Orange cake

Cake week... I also made this light and fluffy orange cake that was absolutely delicious.

Heavenly chocolate cake (gluten free)

I was told to bring dessert to Easter celebrations. I went through the I love chocolate I love thermomix book and found the Gluten free Heavenly chocolate cake recipe. At first glance it looked terrifying but was surprisingly easily, looked spectacular and tasted divine. Everyone had seconds!

Buttercream icing

The cake my sister's 40th birthday required buttercream icing. This is well outside our usual fondant icing cakes. I found Mum's handwritten recipe and tweeked it for thermomix.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 pound/453 grams of white butter (we got it at Costco as USA butter whiter than Australian butter)
• 6 cups of icing sugar
• 1 drop of food colour (in our case pink)

METHOD

1. Soften butter (let it warm or few seconds in the microwave-should be the consistency of ice cream).
2. Put all butter in thermomix bowl, cream speed 4/30 seconds.
3. Add all icing sugar.
4. Mix Speed 4/15 seconds. Scrape down sides of bowl. Repeat until desired consistency achieved. The more you whip the butter the whiter it will become.
5. Add food colouring. Mix Speed 4 until desired colour achieved.
6. Remove from bowl and ice your cake