Clover for baking?

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Hello!

Someone shopping for us bought us a tub of Clover spread.

Is it ok for baking? I wax thinking of making a gingerbread loaf.

Tia

Yes, it's fine. Just made this today using Clover.

Ooh that looks nice!

Thank you!

I think clover and the buttery spreads are better, I'm sure I read that Delia thinks so too! (not the light ones though as they are full of water)

👍

Looking forward to hearing how your gingerbread goes (adds stem ginger to shopping list).

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie that looks amazing, can you share the recipe?

I’m just about to make a peach cake with it. Wish me luck

Am sure it will be fine. We use flora as ds is dairy intolerant and that works fine.

I have found the Clover light version is better for baking than the regular stuff. It makes great crumble.

PigDog - I made it up.

I creamed 4 oz Clover and 4 of sugar. Mixed in 2 eggs and a glob of double cream which needed using up (would be fine without this). Added 4 oz SR flour. Then I mashed a banana and stirred that in, as well as the last few blueberries in the punnet (I cut any big ones in half). Then I opened a tin of apricots and drained away most of the juice. Mixed the last bit of juice into the cake mix. Mashed some of the apricots and chopped up others and stirred it all in, then arranged the nicest apricot halves on top.

Cooked on the middle shelf for quite a long time - not sure how long, but probably 40 mins or so. I had to turn the oven down a bit to get the middle cooked through.

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie Thankyou I'm going to try it tomorrow 😋

That sounds similar to an apple cake I make a lot and have made a peach and blueberry version too.
It's great making a cake that doesn't need icing, I didn't even take the last one out of the tin, the dc just cut themselves wodges.

I might have to switch to flapjacks though as am running out of flour and eggs!

I'm down to my last egg and finding it very hard to track any down. The ones I'm using were £2 for half a dozen in Tesco!!! Probably got enough SR flour for one more batch of baking. Plenty of plain but never quite sure what to do with that - I only really use it for white sauce usually.

PigDog - hope you like it!

Clover makes cake much nicer!

Great!

Now the pressure's on to make a good cake!