Green aniseed and chocolate cakes

Part of the items I chose from Healthy Supplies this month was green aniseed. I have always loved the flavour of aniseed, aniseed balls were my favourite sweets as a child, and so I set to work making cakes with it in. I also googled what other flavours compliments aniseed and one of them was chocolate, so I set about making green aniseed and chocolate cakes.



Green aniseed and chocolate cakes

Ingredients

4 oz Flora cuisine
4oz coconut sugar
2 eggs
8oz organic light brown S/R flour
1 teaspoon green aniseed
2 tablespoon green and black's cocoa powder
2oz choc chips.

Method

1. Pre heat oven to 180oC and put 12 cake cases into a cake tin
2..Place flora, sugar eggs and flour into a bowl and mix together.
3.add choc chips and then split the mixture in half.
4.add the aniseed to one half and the cocoa powder to the other
5. 1/3 fill the cake cases with the green aniseed cake and then cover with equal amounts of chocolate.
6. cook for approx 12 mins until risen and brown.


the two flavours compliment each other very nicely. This cocoa powder is a strong bitter flavour that works well  in the sweetness of a cake.





Whisky soaked Sultana cakes





Ingredients

4 oz Flora cuisine
4oz coconut sugar
2 eggs
8oz organic light brown S/R flour
4 oz sultanas
4 tablespoons whisky








Method

•  soak sultanas in whisky for an hour or more.
•  Pre heat oven to 180oC and put 12 cake cases into a cake tin
• Place flora, sugar eggs and flour into a bowl and mix together. 
• add whisky soaked sultanas and split between cake cases.
• cook for approx 12 mins until risen and brown,

Makes for a very moist fruit cake with the sultanas having a nice seasonal flavour.


The highlighted items were supplied by Healthy Supplies, the recipe and ideas are all my own.