Microwave Cake

Perfect Microwave Cake for Party

Everyone loves to make their parties special and cakes tend to be the defining factor in most parties.

You could spend a fortune to get a great cake from the local bakery or spend loads of time baking it in your oven. If both ideas do not appeal to you, you could try using a microwave to bake your cake – it is simple, fast and makes great tasting cakes.

Traditional baked cakes are always going to be top choice for anyone and everyone. But given that you can make a cake within a matter of five minutes is something you cannot ignore. Besides, in five minutes how much can you mess up? If the cake comes out well – which it does if done properly - your bargain would have more than paid off.

Microwave cake do not brown on top. And if you don't like this, you can cover up using cream, icing and some fancy decoration. This will not only make your cake looks great but you guest won't tell it different from the cake baked in conventional oven.

Below is a basic recipes for the cakes, but you also have to come up with idea on what your birthday party theme is. so you can decorated your cake based on that.

Vanilla Cake

Ingredients

120 g butter
120 g caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
120 g self raising flour
1/2 tbsp baking powder

Instructions

Grease and line microwave dish
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy
Beat the eggs and vanilla essence
Stir in the flour and baking powder
Spoon into the baking dish
Microwave for 4 minutes on full power
Leave to stand for 10 minutes before turning out

If you want to make microwave chocolate cake, you can change the vanilla essence into 30 g unsweetened cocoa powder.

This microwave cake is one of Carol Deacon collection recipes in her book, Perfect Party Cakes Made Easy.

Regardless of whether you are an ardent baker or an occasional one, whenever there is a party, baking those perfect cakes is something that most moms pride in.

Of course just a good product is not sufficient; you also need to package it properly. A good decoration many times could be a difference between as good party cake and a great party cake.

Obviously, if the decorations are not very difficult, who wouldn’t want to put a little more effort and serve the best? Of course these skills are not learn easily and require some professional guidance. Perfect Party Cakes by Carol Deacon is a perfect book for such baking recipes.

Carol Deacon an experienced cake decorator has brought all her experience on paper with this book. You have great cake recipes and even better decoration ideas that will help you make some memorable party cakes.

What’s more most of the recipes and decorations are very simple and you really don’t need years of experience to read and understand them. At the same time, if you have been baking for some time, you need not be disappointed. This book also has sufficient details on more elaborate baking and decoration techniques too.

This is a great baking book for beginners and experienced party cake bakers. With the recipes from this book handy you will not have to turn to your local bakery for your next perfect party cake.

Lastly, this book is not just a list of recipes that you just follow word to word, it also has make baking and decorating techniques that you can apply your creativity to create something innovative and completely original.