Baking, bag making and bonny frocks!

Just in case you have a few blackberries to spare - here is my suggestion for a weekend treat!

Blackberry & Coconut Squares

The recipe is from the book I showed you last week.

Good Food 101.........Cupcakes and small bakes

I collected a few more blackberries this week and made a few more jars of jam  the last lot went down well with friends and family!!)

The last few blackberries were used to make this scrummy tray bake.

Ingredients

250g SR Flour

25g oats

280g brown soft sugar

200g cold butter, cut into pieces

75g desiccated coconut

2 medium eggs, beaten

350g blackberries

1. Oven 180/160 fan oven.
2. Tip flour, sugar, oats into large bowl and rub butter into mixture until only pea-sized pieces remain.
3. Stir in coconut and then reserve a cupful of this dry mix.
4. Stir eggs into mixture in bowl and spread over lined 31cm x 17cm cake tin
5. Smooth surface with spoon and then scatter over blackberries
6. Scatter reserved cupful of dry mix over top of cake and bake in oven for 1hr until golden and cooked through.
7. Leave to cool and then cut into squares.

Delicious! Makes a nice dessert with cream/ice cream or custard - especially if you have a few extra blackberries microwaved with a bit of sugar for a minute and then poured over the top!!!!!

Just for fun I made our little Dutch friend's toddler daughter a little bag to go with her new pinafore dress that I finished yesterday. Her mum gave us a fab felted wool cardy so I am chopping it up and making bags/ brooches and anything else I can think of.

And these are my latest little frocks......... all that and a visit to the theatre - never a dull moment here!
Have a fab weekend.
Thanks for popping by. x Jo