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kayloulee : BEHOLD. Things we are baking.

Jan's Chocolate Mud Cake

Combine: 
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup butter
Stir in:
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups sugar
Whisk in
1 tsp carb soda
1/2 tsp sour cream
2 eggs
Combine:
2 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
then beat into mixture

Bake 40-50 minutes 180 degrees c in 25cm round tin.
Note: mixture is not thick when made up

Icing:
1/2 cup cream scalded and 1 cup cooking chocolate melted. Whisk together until smooth. Let it cool and thicken slightly before spreading on cake.

Banana and Walnut Cake
4-5 ripe bananas peeled and mashed w/ fork
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup light evaporated milk
1/4 cup golden syrup
2 egg whites
1 cup wholemeal SR flour
1 cup white SR flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup unprocessed bran
1 cup sultanas
45g coarsely chopped walnuts (reserve 1 tsp for decoration)

In a large bowl, sift the flours, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar. Fold in bran.
Beat together honey, milk, golden syrup and egg whites. Add to sifted flour and stir well.
Fold in mashed bananas, sultanas and lastly the walnuts.
Spoon into a deep 23x13cm loaf tin and sprinkle remaining nuts on top.
Bake 55-60 min in 190 degree oven.

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Both from the Penninsula Preschool 1997-1998 Cookbook.

Also mum says the reason Stella's b'day cake sunk is that the 30 estimated cooking time was for a lamington tin, and I cooked it in a normal deep round tin. Apparently this should take 50-55 minutes, and I think I only gave it 45 all up.