A walnut, cranberry – apple cake. But it was awful. Dry.
The pictures are pretty though. See how it says Moist?
Well it wasn’t.. so I don’t think you need the recipe. Or I just left it in the oven too long. I sometimes wonder whether waiting til the probe comes out clean is not TOO LONG. I will eat it though – with Butter! YUM. I love butter. I will have some cake with my butter.
Anyway.. we were cold, cold, cold. A little snow. All the birds were puffed up and still. Dealing with plumbers and well drillers and so on and so forth ALL Day again. Sigh. Ask me anything about water tables and pumps and casings and shafts and water lines and septic tanks. I am up to speed. 
The birds were all still and fluffed up. Cold. 
Marmalade fed her babies in the Snug. Look at their little hands. Warm but dark – we have not had any real light for days.
I hope you have a lovely day. I have oodles of children over today and then our Winter Defiance Fiesta tonight. Plus I have been promised SUN, freezing sun but sun none the less. And everything is nicer when it is sunny. Even 19F (-7c) is better in a sunny morning.. we are drifting down into winter.
But it IS winter. It will get cold. Just as long as the coldness comes slowly.
Love your friend on the farmy
celi
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I think I’d rather bake the butter into the cake… But then, I’m not a great one for healthy recipes. I bake gluten free stuff for a couple of local coffee shops. On the basis that people who need gluten free often get stuck with bland, boring, dry or no goodies at all, I make mine as lavish as possible. Lots of butter, free range eggs, heaps of fruit, chocolate, ground almonds, whatever… Life is too short for virtuous cake! Love that photo of Mama Marmalade and her babies, kneading away with their little paws to make the milk come faster!
Virtuous cake is surely an oxymoron.. your cakes sound wonderful.. c
They don’t ever seem to last long… The Dowager is especially keen (she’s a ‘plain’ cook), and particularly favours chocolate fudge brownie.
Winter is very early here this year, by about three weeks. Like you I need the sun…I can handle things much better with the sun. We’ve been cloudy now for several days…this cold front is a huge one and it doesn’t budge easily!
Linda
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All those little Marmalade-look-alikes! Too cute. It is frustrating when baked items don’t turn out quite right, but, thankfully, you have butter! LOL
Back again! Just received an email from Teespring announcing Sheila’s t-shirts will be printed! We reached the goal 🙂 Yay.
YAY for Sheila the BIG FAT PIG!
wonderful. c
I have that recipe book, its more a ‘list-of-ingredients-that-potentially-could-work-this-way-or-maybe-that’ type of book. Mine is so old its literally falling apart and is probably a health hazard. 🙂 (The Mushroom Strudel is delicious, btw). When I have cakes that go dry, I make a sort of bread and butter pudding out of them, sliced into a pie dish, spread with butter and doused in fresh egg/vanilla custard then baked, you eat a little of that in your bowl of cream 😉
Also I got my Teespring – Tshirt confirmation email today, woo hoo!
yes we have tiipped the balance and sold the 50! Isn’t that grand!.. c
I’m glad you got your total. I would have purchased one otherwise, but I have a close acquaintance named Sheila, who happens to have NO sense of humor, and a suspicious nature. I’m sure you’ll understand! 🙂
Oh I do understand.. yikes!.. c
Beautiful 🙂 shame about that cake!
So love the idea of ‘Winter Defiance Fiesta’ especially since the coldest day, or should I say morning, here in some 20 years has been -2C midwinter!! Ah, but yesterday was a rather uncomfortable 41 C and I am afraid a large bushfire some 50 km away had a lot of people evacuated: and it is still spring! So, which is worse!!!! Love those little kittie paws . . . cakes: totally ignorant – have not baked one for at least 30 years: no sugar, no butter, no white flour in this house I am afraid 🙂 ! Yes well, comes with the ‘territory’!!!!! Hope all the littlies behaved and you are not totally worn out . . .
they were a delight and now they have been swapped out for the grown up version!.. c
It’s so disappointing when after all that work and salivating, a promising recipe fails to deliver. I always like lots of apples in a cake to keep it moist. Maybe, as you suspect, it was just coded too long.
Oh dear, that spell-checker was too fast for me. I meant ‘cooked too long’.
I guess it wouldn’t be a good idea to do it with nuts, but when my Mum and I have a chocolate cake or other kind of sponge that’s dry we toast it and add butter. 😀
Butter solves so much…