Late night Raspberry and White Chocolate loaf cakes

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This is a recipe for 10 little raspberry and white choc loaf cakes with (what I am calling) a raspberry cream cheese glaze.  The reason for calling them 'late night' is because after a late evening shift I fancied a spot of baking....and here were the results.....

For these I used 10 cute little brown card loaf cases which I bought for £2.99 in Sainsburys,  they are really good but you could use this recipe as one large loaf if preferred.

Ingredients

For the Cake
8oz self raising flour
8oz soft unsalted butter
8oz caster sugar
4 Eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of baking powder
100g white chocolate (cut into chunks)
75g fresh raspberries
squeeze of  lemon juice
1/2 tablespoon icing sugar

For the Glaze/icing
100g full fat cream cheese
1 tablespoon strained raspberry jam
100g icing sugar

To decorate (optional)
75g white chocolate chips
sprinkle of freeze dried raspberry powder (I buy this online from Healthy supplies)

-preheat the oven to 170
-firstly in a small bowl mash the raspberries with the icing sugar an dash of lemon juice, set aside
-cream together the sugar, butter and vanilla until very pale, light and fluffy
-beat the eggs in a small bowl and add slowly into the butter/sugar mix (alternate with a spoonful of flour if it looks like it may curdle)
-sift in the flour and baking powder and mix to combine
-then fold through the raspberry pulp and chopped white chocolate to create a ripple effect
-I popped this into a large disposable piping bag and cut a large hole in the end and piped it into the cases (which were already on a baking tray) for ease, but you could simply spoon it in if you like
-bake for around 35mins until golden brown and springy to the touch
-the mixture has a lot of liquid in it due to the raspberries which makes the finished cakes lovely and moist, but it does mean they sink a wee bit in the middle as they cool so don't worry about this if it happens (it did to me anyway)
-whilst they cool, make the icing/glaze by putting the seedless/strained jam in a bowl and mixing until looser and smooth, then add the cream cheese and icing sugar and stir to combine
-pour this onto the cooled loaves and decorate if you want to

Enjoy <3

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