Follow The Yellow Brick Road

  

In "The Wizard Of Oz" Dorothy skips along and finally gets to the Emerald City and finds the Wizard. On her journey, she meets the Munchkins. 

In the book [pub 1900] Frank L Baum describes these people as the same height as Dorothy, and dressed all in blue, their favourite colour. Hollywood ignored these details when they made the film.

We were asked at Craft Group to contribute some cakes or savouries on Sunday [the event raised over £500 towards the upkeep of the Village Hall] 

On Saturday afternoon I stood in the kitchen wondering what to make. I decided fairy cakes are easily manageable. I got out my 1996 Dairy Book, and spotted a recipe I have never made before - Munchkin Cakes. It only needed one egg, and I had all other other ingredients, [apart from crystallised Orange and Lemon slices.] So I set to and made a batch.

       INGREDIENTS

• 100g butter
• 100g sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• grated rind and juice of ½ orange
• 200g self raising flour
• 100ml fresh milk
• 75g apricot jam
• 75g plain chocolate, melted
• crystallised citrus slices to garnish

METHOD

1. Preheat oven to 170º
2. Melt butter and sugar over low hear for 2 mins, stir occasionally 
3. Add egg and orange rind, beat well, 
4. Fold in flour, gradually add milk and orange juice
5. Spoon into 16 paper cases [2tbsp per case]
6. Bake for 25 mins till risen and golden brown
7. When cool, scoop out centre, place tsp jam in hollow.
8. Replace lid, ice wirth melted chocolate
9. Decorate with orange or lemon slice.

I grated the rind with the microplane and stirred it through the mix. Having no slices, I put gold stars on each cake. The cakes were fairly uniform [wouldn't win BakeOff though] 

I kept back the wonkiest pair for us to sample later,

Conclusion - they taste just like Jaffa Cakes!

I may make these again, when my little Munchkins from London or Manchester come to visit.