I have had the pleasure of meeting some lovely women who spend the winter up here in one of our local caravan parks. They come to our patchwork group and are totally addicted to patchwork as we are. Yesterday we went to the caravan park to sit by the pool overlooking the golf course and the sea on a beautiful day and knit/sew/chat. It was great. I made this walnut cake as Pearl has to eat gluten free. So this recipe is for her.
350g toasted walnuts (I gave them 6 minutes at 200C on a baking tray single layer)
5 eggs, separated
1 cup caster sugar (though I used regular home brand)
1 teaspoon almond essence (I used vanilla)
icing sugar to dust (be careful of this if you are gluten free, it often contains wheaten cornflour)
Preheat the oven to 180C and grease and line a springform pan with baking paper. Process the nuts into fine crumbs. Using an electric mixer, beat egg yolks and sugar in a large bowl till pale and creamy. Fold in the essence and nuts until combined. Beat egg whites till soft peaks form. Fold the egg whites in 2 batches into the walnut mixture till just combined. Put in the pan and bake for 25 minutes. Turn the oven off and cool in the oven with the door ajar for 1 hour, I propped it open a bit with a soup ladle! Remove from the tin, dust with sifted icing sugar and serve in wedges with a dollop of cream!
I think you could use other nuts as well, be brave, experiment!
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Showing posts with label cakes and biscuits. Show all posts
Friday, 10 August 2012
Monday, 25 January 2010
Anzac Biscuits
Tomorrow is Australia Day and Debs is excited! We are having A&P& Godzilla over for a BBQ tea. Nothing outrageous as it's a school night. Today, in preparation, Debs and I made Anzac Biscuits. They turned out very well. Debs likes them. A lot.
So here is the recipe I used. Pretty standard one.
1 cup plain flour
1 cup brown sugar (though regular works too)
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup coconut
125 g butter, melted
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1 tablespoon water
1/2 teaspoon bi carb soda
Preheat your oven to 175 degrees C. (I need 160 on mine so test your oven)
Mix the flour, sugar, oats and coconut together.
Melt butter in a saucepan, add syrup and water and mix well.
Add bicarb soda and wait till it foams then mix in with the flour mixture in the bowl.
Roll into balls about the size of a walnut, and place them, well spaced on a tray.
Bake for 12 - 15 minutes, cool on tray then put on a cooling rack.
If you like them chewy, err on the 12 minutes side, if you like them crunchy, add a little more golden syrup.
Makes about 24.
So here is the recipe I used. Pretty standard one.
1 cup plain flour
1 cup brown sugar (though regular works too)
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup coconut
125 g butter, melted
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1 tablespoon water
1/2 teaspoon bi carb soda
Preheat your oven to 175 degrees C. (I need 160 on mine so test your oven)
Mix the flour, sugar, oats and coconut together.
Melt butter in a saucepan, add syrup and water and mix well.
Add bicarb soda and wait till it foams then mix in with the flour mixture in the bowl.
Roll into balls about the size of a walnut, and place them, well spaced on a tray.
Bake for 12 - 15 minutes, cool on tray then put on a cooling rack.
If you like them chewy, err on the 12 minutes side, if you like them crunchy, add a little more golden syrup.
Makes about 24.
Monday, 29 June 2009
Muffins
This is a generic muffin recipe which you can use to make any muffin that takes your fancy, depending on what you like or have available or both. I have been successfully using this recipe in many variations for a while. I found it on the simple savings australia forum, and I have no idea who posted it. If anyone recognises it I would be happy to attribute it to its rightful author.
2 cups plain flour
4 heaped teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
Mix these in a large bowl. Stir in your chosen flavourings to these dry ingredients for example, chopped apple or sultanas, and the nuts or choc chips type ingredients.
If you are flavouring with mashed bananas add after the wet stuff.
Basically you add wet stuff to dry stuff and by adding fruit to the dry stuff it gets coated in flour which stops it sinking to the bottom. Surpisingly.
Next, melt 100g butter in a jug, add 1 egg and 1 cup of milk and whisk well. Add to the dry mix. When you add the wet stuff, do so gently, and only just mix it till the flour is mixed in. If you overmix, the mufffins will be tough.
Spoon the mix into muffin tins, it makes 12 genrous muffins.
Bake at 180degrees for 20 minutes. Test that the centre is cooked with a skewer.
