'Mum's Famous Cake'

Bit more effort involved here... but not much more!


A yummy cake, with icing that is extraordinary. 


100g butter
200g chocolate (125g and 75g lots)
50g golden syrup (about 2 T)
50ml yogurt (any flavor, I have used apricot, and also strawberry)
175g brown sugar
3t vanilla essence
4 eggs (thank goodness I have laying chooks!)
250g flour (about 2C)
3t baking powder
50g cocoa
1 jar berry preserve (or less, depending on how much you use! I only use about 1/2 a small jar)
150g icing sugar.


Need a 20cm cake tin, and oven at 180.


Melt butter, 125g choc and golden syrup.
Remove from heat and add (1 at a time, mixing between each) yogurt, sugar, van ess, eggs. 
Sift flour, bk pdr and cocoa together then add to choc mixture.
Whisk till smooth.


Pour into cake tin and bake for 50 mins. (Keep an eye on it, as mine cooks in about 45 mins).


Cool cake. Cut in half and spread bottom half with preserve. Put top half back on.
Icing - Melt 75g choc and beat in 75g preserve. Add icing sugar, and enough water to make thick and creamy. Spread over cake... Serve!

Curried Sausages, quick and easy... and tasty!

6-8 sausages
1 chopped onion
1t curry pdr
1T flour
3/4C beef stock
1T relish or chutney


Cook 6-8 sausages in frypan for about 10 mins (until browned and cooked through). Remove from pan.


Add to pan one chopped onion. Cook until clear, then add one teaspoon of curry powder, cook for 30 seconds, then add one tablespoon of flour, and cook for 30 seconds. Then add 3/4 cup beef stock, stir until boiling, then add one tablespoon of relish or chutney and the sausages again. Cook for about five mins more.


Then serve!


Easy peasy, and very edible!

Chocolate Apple Cake - Fancy but easy

Topping.
1/4C brown sugar
2T flour
1t cinnamon
25g cold butter
2T chopped walnuts.

Cake
2-3 apples
125g butter melted
1 large egg
1C sugar
1 1/2 flour
2T cocoa
1t cinnamon
1t baking soda

Prepare topping in food processor. Tip into another bowl for later.

In unwashed processor chop unpeeled apples. Add remaining ingredients in order given. Mix briefly to combine.

Put mixture into prepared tin.
Sprinkle over topping

Cook at 190 for 30 minutes.

Serve as is, or with cream

Scrummy

Yoghurt Cake - really light and delicious

75g butter
1C sugar
2 eggs
1t vanilla essence
1 1/2 C flour
1 t baking soda
1/4t salt
300g plain or flavoured yoghurt

This is supposed to make 2 loaves, but I can't see how, as it only made two very small ones!

Melt butter till liquid. Put in sugar, eggs, vanilla essence, and butter into food processor. Mix thoroughly.
Add flour, baking soda, salt and yoghurt. Process briefly until just combined.
Mixture will be light and airy.

Pour into loaf tins, handling as little as possible.

Cook at 180 for 30 mins.
Dust with icing sugar, serve with fresh berries, yoghurt, or cream...

(Or, as master apprentice was so impatient, eat as a plain cake)

The 'Eating Cake'

So, I said to Miss Apprentice we were going to make a cake.... 'What sort of cake, Mum?', 'an eating cake', I replied... and so it began..

In a food processor put 1 orange, and chop up until it is pulp. Remove from food processor.

In unwashed processor put
125g softened butter
1C sugar
2 eggs.
Blend until mixed (about 20 seconds... count them... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - or get your apprentice to do the counting for you)
Then add
1tsp baking soda dissolved in 1/2C water
1t vanilla essence
2C flour
1C sultanas
Mix in pulses.

Add in the fruit pulp, and mix until all combined.

Tip into baking tin, andbake at 150 for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 mins.

Then... EAT (as it is an eating cake)

and yet some more bananas - loaf this time!

I never seem to be able to cook loaves all the way through - something always goes wrong! But, this worked well and was yummy. All gone now!


125g butter, softened
1 1/2 C sugar
3 eggs
500-600g bananas (This is unpeeled weight)
2 1/2 C self raising flour.

Oven at 180

Mix butter into sugar until light and creamy.

Mix in eggs one at a time.

Peel bananas, mash, mix half bananas and half the flour into the mixture. Repeat with rest of flour and bananas.

Line bottom and sides of one very large (8 cups) or two medium (3-4 cup) loaf tins. Do not fill more than 2/3 full.

Bake for 45 mins for two loaves, or slightly longer for one large loaf.
Leave to stand for 5 mins before turning onto cooling rack.

Serve unbuttered on day one, and buttered on days after this...

Very nice flavours in this recipe.

Bananas, bananas and more bananas...

Choc chip and banana muffins...

This is the best recipe I have treid for banana chip muffins...

2C self raising flour
1/2C castor sugar
1/2C choc chips
1/2 t salt
100g butter
1C butter
1C milk
1 egg
1t vanilla ess
1c mashed bananas (about 2 or 3 - the more ripe, the more flavour)

Oven at 220.

Stir flour, castor sugar, choc chips and salt together with fork.

melt butter, remove from heat and add milk, egg, vanilla and beat well with fork.

Mash and measure bananas. Stir into liquid mixture, then stir all into dry ingredients, but dont over mix (mix until just damp).

Spoon into sprayed muffins tins, and cook for 12-15 mins.

These are really yummy.