Simple Cakes Delicious Step By Step Recipes by Mary Berry - HardcoverDefault Title (2024)

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What does Mary Berry use instead of butter? ›

“I no longer prepare a Victoria sandwich with the traditional creaming and folding methods, as [an] all-in-one method gives excellent results every time,” she said. For those who struggle to get butter to optimum baking consistency, Mary recommends using baking spread instead.

You can always trust in a Mary Berry cake recipe and these are her easiest ever. Whatever your favourite cake, Mary Berry is sure to have an easy version for you. This delicious, traditional cake is so moreish – when testing this recipe, we couldn't eat it fast enough!

Butter is the favoured fat to use in cakes and bakes and we use unsalted butter for all of our cakes in the bakeries. It is made from churned cream, a process that separates the butterfat from the buttermilk.

Go with room temperature ingredients

Make sure that the butter you use is not too cold. Using cold butter can make you over-mix since it takes a long time to thoroughly mix butter, sugar and eggs. You can end up with a cake that is too heavy. Avoid all that by simply using room temperature ingredients.

The Queen of Baking has written more than 70 cookbooks since 1970. A national icon, Mary Berry's best recipe is one of her most traditional: a delicious lemon drizzle traybake, cooked to sweet and zingy perfection.

Lemon juice naturally contains citric acid which quickly reacts with the base present in the baking powder producing CO2 and sodium citrate. This may lead to undesirable flavors and poor crust color due to lower pH of the product after baking.

Sprinkle in lemon or orange zest to give your box cake batter a hint of zing. You can also replace the water with lemon, orange or lime juice or soda. Use this method with any type of cake mix, but it works best with lemon, yellow and white cake.

Some of Mary Berry's most popular recipes include Lemon Drizzle Cake, Beef Wellington, Chicken and Mushroom Pie, and Victoria Sponge.

Put the flour, grated nutmeg, mixed spice, butter, sugar, eggs, chopped almonds, black treacle and the citrus zest into a large bowl and beat well to mix thoroughly. Fold in the soaked fruits. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and spread out evenly with the back of a spoon.

A friend sent me this fruitcake from Costco and I loved it , it does not have hardy any cake to it but lots of nuts and sweet cherries which i love .. I have had other fruitcakes that wasn't very sweet and all you could taste was the fruit no nuts to mention and the cake was always dry I do not like a dry cake..

What butter substitute tastes the most like butter? ›

Ghee. While not necessarily healthier than regular butter, ghee (clarified butter) has grown in popularity as an alternative, which makes intuitive sense because it offers a deep buttery taste and texture.

Ghee, coconut oil, and olive oil have properties that are comparable to butter, which make them appropriate baking substitutes.