We have finally eaten all the Christmas biscuits and the cake tin was looking rather bare, so I had a flip through one of my recipe clipping folders and came across Mary's teatime cake, a recipe from the very talented and delightful MaryBerry and published in BBC Good Food magazine
So I headed to my cookbook shelf and saw MaryBerry's Baking Bible. However, for the past couple of days I had been eyeing the last three bananas that had been in the fruit bowl for a quite some time
I need to thank HRH MaryBerry for this recipe – It is one of my favourites of her, a Lemon Drizzle Cake but obviously amended to turn into an Orange Drizzle Cake
This recipe is based upon a MaryBerry Banana and Chocolate Chip Loaf. And then, among all the fluttering scraps of paper, I spied a very ripe banana in the fruit bowl
Prue Leith will be replacing MaryBerry as a judge, whilst Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding will be taking over the hosting duties from Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc
Finally, whilst I am a huge fan of butter, it has become quite expensive and Stork or similar works brilliantly here – if its good enough for MaryBerry, its certainly good enough for me
Jen made MaryBerry’s lemon yoghurt cake last year and enjoyed the taste and texture that the yoghurt gave to the cake, so that was the inspiration for this recipe, and I think her cakes look SO pretty as well as sounding wonderful with all those great ingredients
Yes, I made the madeira cake, and yes, you make the custard - you could buy both, even MaryBerry in the original recipe countenances the possibility - but actually, I'm finding less and less time to tinker in the kitchen, and this was a welcome excuse to shut myself away, fiddle about, make a mess and create something lovely
Recipe Junkie and the Attack of the Custard Creams
MaryBerry's Chocolate Cake. Black Forest Fruit Brownies. I've already started pondering over my choice of bake and at the moment a filled centerpiece loaf, mini pear pies and savoury parcels are all in the running
” – Mary B. Are there spotty old brown bananas lurking in your fruit bowl. This could be done with any sort of savoury nut loaf and would be perfect for packed lunches or winter picnics
(taken from The Busy Mum’s Vegetarian Cookbook by Mary Gwynn Simon & Schuster). Try it the traditional way for the month – grilled and served with a tart gooseberry sauce
