The whole meal was gluten free of course.  Gluten free sausages with a gluten free onion gravy, mash,  vegetables, salad and this cake, with some tinned fruit and cream.  It went down a real treat!

I couldn't really have any of the cake as it is quite high in sugar . . .  and fat for that matter, lotsa lotsa butter.  

But I did taste a very tiny sliver of it, just to make sure it was okay, and it was.  In fact it was moreishly okay!







Dense and buttery with lovely almond and vanilla flavours  . . .  and that special touch of coconut as well . . . 

Mmmm . . .  coconut  . . .  almonds  . . .  mmmm . . . 






 The little sliver I tasted was soooooo good!  I would have loved to have more, but I must behave.  

Raspberries would have gone very well with this but we had tinned sliced peaches in juice instead . .  . and some cream for Todd and the lads.

I just had the peaches and was grateful for them . . .  with a dollop of plain Greek Yogurt.  I love Greek Yogurt.  In any case all of the men really enjoyed this. 

 

I love that I was able to bake something for Elder Nilson that he could enjoy with abandon.  That made me very happy, and him happy too!   It was such a simple thing to do, but very much appreciated.

A gluten free cake for the coeliac in your life to enjoy.  A bit of fruit with this goes very nicely.


Tip the cake out once cooled, removing the bottom of the tin and any paper.  Invert it onto a serving plate. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

Bon Appetit! 

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Drop the jam by teaspoonfuls over top of the batter, then swirl through decoratively with a table knife.  Drop the Jammy Dodgers on top in a decorative and neat manner. 

Little unappealing lumps of mud and twigs . . .  grass and gravel . . . inedible of course to anyone but my imaginary family who really loved them!

 




I still make mud pies, but these days they are quite edible, delicious. In fact, they are stogged full of lovely chunks of milk chocolate, sweet sticky sultanas and crunchy toasted walnuts!

Deliciousness personified!

They aren't pies really, but a lovely drop scone!  So lovely to make and to eat. 

I adore scones, and when they are as easy as these are, I love them even more. 

 

Dusted with a sweet drift of icing sugar . . . covering all of their tasty lumps and bumps.

I don't know anything that a light dusting of icing sugar doesn't pretty up. Well, baked goods that it. I doubt it would do much for mac and cheese.

I really wanted to bake something today that wasn't low fat or low sugar.  I knew I wouldn't be able eat them myself.

 But, then again,  I often don't eat what I bake. My husband does or I give it away.  I simply get a pleasure out of baking things for others. I do have a tiny taste, but that's all basically.

 

And my husband . . .  well, he is not overly fond of chocolate things.  But I really wanted to bake these today.

   

They were begging me to be baked and so I did. He had one and said it was pretty good as far as chocolate things go . . . I took it as a compliment.

But you know how these things work out.  The two Buckley Elders, Singsam and Judd . . .  they happened by this afternoon, checking up on me after my experience from yesterday, 

So I was able to sit them down with cold glasses of milk and one each of these.   And they REALLY enjoyed them.  

So much so that they took the remainder of them home with them.  I love it when that happens.

Sift the flour into a bowl along with the cocoa powder and baking powder.  Stir in the salt and brown sugar.   Drop in the butter and rub it in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.   Beat together the milk, egg and vanilla.   Add all at once to the dry mixture, stirring to combine.   Stir in the chocolate bits, raisins and nuts.   Drop by 1/3 cups, leaving 3 inches in between, onto the prepared baking sheet.

Bake for 16 to 18 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of a scone comes out clean.   Remove to a wire rack and allwo to cool on the baking sheet for five minutes, before scooping off onto a wire rack to cool.   Serve warm or cool, dusted with icing sugar if desired.  Tasty tasty!

I don't know why, but chocolate things are really difficult to photograph and come out looking tasty, but I did try my best.  I hope you'll give them a go!