Recipes

Ingredients: 300g sugar 180g butter 65g oil 4 eggs Rind of 1 lemon Dry ingredients: 265g flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon of bicarb 1/2 teaspoon of salt Wet ingredients: 1 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla paste 100g ground pistachio nuts (reserve about 1 tablespoon of this for decoration) METHOD: Preheat oven to 170c. Cream butter and sugar for a couple of minutes and then add oil and continue whisking till light and fluffy. Add 4 eggs, one at a time, beating afte

I have had so many requests for this recipe and people writing to tell me how much they loved it, that I thought I would share the recipe here. Dadelkoek as we love to call it in South Africa. Moist Date and Orange cake with cinnamon whipped cream (my take on Dadelkoek). After many requests for the recipe here it is. See my reel for step-by-step pics on instagram @thyme2travel. One of my followers who baked this wrote: “That orange sauce….it was decadent & smelt like Christma