jumble cake for christmas!

again, sort of cheating here, baking not really 'cooking' but it is christmas after all....

made some jumble cake for a christmas present for a friend who loves it ( you know who you are!), it's been fun making and packaging it so i am going to give it to some others as well, like my grandpa who is impossibly hard to buy for.....

JUMBLE CAKE

(this must be our family recipe, because i've never had anything like it outside of my family, and no, it isn't like hedgehog cake at all)

ingredients:

250g soft butter
2 cups caster sugar
2 eggs
2 cups desiccated coconut
4 dessert spoons cocoa
2 cups SR flour

method:

cream butter/sugar
add eggs
then gradually add dry ingredients
spread across a lamington tray with the back of a spoon, don't go all the way to the edges. bake 170c until beginning to firm up (about 45 mins). cool in tray. ice with choc icing and cut before completely cold (otherwise it gets really hard to cut!)

slow roasted tomatoes

i actually had already eaten almost all of the large (and best) slow roasted tomatoes when i remembered that i hadn't yet taken a photo.... they were sooo good! the cherry tomatoes were also good, but perhaps would have been better if i had roasted them longer. the tomatoes were grown in our very own garden :)

method for both:

slice all tomatoes in half and place on oiled baking trays (cherry and regular tomatoes on separate trays for different cooking times)

drizzled with more extra virgin olive oil and balsamic, sprinkled with maldon salt and cracked pepper.

the cherry tomatoes went in to the oven at about 180 c for an hour or two- they came out yummy BUT the big tomatoes went in the oven for about 8 hours, at as low as the oven goes and they were AMAZING, so lesson learnt here!

MMMMMM MMMM