Coffee and Walnut Cake

This is my mother's favorite cake. I am not a huge fan of this cake but I don't dislike it.

The cake has also made it on to "the disaster cake list" as it was a disaster.

When I stuck a knife in the cake to check that it was done after the allotted time it was still wet in the middle so I kept it cooking for longer which burnt the outside making it pretty solid.

It was basically raw in the middle which isn't particularly appealing. But it looked okay... 

And the coffee icing in the middle was delicious. I have decided I love marscapone.

However look what happened when you stick a knife in the top of it...

Yep it stays in by itself... great.

Next Recipe: Flapjacks

Carrot Cake

Carrot cake has always confused me as a concept. Why would you put carrot in cake? It's a vegetable.

However, I have of course eaten it before, (meal deals in Boots are so very cheap) I have never made it as I just didn't think it was really my style.

Then the time came to create one as my mum wanted to take cake in to work for her team. So I thought, hey, why not?

Carrot cake surprisingly enough has carrots in it as well as walnuts, hazelnuts, raisins and lemon. This recipe had no flour and instead of butter had sunflower oil...  spooky stuff...

It then has the traditional cream cheese frosting which I decorated with walnuts.

But it looked decent and apparently her work colleagues liked it, so all was well.

Here is a photo of a slice, which my mum took as it "got a bit battered" on the way to work.

Next Recipe: Coffee and Walnut Cake

Treacle Tart

Treacle Tart is a traditional English pudding and surprisingly enough it doesn't have any actual treacle in it. 

It is a shortcrust pastry filled with a golden syrup, lemon, apple, egg and breadcrumb mixture.

There was a bit of a pastry incident... nothing a bit of first aid couldn't fix....

I had so much mixture I had to make little ones too but I have no pictures of them.

It is very sweet and perfect with cream as it takes away some of the sugary sweetness.

Next Recipe: Carrot Cake

Blondies (White Chocolate Brownies)

I love brownies, and I love white chocolate so Blondies sounded amazing.

They have honey and syrup in them making them very sweet (in total 300g of sweet) so this is a sweet tooth's dream. It also obviously has white chocolate in it, hence the white chocolate brownie thing...

So you mix honey, syrup, butter and vanilla in a pan and let it melt, once cooled you beat in one egg at a time and then fold in flour and baking powder. You then chuck in the white chocolate chunks and done. Simple.

You then bake them.

Now my oven is particularly vicious so they burnt and they are a little toasted, however they were still yummy.

They didn't taste as I had expected them too, like white chocolate, but more like honey as there is so much in there. It wasn't unpleasant but I expected more from something with white chocolate in it.

Next Recipe: Treacle Tart