Ruby Tuesday – Chocolate Apple Cake

As I dashed into see Ruby this afternoon the weather had gone from on again-off again sun to completely off along with a drenching downpour, and icy winds just to round things off!

I found Ruby in her lounge room, rugged up with the heater on knitting, as cosy as could be!

I didn’t stop for a cuppa today – just caught up on news of her weekend travels with Margie as they visited several friends & overnighted with family in a posh rental house! 🙂

I promised you the Chocolate/Apple cake recipe, and Margie was kind enough to write it out for me! I think I will have to cook this tomorrow. The weather isn’t going to let up its current behaviour, so will be stuck with indoor tasks.

Chocolate Apple Cake

4oz butter (125gm)

1 cup sugar

1lb apples (cooked) (500gm)

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

4oz plain flour (125gm)(all purpose flour)

2 tablespoon cocoa

1 cup Self Raising Flour (self rising flour of course)

1 level teaspoon bicarb soda (baking soda)

Seriously!! Translating English into English!!

Anyway –

Cook apples with a little water until soft

Sift cocoa & flours together

Cream butter and sugar (Apparently Ruby pops the butter and sugar in the oven as it begins heating to soften it for easy beating)

Add vanilla essence

Stir the bicarb soda into the apples and while all is ‘frizzling’ (A Ruby word) add creamed butter and sugar. Beat well.

Add half of the flour mixture at a time, beating well.

Put in 8″ sq tin (or equiv.) and cook at 180C (350F) until cooked. (Skewer test)

I’ll let you know tomorrow if I can do one as well as Ruby can! (Doubtful)

Have a great day & if you want to see my salvia dancing in the wind, head on over to facebook to see my dodgy time-lapse efforts!

Cheers – I am heading back to my fire! Its a bit icy this evening! The weather page says its 7.9C (46F) but they also add that it feels like 1.9C (35F)  I won’t disagree! I am totally going to turn on my electric blanket too! 😀