Sunday snippets - in my garden & what I made. Blogtoberfest 2013

Mr planet often makes posies

Mr Bowerbird now has 2 bowers

coconut and reapberry slice

Strawberry Almond Cake

image by bill.lepere via flickr

Somebody gave me this recipe many years ago, but I've forgotten who.
anyway it is delicious!

you need -
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 cup sugar
10 oz (280 gr) frozen strawberries, thawed and drained or 2 punnets of fresh strawberries
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup ground almonds or 1 tsp almond flavouring

Beat eggs until fluffy.
Add oil and sugar.
Sift flour, cinnamon and baking soda into the mixture.
Stir in the strawberries and the ground almonds or flavouring.

Grease and flour one large or two smaller loaf tins.
Put mixture in the tin/s.
Bake at 180 degrees C (350 F) for 45 mins for smaller cakes or 70 mins for the large one.
Test with a toothpick.
cool slightly in the pan then remove and cool on a cake rack.

Enjoy!

Delicious easy vanilla cake

A friend gave me this recipe many years ago.
It is a very easy, mix-in-one-bowl cake.
It's sensational warm from the oven with a raspberry sauce and thick cream. It keeps really well and can be sliced the next day for lunch boxes.

125g butter melted in a microwave proof bowl
Add 1 cup sugar
300g vanilla yoghurt (I use low fat)
1 Tbs vanilla essence (the real stuff is so much better)
3 eggs
1 and a half cups SR flour

Mix it all together with a wooden spoon.
Pour into an oiled cake pan
and bake at 180 degrees for 50 mins or until a skewer comes out clean when poked into the cake.

Yum!