cardamom

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.

The book reading was at “The Open Book” which is a second hand book store on Ponsonby Rd.  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 🙂

To make the cake, I buttered the loaf tin and then sprinkled sliced almonds around the sides.  This would coat the outside (more…)