I Made a Cake.

This is basically the only thing that I have cooked in recent years that is not chocolate. So yeah... it's pretty damn good.


Lime and Coconut Cake (adapted from Flick Your Food)


Ingredients

Cake

• 250g Butter 
• 3 Cups Plain Flour 
• 2 Tsp Baking Powder 
• 1 3/4 Cup Caster Sugar 
• 4 Eggs 
• Juice of 3 Limes 
• Rind of 1 Lime 
• 1/4 Cup Coconut Cream 
• 1/2 Cup Desiccated Coconut

Icing

• 100g Cream Cheese 
• 200g Butter 
• 1/2 Cup Icing Sugar 
• 2 Tbs Coconut Cream 

Shredded coconut and lime rind to decorate


Method

1. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees
2. Beat together the butter and sugar until the sugar dissolves
3. Add the eggs then lime, coconut, coconut cream and rind and beat to combine
4. Add the flour, a cup at a time
5. Pour the mixture into your cake tin and cook for 40-50mins
6. For the icing, beat all ingredients together until light and fluffy. This may take a while.
7. Once cooled, spread the icing over the cake and sprinkle over shredded coconut. Grate some lime zest over the cake for some colour.
8. Spoon over passionfruit pulp for serving


Enjoy xx

Corny

1/ Red-eyed, wearing Forever New neon necklace and Zara leopard shirt. Had dinner at new thai place, Ayatana, on Chapel St. Damn it was actually amazing.
2/ I really felt like corn the other day so I went out, bought corn, came home and cooked it. I felt like such a weirdo buying just corn but it was so worth it. Goooood. But I really want to make this recipe from Food 52; lime, parmesan and chilli corn. It's the ultimate corn.

Bec xx

Getting Creative With Brownies

I came back to Perth for a sneaky weekend and the weather is freakin' worse than Melbourne. It was such a wintry day today - cold and windy, with tree branches trashed all over the road - so I decided to make brownies using my favourite recipe from Gourmet Chick. It doesn't use any real chocolate which is good because they last for ages (like literally 2 weeks out of the fridge... if not longer... I don't know how hygienically safe it is to push it any longer) and it tastes more fudgety and I don't have to go buy chocolate or chop it!

Because all my friends  and family are in exams (well, my dad is the only member of the family who is free but he is busy sending emails 'From My iPad'), I have a super amount of time were I can't really make any noise so I decided to get creative with icing sugar. The result:

I made a stencil out of a bit of card and viola! The most professional-looking bit of baking I have ever done. 

Ingredients 
1 cup unsalted butter (melted)
1 cup cocoa
2 cups caster sugar
4 eggs
1 cup plain flour
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 tsp vanilla essence
Pinch of salt


1. Put it all in a bowl and mix.

2. Put into a greased tin and bake for 20-25 minutes on 180 Celsius. Make sure it's still a bit uncooked in the middle when you take it out. I do the wobble test - essentially take out the tin and shake it around and it should wobble a little bit - you don't want it to be rock hard but you still want it to stick together.

3. Eat it. Try not burn your tongue because you couldn't be bothered waiting for it to cool. Snowflakes optional but recommended.

Happy eating!
Bec xx