Unexpected cake

I really should know better than to tweak untried recipes, especially unusual ones that have been greeted with some scepticism. I am interested in ways to deal with food intolerances and found a recipe for Dulce de Leche which did not take hours to make and was dairy-free. It said to use coconut milk (I used hazelnut as I had some) and raw cane sugar (I had light muscavado). I did have the vegetable margarine.
So now I needed to find a use for this sweet, milk-and-fat liquid.
Fortunatly there is a forgiving recipe in my notes that I use for a yummy Almond slice (with marzipan) so I adapted that, adding chopped, lightly roasted hazelnuts and just over half the well-mixed liquid. When baked, it was iced and decorated with some of the remaining hazels, caramelized. It was cut so there was some for samples and a (small) piece for us to taste. It was soft, delicate in flavour and I hoped there would be some left unsold, to bring home - alas, it all went, hence no photo. There is some liquid left in the fridge....
At this time of year, there is always something left to bring home from the market, an unexpected treat. This week there was Choc-Orange Marble Slice -

 

a packet of double choc-chip cookies and two Balsamic Onion + Goat's Cheese Tarts. Last week there was a Lemon Cake, with homemade lemon cheese (yes, I know there is some debate about it being curd, but when I was growing up lemon cheese was what your Mum made at home and lemon curd was some gloopy stuff that stuck to your teeth and was bought in a shop),

 

and some Butterflies, that elegant, old-fashioned precursor to the cup cake.

 

 These were well received as even a one egg mix will make six or eight little cakes (depending on the weight of the egg and yes, weighed in the shell), too many unless friends are coming round for coffee. Making them brings back memories of Sunday mornings, basketwork patterns on my knees from kneeling up at the kitchen table, beating fat and sugar until almost white.
Perhaps next week there will be some Coffee Walnut slice left, after all, it is half term and who knows how many customers there will be......