When you look at this fruity cake, you may think this is Fruit Pastry Cake that I made last year. Nope! This is actually a butter cake with some fresh fruits added on top and you may notice there is bread flour added in the recipe. I first came across using bread flour for baking is Castella Cake as I always thought bread flour is only meant for making bread. This prove that I was wrong. So when I saw this recipe in a magazine (Mango Butter Cake), I immediately used my leftover bread flour, some fresh strawberries and frozen blueberries that I have to make this Fruity Butter Cake. I have also tweaked the recipe by adding an extra 4 tbsp natural yoghurt as I was afraid that the cake will be very dry as there was no milk in it. This Fruity Butter Cake is quite soft and delicious not bad, I'll give 4 stars for it.
In order to make a quick bake, I used a cake bar silicone mould from SiliconeMoulds.Com that Sarah sent to me months ago. The cakes look pretty after baked and you can serve them individually, with no messy cutting.
If you're interested to look for more new silicone moulds, please visit SiliconeMoulds.Com.
Fruity Butter Cake
Ingredients:
180g Icing sugar (I used 150g)
4 tbsp Natural yoghurt
1 tsp Vanilla extract
3 Large eggs
120g Plain flour
70g Bread flour
Method:
- Grease mould with butter.
- Sift plain flour and bread together and set aside.
- Cream butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy at medium speed.
- Add 4 tbsp natural yoghurt and vanilla extract, mix till combined.
- Add eggs one at a time making sure to beat well after each addition.
- Stop machine and fold in flour in 3 batches with a rubber spatula, fold well.
- Spoon batter into mould. Place strawberries and blueberries on top. Do not press.
- Bake at preheated oven 180C for about 20 minutes.
- Leave cake to cool in mould, remove and dust some snow powder over it.
How about packing them in a gift box? ♥
OMG!!!! These buttery cakes are my favourite! Look at these cute and mini size I can have two without guilt :p
ReplyDeleteEllena, I know you love butter cake! Let's exchange :)
Deleteamazing! i like the way of your presentation. love it! will try it too! thanks
ReplyDeleteThanks. Love it, especially introducing us to the little individual mould.
ReplyDeleteHi Angie, nice to see you back! 你好像很久没上菜哦。。。还是很忙吗？
DeleteWow, these moulds are perfect! Very pretty little bars!
ReplyDelete我是被那蛋糕上的水果吸引了，小小块的一片蛋糕，好别致。又是一道值得收藏的食谱，谢谢你的分享。
ReplyDeleteCherry Potato, 不客气:)
DeleteOooo ... these are so beautiful, as everything you make, Ann. I'm bookmarking this one as well.
ReplyDeleteThat looks absolutely gorgeous ! I love the colorful fruits on top ! I'll give you 5 stars ! hahaha
ReplyDeleteVery cute little fruit cakes. Interesting recipe using bread flour as one of the ingredients for butter cake. I like it very much.
ReplyDeleteOrder:- one packet of 6 ( 3 for each flavor) please!
Li Shuan, you sure want to order? hahaa... not sure the fresh fruits can last that long or not. All the way from S'pore to Perth :D
Deleteonly 4 stars? I give 5 stars if that is max. in the rating scale! :)
ReplyDeleteThese cakes look so neat and sleek. Nice!
ReplyDeleteAnn, the cakes are sooooooooo pretty!!! I already bookmarked this to try out. I give it a 5 stars too!
ReplyDeletePing, Tigerfish and Gert:
DeleteThank you very much for your compliment.
Send some over, Ann. The bright colours alone is enough to cheer up my day, not to mention the wonderful texture and fruity combination :)
ReplyDeleteHanushi, you're always so sweet :) Will let you know when I bake this again :)
DeleteHi Anncoo,
ReplyDeleteBrowse through your blog and was impressed with all the beautiful baking. I always have a problem with baking butter cake, the top cracked. I tried using fan mode with top/bottom heat at diff. temp ranging from 165-180 deg., the cake still laugh at me. Can you advise me how to bake a non crack butter cake. Thank you. Jasmine.
Hi Jasmine,
DeleteThank you for visiting my blog.
My oven don't have the fan mode and I usually place the cake at lower rack of the oven when baking. Sometime the cake do cracks a little if the tempt is too hot.
I thought using fan mode is for baking cookies so that you can place two trays in the oven at one go. I'm not really sure.
These little fruity cakes are so beautiful. I will be VERY happy if these are gifts for me :D Got to try baking castella cake too to experience the use of bread flour in cake baking.
ReplyDeleteZoe, Thank you. Hope to see your castella cake soon :)
Delete很美的水果小蛋糕。包装美美的，是不是要送给爱人呢？哈哈哈~
ReplyDeleteJoceline, 呵呵。。。应该他送给我才对！
Deleteawesome cake...love those moulds
ReplyDeleteBoth flavours seem very delicious, which one should I choose? Ah ha, blueberry one for me please :p
ReplyDeleteI like the silicon mould that u use to bake them, make them look tidy and regular in size, well done!
