RECIPES

Cream puffs (choux pastry) or (profiterales)

These are easy to make, but tricky too.. I always know now whether the mixture will work or not just by looking at it.

Boil together, 1 cup hot water and   2 ounces of butter.. when boiling add stirring at same time 1 cup SR flour a nicely heaped cupful. 

Let the mixture cool.

Using the K beater of your Kenwood Chef - beat adding three eggs until mixture is thick.  Place in teaspoon lots onto baking tray and cook in very hot oven about  400 Farenheit or 200 Celcius.  Try to leave in oven when cooked (with oven turned off of course - this dries their middles out).   Whip cream and fill centres or use a custard type cream.   They should be used nearly straight away, they don't keep in airtight containers as they will go soggy.  If I don't want to use them all I freeze them in freezer bags and just pop them out on the day of use and cream them then.  yummo!

Moist Carrot Cake with cinnamon frosting

1 1/4 cups plain flour

1/2 cup SR flour

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

3/4 cup chopped walnuts

3 eggs lightly beaten

2 cups finely grated carrot

1 teaspoon soda (bi-carb)

1 teaspoon mixed spice

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup banana mashed

1 cup vegetable oil

Grease 24 cm springform tin, line base with baking paper.  Sift dry ingredients add remaining ingredients and mix together.  Bake in mod to slow oven about 1 1/4 hours.  sTand 5 mins.

Cinnamon Frosting

125g cream cheese, 60g butter, 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 1/2 cups icing sugar

Beat softened cheese, butter and cinnamon until light and fluffy.  Gradually beat in icing sugar, then ice top of cake.  

One Egg Meringues

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg white

1/2 teaspoon cornflour

1/2 teaspoon brown vinegar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

2 tablespoons boiling water

Place everything in a mixmaster bowl together, beat with whisk beaters for a long time, until thick and soft peaks form in the mixture.  Teaspoon onto baking tray and cook in oven 1 hour at 200 Farenheit or about 100 to 120 celcius.