Coca Cola Cake

while browsing Nigella & Mary Berry's cake books on Thursday I stumbled upon Nigella's Coca-Cola Cake recipe. It's chocolate flavoured - exactly what Zack wanted for his birthday. So I rushed off and bought a bottle of coke (the full fat, full sugar, full caffeine version), and made it for the 7th birthday party yesterday. thanks to Haribo and Nigella for the decorative suggestion....

 

it's another really easy recipe, that requires nothing but a wooden spoon and a whisk. and comes out delicious.

Lemon & Poppy Seed muffins

Calvin has been begging me to make him Lemon & Poppy-seed muffins for an age. As such I had a look online and found a wonderful recipe on the Nigella website. It isn't actually Nigella's own, but the work of a woman called Linda Fisher - the Muffin Lady, I presume. It is a fabulously easy recipe in that you can make the entire thing without a mixer/blender. This is always good news as it means less washing up.
The recipe, when doubled, makes much more than 2 dozen muffins. The ingredients are easy to come by. My only complaint is that there is so much 'fat' (ie. oil & butter) in the recipe that it's left marks on the floor every time someone drops crumbs. And yes, they are very crumbly muffins. Overall I would give them 10/10 for flavour and 10/10 presentation. You could easily top them with a lemon icing, lemon drizzle or even a dollop of lemon curd.

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