If you are looking for a dry cake recipe or something sweet to consume alongside your favorite cuppa, you are at the right place. Pick from this range of dry cake flavors from a sumptuous vanilla dry cake, or chocolate dry cake, to a simple dry fruit cake perfect for serving guests or baking ahead and eating slowly. Try these recipes for a sweet treat at your fingertips.
1. Fruit Dry Cake Recipe
(Serves 15)
Ingredients
- 200 gm all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 100 gm light brown soft sugar
- 150 gm unsalted butter, cubed
- 3 eggs, whisked
- 250 gm dried mixed fruit
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C, grease an 8 x 5-inch loaf tin, then line with parchment paper with ample overhanging over the sides.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, and sugar into a big bowl, giving them a quick mix.
- Cut in the butter, then fold the whisked eggs, mixing as needed, taking care not to overmix. You'll have a smooth batter in the end, add milk as necessary to reach a wet consistency.
- Add the dried or candies fruit next, and mix to incorporate.
- Pour the cake batter into the loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes. The cake's top will brown and have a nice rise. Your cake is done if a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let it cool in the tin for a few minutes then transfer the cake to a wire rack.
- Slice into 15 pieces and consume alongside tea.
2. Vanilla Dry Cake Recipe
(Serves 16)
Ingredients
- 115 gm butter, softened
- 200 gm sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 210 gm all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 120 ml milk
- To garnish: Caster sugar, fresh berries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Then grease a nine-inch round cake pan and flour it, tapping out the excess. Set aside.
- Take a bowl, and using an electric handheld mixer, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy. This takes about three to five minutes.
- Add one egg, and beat, then add the next egg and beat again. Add the vanilla extract and mix lightly to incorporate.
- Sift flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl, then add them to the wet ingredients bowl in three parts, alternating with milk, in two parts, beating after each addition until no dry streaks remain.
- Tap the cake against your kitchen counter to fill up any air pockets if any.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Poke the center with a skewer to check for crumbs, if it comes out dry, your cake is fully baked.
- Take out the cake and let it cool in its pan for 15 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the cake and transfer it to a wire rack.
- Before serving, dust with caster sugar and fresh berries.
3. Chocolate Dry Cake Recipe
(Serves 10)
Ingredients
- 140 gm all-purpose flour
- 50 gm Cadbury Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ⅛ tsp salt, optional
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 200 gm granulated sugar
- 135 gm unsalted butter, melted and divided
- 120 ml milk, room temperature
- 1 + ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 60 ml hot water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C, then grease a standard loaf tin with butter and place parchment paper in it, with ample overhanging the sides. You can skip this and flour it as well after greasing.
- Take a saucepan, and stir to melt butter in it on medium heat. Set aside to cool.
- Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Give it a light mix and set aside.
- Whisk eggs with sugar in another bowl. Add the warm melted butter, milk and vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- Add the dry ingredients in three parts to the wet bowl in three parts, mixing as you add. After the third addition, pour the hot water and mix. You'll have a smooth cake batter in the end.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared loaf tin.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the cake's center comes out clean. A few crumbs equals a fudge cake.
- Remove from the oven and let the cake cool for 15-20 minutes in pan. Then transfer to a wire rack and let it cool before slicing.