Cherry Cake

This cake is delicious! Its that time of year again when cherries are gracing the supermarket shelves. They can be expensive, but if you shop smart you can get them at a great price! I picked up two punnets on Thomas st for just a euro each!  I found the recipe on the BBC food website and it caught my eye as it incorporates cinnamon in the recipe which I love! Again it's super easy to make (we're not a fan of difficult recipes here!) and soooooo tasty! Try it quick before cherries go out of season!!

Ingredients:

• 140g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 50g golden caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 4 tbsp milk
• 85g butter, melted
• 250g  ripe cherries
• icing sugar, for dusting

For the topping:

• 50 g plain flour
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 50g golden caster sugar
• 50g butter, at room temperature, diced

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin using butter. Sift the flour, cinnamon and caster sugar into a bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the egg, milk and melted butter, then combine with a wooden spoon or electric whisk. Beat well to make a thick, smooth mixture. Spoon into the tin and spread evenly.
Next, stone the cherries, place them in the cake tin and press them in to the cake mix. To make the topping, tip all the ingredients into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingers to make a crumb-like mixture, then work the mixture until it comes together in pea-sized pieces. Scatter the topping over the cherries and place the cake in the oven for 35-40mins. Place on a wire rack to cool, serve with cream and enjoy!

Quick and easy Irish Soda Bread!

This is perhaps one of the tastiest and easiest recipes you will ever make. Nothing beats a spread of butter on a warm slice of home made bread. This recipe is so quick to make, there is no excuse for not making it yourself at home! so crack out the mixing bowl and get baking... Believe me, you won't regret it!


Ingredients:

175g self rasing flour
1 tsp of bread soda
1 tsp of salt
300g of extra coarse wholemeal flour
1 tbsp brown sugar
50g oats
50g mixed seeds
450ml of buttermilk
1 tbsp of seeds to sprinkle on top

Method:

 Preheat the oven to 200degrees.
Grease a loaf tin with a small knob of butter.
Mix all the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl using a wooden spoon.
Pour the dough into the tin and brush with a little butter milk.
Make a line along the centre of the loaf using a teaspoon.
Sprinkle on the tablespoon of seeds and place the loaf in the pre heated oven for 30mins.
Reduce the heat to 150degrees and cook for another 30mins.
The bread should be brown and should make a hollow sound when you tap on the bass.
Turn on to a wire rack to cool and enjoy!

World Marlaria Day!

Aoife O'Sullivan and Vanessa Breen

Marco Herbst

Vanessa Breen

OPENING NIGHT OF MALARIA MUSEUM, World Malaria Day 2014 which our very own Aoife curated! :-)

MALARIA MUSEUM Dublin’s very own Pop-up Malaria Museum will open in TMB’s headquarters at the top of Grafton Street on 25th April 2014. The Malaria Museum will be a quirky experiential space, educating visitors with a variety of historical artefacts and interactive art works.

While the pop-up museum will coincide with World Malaria Day, on April 25th, making Dublin part of a Global conversation about malaria, the Malaria Museum website will remain a permanent virtual space to bring together the different voices from around the world that are working to end malaria.
To highlighting the vital work undertaken by different national and international organisations, we have invited Ireland’s visual artists to engage with topic creating the opportunity to use artistic expression in an informative and educational way, making the information more tangible to the general public.
A group of  talented Irish visual artists have put forward their ideas and commitment to museum understanding that the museum’s sole purpose it educate the public via engagement with the visual arts.
Growing our exhibition space into a virtual community where ideas can be generated, shared, and refined.
The Malaria Museum aims to promote an awareness of malaria in the general public. It will also act as the international repository for malaria-related artefacts of note.
Through entertaining, fun and interactive exhibits, both physical and online, the museum will educate the visitor about the history of malaria, its importance as a disease, current efforts to control it and future prospects regarding its eradication.
By also acting as an independent forum where people working on malaria can share their work, the museum will contribute to the control and eradication of the disease.

People of the Museum

Vanessa Breen has a with wide-ranging experience from her career in film and television, brand communication, and event organization. As museum director she came on board to head up a team of creatives who will make the museum a truly unique experience.
Upholding the mission of the Malaria Museum to remain an independent space to bring together the different voices from around the world that are working to end malaria.
Marco Herbst is an entrepreneur born in Ireland, currently living in Berlin. As founder of the Malaria Museum, he has been collecting items and interviewing experts in the field of Malaria since 2008.
It is his intention to bring together adequate talent, finance and enthusiasm to establish a museum  that will live up to and surpass the aims of the mission statement.

This exhibition is free to the public and will be running until June, well worth a look!
Louise xx