dessert

I made this cake for Ashley's birthday. It really is the easiest carrot cake recipe. I cut-out the recipe from the Family Circle magazine in 1983. It never fails to please and it's so moist. It will keep for two weeks without the frosting if wrapped in cling film and stored in a tin.

INGREDIENTS 

There is still an abundance of apples about so I made a Tarte Tatin. Here's the recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 3 to 4 dessert apples
• 30g / 1. 1/2 oz butter
• 30g / 1. 1/2 oz soft brown sugar
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)

Sweet pastry
• 225g / 8 oz plain flour

• 110g / 4 oz butter
• 80g / 3 oz sugar

• 1 large yolk egg
• Milk

Pre heat oven 400 F / 200 C / Gas 6.

It feels like autumn now, the apples are starting to fall from the trees. The apple trees in the garden are old and the varieties are not the ones you find in the shops, except for one I know is a Bramley. To use the apples up we like apple crumble so here is my recipe with a twist!

Preheat the oven to 190 C/375 F/Gas Mark 5. 

I used about 900 g/2 lb  dessert apples. Peel, core and chop into chunky pieces. Put in a pan with a tsp of cinnamon, tbs of sugar and a tbs of water. Cook gently until apples look soft. Put in a dish.

At the market this morning I bought raspberries with the intent of making one of the family's favourite and easiest desserts, a roulade. Here is the recipe 

Fresh Raspberry and Cream Roulade