Baking

Fruit Cake

Today I had the urge to bake a cake and here it is.  Basically just a boiled fruitcake but deliciously moist because of the secret ingredient – crushed pineapple.  This is a great recipe and I hope you will give it a try.

The only changes I made were to use a square pan (makes for easy cutting) and to lower the temperature on my fan forced oven to 150C.  It cooked in 1 hour 20 minutes.

Highly recommend.  Enjoy!

 

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Anyone for Dessert?

This is what I served up to my guests today for dessert. With such hot weather, who doesn’t love ice cream?

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This is combination of a chocolate biscuit base, chocolate ice cream, hazelnut spread, vanilla ice cream combined with crushed chocolate honeycomb, more hazelnut spread, the rest of the chocolate biscuit base and finally caramel, honey and macadamia ice cream mixed with caramel popcorn. After it was left to freeze overnight I covered it with more crushed choc honeycomb, caramel popcorn and maltesers, and just for good measure, chocolate sauce AND salted caramel sauce.

It tasted as good as it looks – everyone loved it!

This was adapted from a recipe in a Family Circle magazine.