Okay, so I need to try and be more productive today....

[gothams3rdrobin]

I've washed nearly all the weekend's dishes, so yay me! Next I'm gonna finish the job, then scrub the kitchen before I start baking. I promised Jo weeks ago I'd bring her some chocolate cake, 'cause she brought me in one of her brownies after I whined at missing out *chuckles*

I also need to use up the dessicated coconut in my cupboard, and I have glacé cherries too. So I forsee loaves of chocolate, cherry and coconut cakes in my future. Not all combined, some may be pleased to note.

I also have a couple of bananas going spotty...Hilary, any chance of a link to your recipe for bananana cake? I had a look through your tags but couldn't spot it.

Okay...time to step away from the epic Sentinel fic I started reading earlier. There'll be more time to finish that up later. I ended up having lunch at ten this morning, having popped to Tesco for cereal and sugar and discovered that not only were the french bread batons fresh, they were still warm! So I had to pick one up and have some soup as soon as I got home.

Right. Am I moving yet? No? How about now?

Comments

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

I can do bananana cake from memory. Technically, it is baanana fruit loaf.

4 oz fat
4 oz sugar (I use soft brown sugar, usually)
2 eggs
8 oz SR flour

Make up creamed cake mixture in the normal manner. It'll be dry because of having twice as much flour in as usual, and the reason for this is:

1 lb peeled, mashed bananas
4 oz sultanas (or raisins, if you're cooking it for Cat)
2 oz glace cherries (or none, again if you're cooking it for Cat)

Mix fruit together and then add to cake mixture. Stir for at least two minutes to ensure all ingredients are thoroughly combined.

Pour (and I mean that literally) into a 1 lb loaf tin. Bake at 180 degrees for an hour, turn down to 150 for a further half-hour.

This won't look, feel or taste anything like the bananana cake you get in shops. I think it's much nicer, and Judy and Lynn and Penny all seem to like it, too.

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you! The only ingredient I don't have is dried fruit, as Rowan doesn't like them. Can I leave them out and just do it with bananas?

I'm quite pee'd off with my cakes - the cherry and coconut loaves appear to have come out fine, if a tad burnt on the underneath, but the chocolate loaf seems to think it's a souffle! The middle of it is completely sunken, when it looked fine the first time I checked it. *sigh* My oven has no real temperature regulator, so I end up cooking everything on full wack. I generally don't have to adjust the cooking times, weirdly, but I have to keep any eye on cakes.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

I don't see why not, although it'd be more like a boring old shop-bought cake then.

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I'm still working on Rowan's palate, but he's still rather unadventurous and dried fruit's completely refused.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

That's quite odd, because lots of children like raisins and so on as snacks, as an alternative to something less healthy. And then there's Cadbury's Fruit 'n' Nut, of course. Mmmmm ...

I have just applied for four jobs, bam, bam, bam. Want to bet whether I ever hear back from a single one of them?

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

I know, it is weird. And I personally prefer Whole Nut (or Galaxy Hazlenut, 'cause the chocolate's creamier), but yeah. Fruit N Nut's nice.

*crosses fingers for you* Keep going, and don't lose hope. Those that don't call you in for an interview don't know what they're turning down.