An Apple A Day

You will see this is a little dark on the top. That will happen if you try to bake a cake on fan grill.  It didn't detract from the taste.

Nor did my first attempt at making baking powder and not quite getting the ingredients correct.  Heidi has a recipe for baking powder in her book Super Natural Cooking , a gift I received from the kind and lovely Sam.  Mistakenly  I had purchased tartaric acid instead of cream of tartar.

As the cake tasted perfectly alright I guess it didn't matter.

This cake is dedicated to my new friend Rossella over at  Ma Che Ti Sei Mangiato in Italy. Rossella is celebrating a year surviving a stroke.  It was on the 3rd March 2007 Rossella suffered a stroke...and she is only 30 years old young.  Rosella would like everyone to help her celebrate a year on with her blog event An Apple A Day .

My apple recipe is an apple cake from Clotildes Chocolate and Zucchini cookbook . Her original recipe  using pears is called  Gateau de Mamy and can be found here.  I added a sprinkling of cinnamon in with the icing sugar to comply with Rossella's rules.

You have until 3rd March to help Rossella celebrate with a recipe featuring apples.