Showing posts with label Royal Wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Royal Wedding. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Boiled fruit cake; I promise you this is delicious.

These mini fruit loaf cakes are for our Royal Wedding celebrations, the little round one will probably get eaten before then!

To make them you a need a large heavy based saucepan.
Into the pan empty a can of condensed milk (397g) and 125g butter.
Add 800g dried fruit - I used a mixture of sultanas, raisins, cranberries, chopped apricots, chopped dates, glace cherries - basically all the stuff I had lying around in the cupboard!!
Heat on low until the butter melts into the condensed milk, and then simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often.
Leave to cool a little.

In  a large mixing bowl put 225g self raising flour, 2 tsp ground spice and 1 tsp ground cinnamon, mix together.
Make a well and put 2 large beaten eggs in, followed by the cooled fruit / milk / butter mixture.
Mix quickly and pour into your tin.

If you are using a deep 7 inch tin it will take about 1 3/4 - 2 hours at 150 degrees.
These small ones took about an hour - until the tops are brown and firm and a skewer comes out clean.

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Speedy bunting :)

I finished making this bunting last night ready for the Royal Wedding fever.
(Although of course I'm planning to keep using it for many parties in years to come.)
It was pretty simple; I cut lots of triangles out of old curtain samples, using the pinking shears to avoid hemming.
Then I put 2 triangles back to back and machine stitched along 2 edges.
Repeat many many times!
Then pin all of the triangles along some cotton tape - fold the tape over to sandwich the unsewn triangle edge in side - and machine stitch all the way along.