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Hello foodies...

Today I'd like to share this with you:

  

Recipe: Lovely Lemon Drizzle Cake

There are so many wonderful cake recipes to try, and I've tried a few, but I keep getting requests from my family for this really simple, but deliciously zingy Lemon Drizzle cake.  It's taken from a little book called 'Teatime Recipes' by Carole Gregory, and I've done my usual thing - I've reduced the amount of sugar by a third, as I don't like overly-sweet cake.  If you do, just increase the sugar amount back to the original 6 ounces.  For me, with less sugar it tastes better and the lemon flavour really comes through.  So, without further ado, we'll get on with it!

Recipe: Apple Sharlotka

                                                                                            

Last autumn, we had a bumper crop of apples in England.  I remember seeing the branches of the apple trees in the neighbouring gardens where my mum lives in London absolutely weighed down with masses of red fruit.  Even the pathetic specimen that lives on the boundary of my property looked pleased with itself for displaying a few somewhat sour apples.  This bounty must have had an effect on prices, because since the autumn, apples have been cheaper.  I was looking at them in the supermarket last week whilst wondering what I could bake for this week’s Labyrinthus recipe, and I picked up three bags of three different varieties, thinking, ‘I’ll make something with apples.  Everyone keeps saying it’s good to cook with things that are in season.’  So here I am, and after a little online research, I decided to make an ‘Apple Sharlotka’.  It’s a fatless Russian apple cake, and I sourced the recipe from Smitten Kitten.  Here’s what happened...