Lovely Sunday with "Apple Crepe"

Normal on Sunday lunch time that we always have to re-heat the cooked meat from the Braai on Saturday evening! It's like a Sunday picnic lunch, with the whole bunch of mixed Nationalities (Filipinos, English, South Africans, Irish and Scottish). We just cook whatever we wanted to, and yesterday I decided to make an "Apple Crepe" as desserts. This is a caramelized thin sliced of green apples, in a melted butter and white sugar, wrapped with "crepe" made up of plain flour with eggs and fresh milk. Easy and yummy!!!

All you need - to make 8-10 servings:

CREPES
1) 4 eggs 2) 1 pack (1ltr) fresh milk 3) 1/2 tsp. salt 4) 5 cups plain flour 5) 3 tbsp. melted butter

FILLING
1) 10 sliced green apples
2) 4 tbsp butter
3) 1 cup white sugar
4) Lemon rind

Beat together crepe ingredients. Cover and let stand for 30 minutes. Cook in small crepe size pan (greased on both sides). Peel apples and cook until tender in large pan with caramelized sugar in a butter & the lemon rind. Place filling in center of crepe and roll into crepe shape and add some caramel outside plus strawberry and creme to garnish.

My favourite BANANA BREAD...

Every time I think of baking - I always bake this delicious BANANA BREAD or BANANA CAKE. They are being baked with almost the same procedure, they just differ in portions. My husband and I love it, also the rest of our friends here.....Nice to have it with coffee during work break time.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 5 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 cup mashed bananas
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

DIRECTIONS

1. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
2. In a large bowl, cream sugar and butter or margarine. Beat the egg slightly, and mix into the creamed mixture with the bananas. Mix in sifted ingredients until just combined. Stir in milk and nuts. Spread batter into one greased and floured 9x5 inch loaf pan.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) until top is brown and cracks along the top.

You can try yourself, uummm yummy...

Delicious Carrot Cake

I don't think this is very fattening, the fact that it is being made by vegetables which is the carrots. Though you put sugar in it, but not as much as other cakes like Chocolate Cakes, those other cakes which purely carbohydrates and sugar. This is one that I bake every Sunday here too...

Things You’ll Need:

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups white sugar
• 3 (4 ounce) jars carrot baby food
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup raisins

Procedure:

Stir together the eggs, sugar, carrots, vanilla and oil. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt, stir into the carrot mixture. Fold in the nuts and raisins. Pour into the prepared pan.

> Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Flour and Grease a pan (preferably 9 x 13 inches).
> Bake for 45-50 minutes.
> When the cake has cooled, frost with cream cheese frosting.

ENJOY BAKING...