The Weird Named 'Flapper' Pie

The humble Flapper pie. I'm sure you've heard of it.. no? Well I'm not surprised, I hadn't until the other day when I was watching TV so I did some research. It turns out that it is from Canadian prairie culture. The pie consists of a buttery biscuit base (try not to think of the song it'll be in your head for hours) filled with custard and then topped with meringue. 

It was.. different. It was definitely tasty but the texture was weird to get used to, but I did come around to it. Its made me want to try the more well known cream pie, where you use whipped cream instead of meringue. That would be wonderful. I cant remember the exact recipe that I used but I based the majority of it of this website: http://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/flapper-pie-the-lost-prairie-pie

Other bakes this week:

Chocolate and cheesecake brownies. Don't they just sound like little cubes of heaven? They were totally epic, my mouth rejoiced, and demanded that I made more, and soon. I will mouth, I will!! If you want to make these (you really should) here is the recipe: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4320/marbled-brownies My Boyfriend and I changed the recipe due to ingredient availability; less chocolate, and one tub chocolate Philadelphia. 

Onion and Spinach Quiche. I had completely forgotten how easy it was to make quiche. The pastry was just equal butter and flour and a bit of water, The filling was just one egg with enough milk to make one cups worth. To customize I added unknown amounts of cheese, spring onion and spinach. Then cooked (after blind cooking the pastry case) to perfection. Blissful. 

Marshmallow Chronicles:

 ChocolateChocolateChocolate... CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOWS. They were quite dense, as far as marshmallows go anyway. They were like marshmallow brownies, It was quite hot so the cocoa covering kind of melted so they were very sticky. 

Carrot cake marshmallows? Why yes, I spent an hour juicing a carrot without a juicer to find that you couldnt actually taste the carrot in the finished product. A surprising number of people when told to guess the flavour guessed gingerbread; there's no ginger in there guys!? So I think I'm going to rename them spiced marshmallows as they contained dark sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. So there is my spiced marshmallow. 

Thanks for reading,

Somnium

x 

Super Awesome Dairy and Wheat Free Chocolate Cake

Hi Peeps, hope you're all well. This week I'm going to tell you how I made the awesome dairy and wheat free chocolate cake I showed you a few weeks ago. I remade it and discovered that its even nicer with served hot with ice cream. hmmmmmmm. You can find the full recipe here: http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/CHOCOLATE-OLIVE-OIL-CAKE-5551 

This recipe uses ground almonds instead of flour and olive oil instead of butter. You mix up cocoa powder and boiling water and set aside along with a bowl of the ground almonds, salt and bicarb. Then beat together eggs, olive oil and sugar and add the chocolate and dry ingredients slowly. The batter is extremely runny and I would advise using a paper casing in your cake pan if you have one, especially if there's more batter than pan like in my case!

The cake does sink once you take it out of the oven but don't fret, you haven't done anything wrong. Let the cake cool a bit and then gobble it all up!! 

Other bakes this week:

 Fifteens. I discovered these whilst at Uni as one of my flat mates is Northern Irish. She got sent some by her Gran and I fell in love! They're so simple but so delicious. The recipe is: 15 crushed digestives, 15 large chopped marshmallows, 15 chopped glace cherries and enough condensed milk to combine. Roll into a sausage and over some desiccated coconut, chill and slice.  

 Meringues. Classic summery meringues. Good think I baked them in the morning as I didn't think to check how long they took to cook, 2 hours!! It was worth the wait to eat with strawberries and cream. Hello? Eton mess? You're amazing, thanks x

Ribena Ice Lollies. If you've been in England this week you wont be surprised by the fact that its been over 20 degrees and not cloudy!! How out of character, but how awesome. It is perfect weather to put my new lolly moulds I got for my birthday into use. And they're just so cute! :)

Marshmallow Chronicles:

This week's flavour is.. *pause for effect* ..Lemon meringue!! 

Just look at the pie slice made from many squishy pillows of epicness. The bottom layer has fresh lemon juice and zest and some natural lemon flavouring to give it a bit more of a kick. The top layer is the normal vanilla marshmallow. They complement each other perfectly and it actually tastes like the real thing without the pie crust. Simply Divine, definitely a make again. 

Thanks for reading, I'm gonna go out and enjoy this strange English weather.

Toodles,

Somnium x