Please make sure that you have an adult’s permission to make these cakes and also that an adult supervises when using the cooker.
Chocolate and Prune Smallcakes.
Ingredients.
6oz soft margarine made from vegetable oil.
6oz of dark brown sugar.
3 eggs, (preferably free range) beaten.
6oz wholemeal, self raising flour.
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder.
1 tin of prunes in prune juice.
Drain the juice off the prunes. Put the juice in a glass, it can be used in other recipes. Take the stones from the prunes, and cut them up.
Topping
½ a bar of cooking chocolate – or carob.
Heat the oven at 350F/180C/gas mark 4.
You can use a bun tray of twelve for this recipe. Grease the tray with margarine or butter to stop your small cakes from sticking. These small cakes are really easy to make, you simply throw all the ingredients (except the chocolate topping) into a bowl and mix. Using a food processor makes it even easier. When the mixture is smooth, simply spoon out evenly into the bun tray. Bake in the oven for approximately 15 to 20 minutes. All ovens vary so it is wise to keep your eyes on them the first time you make them. The small cakes are ready when well risen and the tops of the cake spring back if gently pressed with a finger.
Once out of the oven, leave to cool in the tins for a short while to allow them to finish cooking. Allow them to finish off cooling on a wire rack.
When the small cakes have completely cooled put them on plates so that the chocolate can be added on top. The next bit might seem a bit of a pain if you are not used to baking – but let me tell you that it is not. It simply sounds more complicated than it is. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT AN ADULT IS PRESENT WHEN DOING THIS. Once you have done it the first time it becomes, like the small cakes, really easy and well worth the adoration you get f rom your friends for producing these delicious small cakes.
Break the chocolate into pieces and place in a bowl which can stand heat. I use a cereal bowl. Put half a small pan of water onto a medium heat. Make sure the bowl’s rim is bigger than the pan’s. Put the bowl so that it is resting on the rim of the pan. Using a wooden spoon keep stirring the chocolate as the heat from the water below melts it. Once done, you will realise how easy it is and it melts the chocolate in a smooth and non sticky manner. Once the chocolate is melted take the bowl from the pan and turn the heat off. Spoon the chocolate onto the small cakes. Allow the chocolate to set.
Don’t be amazed if your smallcakes disappear quickly. People get overwhelmed when they taste them.
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Mistress Loony, I fear the first two comments on this page are probably spammers who will now bombard your site with their idiotic emails because you have allowed them access. May the prunes revolve in their tummies until they’re blue in the face.
I think they must have been there since I first started blogging – when I wasn’t aware of these creatures. I’ll have to look at it and send them to the moon. Thanks for pointing it out.
I just recognised one of them, it was also in my spam comment box.
Yes, you’ve just reminded me. Thanks. Great news that you’ve got another wonderful review – you deserve it – I didn’t realise that about reviews until you told me.
I’ve got rid of them – I think my whole site needs a bit of a tidying up when I get the time.
It’s so easy to fall for these people,some messages look quite genuine at first glance. It;s not as if either of us have a great deal of time to scurtinize every comment that we receive. Once I had fallen for one of the spammers, my site got inundated with spam messages. Grrrr.
It’s a nightmare with the trolls, hackers and spammers – thank goodness we can retire to our other worlds.
How right you are – my one and only sanctuary is my imagination!
I know exactly what you mean – it’s like being transported into another world. We are so lucky, many people can not do that.