Currant Cake Recipes

RED CURRANT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare a 9 inch spring-form cake pan by greasing it with butter. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, using a hand-held mixer, beat together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes.)
• Add the eggs, vanilla extract, and milk. Beat into the sugar and butter mixture until just incorporated. Set aside.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add this mixture to the wet ingredients and beat until just mixed together.
• Add the red currants and fold into the batter with a rubber spatula.
• Pour into prepared spring-form cake pan and set aside.
• Add all ingredients (with the exception of the red currants) to a bowl and mix together with your hands, pressing the butter into the other ingredients until a crumbly mixture has formed.
• Loosely crumble this mixture over the cake.
• Top with the remaining 1/4 cup red currants. (Optional)
• Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Once you remove the cake from the oven, it is very important to leave the cake in the pan. Place the pan onto a wire cooling rack. Leave the cake to cool for 30 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and allow to fully cool before serving.

BLACK CURRANT CAKE

Steps:

• Remove the butter from the refrigerator a few hours before baking to allow it to get soft. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius/ 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Butter and flour a springform (20 cm/ 8 inches) or line the bottom of the springform with parchment paper.
• Clean and dry the black currants. Set aside.
• Cream the butter and the sugar, about 3-4 minutes. Add the eggs, one by one, mixing well in between. Mix the flour and the baking powder and sieve them over the mixture. Mix shortly again.
• Place the batter into the prepared springform. Cover with the berries. Bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Leave cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, remove and let cool on a wire rack. Serve as suggested above.

HOW TO MAKE AN OLD FASHIONED CURRANT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to around 180ºC/350ºC (moderate). Line or grease the cake pan.
• Cream the butter and sugar.
• Fold in the egg yolks. Add the golden syrup and sour milk. Stir to combine.
• Add the sifted flour, cinnamon, mixed spice and nutmeg. Alternate gradually with the addition of the currants, raisins and ground cloves.
• Beat the 3 egg whites until stiff. Fold into the cake batter.
• Add the dissolved baking soda and mix through.
• Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Place in the oven. Bake for around 2 hours. The cake is ready when a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove from the oven once baked. Cool on a wire cooling rack.

CURRANT & LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Place currants, lemon juice, and butter in a pan and heat to melt butter.
• Cool slightly.
• Beat in eggs with a wooden spoon.
• Add sugar, rind, flour and milk. Mix well.
• Bake in a lined roasting dish at 160 C for about 1 hour.