Marmite Victoria Sponge Cake

Having made a Marmite cake for my friend’s birthday last week , I decided to refine the recipe and make a classic Victoria sponge filled with jam, dusted with icing sugar and, of course, containing my favorite ingredient Marmite.

Ingredients

• 200g soft margarine
• 300g caster sugar
• 4 heaped tsp of Marmite
• 200g self raising flour
• 3 eggs
• Strawberry jam
• icing sugar to dust

In a large bowl cream together the sugar and margarine with either and electric whisk or wooden spoon. When light in colour, beat in the Marmite.   Add one egg at a time, then beat into the sugar and margarine mix with a little flour. The remaining  flour should be gently folded into the mixture with a metal spoon.

Once finished, grease two 20cm cake tins and divide the mixture equally.

Cook at 180ºC for around 20 minutes or until golden and cooked. Allow to cool, then sandwich together with jam and dust with icing sugar.

Sit back and enjoy with a cup of tea

Marmite Choconut Cakes

I never thought Marmite could go into something sweet and I certainly couldn’t have imagined that a few of my not so Marmitey friends would even try them (let alone enjoy them!). Now I’ve even got some orders

The new Marmite Chocolate will be available from shops tomorrow and I can’t wait to try it, but if you thought that the chocolate idea is ‘very peculiar’, you should try these:

Ingredients

• 600g soft margarine
• 600g caster sugar
• 5 heaped tsp of Marmite
• 200g cocoa powder
• 400g self raising flour
• 3 eggs
• 1 jar of peanut butter
• 300g icing sugar

In a large bowl cream together the sugar and margarine. When light in colour, beat in the Marmite. Mix the flour and cocoa powder together in another bowl. Add one egg at a time, and beat into the sugar and margarine with a little of the flour and cocoa mixture. Then, the remaining flour and cocoa should be gently folded into the mixture.

Once finished, grease a muffin tray and spoon in the mixture ( should make 12 cakes). Alternatively, use paper cake cases.

Cook at 180ºc for around 25 mins or until brown and cooked.

While the cakes are cooking, empty your peanut butter into a bowl and combine with the icing sugar.

Once the cakes have cooled, cover with the icing and enjoy.