Apple Yoghurt Cake with Mixed Nuts and Chocolate Chips

A soft, moist cake with a rustic touch perfect for afternoon tea or a cosy dessert. The yoghurt keeps the texture wonderfully tender, while the apples, mixed nuts and chocolate chips add so much flavour and crunch. Keeps well in an airtight container for 2–3 days.   Serves 4-5, Preparation about 30 mins, Cooking about 50 mins 3 medium apples (peeled, cored, and diced) 200 g plain yoghurt (unsweetened) 100 ml sunflower oil  3 medium eggs 180g caster sugar 300g plain flour … Read more

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Apple / Cake / Chips / Chocolate / Mixed / Nuts / Yoghurt

Pumpkin Spiced Latte Cake – Leels Cooks

I wasn’t sure what to call this coffee cake. It’s like a traditional streusel topped cake, but with actual coffee elements along with a spiced pumpkin cake.  It’s got pumpkin, spices, a brown sugar coffee swirl and a coffee crumble topping. It has to be a pumpkin spice latte, right? I combined a few different recipes into this one and I think it works really well. The cake is subtly spiced and moist while the coffee elements are a bit stronger and deliver some crunch.   What you need: Swirl: 2 tbsp unsalted butter, softened 2 1/2 tsp instant coffee … Read more

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Cake / Cooks / Latte / Leels / Pumpkin / Spiced

Carrot Cake Blondies – Leels Cooks

I had the craziest craving for carrot cake (probably from all of these blogs posting Easter recipes) so I decided to throw together one for myself. Not a cake-cake because I didn’t want to fuss with layers and have that much. Just a denser blondie type batter with all the flavouring and carrots required. Feel free to add raisins or swap the pecans for walnuts. What you need: 1 cup unsalted butter, melted 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar 1 egg + 1 egg yolk 1 cup finely grated carrot 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder … Read more

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Blondies / Cake / Carrot / Cooks / Leels