Lemon muffins with syrup

2 cups self-raising flour
3/4 cup sugar

75 g butter
1 cup milk
1 egg
grated rind of 1 large or 2 small lemons

Mix flour and sugar in bowl.

Melt butter, add the milk, egg and lemon rind. Beat well with a fork to combine.

Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until ingredients are only just dampened. Do not overmix.

Divide the mixture between 12 greased muffin cups. Bake at 200 C for 10 minutes.


1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup sugar

Stir together the lemon juice and sugar and drizzle over the muffin as soon as they are removed from the oven. I like to prick the top of the muffins with a toothpick so the flavour soaks in more. Leave to stand in the pans for only a few minutes as the syrup will harden and stick the muffins to the pans.

These are delicious! my favourite muffins yet! I am the reason there is only 11 in the picture... couldn't resist! Taking a few to my girlfriends for afternoon tea this afternoon, sharing is caring! I snuck a few white chocolate chips into the mixture but not very many, can barely taste them. 

Chocolate mud cake

1 1/2c hot water
250g butter
200g dark cooking chocolate
1/4c cocoa
2c castor sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2tsp vanilla
1 1/2c self raising flour

- Preheat oven to 150deg C
- In a saucepan over low heat, melt butter, sugar, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla and water
- Let mixture cool then add eggs & flour. Mixture will still be runny
- Bake for 1 h 15 mins

Ice with whatever icing you want... This cake was EPIC! I have a huge sweet tooth and I could barely get through a slice the width of two of those kitkat fingers, it truly was chocolate mud cake- so rich! Definitely recommend this, and I especially like it before it doesn't have any unusual ingredients (e.g. buttermilk) like most mud cake recipes. Easy peasy! Mine was a bit lumpy though, possibly didn't melt the ingredients in the saucepan enough, or should have used the electric beater when I put the flour etc in. But it went down a treat, I just hope the birthday girl liked it!

Self-saucing caramel pudding

Batter:
60gm soft butter
3/4c castor sugar (I used normal sugar)
1/2c milk
1c self raising flour

Sauce:
15gm melted butter
3/4c brown sugar
3/4c boiling water

- Preheat oven to 180deg C
- Cream butter and sugar (batter), add milk and flour, and stir to combine.
- Place evenly in a greased medium sized oven dish
- In a microwave safe bowl, place sauce ingredients and stir to combine. Microwave for 2-3 minutes or until sugar and butter are both melted.
- Pour the sauce over the back of a spoon into the oven dish.
- Bake for 30-40 mins, stand for 10 mins before serving with whipped cream.