It was just me and the baby on the weekend, a quiet house! A lovely neighbour came and made me dinner, Homemade cannelloni. Totally homemade. It was delicious.
I decided to do a little baking myself. I made a banana and passionfruit cake to have with my cups of tea, chocolate fondants for dessert and a quick chocolate cake for lunch boxes this week.
It is the easiest cake to make. It really is.
I didnt even use my mixer, just stirred it with a spoon.
I found the recipe in a Kids Donna Hay Magazine, on an advertorial for some icing. It was for petite cupcakes. I kind of tweeked it. Or maybe you could say I gave it my own spin - including omitting icing as its delicious on its own. It was for cupcakes but I put it in a small round cake tin, I left out the egg, added more butter, added a tablespoon of cocoa powder to make it chocolate flavoured and it didn't last long! Its consistency reminds me of a pound cake. Its not crumbly but moist, and I think a nice manageable size. Good flavour, not too sweet. Perfect for little people!
Next time I am going to make two and cut up the second one into morning tea portions and freeze them. Try it:
INGREDIENTS
1 & 1/4 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cups of sugar
1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
150g butter melted
3/4 cup of milk
dash of vanilla essence
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 170 degrees C
I greased and floured a easy liftout round pan but you could use baking paper
Sifted all dry ingredients into a bowl (flour, baking powder, sugar and cocoa)
then added wet ingredients (melted butter, milk and essence) and mixed them all together with a spoon then tip into the pan and bake for 20 minutes.
I left it in the pan to cool, but I love a warm piece of cake so not for too long.
Too easy!
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