder and the vanilla; continue adding the flour very gradually while mixing.
The only trick making this cake (and other sponge cakes) is that the mixture has to be just the right consistency. And you know that it is right not when you put in 2.5 cups of flour; you’ll know it is just right when you take the hand mixer up and there is a continuous stream of mixture to the bowl.
This is what it looks like.
After that you can separate some of the mixture and mix some cocoa in, or some coffee if you prefer.
Pour some of the mixture in the cake tray, than put the cocoa mixture; after that finish pouring the cake mixture in.
For a great cake you need a baking tray that has a hole in the middle (like the one in the picture above).
If you use a metal cake tray you need to oil it and sprinkle it with flour.
I’ve started using silicone trays which deals away with the need for oiling.
Bake at 170C for about 40 minutes. Before taking the cake out of the oven try whether it is ready by poking it with a wooden spike or even a metal knife. If there is mixture on the spike when you take it out the cake is not ready yet.
What’s so fantastic about this Fanta cake then?
Well, Fanta cake is:
- Delicious;
- Great if you have kids (particularly teens love it);
- Easy to make; and
- It is inexpensive (a whole cake costs approximately £1.30 and this is the price of a muffin and a half).
And look what has happened to the cake my sister just made.
The cake looks delicious! I try to avoid these treats because I like them too much. I woul dtake one piece and give away the rest.
@Krant: Haha, you and me, friend, you and me. I make this kind of stuff very occasionally and try to exercise willpower (with very limited success).
Looks good and very interesting! I would like to try baking this fantastic and super inexpensive fanta cake.
@Nik: Please let me know how it goes. It is particualrly good if you have kids and can save a lot by not buying cakes from the bakery.