Bran Cake

I'm a bran fan but it gets all up in my braces too much for me to eat it for breakfast.

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So I had to come up with another way to use up the box of bran flakes that had been abandoned in the cereal cupboard.

My first thought is always cake so I googled bran flake cake recipes and came across this one on the NHS Change4Life website.

The first thing you have to do is put bran flakes and dried fruit in a bowl and add milk, so this recipe is basically breakfast in a cake.

The recipe calls for mashed bananas, apricots and sultanas. I decided to use sultanas, raisins and glace cherries instead because I don't like apricots and I find things don't last as long if they have banana in them.

This cake tastes healthy, which isn't a bad thing.

The addition of dried fruits makes all the difference, so it'd be interesting to try the recipe again with different combinations.

I've also found recipes for a chocolate bran cake and carrot cake bran muffins so I might try those to use up the rest of the box.

Peanut butter's new best friend

We all know peanut butter and chocolate is a winning combination but what about peanut butter and orange?

What about peanut butter and orange in the form of a cookie?

My sister made these cookies many years ago, just once, but I never forgot about them.

Then when I was looking for a recipe to make these biscuits I came across the recipe for the peanut butter and orange cookies.

It's from the W.I. book of biscuits from 1986.

I'm sure they won't mind me sharing it with you.

Delicious, just as I remembered.