Unknown Gem Cuba Street, Wellington - Dance Studio

Unknown gem on Cuba st, Wellington, NZ. Dance Studio 

My haven for doing adult ballet classes throughout University. It was situated halfway up Cuba St and just oozed character. You could just imagine the many years the room had been used to rehearse productions and ready the young for their ballet exams. The ceiling was leaking occasionally so we had to dance around the buckets, there were to beautiful and big disintegrating paintings in the room that depicted dance scenes and inspired you to dance better just by looking at them.

Enjoy..xx

Lemon Sour Cream Cake

A family favourite:

Ingredients:

• 125g Butter softened 

• 2 Teaspoons of grated lemon rind 

• 1 Cup of Sugar 

• 3 Eggs 

• 1 Cup Standard Flour 

• 1 Teaspoon of Baking Powder 

• 1/2 cup of sour cream ( try adding a wee bit more! Yum!)

Icing:

• Icing Sugar 

• Butter

• Lemon juice

Beat Butter, lemon rind, sugar and eggs together until light and fluffy. Sift flour and baking powder together. Fold the sifted ingredients into the egg mix alternately with sour cream, mixing until smooth. 

Pour mixture into a greased line 20 cm tin. Bake at 160 degree C or until cake springs back when touched. Leave to stand in tin for 10mins before turning out onto a wire rack. 

Smother in lemon icing (melt butter, add icing sugar and lemon juice stirring constantly). 

Perfect as a pudding straight out of the oven and then the best tasting cake for tomorrow.