Happy Father's Day!

It's Father's Day today, and to celebrate the occasion, I sent my Dad an Apple and Walnut Cake via Canada Post. Usually the kind of baked goods that get sent via snail mail are cookies or brownies -- things that kids at summer camps survive on. However, my brother suggested that a cake would be more to our father's taste, so I sought out a suitable recipe.

The Apple and Walnut Cake comes from Nigella Lawson, that saucy, superstar chef from TV. I found it in her "How to Be a Domestic Goddess" cookbook, received as a gift one Xmas. The thing I like about the recipe is that it makes good use of walnut oil (in place of butter) and the end result is a dense, solid cake that can survive for a few days without refrigeration and will withstand the abuses of the postal system.

A wedge of the cake would have been more photogenic, but I couldn't exactly take a piece out of it then mail it to my Dad. My brother reports that the cake has turned out well, although he claims a piece of walnut may be stuck somewhere in his throat. That's what happens when you don't chew, bro.