Flapjacks and Chocolate Rock Cakes

This weekend, using my Mum's Winnie-The-Pooh recipe book, I cooked two different treats: Flapjacks and Chocolate Rock Cakes. :)

 Flapjacks 

Ingredients:

• 2 oz butter or margerine
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup
• 2 oz soft brown sugar
• 4 oz rolled oats
• pinch of salt

1) Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a saucepan on a low heat.
2) Add the oats and salt and mix well.
3) Spoon into a greased or lined tin and press evenly.
4) Bake for 20 minutes at a medium temperature.
5) When baked cut into 8 parts immediately and leave to cool.
6) Enjoy yummy flapjacks!

Chocolate Rock Cakes

Ingredients:

• 8 oz self raising flour
• 3 oz butter or margarine
• 4 oz plain chocolate
• 3 oz castor sugar
• 1 egg
• A pinch of salt
• 2 table spoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1) Sift the flour into a bowl and add salt.
2) Rub in butter or margarine.
3) Chop the chocolate into small pieces and add to the mixture along with the sugar.
4) Create a 'well' in the centre of the mixture.
5)Crack an egg into a jug and add the milk and vanilla. Mix gently.
6) Pour into the 'well' and mix until the mixture is firm.
7) Pile onto a lined baking tray.
8) Bake for 10 - 15 minutes or until golden brown.
9) Let cool and enjoy with a cup of tea! :)

Pancakes!

 Yay! It's Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day! I love pancakes, they are just so nice! :)

This is the recipe I use:

• 100g plain flour
• 2 eggs
• 300ml milk
• oil or fat

Whisk together the flour, eggs and milk. This is the pancake batter. Then put the oil or fat into a frying pan and heat until melted. Add a small amount of the batter into the pan and cook. Once bubbles start to appear on the top of the batter flip with a spatula. When both sides are done take out of the pan and onto a plate. Repeat. When all the batter is cooked serve with a topping of your choice. I usually have maple syrup of lemon juice and sugar.

The best thing is that you can add any filling you want. Once I had a really lovely cheese and garlic mushroom one. Yum! :)

Spiced Apple Cake

 This is a recipe for a cake me and my mum always make on the weekends. It's a family favourite and quite easy to make. :)

This is the recipe:http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9925/squidgy-spiced-apple-cake

 

I really love this cake and so does my family. If you decide to make it, I hope you do too! :)

Coconut Ice

 This is probably the nicest, sweetest homemade candy recipe I have ever made:). I made it from my great, great, great grandmother's recipe book. This is the recipe:

• 1 cup of liquid (Half water, half milk)
• 4 cups of sugar
• 400g coconut shavings
• Red food colouring

 Put the liquids sugar and half of the coconut into a saucepan and heat it up on a hob. After the consistency is thin, put in the rest of the coconut and take of the heat. Wait for it to become room temperature and pour half into a greased or lined tin. Add food colouring to the left over half and evenly spread over the uncoloured half. Leave to set over night. When it is set, cut into cubes and it is ready!
 

I really like the sweetness of this coconut ice and I will making it lots more in the future! :)

Christmas Cake

 For the festive season, I was put in charge of making the Christmas cake. It was simple to make and very tasty! :)

 The recipe I used was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/traditionalchristmas_14567

 For decoration I used:

• Marzipan
• White fondant
• Green fondant
• Red fondant

I simply iced the cake with a layer of mazipan then white fondant and smoothed it down with my hands for an even finish. Then using a picture from google images I cut out some holly leaves from the green fondat and set them in place with a little water. Finally I rolled some tiny berries from the red fondant and again fixed them in place with a tiny amount of water. This was the final product:
 

I really liked the final design and hope to do more cake decoration like this. :)