Thanks Daphne. I love the blueberry one too because the strawberry is a little sour.
Delete小巧玲珑，很漂亮，看了也很开胃，要去找这个模子玩玩了：）
ReplyDeleteCass，谢谢！其实什么模型都能用，只要是小模型就可以了。
Deleteusing the cake bar mould really does save you the hassle from cutting and they look so good individually!
ReplyDeleteWow ... so pretty and yummy. Drooling ... for a moment I thought its fruit pastry cake.
ReplyDeleteThe fruity buttter cakes are good as gifts for friends. I love the silicone moulds too :) have a few myself and I just baked prune cake in the silicone loaf pan. I bought some from UK and have been baking in them. Love their cute design and easy to wash too ! I must try using bread flour for cake and yea better to add either sour cream or yoghurt to it for a moist texture :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Elin! Silicone moulds are so easy to use and many people just love using them.
Delete很精致的蛋糕
ReplyDelete装在那silicon模里，真的方便很多叻！
ReplyDeleteAnn... can you send that box to me? I want these!!! I've never seen mold like this! I'm amazed how many kinds of molds are out there. I love the blueberry one. It looks so perfect bite for my tea time!!
ReplyDeleteNami, Sure, by Fedexp? :D I also love the blueberry one. The sweetness is just right.
DeleteLovely mini butter cake, interesting bake with bread flour! I want to have a box too :)))
ReplyDelete这样小小巧巧的
ReplyDelete看起来很精致呢：）
这小蛋糕看起来很高贵大方哦！！
ReplyDeletewoo...! Wonderful idea as a gift pack. Thanks for sharing. Your butter cake looks so elegant. Love it so much.
ReplyDeleteYummy..........wil try it out.......
ReplyDeleteWhat a great gift that would make!! BUTTER.
ReplyDeleteThese look like a perfect little fruity morsel. Will you bring some for dessert when you come for lunch? :)
ReplyDeleteSure Lydnsey! I'll definitely bring something when I visit you :)
DeleteOh my these loook awesome! Am going to prepare some for 'qing ming' festival. Guess hubby's ancestors' going to enjoy it. haha....
ReplyDeleteKristy
Kristy, Thanks! So fast 'qing ming'already!!
DeleteThese look so dainty and elegant; just the type of cake I would love to savor with tea in the PM or bring as a gift in that pretty box.
ReplyDeleteI will definitely try this. Thanks for the unselfish sharing of recipes. Just to let you know I have tried many of yours and they are simple to follow and always turn out delicious. I have tried your bean curd, apricot cake, italian apple muffin, potato pie, brownie, almond cookie, etc. So many. Once again, thank you.
ReplyDeletecheers
Amanda
Hi Amanda,
DeleteThank you very much for trying my recipes and glad you love them.
You already tried the beancurd pudding? I made another batch yesterday :)
Ann
Hi Ann
DeleteYes I have tried the beancurd pudding - a little too soft but the kids enjoyed it. I could only find this packet of "Ice Jelly Powder" in NTUC so I bought it and used it. Maybe next time I will either add more jelly powder or reduce the amount of water.
I got a recipe of this lemon strawberry butter cake which is absolutely delicious. It's from a recipe book I bought from New Zealand. I baked for my relatives in Malaysia when I went to visit them recently. At first they thought it looked ordinary but were bowled over by the "explosion" of flavours as described by my sister-in-law. Do you want to try it? I can email you the recipe.
Amanda
Hi Amanda,
DeleteI'm not sure whether the Ice jelly Powder is the same as instant jelly. I'll try it myself next time when I make this again.
WOW! Thank you very much Amanda for wanting to send me the recipe. I love strawberry and I definitely love to try it after you send me the recipe.
Please email me to anncoojournal@gmail.com.
Once again thank you for sharing :)
Ann
Oh, this recipe is perfect for me to use my new friand pan, must try out this one day, bookmarked list getting longer, hehehe. I also learnt that bread flour can add into cake after bake the Castella cake ..Lovely gift box!
ReplyDeleteSonia, your new friand moulds are so pretty. Very suitable for small cakes.
Deletelooks elegant! would like to try it out. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDelete巧思妈咪，Thank you for dropping by. Hope to see you again :)
DeleteWow! Look so awesome! I love your silicon mold, really bakes up the cake well:)
ReplyDeleteLovely as giveaways! Very pretty!
ReplyDeleteOMG!drool over it...it's all time fav....your presentation
ReplyDeleteYour mini fruity cakes are gorgeous Ann! Such a great idear to bake them small...so cute ! The person getting them is so lucky!
ReplyDeletewow Ann - I just saw your photos on Facebook. They look so pretty. I love little cake bars made in this mould. Very tempted to make some financiers again in mine.