Flavourings:
1 cup soft flavouring and 1/2 cup hard flavouring.
Like:
2 small chopped apples, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, sprinkle tops of muffins with sugar before baking
1 banana, mashed, 1.2 cup choc chips
1 cup frozen rasperries, 1/2 cup white chocoalte bits
1 tin peaches, well drained
1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen or tinned, can add chop chips if wished
1 cup pineapple, 1/2 cup coconut
1 cup chocolate chips you can mix the chocolate types, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder added with the flour.
1 cup dates chopped, 1/2 cup walnuts, use brown sugar instaed of white, can serve like
stickydate puddings.
Savoury:
1 cup grated cheese, 2 rashers bacon, chopped and microwaved till cooked, some chopped onion.
To convert to a quick dessert, make up any of these, cook in a slice tin, cut into squares, dust with icing sugar, and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
2 cups plain flour
4 heaped teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
Mix these in a large bowl. Stir in your chosen flavourings to these dry ingredients for example, chopped apple or sultanas, and the nuts or choc chips type ingredients.
If you are flavouring with mashed bananas add after the wet stuff.
Basically you add wet stuff to dry stuff and by adding fruit to the dry stuff it gets coated in flour which stops it sinking to the bottom. Surpisingly.
Next, melt 100g butter in a jug, add 1 egg and 1 cup of milk and whisk well. Add to the dry mix. When you add the wet stuff, do so gently, and only just mix it till the flour is mixed in. If you overmix, the mufffins will be tough.
Spoon the mix into muffin tins, it makes 12 genrous muffins.
Bake at 180degrees for 20 minutes. Test that the centre is cooked with a skewer.
Flavourings:
1 cup soft flavouring and 1/2 cup hard flavouring.
Like:
2 small chopped apples, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, sprinkle tops of muffins with sugar before baking
1 banana, mashed, 1.2 cup choc chips
1 cup frozen rasperries, 1/2 cup white chocoalte bits
1 tin peaches, well drained
1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen or tinned, can add chop chips if wished
1 cup pineapple, 1/2 cup coconut
1 cup chocolate chips you can mix the chocolate types, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder added with the flour.
1 cup dates chopped, 1/2 cup walnuts, use brown sugar instaed of white, can serve like
stickydate puddings.
Savoury:
1 cup grated cheese, 2 rashers bacon, chopped and microwaved till cooked, some chopped onion.
To convert to a quick dessert, make up any of these, cook in a slice tin, cut into squares, dust with icing sugar, and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Orange Jaffa Cake (Gluten Free)
This is a Nigella Lawson recipe I got from the web. I made it for a morning tea at KISA's work as one of the staff needs gluten free treats. It was very yummy and quite a hit.
2 thin skinned oranges
6 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
200g ground almonds
250g caster sugar (i used regular sugar, we didn't die)
50g cocoa
Cover the washed oranges with cold water bring to boil and boil for 2 hours. Cool. Cut in half and remove the seeds. Toss in a food processor and process to mush. Add everything else and process till well mixed. Pour into a springform tin that has been greased and lined on the base with baking paper. Bake for 1 hour in a pre heated 180 degree oven. Watch for burning. Turn out when cold onto plate. Sprinkle liberally with icing sugar before serving with a dollop of thick cream. And maybe raspberries...
2 thin skinned oranges
6 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
200g ground almonds
250g caster sugar (i used regular sugar, we didn't die)
50g cocoa
Cover the washed oranges with cold water bring to boil and boil for 2 hours. Cool. Cut in half and remove the seeds. Toss in a food processor and process to mush. Add everything else and process till well mixed. Pour into a springform tin that has been greased and lined on the base with baking paper. Bake for 1 hour in a pre heated 180 degree oven. Watch for burning. Turn out when cold onto plate. Sprinkle liberally with icing sugar before serving with a dollop of thick cream. And maybe raspberries...
The Fitzgibbon Family Choc Chip Cookies
This is a secret family recipe I extracted under severe torture from Jess's then partner Rich in 2006. He would never have told me otherwise.
Makes about 24 if you don't eat too much of it while still raw.
These are divine!
125g butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
100-150g choc-chips
125g hazelnuts, slightly crushed
Mix butter and sugar until creamy.
Add in egg and mix well.
Add vanilla.
Sift flour with baking powder and add slowly while mixing.
Mix in choc-chips and hazelnuts.
Place teaspoonfuls in greased tray or on baking paper on tray.
