I've had my breadmaker for a good while now and honestly never thought to make anything in it other than bread ! Feeling a little bored the other day I had a go at making a cake in it - so far so ok....I considered ginger cake as its a favourite but I just couldn't find any ground ginger - can't quite believe it as I make curry a lot so - fruit cake it was. I followed the recipe to the letter ( unlike me too ) which meant combining all the ingredients outside of the machine and then pouring them into the machine to cook.
It's a long cook ( 3.10 minutes ) and it seemed that for the first 2 hours the mixture just sat around bored. It just seemed to sit there, I was unconvinced at this point that anything was happening in there at all!! But - with about an hour to go it started to smell quite cakey in my kitchen.... after 3 hours I was pretty excited as it was definitely a cake taking shape.
Amazing - it turned out really very good indeed, not the lightest of cakes but delicious and fruity and very well received .
Now every machine is going to be different so I'm just going to post a picture of my mixture from the leaflet but I'll definitely give this a go again - so easy - I'm just sorry that I didn't have a go earlier -
Off to try a lemon drizzle cake I think .......
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