Date Scones

Sift together:

• 3 cups flour
• 5 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Grate in 

• 100g butter (keep dusting it in the flour)

Chop in

• 1.5 cups of roughly chopped dates

Mix in

• 1.5 cups milk

Tip onto a floured baking tray, pat into a rough circle, at least an inch thick, then cut into 8 pieces. Spread out slightly, dust with caster sugar.

15 mins at 220 degrees celcius

Kumara Cake

 

Sift together

• 1 cup wholemeal flour
• 1 cup flour
• 1.5 cups muscavado sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teasp salt
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Beat together

• 4 eggs
• 1 cup cooking oil 

Then fold in:

• 3 cups grated orange kumera

and the dry mix above.

Pour into a 20cm cake tin and bake for 1-1.5 hours at 180 degrees until a skewer comes out clean.

Ice when cool with chocolate icing - yummy with a block of chilli chocolate broken ontop as decoration.