Buttermilk Rusks

12 cups flour (3lbs) I use Oatmill flour for a nutty taste

2 cups sugar

1 t salt

12 t BP if you are not using self-raising flour

500g butter

2 cups buttermilk

3 eggs (just made them and forgot eggs will let you know how they turn out)

• mix dry ingredients together
• rub in butter
• add buttermilk and eggs and knead together
• divide into 3-4 loaf pans and bake for 1 hour at 180 deg C
• cool and cut
• dry in low heat oven over night

Chocolate Glaze

150g Chocolate
1 Egg yolk
3/4 cup Sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 T Water
pinch Cream of Tartar

• Melt chocolate
• Beat in egg yolk
• Boil sugar, water and cream of tartar for one minute
• Beat sugar water into chocolate
• Pour over cake

Amazing Chocolate Cake

250g dark chocolate

125g butter

3/4 cup castor sugar

6 XL eggs (separated)

1/2 t vanilla

3/4 cup cake flour

1 T cocoa

1/4 t bicarb of soda

1/4 t cream of tartar

• Heat oven to 160 deg C


• Line a deep cake pan with paper


• Melt chocolate in microwave


• Cream butter and sugar together well


• Beat in 5 of egg yolks and vanilla to chocolate (keep extra egg yolk for glaze)


• Sift flour, cocoa and bicarb and mix with chocolate


• Beat egg whites with cream of tartar until soft peaks


• Fold into chocolate mixture


• Pour into pan and bake for 60-70 mins (cupcakes 30mins)


• Make glaze and pour over warm cake