All things beautiful

sábado, 20 de março de 2021

Ingredients

For the Cake

200 g Unsalted Butter/Stork
200 g Light Brown/Dark Brown Sugar
150 g Self Raising Flour
50 g Cocoa Powder
4 Medium Eggs
200 g Cherries soaked in kirsch (I used Opies)
100 g Dark Chocolate Chips

For the Topping

Kirsch
300 ml Double Cream
2 tbsp Icing Sugar
100 g Cherry Jam
Fresh Cherries
Dark Chocolate Curls

Instructions

For the Cake

Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan and line your 2lb loaf tin with parchment paper!
Beat together your Butter and Sugar until light and fluffy.
Add in your Flour, Cocoa Powder and Eggs and beat again till smooth and perfect!
Drain your Cherries from the kirsch liquid (keep the liquid for later!) and fold the cherries and chocolate chips through the cake mixture.
Pour the mixture into the tin, and bake the cake for 50-60+ minutes, or until baked through. You can test with a skewer!
Once out of the oven, drizzle over some of the kirsch liquid - I used about 8-10 tablespoons worth!
Leave the kirsch to soak in and cake to cool slightly in the tin for 20 minutes, before turning out to cool fully on a wire rack.

For the Topping

Whip together your Double Cream and Icing Sugar till softly whipped. Carefully swirl through a the cherry jam lightly with a spoonful of kirsch if you wish and then spread on top of the cake!
Add on some Dark Chocolate curls, and some fresh cherries and you're done! Enjoy!

quinta-feira, 18 de março de 2021

Joke - I’m here to feed the alligator

The old farmer had a large pond in the back, fixed up nicely with picnic tables, a barbecue pit, horseshoe courts, and some apple and peach trees. The pond was properly shaped and fixed up for swimming when it was built.

One evening, the old guy decided to go down to the pond and look it over. He hadn’t been there for a while. He grabbed a five gallon bucket to bring back some fruit.
As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny dipping in his pond. As he approached, he made the women aware of his presence.
At once, they all went to the deep end.
One of the women shouted to him, “We’re not coming out until you leave.”
The old man frowned, “I did not come down here to watch you young ladies swim
naked, or to make you get out of the pond naked.”

Holding up the bucket, he said, “I’m here to feed the alligator.”

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