Fruit salad, Apple cake and Blueberry plumcake to successfully complete your picnic

Published on July 3rd, 2009 under: The cook book, Wellness


This is my latest post about picnic :-)

We have already talked about this topic in my latest 3 posts: “Organizing a picnic”, “How to prepare a picnic basket”, ” Omelette and Pasta salad for your picnic”.

It’s time to talk about fruit and about desserts!
So follow me in the next lines!

Fruit salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Makes: 4 servings

Ingredients:
* 1/2 ananas
* 2 kiwis
* 1 mango
* 2 peaches
* 1 pomegranate
* 4 sugar spoons
* 2 lemons

frutta1

Procedure:
1. Clean the ananas. Peel and cut it in small pieces. Remember to remove the central part.
2. Peel kiwis, mango and peaches. Cut them in small cubes.
3. In a bowl open pomegranate and shell the seeds. Add the pieces of the other fruits and mix gently.
4. Squeeze the lemons. In a small bowl put the lemon juice and sugar. Mix them.
5. Spill this syrup on the fruit and stir gently. Put on the fridge.

Suggestions:
Before starting a picnic, put the fruit salad on a plastic box and close it well. Put it in your picnic basket or in your cool box. :-)

Apple cake

Prep. time: 1hour 15 minutes
Makes: 8 servings

Ingredients:
* 125g butter
* 125g sugar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 2 eggs
* 1/2 lemon juice
* dash salt
* 200g flour
* 50g corn flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 5 spoons milk
* 3 apples
* Icing sugar

torta_mele

Procedure:
1. Heat oven to 180°C. Cool butter and cut it in small pieces in a bowl. Mix it with sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, lemon juice and salt. Stir until smooth.
2. Add winnowed flour, corn flour and baking powder. Stir constantly.
3. Peel 2 apples off and cut them in small pieces. Add them to the batter stirring strikingly. Add the milk and mix the batter.
4. Push batter into a greased pan. Peel the third apple and clean it. Cut it in 8 parts. With a fork create small stripes on the back of any apple piece. Put these pieces over top to decorate the cake.
6. Bake 40 to 45 minutes. Loosen side of cake with knife or long, metal spatula; remove from pan. Sprinkle with icing sugar.

Blueberry Plumcake

Prep. time: 1 hour
Makes: 6 servings

Ingredients:
* 300g blueberries
* 120g butter
* 1 egg
* 1 egg yolk
* 120g flour
* 110g sugar
* 1/2 small bag of baking powder
* 1 spoon milk
* dash salt

mirtilli

Procedure:
1. Heat oven to 180°C. Grease bottom and sides of a rectangular pan.
2. Cool butter and cut it in small pieces.
3. Rinse bluebeerries and set aside. In a medium bowl, stir together butter, sugar and eggs (egg+egg yolk) until smooth. Add winnowed flour, baking powder and salt. Stir constantly. Mix the milk. Gently stir drained blueberries into batter.
3. Spread batter in basted pan. Cover with 2 to 3 inch strip of aluminum foil. Bake 30 minutes. Remove the foil for last 10/15 minutes of baking. Cool completely.

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