Yummy Yummy Teacakes!!

Awww I can't wait to make some of these again. 

Can you believe I have now caught my third cold this season?! I'm so over it this time round and have  decided to quickly look for solutions to lift my spirits...here's the recipe:

Honey & Apricot Teacakes

1 cup of All Bran cereal
1/2 cup of rolled oats
1/2 cup of sultanas
50g margarine
3 tbsp of sugar
1/4 cup of honey
3/4 cup of milk
1 egg
1 and a half cups of self raising flour
1 x 425g tin of apricots,  chopped
zest of half an orange, extra to decorate

In a large mixing bowl chuck in the margarine, sugar, honey, milk and egg. Sift over the flour and mix until smooth.

Pfff! It said chop the apricots - but I just put them in the bowl and cut them with scissors.

Next, add the oats, sultanas and All Bran.  Mix it all thoroughly and pop it into muffin cases...I found they didn't rise very much - but then they are tea cakes and not muffins -  so fill them a very good 3/4 full and they will be as you see in the pic.  Sprinkle on your orange zest and you're away!

Now for the cooking time...well the recipe said to do them on the middle shelf for 16 - 18 minutes but that would really only be for pretty small tea cakes, at 180 degrees.  I did 180 in the middle and of course as I had doubled the size, they took 30 minutes.....but I didn't think of that at the time did I? No no no, prod them and poke them I did and not with a nice neat skewer either - goodness me, the poor things probably baked themselves out of fear!


Mmmm....yummy yummy teacakes toasted golden and smothered with butter....

Enjoy xx