Well the house is back to normal, the children are back to school for their last week before the holidays, and we had a lovely day yesterday. I really enjoy the brunch/open house idea. Food laid out as a buffet, friends free to come and go at whatever time suits them, children running between food, ball in the garden or a game in a room upstairs.
I broke a golden rule yesterday and tried a new recipe, without testing it first 'en famille'. I was really happy with the result, thought you might like to know about it. (sorry the pictures aren't brilliant).
It's an apple and blueberry or blackberry streusel cake, that is the easiest thing in the world to do.
Throw into your mixer 250g / 9oz / 2 cups plain flour, 125g / 4.5oz / 1 cup sugar, 250g / 9oz / 2 cups cold butter, and a pinch of salt. This will make a crumbly mixture.
Peel and dice 3 apples, and place in a bowl with 250g / 9oz / 2 cups of blackberries or blueberries, add several tablespoons of sugar and swirl around.
Grease and line an 8"/22 cm cake tin (not loose based as this cake is juicy!) leaving 'handles' of greaseproof or waxed paper running across the base and up the sides for easy cake removal.
Simply put half the mixture into the base of the tin, pour in the fruit and sugar then the other half of the crumble mix. It will look very high, but will sink down while cooking then cooling. Bake at 180C for an hour.
I let it cool down, then popped in into the fridge for a couple of hours so that the juices solidified a little.
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