"Right-Brainers" and "Left-Brainers" - and the MOST delicious NUTMEG cake.!

‘COOKINGWITHMAVIS’ #46   “ NO GREY AREAS…

          "Right-Brainers"  &    "Left-Brainers".... ”

  ‘NO GREY        AREAS…’

You might not have guessed, but the usual visuals of this blog ‘cookingwithmavis’, are not unfamiliar with controversy…

I, the “Maker-of-‘Mavis”  think in colour, thus find it quite normal to express my writings in colour…..as well as to put specific stress to words by using different fonts…. it all is so, SO clear to me - visibly and descriptively too.

That is JUST  who ‘Mavis is! ……And we love her for it!

 

Yet, goodness gracious!!! – It appears that we are most distinctly divided into two camps.. “ The Right  Brainers”, and “The Left Brainers”.

Them of you who are ‘Appreciatively Creative’    - and those who prefer more … 

Oh wellll, best I do not go down that road, huh?

And when I received a rather indignant email from a longgggggg-time friend, he expressing his A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E  disdain at the impossible visuals of ‘cookingwithmavis’, (Ouch!), it fleetingly crossed ‘My Mind’, that very same ‘Mind-of-Mine’,  that perhaps I SHOULD abstain from being visually creative, I should write my weekly ramblings in conventional format, in font ordinaire, in simple black-and-white : NO GREY AREAS!, with NO! exclamations,  a-an-and certainly less of those “……”s  …which are a true trademark™  of my scribblings.

But , would ‘cookingwithmavis’  BE  ‘cookingwithmavis’, without the unconventionally colourful stressing of lingo…I think it would most definitely seem ‘dis-stressed’! …and ‘Mavis would be depressed.

No!   non-colour, and ‘words of convention’ might just be too boring-g-g-gg …

  

                

So, MOST DEFINITELY as usual  - when next week, I shall revert to:

*Colour&whimsicalfonts-&-colour-&-whimsical fonts&colour…*

      

      ‘COOKINGWITHMAVIS’

OOPS!..

AND  SO  TO  RECIPES :

Gooey Nutmeg cake 

        It is divine!...moist and heavy and VERY more-ish….

NUTMEG CAKE -
 FOR THIS WEEK'S BLOG, IN TONES OF GREY...

  

INGREDIENTS

¾ cup wholemeal flour

¾ cup  cake flour   (total combined flour = 225g)

1¼ cup dark brown sugar (“Treacle sugar”)

Plus 1 cup white sugar   (total combined sugars = 450g)

2½ teaspoons baking powder

125g yellow margarine  (can use butter instead)

1 egg ( I use ‘jumbo’ size)

1 cup (200ml) milk

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

50g roughly chopped Maccadamia nuts / Brazil nuts

METHOD:

1) Mix wholemeal, cake flour, both sugars, baking powder.

2) Mix in the margarine (or butter) till consistency of breadcrumbs - easiest to do this in a Processor

3) Put ½ the mixture into your greased and floured (30cm)long loaf pan.

4) Coat the nuts in ½ Tablespoon flour

5) Hand beat the egg, and mix into the milk, nutmeg and bicarb.

6) Add the wet mixture the remaining ½ flour mixture, adding the nuts.

7) Pour this into the pan, over the dry mixture.

8) Bake at 180*C for 60 minutes. It will ALWAYS sink in the middle!

Serve with a dollop of whipped cream.

Or glaze with a coffee frosting:

1 cup icing sugar plus 2 Tablespoons strong cold coffee. Add ½ teaspoon instant coffee granules for added texture if you like!

NUTMEG CAKE -
IN TONES OF GREY AND TECHNICOLOR

So REALLY , as usual - ‘til next week,

    ‘COOKINGWITHMAVIS’