Easy Apple Cake

175g self raising flour
175g soft butter
175g caster sugar
3 large eggs beaten
1. 5 medium sized cooking apples peeled and cubed
1 level teaspoon cinnamon
grated rind of 1 lemon
60g raisins
Icing sugar to dust
18cm square baking tin

Set oven to 180 degree celsius.
Put sugar, butter,  and flour in a bowl.  Add eggs and beat well. Stir in apples cinnamon, lemon rind and sultanas.

Bake in oven for forty to fifty minutes until cake has risen and feels firm to touch in the centre and a skewer comes out clean after insertion into the cake.

Leave to cool in tin for ten minutes then transfer to wire rack to cool.  Dust with icing sugar before serving.

Rich Chocolate Torte

250g dark chocolate
175g soft butter
125g caster sugar
200g packed ground almonds
4 separated large eggs
4 teaspoon apricot jam
23cm buttered tin

Set oven to 180 degrees celsius.
Melt 175g chocolate.  Cream 125g butter with sugar until light and stir in almonds egg yolks and melted chocolate and beat well.

Whisk egg white till stiff and fold into mixture.  Pour into tin and bake 50 to onehour until firm to touch.

Remove from oven and rest for five minutes then turn onto rack.  Warm jam and spread on cake. Melt chocolate and butter and spread over cake.

Did you say "semen" cake?

I wanted to bake blueberry muffins on Sunday, but I was engrossed with delivering and helping to write Vater's rice dumplings. Fat bears do not do well on bicycles. Bobo said my wrestling with the foldable bike everytime is like watching a bear performing at a circus. I think wrestling with the bike made me so tired that was why I took an afternoon nap.

So I tried again yesterday evening except I was too lazy to refer to a recipe (I did google some, but decided to trial and error). I opened the can and poured half a can of blueberries, sans juice, into some butter which I mixed a bit too enthusiastically... until the whole mixture turned into a grey mixture. I just poured some milk, an egg, pinch of baking soda and sifted flour and mix the whole lot together. Still looked a bit grey, and I did not add much sugar (only like 20g, because I thought the syrup might be sweet), so I poured in the syrup.

Well, it still looked cement-like so I told Bobo, who came into the kitchen to make some honey lemon water, so. He said "what? Semen cake?"

>.<"

Anyway it came out pretty tasteless, even though it did rise a little in the oven.