Sweet
Treats Werewolves Love – Ellie’s prizewinning Victoria Sandwich Cake.
Hi...Kryssie Fortune here. I wanted to tell you about Ellie, the heroine in my
latest book, To Mate a Werewolf. Over the last two years,
she’s cooked her way into the hearts of the soldiers in the Lykae army. Now
she’s given me some of her recipes to share with my friends.
Here’s
her recipe for Victoria Sponge. (I baked this for our allotment bonfire, and
first person who had a bite wanted to buy the whole thing. – Thanks Ellie, that’s
the sort of recipe I like)
Victoria Sandwich Cake
Ingredients
4 eggs
225g/8oz caster
sugar, plus a little extra for dusting the finished cake
225g/8oz self-raising
flour
2 tsp baking
powder
225g/8oz soft butter at room
temperature, plus a little extra to grease the tins
To
Serve
good-quality jam (Mine was homemade)
whipped double
cream (optional)
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Break the
eggs into a large mixing bowl, then add the sugar, flour, baking powder and
baking spread.
Mix
everything together until well combined. The easiest way to do this is with an
electric hand mixer, but you can use a wooden spoon. Put a damp cloth under
your bowl when you’re mixing to stop it moving around. Be careful not to
over-mix – as soon as everything is blended you should stop.
The finished
mixture should be of a soft ‘dropping’ consistency – it should fall off a spoon
easily.
Divide the
mixture evenly between the tins: this doesn’t need to be exact, but you can
weigh the filled tins if you want to check. Use a spatula to remove all of the
mixture from the bowl and gently smooth the surface of the cakes.
Place the
tins on the middle shelf of the oven and bake for 25 minutes. Don't be tempted
to open the door while they're cooking, but after 20 minutes do look through
the door to check them.
The cakes
are done when they’re golden-brown and coming away from the edge of the tins.
Press them gently to check – they should be springy to the touch. Remove them
from the oven and set aside to cool in their tins for five minutes. Then run a
palette or rounded butter knife around the inside edge of the tin and carefully
turn the cakes out onto a cooling rack.
To take
your cakes out of the tins without leaving a wire rack mark on the top, put the
clean tea towel over the tin, put your hand onto the tea towel and turn the tin
upside-down.
Happy Baking!
While you are here, please
take a look at my book
To
Mate a Werewolf
Blurb
The scars on Ellie Padget’s cheek are a constant reminder of
the times she tried to escape from sexual slavery. Two years ago, Joel—alpha in
waiting of the Tundra-Tough pack—led the rescue party that freed her. She’s
loved him ever since.
Their relationship finally explodes into
steaming sex, but he offers to pay her off. She walks away with her head high
and her heart shattered. When she learns of a plot to destroy Joel and his
pack, her only option is return to his side and warn him.
Joel has to fight to retain the pack that should
be his by right, and no one can leave until the pack has a new alpha. He’s
horrified when Ellie turns up on the night he’s to meet the woman he’s agreed
to marry but never met. She’s stuck there until he claims his birthright.
Finally, he realizes Ellie’s his true mate. Now he has to choose between his
arranged marriage, and the one woman he truly loves. Will he choose with his
head or his heart?
To Mate a Werewolf is a stand alone story within
the Scattered Siblings series.
Excerpt:
Joel’s fingernails stretched into claws. Control it. Keep my beasts caged. Stay calm. Even his human side needed to know Ellie was safe and well. The damn woman with her independent streak caused him more trouble than a whole pack of wolves. If needs be, he’d personally buy every cake she baked. Honestly, he’d do whatever it took to make her business a success. Meanwhile, his dad wanted to stand down as pack alpha. That meant Joel had a pack to run and protect.
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