Two Jumpers North

We spent the Easter Weekend in North Yorkshire, with some old family friends. It was gorgeous.

 

It involved:

 

Harry Potter References!

Pretty Villages!

 



A baby Pineapple!

 

Making cake!

 

Seeing one of my felt hearts 'en situe'!

Knitting (products to be accounted for later)!

And the prettiest, cosiest house I ever did see!

I wish I could crochet blankets.

 

Alas, I did not steal a blanket, but I did get some very nice fudge and a pretty tweed notebook - plain pages too! I loved it up there. Although chilly,and hilly, it has the charm and intrigue of somewhere new to explore....

 



Recipe: Choclate Cake

This is an alteration of a cake by St. Delia. Not for the faint- hearted.

Cake

110g Self Raising Flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

110g soft butter

110g caster sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon Vanilla essence

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

50g melted dark chocolate

Chocolate Butter cream

100g melted dark chocolate

100g softened butter

120g icing sugar

80g caster sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

White Chocolate Chunks to decorate

Grease and line 2 18cm tins. Turn on the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

In a large bowl, mix all of the cake ingredients together until everything is combined. I suggest using an electric whisk.

Divide into 2 and spread equally between each tin. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. When time, takeout of the oven, remove frostiness and place on a wire rack to cool.

 

 

For the butter cream, use the electric whisk again to combine all ingredients together.

 

 

Spread butter cream equally, first for between the sponges, and then for the topping. Onto both,sprinkle a generous handful of white chocolate chunks.

Tada!

Yummy!

Oh, the knitted-ness is not my work - our local church gave it to us!