Simple Cake Recipes You Can Try This Festive Season

The festive season is the time for social gatherings and making timeless memories. You can make these moments even more memorable by treating your loved ones with homemade cakes. Contrary to common notion, making cakes is easy, provided you have the right recipe and tools such as a stand mixer. Further on the subject, let’s look at a couple of simple cake recipes you can try this festive season.

Coconut and Blueberry Cheesecake

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups almond meal
• ½ cup shredded coconut flour
• 1 tablespoon icing sugar
• ½ cup of coconut oil
• 500g cream cheese
• 3 eggs
• ⅔ cup caster sugar
• 1 lemon zest and juice
• 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
• 125 g blueberries

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 160℃. Add coconut, flour, and icing in a mixing bowl and then add coconut oil. In a clean bowl, add cream cheese, eggs, sugar, juice, zest, and vanilla and mix until the batter is smooth. Cooldown the baking pan, pour half of the cream cheese, repeat with the remaining cream cheese and then sprinkle blueberries. Bake for 1 hour. Switch off the oven and let it cool completely.

Serve: Top the cake with the remaining blueberries, coconut, and cream.

Kumara Cake

Ingredients

• 400g Kumara (peeled and chopped) 
• ⅓ cup of maple syrup
• 200g butter
• ½ cup of caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• ¼ cup of rice flour
• 2 tablespoons gluten-free baking powder
• ½ tablespoon cardamom
• 1 cup almond
• ½ cup pecans (chopped and toasted) 

Icing

• 2 cups icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 tablespoon rum/ 1 tablespoon vanilla essence and lemon juice.

Preparation

Preheat oven to 180 °C, spread Kumara in syrup in a baking tray, bake for 30-35 minutes, then mash. Mix the mash and butter together in a stand mixer bowl, add eggs one at a time while mixing at a slow speed, add flour, baking powder and cardamom. Spread pecans into the baking pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes. Wait until cool and transfer to a wire rack.

In a clean mixing bowl, add icing sugar, milk, rum/vanilla essence, and lemon zest, then slowly pour over the cake mix. Mix extra pecans in syrup over the cake, then transfer to a pan and bake for 10 minutes.

Icing

Add melted butter to raspberry juice, stir in the icing sugar and 2 teaspoons of boiling water, then pour icing over the cake. Use fresh raspberries to decorate the cake.

The Last Word

Baking can be great fun if you have the right tools such as a stand mixer and high-quality non stick bakeware. If you are still building up your baking arsenal, make sure you go for a reputable brand, such as KitchenAid, rather than going for cheap imports that seldom deliver any value for money.