I don't know about you, but I am pretty fed up with the weather. I know it is terribly English and boring to talk about the weather, but this is a serious issue now. I've got 1 week left of term and I have not yet been able to sit out in the garden that is costing me a fortune in rent.
So, in a vain attempt to invite the sun out, and to remind myself of what summer tastes like, I made a berry-cake thing, which I shall name 'A Sun-Dance Cake'.
Ingredients:
100 gms butter
100 gms caster suger (plus 2 Tbsp)
100 gms self raising flour
2 medium eggs
1 tsp almond extract (the original recipe called for vanilla, but I used almond to give it more of a Bakewell tart taste, but vanilla would be fine too)
600 gms frozen mixed berries
Method:
1) Preheat oven to 160ยบ fan, and put fruit into an oven proof dish, about 20x20 cms (or whatever size dish you have!) and sprinkle over 2 Tbsp of caster sugar and a little drizzle of almond extract.
2) In the TM bowl, weigh in the butter, sugar, flour, eggs and almond extract and mix speed 5 until the mixture is smooth and well mixed.
3) Pour the cake mixture over the fruit and pop in the oven for 25/30 minutes until the cake is cooked all the way through.
4) Serve with ice-cream, sit back, relax and think of summer. Whilst snuggled up under a blanket, regretting the decision to eat ice cream in such a cold house.
