Orange-Guava Cranberry Lemon cake

Finally One year of baking and blogging about it! To celebrate this milestone I decided to bake again!!! This might be my last banking session, since I will be holidaying with my parents and brothers family for the winter break. This time, 'am trying a new recipe from the scratch.

By now you all know that I cook and bake with what's available in my kitchen on that day. So I changed some finer points to accommodate the ingredients availability and here is my new cake. Baking is such an awesome feeling. I can smell the lemon rind and cranberry when it bakes.

This can be better called bread since the consistency of the final product is a little less softer than the cake and also the dough rises much mare than a cake normally would. But I bake everything in my cake pan and so call it all a cake.






INGREDIENTS:

2 cups All Purpose Flour ( if you are looking to bake a bread, use self-raising flour and just 1/2 tsp of baking powder)
1/2 cup Sugar
2 Tbsp butter
1 tsp vanilla essence.
1 Tsp Baking Soda.
1/2 Tsp Baking Powder.
1/2 tsp Salt.
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup orange guava juice
1 Tbsp lemon rind
1 cup warm water

PREPARATION:

*Preheat the oven to 325 F and line your cake pan with butter spray, butter, oil or flour.
*In a bowl, measure out the dry ingredients – Flour, Baking Soda, baking powder, salt, sugar. Mix and keep ready.
*In another mixing bowl, add warm water to juice. To this add butter. Butter will melt in the warm water. Add lemon rind.
*Slowly add the dry ingredients little by little and incorporate them together.
*Set it inside the pre-heated oven for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick thats inserted comes out clean.
*I left the cake in the oven to cool down (after I switch off the oven) for like 5-7 minutes.
*Remove from the oven and allow to cool and enjoy delicious Orange-Guava Cranberry Lemon cake with your family!!!

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