You might have heard the news by now... Alex and I are engaged!!! It's so exciting - the last week has been such a crazy hyper blur! Sitting in work on Monday, my heart was beating so fast all day I felt so dizzy!
We collected the ring on Tuesday, and I felt it was quite unfair that I got such a wonderful token of love from Alex but didn't give him anything equal back in return. I had heard that it's tradition for a girl to get her fiance a watch, but Alex has a lovely watch already, so that was off the cards. In the end I suggested that he could have a ring of his own.... only that it would be edible... a bundt cake to be precise!
And so tonight I made, and got down on one knee with this sticky toffee apple bundt cake :)
Also, to add to the randomness of the evening, our weighing scales decided to stop working, so I had to guesstimate all the ingredients!
Verdict: sugary sweet (especially after adding the glaze), but a bit hit with us!
This recipe is called "Apple Harvest Pound Cake with Caramel Glaze" and is found on AllRecipes.com
Ingredients:
For the cake
400 g white sugar
355 ml vegetable oil
10 ml vanilla extract
3 eggs
375 g all-purpose flour
5 g baking soda
1 g ground cinnamon
6 g salt
318 g apples - peeled, cored and chopped
115 g chopped walnuts
For the glaze
115 g butter or margarine
10 ml milk
110 g brown sugar
Directions:
1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9 inch Bundt pan.
2) In a large bowl, beat the sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; stir into the batter just until blended. 3) Fold in the apples and walnuts using a spoon. Pour into the prepared pan.
4) Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted into the crown or the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool for about 20 minutes then invert on to a wire rack.
5) Make the glaze by heating the butter, milk and brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar, then remove from the heat.
6) Drizzle over the warm cake. Place a plate underneath the cake to trap all the drips and then pour over the cake a second time.
Proof - if any were needed - that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach... speaking as Clare's prospective Mother-in-Law I can personally vouch for her baking skills, the ginger biscuits and almond biscotti she made for my parents' Golden Wedding were fantastic! Congratulations on the engagement, best wishes and love from Frances xxx
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