Despina's Christmas Australian fruit cake

This one is actually a Christmas recipe but I like to make it in autumn, as it includes all the right ingredients, such as orange and cinnamon, dried fruit and nuts.

It becomes a bit dry and it is great for dipping into tea. This recipe was given to me a friend's mother, Despina, many years ago and I found it again while cleaning up one of my drawers in my mother's house. So happy to have made it again :)

Quick apple and cinnamon cake

This recipe is uniquely quick and unexpectedly tasty. We normally make this in a closed oven pan (ceramic on steel) which we usually cook when we want the meat and veggies to keep moist. Guess what, the same happens if you make a cake in it. It stays so very moist!

If you don't have a ceramic on steel pan, you can use your normal baking pan and cover it with backing paper an aluminium foil to have the same effect.