Making Cake for Auntie

Ms Bear has a 93 year old auntie who likes to eat cake. "Why can't you have cake for dinner", she said. There's a lot you can learn from old people. I'm a simple baker. I'm happiest with the 6-ingredient recipes from old Home Economics and dog-eared recipe books: self-raising flour, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla essence and something else for flavour. But I have been trying to hunt down the elusive moist lemon cake recipe. I tried a recipe from a Donna Hay cookbook asking for lemon juice AND sour cream and it ended up resolutely flat and toe-curlingly sour. But 93 year old auntie thought it was nice anyway. They do say that as you grow older your taste buds don't work so well. This weekend, the 2Bears have decided to surprise her with another lemon creation, this time from the idiotproof-looking "Cooking for Expats" book. Wish us luck.