Now is the perfect time to fill your cup with moments of inner peace and allow yourself to slow down and relax. Take a break, meditate, spoil yourself, find a great book, or simply do something that sparks your happiness.

Find the JOY in your past, your present and most importantly, in your everyday-ordinary.

Grandma’s recipes or tastes from long ago ~ these are the moments from past memories of something delicious that you can now rediscover and ponder from the joy that will live on in your memory forever.

Recipe

• 1/3 cup (50g) plain flour
• 1/3 cup (50g) self-raising flour
• 1/3 cup (50g) Cornflour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 4 eggs (at room temperature)
• 2/3 cup (150g) caster sugar
• Whipped cream, for filling
• Fresh fruit, for filling
• Icing sugar, for dusting

Step 1 

Grease 2 x deep, 20cm round cake tins with butter (be generous) and line bases with baking paper. Sift flours and salt together three times to ensure the flour is light and fluffy.

Step 2

Preheat oven to 180C. Using an electric beater or mixer, beat eggs and sugar in a large bowl on medium-high speed for 6 minutes, or until mixture is thick, pale and tripled in volume. You can tell that the mixture is ready if you sneak a taste and can no longer feel the sugar granules on your tongue.

Step 3 

Gradually sift flour mixture over egg mixture while at the same time folding in with a large metal spoon until just combined. Be very gentle for this step to keep the air in the batter. Divide mixture between the 2 prepared tins. Bake for 20 minutes, or until cakes have shrunk away from the sides slightly and spring back when gently touched.

Step 4 

Turn out onto baking paper-lined wire racks. Carefully peel away the baking paper, then leave to cool. Be gentle for this step to ensure that the cake maintains it's spongey air.

Step 5 

Fill with whipped cream and add your choice of fresh fruit on top. Our favourite is a mixture of berries ! Dust with icing sugar.

Step 6 

enJOY

Sunshine, food and medicine for the soul – bring nature into your space and take the time of meditative presentation, bringing quiet and mindfulness into your day.

Self-care means taking the time to give yourself permission to pause. To take a moment to ground and centre, ready for your week ahead.