Life LackaDaisiCal

But it is important not to totally cut yourself off of the things you love. I tried this last year too - let's see how long I can keep it up........ No store bought baked goods! When you bake it yourself, you know what is in it......can you say that about store bought baked goods with long best by dates? Last year (last week LOL) I made a Walnut Fudge Cake .....I've shown this before here on the SOS blog.  There are still a couple of pieces left. This year (laughing today) rather than pitch 4 bananas that were going a bit soft for our liking, I made a Banana Walnut Loaf. Hmmmm, DH immediately made tea and we had a slice with butter on it! My favourite go to cook book is the Bero Recipe book which uses their self-raising flour.  Unfortunately you can't get Bero Flour here in Canada - but you can get Brodie Self-Raising Flour....it works just as well! You can find these Bero Recipe books being sold on E-bay (I wonder why?)  when you can get all of the Bero Recipes on line -...

Victoria Sandwich Cake - 100 g margarine (or butter) (4 oz) 100 g caster sugar (4 oz) 100 g self-raising flour (4 oz) 2 eggs Cream margarine and sugar until light and flurry. Beat in eggs one at a time, adding a little four with each. Place mixture into greast 18 cm cake tin. Bake in a moderate over - 350 degrees F. for 40-45 minutes. When cool - cut into two layers. Put Raspberry jam on the bottom half and Butter Cream icing on the top half and sandwich back together. Sprinkle icing sugar on the top. Butter Cream Icing is 50 g butter or margarine (2 oz) 100 g sieved icing sugar (4 oz) Cream butter and sugar together, and add flavouring or colouring -- I just add a few drops of vanilla essence. Enjoy!