Orange and Poppyseed Cake

 

It's Ross's birthday! 

Which means it's time to make a cake other than chocolate - and it better be good cause he's a chef and may potentially judge me. haha.

This years offering was a great find on taste.com.au

ORANGE AND POPPYSEED CAKE

50g butter

1 tbsp finely grated orange rind

• 1 cup caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 2 tbsp poppyseeds
• 1/3 cup reduced-fat milk
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• Method:
• Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease and line tins
• Place butter, orange rind, sugar, eggs, flour, poppyseeds and milk in a bowl and stir to combine.
• Spoon into tins and bake for 35-40 mins. 
• Dust with icing sugar and serve - OR
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• Icing:
• 55g cream cheese
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 cup icing sugar
• Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth, then add vanilla and icing sugar.

Amazing with the icing, we loved it! But seriously had no idea there would be no orange juice in it! Just rind?! Okay... but it was still more than orangey enough. Weird!

 Definitely a tradition I'll keep up, I am sure there are plenty of non chocolate cakes I can make it through in the years to come. 

Happy Birthday Ross!

Primary Graduates 2022

These awesome kids are off to youth in a few short weeks! Because Christmas Day is a Sunday this year and we don't have classes, we celebrated them today with a little send off. Each of them had to give a little talk about what they loved in Primary and what they are looking forward to in the youth program. There was some very random answers which made it even more amusing.

I will 100% miss having my mini in Primary, she was so good at crowd control and telling people to shut up haha, but was also amazing at knowing all the answers, encouraging the smaller kids to speak up and most of all, singing. She knew the words and would sing loudly! What are we going to do without her? My baby girl is off!