Hello strangers…..how have you all been?!!

Summer had been mad here, Weddings, baking for and running 2 Tea Rooms, Birthday Cakes and Anniversary cakes galore! Now is calmed down there is a bit of time for a recipe or few. So we start today with Dream Cake.

Our Dream Cake is a layered slice consisting of a shortcake base topped with a meringuey top filled with Cranberries, Coconut and Ground Almonds. It’s adapted from a recipe we found in a Women’s Institute Magazine, and seeing as it’s the WI’s Centenary this year we thought it apt that we use this recipe…..and it’s totally scrummy!

Daisy’s Dream Cake

Ingredients:

110gms Butter

225gms Plain Flour

2tbsp Icing Sugar

Topping

2 Free Range Eggs

200gms Caster Sugar

50gms Plain Flour

1tspn Baking Powder

55gms Desiccated Coconut

55gms Ground Almonds

55gms Dried Cranberriest

Pre-heat your oven to 160c/ 140c fan/ GM3. Prepare a brownie tray by greasing and lining with baking parchment.

In a bowl sieve together the Plain Flour and Icing Sugar. Add the butter and either rub together with your fingers or if you have a stand mixer use the paddle attachment on medium until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Pour into your prepared tin and press down with your fingertips to make it even biscuit type base.

In the same bowl, beat the eggs and mix with the caster sugar and flour. Beat until it’s light and well combined and mix in the Almonds, Coconut and Cranberries by hand. If you don’t have Cranberries or Almonds, try cherries and walnuts, or sultanas and pecans – either whatever takes your fancy or you have in the cupboard.

Pour the wet mixture over the biscuit base and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until the top is a rich golden colour and crispy to the touch.

Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Cut into slices – we get 8 slices from each bake, but you may get more (or less) depending on how your mood takes you.