Cake on a plane

My Son's Birthday is today and as he is working in the Isle of Man. We flew over for the weekend.

I made his birthday cake and brought it with me as hand luggage.

It travelled very well and he was delighted

You can find the recipe for the Almond sponge here


As my Mothers Day treat I was brought to Milntown Gardens in Ramsey.

This is the view from my hotel room window on Sunday morning.

And of course we met a Manx cat.

Happy St Patricks Day.

Have a green one.

Toffee Apple Cake

This is perfect for the weekend or any day and is very easy and quick to make.

25cm Spring Form cake tin, Greased and lined on the bottom.
Oven: 180 fan.


175g really soft butter.
175g light brown sugar.
175g plain flour,
1tsb baking powder.
4 eggs.

Put all the ingredients into a food mixer and mix until well combined.
 
2-3 apples, peeled, cored and cut into wedges.
50g very dark brown sugar.

Place the apple wedges in the base of the tin and sprinkle on the dark brown sugar.
Pour the sponge mixture over the apples and spread out to cover the apples.

Place in the oven and cook for 40-45 minutes until golden brown and shrinking away from the side of the tin.
Cool in the tin for 10 minutes.
The open the spring on the tin and carefully turn the cake over onto a cooling rack, the bottom is now the top.

This is lovely served warm with ice cream or custard.

Enjoy

Posh Flapjacks.

Everyone has a favourite recipe for flapjacks this is one of mine. They have marzipan and dried fruit, the mix with dried cranberries and Californian raisins. I like the colours. I buy the fruit mix in Aldi.

Oven 160 Fan
Line a Swiss roll tray with baking parchment.

180g butter,
140g light brown sugar,
2 tbsp golden syrup,
1tbsp honey,
240g oats (porridge)
120g luxury dried fruit,
100g marzipan, cut into small cubes.

Put the butter, sugar, golden syrup and honey into a pot.

Melt over a low heat.

Have the oat, dried fruit and marzipan ready.

Mix in the oats. Stirring well so the oats are coated with the liquid mix.

Stir in the dried fruit and marzipan.

Turn into the tin and spread evenly. Bake for 20 minutes until lightly golden.

Cool in the tin. When cold cut into 16 squares..

Enjoy.

February........ in Pictures.

Bargain buy. Cat doorstop all of 2 euro

Giant lemon cupcake to celebrate exam results.

Egg basket.

Pancakes

February competition, Take 3 blooms.

 February competition, Petite. Bowl of beauty

Spring container

Purple sprouting brocolli from the allotment