Mum Dijk's Ontbijt Koek /  Mum's Dutch Honey Breakfast Loaf

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2 Cups self raising flour
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons golden syrup or Appel Stroop (Apple Syrup)
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon each of nutmeg, ground cloves and ginger powder
• 2 teaspoons Dutch cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon mixed peel (or tablespoon of good marmalade) and milk (OR 1 dessertspoon orange peel and 1 cup orange juice)

Method

• Mix all ingredients  together and pour into a large loaf pan, greased and lined with baking paper. 
• Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 35-50 minutes in a regular oven. 
• Less time for fan forced. 
• Check for browning and insert fork or similar and when it comes out clean it's ready.

Enjoy with a good smear of real butter or plain with your morning coffee or anytime of the day really.

Pictures are of a half eaten Koek but shows the texture and colour! 

It was very yummy and went fast.  

For a larger recipe use two smaller loaf pan and increase to these measurements:

• 3 eggs
• 3 cups SR Flour
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4.5 tablespoons honey
• 1.5 tsps spices
• 3 tsp cinnamon
• 1.5 cups liquids

Easy to make.

Enjoy!

German Apple Cake

Every so now and then I'm required to bring a cake to a get-together of friends or family.
The occasional cook that I am always wants to do something pretty simple.
I have two standby cake recipes which I acquired...you guessed it, from friends. Both are simple, but I'll share one of them with you today - German Apple Cake.
As I mentioned, I like SIMPLE. You can use two kinds of apple, either fresh or canned.
Today I chose to use fresh apple, mainly because I actually had some nice, green Granny Smiths in the crisper. (For the very rare person who doesn't know...it's not a granny I've stowed away in the fridge, but the name of the lovely green skinned, crisp cooking apple.) So all that's a little more fiddly about using fresh apples, is that you have to peel and slice them. If that's going to put you off making this yummy, but EASY cake, just open up a tin of pie apples instead.

To  see the recipe please click the Recipe Tab above or here

The finished product...nomnomnom