Showing posts with label Christmas cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas cooking. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2012

Kinda Black-forest Trifle

Here's an idea for a dessert using some Christmas leftovers!
 

You need:

Leftover okara fudge - remember my little Santa hats? I had all the cutouts from them (any chocolate cake really - even a fruit pudding would work!)

Custard - I just made some from custard powder

Cherries







Use any type of long large glass that you have.

Chop pieces of the cake & put on down the bottom of the galss. 

Follow with a layer of chopped and pitted cherries, then a dollop of custard. 

Continue layering in that order until you reach the top of the glass. 

Chill before serving. Best left in the fridge for a few hours as the cherries will blend into the custard!











Sunday, December 26, 2010

Star Biscuits

You can use these as individual biscuits, or pile them on top of each other to make a star tree (as shown in picture) or sandwich them together to make melting moments.


Happy Baking :-)


Ingredients:
250g nuttelex, at room temperature
1/3 cup icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 3/4/ cup flour
1/3 cup custard powder

Preheat oven to 180C.
Beat nuttelex, icing sugar & vanilla together with an electric mixer. Beat until light & creamy. Add flour & custard powder gradually & stir slowly with a mixing spoon until all combined.
Place dough on a piece of baking paper & knead til the dough holds its shape. Wrap in cling wrap & leave in the fridge for half an hour.
Return dough to baking paper & flatten. Place another piece of baking paper on top and roll out with a rolling pin til approx 5mm thick. Using a cookie cutter, cut out the dough & place on the baking tray lined with baking paper. (Depending on what you want to make you should use all the same size cutter or different sizes.)
Bake for 12-15 mins until a light brown colour. Cool completely on tray.

Options:
1/ Melt some Sweet William white chocolate over a double boiler. Pile stars on top of each other starting with the largest stars at the bottom. Place a small drop of chocolate between each star. (NB: do not put too much chocolate between the layers or else they will slide off.) Decorate the star tree with remaining white chocolate, Christmas coloured sprinkles, or icing sugar.

2/ Beat together 1 1/4 cups icing sugar, 60g soft nuttelex & rind of one lemon. Spread a little onto each biscuit & place two together. Dust with icing sugar.



Thursday, December 23, 2010

Dairy & Gluten free shortbread

This recipe is sooooo tasty :-)


DAIRY & GLUTEN FREE SHORTBREAD
Ingredients:
250g nuttelex (at room temperature works best)
1/2 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup icing sugar
2 1/12 cups gluten free flour
1/2 cup rice flour
2 teaspoons vanilla essense

Preheat oven to 170C.
Place nuttelex & sugar together in a bowl & cream until light & fluffy (sugar should dissolve).
Gradually add the flours to the creamed sugar mix. Stir gently until combined.
Place mix onto a piece of baking paper and knead until smooth.
Press into a baking dish 30 x 20cm. Bake for approx 35 mins until light brown.
Cool in tin.
Cut into pieces.

Can be dusted with icing sugar or dipped into dark cooking chocolate.
For a festive look I quite like to dip one side into cooking chocolate & stack them on top of each other & decorate with silver cachous.