For the latest birthday cake at the hubby’s place of employment, a sticky date cake with butterscotch sauce was requested. As with the hummingbird and carrot cake I have made them previously, this was another that I had not attempted before so I checked my trusty Women’s Weekly Classic Cakes book, which of course contained said recipe, and got to work.
Chocolate Coconut Slice
I remember my mum making this Chocolate Coconut Slice often when I was a kid. The recipe my mum used was originally from a friend of hers and it was made using a butter cake packet mix as the base.
When I got the urge to make it a few years ago I didn’t have mum’s recipe at hand but I found something very similar in one of my Super Food Ideas magazines which made it from scratch and it tasted just like mum used to make.
Lamingtons and Sprinkletons
There is a rule, in my house anyway, that on Australia Day you must eat a lamington. I did kind of break that rule this year, although we did eat Pavlova instead, but I think I more than made up for it by making a whole bunch of them a couple of days later.
A friend of mine from Mexico Victoria was staying with us at the time, and they do things a little differently down there by filling their lamingtons with jam so I made half of the batch the traditional way with just the plain cake dipped in chocolate and covered with coconut, and the remainder filled with jam and covered in coconut. I did run out of coconut so the remainder of the jam lamingtons were covered with coloured sprinkles, hence Sprinkletons were born.