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One of the best things a lavish reunion lunch at a friend home is that you can enjoy all the delicious food that everyone brings to share. The table looks vibrant, colourful, with cheese platters, followed by hot nourishing bowl of soup in this cold Winter Day accompaniment of garlic bread, various assorted bread rolls, salad, quiche, juices, strawberries with cream and coffee.

There are jokes shared and everyone laughing and getting to know each other in a deeper sense of loving, caring and encouraging. This simple reunion lunch certainly blossoms with God perfect brilliant love-light. If you are looking for a versatile fuss free focus for important festive or reunion meal; you want family and friends to enjoy and ends the lunch or festive meal with irresistible grand finale dessert: a homemade cake from the heart. Then make this cake your centre piece for your important festive or reunion meal.

Google: “Matcha is finely ground powder of specially grown and processed green tea leaves, traditionally consumed in East Asia. The green tea plants used for matcha are shade-grown for three to four weeks before harvest; the stems and veins are removed during processing. Studies of matcha and its components have unearthed a variety of benefits, showing that it can help protect the liver, promote heart health, and even aid in weight loss.”

“Yogurt is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. The bacteria used to make yogurt are known as yogurt cultures. Fermentation of sugars in the milk by these bacteria produces lactic acid, which acts on milk protein to give yogurt its texture and characteristic tart flavour. It provides protein and calcium, and it may enhance healthy probiotic gut bacteria. Health benefits range from protecting against osteoporosis to relieving irritable bowel disease and aiding digestion.”

Let’s put a personal touch on your cake with Love and crafty ideas to Wow your family and friends with thankful heart to God for helping make this event flourish into a treasured memoir. This cake is healthy, beautiful, fruity, crunchy, moist, mellow vegetal grassy notes, natural sweet nuttiness, a touch of bitterness with a pleasant savory ending. Let’s bake with Love!!!!

Ingredients

300 g sour cream
250 g butter
225 g castor sugar
200 g plain flour
170 g yoghurt
4 apples, thinly slice
4 eggs
1 1/2 Tsp Vanilla extract
1/2 Tsp baking powder
1/4 Tsp salt
matcha powder

Dark chocolate in strawberry shape moulds

80 g dark cooking chocolates broken into pieces
1 Tsp truffle infused oil

Garnish

1 chocolate strawberry
6 blueberries
6 raspberries
salted caramel candy bites
matcha powder, dusting

Method

One day in advance

Place enough water in a pot on medium heat. Put a glass bowl that can sit on top without touching the water and cover the pot to prevent steam from escaping. Put dark chocolate into the bowl, stir from middle out until chocolate melted completely. Remove and stir in oil. Set to cool for about 30 seconds. Then spoon chocolate into strawberry shape moulds. Freeze chocolate until needed or about 4-6 hours; best overnight.

The next day

Preheat oven 170 degrees C. Grease and line 23 cm spring form pan and set aside. Mix flour, baking powder and salt together in a deep bowl. Beat butter until becomes very creamy about 2 minutes on medium speed. Gradually add 1 big spoon of sugar each time and continue beating well for about 4 minutes; all sugar until light and fluffy. Reduce speed add one egg at a time beating well each addition and remember to scrape down all the sides.

Next add the vanilla and followed by sour cream. Then add flour mixture alternate with yoghurt; folding until, combined. Scrapping down the sides all the time. Line apple slices in a circle in the prepared pan and sprinkle some matcha powder over the apple slices. Spoon some batter on to apple slices with matcha powder. Smooth the top, add another circle of apple slices and matcha powder.

Repeat with batter followed by apple slices and matcha powder. Then the last remaining batter, smooth the batter and gently push in the last remaining apple slices into the batter. Sprinkle some more matcha powder over the slices of apple. Give a couple of gentle knocks on the bench top. Bake for 70 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. Switch oven off when skewer out clean, leave cake in oven 45 minutes, with door ajar use a wooden spoon to keep door open a little bit, then remove from oven to wire rack to cool in pan for 1 hour. Transfer to cake plate mat or plate when cake had cool completely.

To assemble the crafty ideas

Just before serving, place one dark chocolate strawberry in the centre of the cake, then alternate blueberries and raspberries around the chocolate strawberry followed by sprinkling matcha powder at a height all over the top of decorations. Next sprinkles the salted caramel candy bites. Enjoy the cake with lightly beaten cream, tea, or coffee.

Note: If cake turn brown quickly after 30 minutes cover with a big metal bowl or foil. My oven is old and at time play up. Watch your cake to prevent browning quickly. You can make any decoration of your choice. You can add more chocolate strawberries or just dusting with icing sugar. Create your own crafty ideas.

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