Apple Cake

• 100 g butter
• 4 tablespoons apple sauce
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 310 g self raising flour
• 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 120 g caster sugar
• 1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped
• icing sugar to serve

Heat oven to 160 ℃. Grease and line base of a 20cm round tin.

Place butter, apple sauce, golden syrup and vanilla into a heat proof bowl, add 300 ml boiling water and whisk with fork to combine.

Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar into a large mixing bowl. Add butter mixture and gently mix until just combined. Transfer to cake tin and top with chopped apple. Lightly push into batter.

Bake for 50-55 minutes, or until well risen, golden and the top springs back when lightly touched. Cool in tin for 10 minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool. Serve dusted with icing sugar.

Chocolate Cake

• 2 cups self raising flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 4 1/2 tablespoons Nuttilex (non dairy margarine)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/4 cups boiling water

Mix flour, sugar and cocoa in a bowl. Mix golden syrup, Nuttilex, vanilla and water. Mix the wet ingredients gently until butter has melted. Pour the wet mixture into the dry and combine with a wooden spoon.

Pour mixture into a greased cake tim and cook for 30 mins at 180 ℃.

Note: Can be made a little cakes - bake for 5-10 minutes.

Date Cake or Slice

• 1 1/2 cup self raising flour
• 1 1/2 cup chopped dates
• 1/2 cup raw sugar
• 1 tablespoon nuttilex (non dairy margarine)
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
• 3/4 cup boiling water

Combine dates, sugar, Nuttilex, ginger and bicarb in a bowl. Pour in the boiling water. Sift in flour and blend well with a spoon.

Bake in a moderate oven for 45 min.

Can be topped with butter (Nuttilex) icing or served plain.