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Give a cake a go day.

I received a delivery of jam, the fruit was left in the bowl at Kidsbarn for lockdown so Emma knocked up a batch of jam with it, I scored a bottle on the proviso it appeared on the blog so this is what I did. 

I based in on a recipe from a book called Harbour Kitchens which was a fundraiser many years ago for the schools in Lyttleton. There is a classic recipe from the witt of Joe Bennett for fish and chips if you can get your hands on a copy. 

This is an adaptation of the Lemon Yoghurt Cake by Jane Simmons.

False Pretences Cake

 Zest of 2 lemons

1 ¾ C sugar

2 eggs

Juice of half a lemon

4/5 C of greek yoghurt

Half a jar of orange, pineapple and kiwifruit or other jam

¾ C oil

2 1.2 C flour

2 large t baking powder

 Line a largish tin with baking paper, I lined a smallish tin, then had too much mixture, so I lined another tin spooned the rest of the mix into that and it was too big! So I lifted it out and transferred to a loaf tin, what a palaver….. so get the right tin. In your Kenwood beat together the sugar and lemon zest, add the eggs and mix thoroughly, then add the lemon juice, yoghurt, 2 T of the jam and the oil, mix again. The carefully add the flour and baking powder, I just fired it in with the mixer going of course and it went bloody everywhere.

Spoon half the mix into the tin the add some blobs of jam, put the rest of the mix on top and them spoon some more jam, try and get it uniform so it looks good when cooked. Cook for an unknown amount of time at an unknown temperature until it is cooked.

Quality Rider: Ok so I typed all that bit last night when I made the cake, so once I took it out of the tin the centre collapsed. The loaf edition was OK, it was a bit close to the back of the oven so slightly burned, I cut a slice……..dry, until you got some jam.  I took the cake to Kidsbarn today and it was pretty sqodgy in the middle, but tasted good, Emma’s assessment was too much sugar, I probably lumped too much jam in the middle too, so back up the jam and sugar a bit. If you cooked it in a bowl and called it pudding and layed on custard you would be thrilled with it, a rebrand is probably all it needs to be good.

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