Category: Cake

Plum cake

What do you do when you’ve got tons of fresh plums recently picked at the farm? You bake a delicious plum cake! I did the baking while my little was having dinner the other night, and that should prove to you that this recipe is very easy to do, as per my usual standards.
What you need:
2 eggs
160g sugar
1 lemon (juice + zest)
2tbsp olive oil
2tbsp water
250g self raising flour
1tsp baking powder
10 plums (diced)
 

What you do:

Mix all the liquid ingredients, then slowly add the dry ones, apart from the plums. Pour the mixture in a silicone cake tin (I used a 20cm round one). Add the diced plums on top. Preheat the oven at 175degC and bake for approximately 45min.
 Enjoy!

Pumpkin, pine nuts & honey cake

My mum got us a big pumpkin from the farmers market last week. The intention was, as one would expect, to carve it, make a pumping soup with the flesh and maybe toast the seeds, in time for Halloween. But life had other plans, so the weekend passed and by monday morning the pumpkin was still waiting for some attention on the kitchen table.
Then yesterday I went to the supermarket after work and grabbed one of those promotional booklets which had an entire section dedicated to pumpkin recipes, and there it was…a new recipe for a pumpkin cake. But best of all, I had all the ingredients needed at home (except for the eggs, which I realised half way through the baking process and had to rush to the off licence!). So, after putting little miss O to bed last night, I did some long due baking and enjoyed a slice while watching the new season of Revenge. 
This recipe will definitely go into my book!