Old fashioned favourites....

My inner domestic goddess came out to play again yesterday and I decided to bake a cake for afternoon tea. I made a Cinnamon tea cake, a good old fashioned favourite that is so easy to make I don't know why we ever buy cake from the shops. The smell of a baking cake is so yummy and you just can't beat the taste! I almost forgot to take a photograph and when I went back to take one somebody had already snaffled a piece of still hot from the oven cake. Usually I would bake this in a round tin but could only find the loaf pan so had to make do.

Cinnamon Tea Cake

1 cup Self raising flour

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1 egg

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
vanilla essence
1 1/2 tablespoons butter, softened
extra butter melted

1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon sugar

Beat softened butter with sugar until smooth and creamy. Add egg and vanilla essence and beat well.
Sift flour, cinnamon and nutmeg and add to bowl alternately with milk. Mix well after each addition with a wooden spoon. Pour into a small greased cake tin, round or a loaf tin is fine. Use baking paper to line tin if desired. Bake in a moderately hot oven for 30 minutes or until done. A skewer inserted should come out clean. Mix cinnamon and sugar together. Brush hot cake with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mix. ENJOY!
**Recipe adapted from the Australian Family Circle Cookbook.

Wishing you sunshine in your shadows
Helen