Showing posts with label blueberries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blueberries. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Zesty Passion Fruit and Blueberry Cake

This Cake got created coz I had all these fruits about to go bad in my house and wanted to use them and not throw them , I just hate throwing away food . Surprisingly , this cake turned out really great , the combination of flavours worked really well and thankfully I got a good recipe to post.The tartness of the passion fruit and orange juice works really well with the sweet blueberries plus the aroma of this cake is just too good ,  so here goes......



INGREDIENTS

100 gms butter room temp
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
Zest and juice of 2 oranges
Zest of 1 lemon
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
Pulp of 1 passion fruit
1 cup of fresh or frozen blueberries

METHOD

Cream the butter and sugar till pale and fluff
Add the eggs one at a time ,then the vanilla and beat it well.
Sift the flour and baking powder together and add it in the butter mixture alternating between the orange juice . Stir in the zests , passion fruit pulp and the blueberries .
Grease and line a loaf tin and bake in a preheated 180 c oven for 1 hr or till a toothpick inserted in the middle  comes out clean .
Cool on a wire rack and enjoy .

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Blueberry Smoothie

Fruits to my hubby are like how chocolate is to me and frankly , is it for real ? I wonder about this mystery very often . Ok , I like fruits but not as  much as chocolate but my hubby is  addicted to fruits , he just loves it and I am bothered by it . Once we both went on a diet of just fruits and vegetables  and while I was struggling with it , he was so happy and cheerful that I wanted to throw the big watermelon I was cutting at him . He had such a great time doing that diet and rubbing my nose in it so  never again will I ever do that mistake of taking up that diet with him ever again , never ....never...ever...never.

Anyways this post is dedicated to him coz he loves all things which contain fruits . This smoothie is pretty easy to make and also even prettier to look at so here goes...........


INGREDIENTS

2 cups blueberries
1/4 cup caster sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 cup skimmed yoghurt
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup milk

METHOD

Blend the blueberries with 1 tbsp of sugar and lemon juice and divide between 2 tall glasses or 4 small glasses.
Blend the rest of the ingredients .
Pour this mixture over the blueberry juice and do not mix it , you will get the swirls as you pour the milk-yoghurt mix.
Serve immediately and enjoy.