Result of multi tasking

Once I get crocheting...I'm hooked into my own cozy world!

Then all of a sudden I smelt something wonderful coming from the kitchen.....  

It occurred to me that I was actually baking a pie. Too late! When I opened the oven...this was the horror I saw..

Took the pie off it's tin...the burned meringue still won't go...no matter what angle I took photo of it... it's still that bad.

But if you can endure burnt bits like my family do.... all was actually perfect inside! We had a yummy pie! 

The ingredients are easily available and procedures were not complicated. So good for someone like me. I'm keeping this recipe here for my next baking day! No, we mustn't give up even though we face failure ;P

Aunt Alma's Coconut Cream Pie

(A recipe from Note Songs - Thank you Shiela)

2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
14 tsp salt
2 cups milk
3 eggs yolks, beat slightly
1 cup coconut
2 Tbs butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 baked pie shell

Combine sugar, corn starch and salt into a small pan. Add milk and stir until smooth. On medium heat, cook and stir continuously until thick and almost to a boil. Lower heat and cook 2 more minutes longer, stirring. Remove pan from heat and stir a small amount of the hot filling into the eggs yolks. Add this back into the pan and continue to stir until mixture comes to a soft boil. Cook and stir 2 more minute. Remove from heat and add coconut, vanilla and butter. Stir until the butter has melted. Pour the hot filling into your baked pie shell. Top with your favorite meringue, sprinkle with a little bit of flaked coconut and bake in a 350' oven until a light golden brown.

Wholemeal Apple & Sultana Cake Bars

Wholemeal Apple & Sultana Cake Bars (domesblissity blog)


1 and half cups wholemeal plain flour
1/2 cup sultanas (golden raisins)
1 Granny Smith (grated)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
1 tablespoon white vinegar
6 tablespoons oil (I use canola)
1 teaspoon bicarb soda
half teaspoon salt


Turn oven to 180 deg C (375 deg F).

Grease a 20cm x 18 cm slice tin well or line with baking paper.

Put the flour, sugar, grated apple, sultana, cinnamon and water in a bowl.

Add vinegar, oil, baking soda and salt. Mix with beaters until smooth.

Pour into the tin. Bake 20 to 25 minutes.

Cool for 10 minutes then take out of tin.

Chocolate Lava Cake recipe

Recipe from Domesblissity Blog


Chocolate Lava Cake


200gm dark chocolate, melted
100gm butter, melted
3 eggs
2 tablespoons plain flour
Mix meltedchocolate and butter together.
Allow to cook slightly and add eggs, beating one at a time into chocolate/butter mixture.
Add flour and thoroughly combine.
Cook in well greased moulds (or I use coffee cups). I normally cook mine in a 160 deg C oven (fan forced) for 12 minutes. As soon as they're cooked on top, they're done.

Basic Muffin

The basic muffin recipe goes like this;

In a bowl mix
2 cups (9oz) plain flour,
½ tsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
½ cup (4oz) sugar

In another bowl or a jug mix
1 cup (8 fl oz) milk
1/3 cup (3 fl oz) melted butter or sunflower oil
1 egg

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix to combine. Don't overbeat and don't use electric beaters. You simply need to make sure there are no clumps of dry flour.
Spoon the batter into paper muffin cases in a 12 hole muffin tin.
Bake at 200ºC (180ºC for a fan oven) for 25 mins.

To make these lime and coconut variations, add a cup (handful) of desiccated coconut to the dry ingredients. Zest and juice two limes. Put about half the juice and some of the zest aside for the icing. The rest of the juice put into a measuring cup before topping up with milk. Add the remaining zest to the dry ingredients.

Once baked and cooled, make a little icing by stirring icing sugar into the lime juice and zest to make quite a runny mixture. At the last minute, throw in a handful of coconut.