On a day off, like today, I wake up and start thinking about what I want to make/bake. I said to Florek- I’d like to bake something nice. “Ciasto czekoladowe”, said my naturalized Pole. 🙂 How could I not?

The recipe comes form GF, naturally. I made half a portion, so that it was not wasted, but enjoyed while fresh.

70 g of pitted prunes I heated up with 2 tbsps of whisky( the recipe called for Marsala, I don’t even know what it tastes like exactly). I whizzed it then, pulsed rather, didn’t want a slush. 70 g of dark chocolate melted with 50 g of butter, prune mixture in. 2 whole eggs I whipped with 75 g of sugar, half and half caster and muscovado, one white left aside to be whipped separately. 50 g of ground almonds, a tbsp of plain flour a splash of vanilla essence. All mixed together went to a tin dusted with cocoa and into the oven for 25 minutes in 160 degrees. When out, dusted with more cocoa.

Pleasant, but not orgasmic.

I wanted some kind of cake to use the plums, that were sitting on the window sill and looking ripe. What I ended up doing, was my Mum’s recipe for a random fruit tart, only I didn’t bother measuring anything. 3 whole eggs I whipped with about 5 tbsps of sugar, same amount of plain flour, the whole packet of dry budyn,less than a tsp of baking powder, around 125 g of melted butter. All this went into the tray, topped with evenly scattered chopped and sugared plums and apples, I then baked  it for about 35 minutes in 190 degrees. Looked like that;