His Results - Fluffy Date and Ginger Cake

Cakes with dates in always have such an awesome texture. It's kind of suprising there aren't way more recipes using fruit or veg to provide moisture. Courgette, beetroot, carrot. It's all great at making moist, delicious cakes!


It was a doddle to put this together and super tasty too.


Weird picture. I like the super low res looking shadows. This was yummy. Incredibly moist and tender and with a lovely ginger flavour. It goes onto my recommended pile. Not a knock out stellar cake but a good one for sure!

Recipe 59 - Fluffy Ginger and Date Cake

Things I love which are in the title of this recipe:
1) ginger
2) dates
3) cake

surely it'll be a winner!

Recipe is here at the ever reliable technicolor kitchen. As per usual it's helpfully already in metric.

His Results - Cherry Chocolate Brownies

I left it to the last minute to go shopping for ingredients and sadly couldn't find any cherries. Undaunted I soldiered on substituting a mixture of strawberry flavoured gummy sweets and necco wafers.



And that actually worked really well! It wasn't what it was supposed to be but it certainly was good. A crunchy, medicine tasting bite every now and then fromt he necco wafers. Chewy bite every now and then fromt he gummy sweetss. And all in a really rich, fudgy exterior.


I undercooked them a bit and I think it was probably a good thing. They were chewy and rich and delicious. No airiness or crumbliness. Pure chocolately chew. Yum!