Place in oven preheated to 180 degrees C.
Cook 10 to 15 minutes. Less is chewier, more is crunchier depending on your preferences.
Makes about 24 if you don't eat too much of it while still raw.
These are divine!
125g butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
100-150g choc-chips
125g hazelnuts, slightly crushed
Mix butter and sugar until creamy.
Add in egg and mix well.
Add vanilla.
Sift flour with baking powder and add slowly while mixing.
Mix in choc-chips and hazelnuts.
Place teaspoonfuls in greased tray or on baking paper on tray.
Place in oven preheated to 180 degrees C.
Cook 10 to 15 minutes. Less is chewier, more is crunchier depending on your preferences.
Grandma Ross's Date Cake
This was my favourite thing when I was a child! Mum made it quite regularly, I used to chop the dates. It would ages to get a cup full as quite a few went in my mouth!
Into a bowl put
1 cup chopped dates
1 small cup brown sugar
1 heaped tablespoon butter
1 level teaspoon baking soda
Then cover with 1 cup boiling water.
Cool a little, then add 2 cups of self raising flour and a pinch of salt. Pour into tin or loaf tin and bake at 180 degrees for half an hour. Butter top when hot and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
Into a bowl put
1 cup chopped dates
1 small cup brown sugar
1 heaped tablespoon butter
1 level teaspoon baking soda
Then cover with 1 cup boiling water.
Cool a little, then add 2 cups of self raising flour and a pinch of salt. Pour into tin or loaf tin and bake at 180 degrees for half an hour. Butter top when hot and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
Carrot Cake
I got this recipe from the Nursing Mothers Association of Australia cookbook when the kids were small in the early 80's. I made it all the time, after a bit I became a bit "famous" for this carrot cake.
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup oil
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 teaspoons bicarb soda
1 1/3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/3 teaspoons cinnamon
2 cups grated raw carrot
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla
Grease a round cake tin about 8 inches wide. I always used a springform tin.
Heat oven to 150 degrees C.
Beat eggs and sugar till frothy.
Add oil, stir in sifted dry ingredients and lasted fold in grated carrot, nuts and vanilla.
Turn into tin and bake for 1 hour.
When cool ice with cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
125g Philly cheese
250g icing sugar
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine all ingredients and spread on cake. Freezes well. Very yummy licked off the spoon too.
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup oil
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 teaspoons bicarb soda
1 1/3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/3 teaspoons cinnamon
2 cups grated raw carrot
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla
Grease a round cake tin about 8 inches wide. I always used a springform tin.
Heat oven to 150 degrees C.
Beat eggs and sugar till frothy.
Add oil, stir in sifted dry ingredients and lasted fold in grated carrot, nuts and vanilla.
Turn into tin and bake for 1 hour.
When cool ice with cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
125g Philly cheese
250g icing sugar
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine all ingredients and spread on cake. Freezes well. Very yummy licked off the spoon too.
To Die for Brownies
To Die For Brownies
These are wonderful. They are cheap to make, using no fancy ingredients and as easy as a packet mix to make. Not to mention yummy and freeze well, which I recommend or you'll get fat!
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup water
3 large eggs
100g or more of chopped pecan, walnuts or choc bits
Grease and line a 34x23 com dish with baking paper. I use my pyrex lasagne dish. Preheat oven to 180C. Place all ingredients into a large bowl, beat together with a wooden spoon until well mixed. Pour into the lined tin and bake until centre springs back, about 25 minutes. Watch it doesn't burn till you know whether your oven runs hotter or not. When cool, sprinkle with icing sugar and cut into small squares. Nice warm with icecream if you have guests for dessert! But yummy with a coffee
These are wonderful. They are cheap to make, using no fancy ingredients and as easy as a packet mix to make. Not to mention yummy and freeze well, which I recommend or you'll get fat!
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup water
3 large eggs
100g or more of chopped pecan, walnuts or choc bits
Grease and line a 34x23 com dish with baking paper. I use my pyrex lasagne dish. Preheat oven to 180C. Place all ingredients into a large bowl, beat together with a wooden spoon until well mixed. Pour into the lined tin and bake until centre springs back, about 25 minutes. Watch it doesn't burn till you know whether your oven runs hotter or not. When cool, sprinkle with icing sugar and cut into small squares. Nice warm with icecream if you have guests for dessert! But yummy with a coffee
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