Apple and Blackberry Buns

These are delicious warm and a perfect use for seasonal fruit! We have made them with apple and blackberries but you really can fill them with anything you like.

Ingredients
For Dough
500g Strong White Flour

300ml Warm Milk
1 Egg
1tsp Sugar
7g Fast Acting Yeast
1tsp Salt

For Filling
1 Handful of Blackberries
2 Sharp Eating Apples peeled and diced (we like granny smiths or pink ladies for this)
2tsp Cinnamon
100g Demerara Sugar

Start by making the dough, this is easiest in a food mixer with a dough hook attached. However by hand is fine, just get stuck in!

1. Combine all the dry ingredients making sure that the yeast and salt do not touch initially
2. Add the egg 
3. Add the milk slowly (you may not need all of this) mixing all the time. You should end up with a soft dough that's not too sticky
4. Kneed for 10 minutes
5. Cover and leave to rise for an hour or until it has doubled in size
6. Knock back the dough and roll into a rectangle about 1cm thick
7. Sprinkle evenly with sugar and cinnamon 
8. Spread fruit all over
9. Roll tightly up into a long roll
10. Cut into approx. 10 slices
11. Place on to a baking tray with a slight gap between to allow room to grow
12. Heat oven to 200ºC/180ºC fan/gas 6
13. Cover with a towel and leave for half an hour to rise
14. Bake for 20-25 minutes
15. Enjoy!

Sunday Pudding

In our house Sunday lunch is a big deal. It's a time we all make sure that we eat together and indulge a little. Every week we choose something super scrummy (and usually heavily calorie laden) to enjoy for pudding. I do always post pictures of this on Facebook but thought you may like to have the recipes to go with them so here's my commitment to you... as long as the pudding is made by us (i.e. we aren't with friends or family) we will endeavour to post it here complete with pictures. So here we go!

Pancake Cake with Damson Cream

This is actually incredibly easy but does take a little time

Ingredients

Pancakes
1tsp sunflower oil
3 cups of self raising flour
3 cups of milk
3 eggs

Filling
1/2 cup Jam - I used damson
1 cup of whipping cream
1tbs caster sugar
1 handful of raspberries

The first thing you need to do is make the pancakes. For this mix all the ingredients together until a smooth batter is achieved. Then heat the oil in a frying pan. When the pan is hot, pour in a ladle of the batter and cook for a couple of minutes each side. Leave to cool. Continue until all the batter is used.

Next you need to make up the filling. Mix all the ingredients except the raspberries until the cream has begun to stiffen. Fold in the raspberries.

Now all you need to do is layer is up. I smoothed the cream down the sides too so that it was more of a surprise.

Play around with different fillings, this really does lend itself to whatever you like so just go for it!