a family recipe

Since i was a little girl my family has made this "cake" it is called the one, two, three, four, five cake..based on the ingredients.(british courtship cake)
most of the time the topping would be apricot preserve my favorite, or apples. My grandmother would make this often, it was simple and quick. this is the kind of cake that you cat cut up into pieces and take on a road trip, in fact my aunt always sent us home from montreal with a container full. It is wonderful to me to see my niece and nephews embrace this cake as i did when i was young.

I had some plums that had gone to soft to just eat so i decided to make the cake/tart,I cooked the plums with some vanilla till it made a compote.

1 teaspoon of vanilla
2 eggs
3 tablespoons of butter
4 espresso cups of sugar
5 espresso cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder

cream the butter and sugar together, then add eggs and vanilla. mix in flour a little at a time, till the dough becomes a ball. i used a 9 inch tart pan, but it really depends on how thick you want to make the cake.

in a sauce pan i combined the plums and a tablespoon of vanilla and cooked over slow heat, then gently mashed it. let cool. then put plums over tart and put it in the oven at 350..for about 45 minutes or till done.

* you can used any fruit preserves apricot is really good or fresh apples...

bark

my niece and nephew and i had fun making this, we went overboard with the candy canes! This is as easy as it gets, dark chocolate, white chocolate, peppermint extract and candy canes we used a tart pan!

oatmeal ice cream sandwiches

with the holidays fast approaching i know soon my house will fill up with little feet and hands and tiny appetites..so i thought why not make things tiny so that we can taste many things before our bellies get to full. i did not make the vanilla bean ice cream but had fun making the tiny oatmeal cookies.( i suggest when using your favorite cookie recipe, specialy ones with oatmeal that tend to be chunkier, put your oatmeal through a food processor just on quick spin so that you can make the perfect tiny cookie)

bread giving

i thought i would share some of the packaging
i do around the holidays. I like baking breads and
this holiday i will baking a lot of these. This one will
stay here since I burned it!

but oh so good

well here it is my blog about food! my first post is not exactly like i would have envisioned it but in need of something yummy with the ingredients i had. i went searching for a recipe and found this peanut butter crispy bars from smitten! is there anything more delicious than melting peanut butter and chocolate together i am beginning to wonder? well like i said this is simple, what do i consider simple? well it begins with five ingredients or less and only uses two baking terms "melt and stir":) but like i said ..oh so good!