Cake #78 - Turkish Pepper and Lime Cake

Friends First Friday Cake - Turkish Pepper and Lime Cake.

For my elder daughter who is the best toilet cleaner in the world!

Mystery Box ingredient used: crushed Turkish Pepper candies.



How can someone like cleaning toilets and be so good at it, too? 

My elder daughter, who is now 19, has probably been cleaning our toilets since she was 10 years old. Not that we would have told her to, she just seems to have an interest and motivation for it. Cleaning the toilets, yes.

The more professional she gets the more demanding she becomes. She tells me what cleaners I need to buy and she cannot complete a task if she has run out of something. 

There is not only the usual Domestos or whatever brand toilet cleaner is the best, but there is a separate spray for cleaning the shower and another one for the bathtub, and there is certain mousse for cleaning the sinks. Then you need wipes and you need window cleaner for mirrors. The colour of the toilet blocks used matters, too. And obviously we need to have lots of spare sponges and rubber gloves.

I do not mind buying the stuff she needs. They are all very affordable and they all leave a nice and fresh smell around (not that disgusting chlorite). 

What will happen the day she moves out? Will any of the younger siblings be willing to take the toilet cleaning responsibilities? I am already getting prepared and saving the shopping lists with the names of all the products with the nice smell. If the rest of us cannot learn to clean the toilets as passionately and profoundly as she does now at least we can get the right fragrances.

Turkish Pepper and Lime Cake

Batter
200 g butter
250 ml granulated sugar
3 eggs
400 ml plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
juice of two limes
50 g Turkish Pepper crush

Icing
300 ml icing sugar
1 tsp black food colouring
2-3 tsp water

3-4 tbsp Turkish Pepper crush

1. Preheat oven to 175 C / 350 F and grease and flour a 1.5-litre bundt cake pan.
2. Combine flour, baking powder and Turkish Pepper crush in a bowl.
3. Cream together butter and sugar.
4. Mix in eggs.
5. Add the dry ingredients together with the lime juice.
6. Pour the batter into the pan and bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes.
7. Let cool on a rack before removing from the pan. 
8. Mix the black icing and spread on the cake and then sprinkle Turkish Pepper crush on top.