Fruit pastry cake

Heyy people :)

how are you all. Hope everyone is fine. As I mentioned in my Facebook that I wanted to do some baking to free my mind, well I started it out today by baking fruit pastry cake :) I did some mistakes and that made my cake to break into half :( but then I learnt some lesson and I'll write out the mistakes and the solution :)

I guess I need to do more baking to get a perfect cut and a perfect cake..sigh.. but this is good enough for a starter isn't it ?

Without flash

Ingredients :

100g butter [ soften at room temperature]

200g caster sugar 

50g sour cream [ those who are staying in Ipoh, you guys can get it in Aeon Jusco station 18]

3 eggs lightly beaten at room temperature

1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract [ I used rose extract for a change]

1 teaspoon of orange or lemon zest

1 teaspoon baking powder

210g plain flour

500g fruits- tossed with sugar. [ make sure you drain well the water..]

Methods:

1. Wash, cut ( chunks/slices) and drain the fruits. Toss the fruits with sugar and set aside.
2. Grease butter on sides of pan that you use. It can be square/sphere/ rectangular in shape and MAKE SURE YOU LINE THE pan with parchment paper. The mistake I did was, I did not use parchment paper and the cake got stucked with the pan and eventually broke into 2. :(
3. With electric mixer, mix the butter, sugar and sour cream till light and fluffy
4.  Place the eggs gradually and beat till incorporated with the batter
5. Add in vanilla extract or in my case I used rose extract and orange/lemon zest into the batter.
6. Sieve over the flour together with the baking powder and mix it still smooth. * careful don't over mix the batter.
7. Pour batter into the prepared pan and even it with spatula.
8. Arrange fruits as per your wish on top. Don't press the fruits into the batter. [ Fruits that you can use is : strawberry, blueberry, peaches, oranges,bananas, pineapple and many more]
9. Bake in a pre-heat oven at 180degcel for 60-70 minutes. In my case I think my oven is automatically set with above 180degcel so I just bake the cake for around 35-40 minutes.  
10. Leave the cake in pan for 5-10 minutes, cool it down and dust the cake with some icing sugar if you want

 Before going into oven :

After coming out from oven, I dust the cake with some icing sugar

P/s : if you see at top left of the cake is where the cake broke :(

with flash :)

So here I would like to say thank this blogger : http://happyhomebaking.blogspot.com/2010/04/fruit-pastry-cake.html . I took the recipe from here and it turn out well except for the breaking part of cause.

Mom asked me to bake again next week. So I plan to use more different fruits  :)
Happy trying, its a very very simple cake to do with. Trust me you'll enjoy baking. Do leave comment if you want to :)

-Kausy-

-Baking mood is on-