Cathedral jelly, petersburger streuselkuchen and count the calories

Sticky apricot and coconut cake with butterscotch sauce

 

Today's Food Diary

Breakfast: Muesli

Lunch: Adzuki beans, coconut and tomato spread with sourdough rolled oat bread

Dinner: Pork curry with rice and oat sourdough flatbread

Baking/sweets: Sticky apricot and coconut cake with butterscotch sauce

I got inspiration for the sticky apricot and coconut cake from sticky date pudding and malva pudding. Sticky date pudding, a date based cake, is popular in the UK and colonies and malva pudding seems to have originated in South Africa. Malva pudding has apricot jam. I love coconuts so I decided to ‘upgrade’ malva pudding by adding coconut. I thought coconuts and apricot would go well together, and it did thankfully. 

The cake is sticky as the name suggests, and moist. The cake on its own is not very sweet so the sauce is definitely a welcome addition to the party. The sauce is necessary, having sticky cake without the sauce is like having a burger without the bun. The recipe is available here.

Today's Favourite Photo

Source: Ang Sarap

Cathedral Jelly

Today’s Favourite Blog

CaffeIna

CaffeIna has an interesting recipe for petersburger streuselkuchen. No, its not a burger but a crumb bake filled with ricotta and topped with streusel. The cake perhaps originated in Germany or one of the neighbouring countries. You could perhaps call this a German cheesecake. This reminds me that there are so many different types of cakes and other treats that I am not aware of.

Today’s Random Rambling – Count the Calories

I have a 500g bag of chips at home. Actually its no longer 500 grams, it used to be at one stage, and probably will not be for long. Anyway the point is that on the bag it says 160 kcal and then in smaller print it says 30 grams. I definitely will not be eating 30 grams, I don't buy a 500g bag to eat 30 grams only. I don't know anyone who does. And on a can of beer it says 100ml has 30 kcal. I have never opened a can of beer and drank 100 ml only, well maybe I did but after having many cans before. If someone opens a can of beer with the intention of drinking 100 ml only, then that person may have a problem, low calorie consumption being not one of them.

Why bother putting calorie count for 30 grams of chips and 100 ml when probably nobody will consume this volume. The companies are definitely not recommending consumption of such low volumes, for them the more the merrier. Its legislation and consumers (us?) that results in such ludicrous statistics. 

Personally I feel those statistics are driving some people to the point of insanity when they live their life around calorie consumption. The purpose of legislation is to protect consumers but sometimes I wonder whether its having the intended effect. Personally I cannot calculate my calorie intake and I think there is no point worrying about it. A healthy lifestyle with balanced meals and sinful foods in moderation should be fine. We need sinful foods once in a while I think. After all no matter what we do we will not live forever.