AWOL

I've been here but not here. Been very busy, Ray went to Barcelona and been working so I've had two weeks with no meetings for me.

Went back tonight and had lost 1lb. That's 8½lb gone now, could of had another 2lb off but hey, at least I lost.

We all took food to class tonight, I took a squidgy chocolate cake (recipe below), but one of the ladies had made these savory cakes, delish! Was cooked chicken, bacon and mushrooms with mashed potato and dried sage, make into cakes or crocets, dipped in egg then wholemeal breadcrumbs and baked in the oven.
We ate them cold so would be ideal and a lunch idea or very nice warm with veg.


SQUIDGY CHOCOLATE CAKE
Syns per cake: 9

INGREDIENTS
6 large eggs separated
1/2 cup of sweetener
2 oz of cocoa powder (be sure to use real cocoa powder and not drinking chocolate etc)

METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 180c or 350f, spray a oven proof cake tin with non stick spray

2. Whisk the egg whites to the soft peak stage and set aside.

3. Place the egg yolks in another mixing bowl and whisk until they start to thicken, then add the sweetener and continue to whisk, but be careful not to let the yolk mixture get too thick.

4. Add the cocoa powder into the egg yolk mixture and if it starts to get too stiff, add a little of the egg white mixture.

5. Carefully fold in the egg whites into the chocolate mixture and then pour the mixture into the cake tin.

6. Bake the cake for approx 25 minutes until springy.

7. Remove it from the oven but leave it in the cake tin to cool.

You can serve with fresh light squirty cream (1 syn for 4 tablespoons). Which will make a quarter serving of the cake about 3.5 syns.