The following recipe appears in “trick or treat” by Kerry Greenwood, a novel featuring Corinna Chapman, baker and reluctant investigator. The book is published by Allen & Unwin, 2007, see www.allenandunwin.com.au and the recipe, with comments by Kerry Greenwood, is provided here by permission from the publishers.
Mary Phillipou's Wonder Cake
This is a fantastic recipe. As long as you keep the proportions balanced you can make any kind of cake, using fruit, dried fruit, nuts, chocolate, lemon or orange peel, grated carrot, mashed banana, spices - whatever you like. As long as the additions include one cup of chocolate bits, it will rise very reliably. I like that in a cake.
2 eggs
1 cup caster sugar
300ml cream
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1¾ cups self raising flour, sifted
1 cup frozen berries
1 cup white chocolate bits
Grease a 20 cm baking tin and line it with baking paper.
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Beat the eggs and sugar together until thick. Add the cream and vanilla essence and mix well. Add the sifted flour and fold in until the mixture is smooth. Fold in the berries and chocolate bits.
Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and cook for approximately 50 minutes. It’s cooked when the skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool in the tin, then turn it out and dust with icing sugar or top with your favourite icing.
Yum.