As I explained… the recent cache of eggs of unknown date created a need to make cake. Well, ok, I could have thought of other ways of using them.. but enough of that.. onto the cake.
First off, I decided to invent a recipe to use up the last of the Christmas mincemeat, and made a mincemeat loaf. Himself would be happy to eat mincepies all year round, and yes has been seen eating them in the summer, but personally I feel they are a festive thing.. but the mincemeat can be used in other ways. So I put together this loaf, and it is a family hit – currently standing in 4th place in the colour it green all time cake favourites ( the top three being chocolate mud cake, chocolate brownies, and coffee cake). I do suspect them of rating favourably in the hope of more cake…
And I did make more cake – the aforementioned coffee cake. This recipe is from the new rayburn cook book. I would carry on using this book even if I stopped having a rayburn, and particular joy for me is how many recipes are designed to use the rayburn meat tray. For once I did not have to use the wrong shaped, wrong sized pan and hope for the best/ adjust recipe. The coffee cake is a throw in all the ingredients and blend type, very easy, and delicious, and to my son’s delight made a huge cake about a foot square. To his dismay, I have frozen most of it!
That’s recipes 7 and 8 out of my 52
So how virtuous am I? I have used up the laid away eggs, I have invented a recipe to use up left over mincemeat, I have made full use of the rayburn whilst it was on, and stockpiled food in the freezer. So if some cake was eaten on the way.. seems a fair exchange… well…that’s my excuse…
Well done!
I suspect that this cake will be one I will try – my boys are all mincepies eaters – particularly Himself, and we have a jar left in the fridge…. I shall head off the kitchen now, will report back!
Mincemeat fruit cake is one of my favourites – in fact I might make one today as I have mincemeat left over from last year!! I’m also mulling over the idea of a mincemeat and apple tart sort of thing.
that sounds nice
Ho ho – cake made, and nearly all eaten!
The house smelt festive and yummy, himself kept hovering around the kitchen saying things like….think it’s ready now….I can smell that cake…… is it time for it to come out?
So – that is now recipe number 8/52.
yay!
I wish my dear old Rayburn looked like the one on the front of that book….yes it IS meant to be the same colour; but time, wear, tear & a few recent cooking spillages have taken their toll on the pristine cream enamel – & as I won’t be switching her off for another few months (said Beastie being our main source of heating, cooking & hot water) I suspect she’ll have to stay scruffy until Iori-the-Furnace comes to give her the annual “once-over”. Still bakes a bloody good cake & cooks a damn fine roast dinner, though – regardless of the cosmetic flaws.
Any chance of a copy of the coffee cake recipe – pleeeease…???!!