ReplyDeleteThe sliced strawberries on top are genius :-)
Sarah, Thank you for the silicone moulds that you sent me. I was thinking to use another recipe for this mould again.
DeleteWow!! I love the fact that you used mini cake pan and topped with different kinds of fruits! Beautiful cakes!
ReplyDeleteThank Ambika :)
DeleteBeautiful cakes ! Look refreshing and yummy. Adding bread flour to cake will give more structure to the cake and fruit added won't sink, that's why I also added some bread flour when i made ur fruitcake recipe. :)
ReplyDeleteAngel, Thanks for your info. :)
Deletei'm so intrigued by the bread flour in these cakes. And since berry season is just around the corner, i think I'll just have to give these a try.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ann!
I love this fruity-butter cake. The box and the presentation add tons to this treat's appeal!
ReplyDeleteAnn, I don't mind receiving that gift box. The cakes look sooooo cute and so colourful. Mmm.... that's for reminding, I can make this with my mini loaf pan.
ReplyDeleteCheah, I'm sure it is also very pretty to use your mini loaf pan with different colour of fruits on it.
DeleteOh my gosh..these look so beautiful! Small and cute! Ann, you are always very creative! :D
ReplyDeleteI used to work with the Japanese govt & guests from Japan always buy me Castella. I didn't quite like it, maybe because they were plain. But with nice ingredients, maybe it's different.
ReplyDeleteThese butter cakes are so cute. Looks just like out from a 5-star bakery, Ann! Thumbs-up! I must sample your baking one of these days :)
Shirley, I really hope I can taste the original Castella one day.
DeleteThank you very much for your compliment. Sure no problem if time permits :)
These are so pretty - a lovely alternative to cupcakes or muffins.
ReplyDeleteThanks Corina! Love your site :)
Deletei like your idea of using those silicon moulds to bake these cos they look gorgeous and decadent! I think they make great gifts too for friends!Love love love your presentation!!
ReplyDeleteA big yes for me,would like to take these cakes home!Ann ,is that really easy to remove the cakes from the silicone moulds?Tempting to buy the mould.Cakes are very colourful, you know what,I haven't baked butter cake b4,this recipe is now going to my cooking list,thanks
ReplyDeleteJessie, yes is real easy. Some even said you don't have to grease the mould.
ReplyDeleteThese cake are soooooooo beautiful, Ann! I want to try making them soon! Once I get the ingredients.... Thanks so much for sharing...
ReplyDeleteChristine, You're welcome. :)
DeleteLooks absolutely stunning!!
ReplyDelete这个食谱不错，因为上次的 fruit pastry 很多人减了糖之后蛋糕变干了。谢谢分享哦 ^_^
ReplyDeleteEsther, 可以试试看，这个蛋糕不会很甜，可以试试看。
DeleteYour fruity butte cake looks so beautiful! Initially I thought the cakes were standard size but they are individual sizes which is nice. It would make a lovely gift too :)
ReplyDeletelovely little cakes :-)
ReplyDelete哈哈，看照片第一个想到真的是Fruit Pastry cake。^_^
ReplyDelete这道蛋糕真的是高贵大方~
These are so pretty - love them
ReplyDeleteIt looks so yammy!
ReplyDeleteDelicious recipe!
These look yummy. Just found your blog its so fun.. Come and check out my blog
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Have a great day
if I could get such a gift, I would be in heaven:)))
ReplyDeleteLife and travelling
Cooking
Hi Ann,
ReplyDeletefor this one recipe, how many mini loaf can u make ?
KYM
Hi KYM,
DeleteI made 12 mini cake bars as shown and there are also some remaining, I just put it into two small square muffin cases but it really depends on your own cake pan.
Dearest Ann,
ReplyDeletethanks for your speedy reply. Oh no....too many to bake list...and the whole list from Ann Coo Journal. Thank u once again for sharingl, u r really a great baker. god bless. Last week i bake your almond butter cake, though it crack a little on the top..and to me it was obviously so far the best butter cake. Just love it :)
Gee...thank you again for trying my recipes!
DeleteHappy Baking :)
Hello Ann, i have a punnet of strawberry, not sure whether to try this or your latest rasberry slice recipe... which one you recommend? prefer moist cake ;)
ReplyDeleteHi Kah Chin,
DeleteI prefer the rasberry slice recipe. The texture is real soft and moist.
Thank you, Ann.
DeleteSo confirmed this weekend will go for your rasberry slice recipe ^^
Hii Ann, I want to try your recipe but I don't have the mold like yours. If I make it in square baking pan, what size will be fit with your recipe ? Thank you
ReplyDeleteHi Sashy, I think you use a 6 or 7 inch square cake pan. The cake will be lower if you're using a 7 inch cake pan.
DeleteHihi.. Nice cake.. I just bought a cake loft tray yesterday and wanted to try to bake this beautiful cake. Just wondering, this recipe doesn't call for any baking powder ? Tq
ReplyDeleteMy recipe already stated clearly, no baking powder added.
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