Posted by KennyBoy under
Baking,
Desserts
Hayley Beth also gave us this recipe when Terry was unable to face the kitchen. What a dear girl!
For the pudding: -
- 100g Self-Raising Flour
- 100g Caster Sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 25g Cocoa Powder
- 25g Margarine
- 1 egg
- 4 tablespoons Milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the sauce: -
- 100g soft brown sugar
- 25g cocoa
- 150ml hot water
- Place the flour, caster sugar, salt and cocoa into a mixing bowl.
- Melt the margarine in the microwave
- Put the milk in a measuring jug and add the egg, melted margarine and mix with fork
- Add the milk mix to the dry ingredients and mix well with wooden spoon
- Pour mixture into buttered oven proof dish
- Make the sauce by dissolving the cocoa and sugar in the hot water, then pour over the cake mix
- Place in the oven for 20-25 minutes on 170 degrees C, gas mk 4
- Serve with creme fraiche
Scrumptious!
Posted by KennyBoy under
Light meals,
Snacks
When my youngest niece came to stay last year, my wife was ill, so Hayley had to step into the breech and cook for us. She cooked fishcakes; and this isn’t that recipe. but she wrote down several, and judging by the others, this one will be worth trying!
Scotch Eggs - enough for two or one greedy so and so!
- 2 Boiled Eggs (she didn’t say, but I think they were hard-boiled
- 150grms sausage meat or 100grms mashed potato and 25grms grated cheese
- 1 beaten egg
- 1 tablespoon flour
- fresh breadcrumbs
- Remove shells from boiled eggs
- Roll the eggs in flour
- Coat each egg with the sausage meat or mashed potato mixture
- Brush the eggs with beaten egg and then roll them in the breadcrumbs
- Place on a baking tray and place in oven at 180C or gas mark 5 for 20 minutes
- Leave to cool and eat with a salad
Posted by Terry under
Baking
You know how you have that childhood memory stuck in your head? Remember how the Summers were always longer and hotter, how it always snowed at Christmas? Well here is a recipe of my childhood, a taste that I have been trying to recreate for years.
A chance conversation with a friend led her to tell of a cake that never failed to taste and look wonderful…
Here is the cake of my childhood dreams
Ingredients
- 175g Self Raising Flour
- 175g Caster Sugar
- 175g Butter or Margarine
- 3 Eggs
- 50g Dessicated Coconut & extra for decoration
- 45ml Coconut Milk & extra to make topping
- Raspberry Jam
- Icing Sugar
You will also need 2 sponge tins, greased or lined.
The intensity of Coconut flavour varies with the make of Coconut milk - my preference is for M&S.
Method
- Preheat the oven - 170 degrees C for a fan oven.
- Prepare the tins - I recommend the liners that you can buy at lakeland plastics.
- Cream (beat with a wooden spoon or a hand mixer) the sugar and butter together until pale and fluffy
- Add the eggs one at a time and beat in.
- Add the flour and baking powder
- When well mixed add the dessicated coconut and coconut milk
- Evenly transfer the mixture to the two tins
- Bake for about 20 mins until golden and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Allow to cool on a wire rack
- When cool, spread raspberry jam over one sponge and sandwich the two together.
- Make a topping using the icing sugar and some coconut milk
- Mix in some dessicated Coconut and cover the top of the sponge.
- Press more coconut into the icing
- The finishing touch would be a glace cherry in the centre, although the cake tastes great without one
This cake fulfils my childhood memories and even if you don’t share them I hope you enjoy the cake!
