Topic: Favourite Recipe

I DID have a favourite recipe – “Del’s Banana Cake’ – which I obtained from one of my mothers’ friends when I was about 12. I carefully copied it into my mother’s recipe book. I loved messing around in the kitchen even then. But time rolls on, and the huge amount of sugar in the cake became excessive. Easy enough to adjust. But now another problem has reared its head – I have become gluten sensitive. And somehow that recipe does not adapt so well to GF flour even in its many combinations. It just doesn’t taste the same.

But a friend has come up with an absolutely wonderful GF chocolate cake. Putting all the ingredients including melted butter and unbeaten eggs in a bowl all at once seems so counter-intuitive to one reared on old fashioned “first cream the butter and sugar… sift flour twice…” method – but it WORKS. It even adapts to a sugar substitute. Margaret’s Chocolate Cake is now my favourite recipe …..