This stunning cake recipe comes from my daughter’s mother-in-law, Poppy. It takes about 10 minutes to make and never fails to impress. Poppy’s been making it since 1975 and estimates she’s shared the recipe with 100 people and made it 1000 times! We’ve taken her advice and glazed it with our lovely apricot jam.

As we head into the cooler months, it’s time to cook and enjoy some recipes that are made for these chilly nights.  Aside from that, it’s apple season in Tassie in the autumn, so what better use than to get baking! This is a simple, yet delicious recipe for apple crumble and it works beautifully

Ingredients Weight of 3 large or 4 medium sized eggs (250g) 250g butter 250g caster sugar 250g self raising flour 1 tsp vanilla essence Drop of boiling water Method 1. Preheat oven to 180°c, then grease two round cake tins of the same size. 2. Cream together butter and sugar in a medium bowl. Add eggs

Ingredients 1/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 cups water 125ml Tasmanian Gourmet Sauce’s Raspberry Sauce 125ml Tasmanian Gourmet Sauce’s Loganberry Sauce Juice of 1/2 a lemon Instructions Place sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring until sugar dissolves Simmer for 2 minutes then remove to a bowl to cool Pour the