A Few of My Favourite Things !

My time used to be my own. I could do (or not do) what I pleased, pretty much whenever I wanted. Now, my time belongs to EJ. My life is regulated by his feeding, playing and sleeping times and each long day stretches out like a road towards a horizon that I can never reach. I still find my release in baking although, for the time being, I am limited to cake mixes and quick & easy recipes. No Daring Bakers feats are possible just right now but maybe one day, one day in the near future, I will again be able to try something a little more complicated.

This easy-bake slice, modified from Best Recipes, is a cut above the rest with its chocolate-flavoured coconut topping and my substitution of raspberry with loganberry jam. It reminded me of a shortcakey lamington and everyone loves a lamington, right?

I made these after putting EJ to bed for the night, the plan being to take them with me for a Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) meeting the following day. I woke up, got EJ and myself ready to head out, went into the kitchen to pick up the slice…but where had it gone? I looked everywhere around the kitchen, including the oven and fridge, thinking that my preggo brain had not fully recovered yet but could not locate it. On my way, I texted A. asking whether he had seen the slice anywhere - “oh, you didn’t put it on the kitchen bench for me to take into the office?” (sigh!) At least the office team enjoyed it…

Make these but put them in a safe spot:

Base:

125g butter
125g sugar
250g S.R. flour
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract

* Cream butter & sugar, then add other ingredients and mix into stiff dough. Press into cake tin.
* Cover base with a layer of loganberry jam

Top:

1 cup shredded coconut
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
3 tbs cocoa

* Mix well & spread over jam layer
* Bake slice at 180C for 15-20 min

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