So many plums, so little time...

An excess of plums and imminent cold weather make me want to make a plum and apple crumble. Crumble = Crisp for all those the non-Australian types.

Crunchy yummy Top:
3/4 cup of flour
1/4 cup of oats
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 stick of cold cubed butter (accept NO substitutes)

Juicy sweet filling:
about 2 lbs of plums
1-2 large apples
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 F. Then mix all the filling ingredients and pour into a buttered oven proof dish. Mix the butter into the other topping ingredients and scatter on top of fruit. Bake for 40-45 minutes until your whole house smells like heaven. Then walk to store while crumble cools to buy essential accompaniment (Ice Cream)

Elvis was fat...for a reason

This little (I use the word very loosely) baby is called "Elvis Presley's favorite pound cake". I got the recipe from www.epicurious.com and tweaked it by adding the zest of one (preferably organic) lemon. It is the all time most requested from my old secretary Sherice.

How can you go wrong with that much butter, sugar and heavy cream??

Chocolate raspberry cake

I made this double layer chocolate fudge cake with raspberry filling and chocolate butter cream frosting for a chocoholic...YUM. The extra chocolate adorning the top was a special treat for the Birthday girl.