Made An All Bran Cake Today

[Vagus]

Haven't made one in ages but had to wait in for various reasons so used my time constructively.

OMG, soooo nice 😋

[Tilly2]

Is it easy to do, Vagus?

[Vagus]

Tilly, I don't do 'baking' this is more of an assembly job using cup measures. Very, very easy or I wouldn't entertain making it.

[douglas9401]

I'm moved. 😄

[Tilly2]

Sounds good to me, Vagus. I'll have a look at a recipe.

[Vagus]

Tilly, my foolproof recipe..

soak 2 cups of all bran in 2 cups of milk for 10 mins.

add 2 cups SR flour, 2 cups dried fruit (I used 3 cups today..2 of dried cranberries & 1 of sultanas), 1 cup chopped nuts, half a cup or less of sugar. Give it all a good stir.

bake in a loaf tin at 170 fan for 55 mins approx, today it took an extra 3 minutes, probably because I added extra fruit so it was quite dense.

easy peasy, tweak it to taste with mixed spice, more or less nuts, different dried fruit, whatever you fancy, it's very forgiving.

[Tilly2]

Aw! Thank you for that, Vagus. Is it a 1lb loaf tin or a 2lb?

[Vagus]

Errr, I'm not sure Tilly. It's quite a lot of mixture so perhaps a 2lb one 🤷‍♀️