The 74th Bake: Mary’s Cherry Cake
This little number looks easy. All I need is cherries and almonds. Seems to be a lot of cherry and almond recipes in this cookbook. I have taken up watching not only master chef, but the Great Australian Bake-off and the Great Kiwi Bake-off. Lots of cooking shows. Not complaining, for me its my sport, fun competition that’s interesting and informative. (because I don’t DO sport, unless its the Olympics of course) The Great Aussi Bake off were making quiches and I didn’t know that you were supposed to blind bake first or that a quiche is cooked to the point of having a wobble! Who knew? I was baking a quiche at the time, so I will give you my recipe for that sometime soon. It’s a good one, you don’t have to blind bake it first and the pastry is quick and easy. I whipped up this cake with (more…)
Time for cake in the house! I had all the ingredients except for full-fat crème fraîche. So I decided to whip this up before heading to a book reading in the afternoon. This cake was so full of the scent and subtle flavour of cardamom, delicious and unexpected. It actually tasted like a lemon cake.
Fabulous place, you could get lost there for hours with its room after room of categorized books, historical fiction, cooking, gardening, nonfiction and the list goes on. There is a sale at the end of the month. GO 🙂
I am an avid watcher of master chef and had to buy Julie’s recipe book, the first winner of Master chef Australia as soon as it came out. It’s great. Simple honest food. And it’s true, it never fails to amaze me how lush and moist this cake turns out every time. I added grated orange zest and sliced almonds to the mixture. It’s the sort of cake you can add flavours to if you want.
I love sweet peas and cornflowers especially, so old fashioned and beautiful. Recently I bought a coriander seed pot which I have planted and have on the window sill. I am waiting for the seeds to sprout, fingers crossed.