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Almond Pastries

27/2/2016

A sweet, nutty filled parcel - that's fuss-free to make. Eat them as a cold treat with tea or coffee, or enjoy them warm with custard, cream or ice cream for dessert.

For a dozen you'll need:

250g Ground Almonds
200g Icing Sugar
150g Butter (plus a little extra for brushing)
2 tsp Cinnamon
270g Filo Pastry (Half them to form square sheets)

Easy and quick to throw together - 20 minutes including cooking, and with just three ingredients.

No hard and fast measurements needed either as it's a case of using as much or as little as you like!

You'll need:

A sheet of Ready-roll Puff Pastry
Chocolate Chips
Chocolate Spread (it doesn't have to be Nutella!)

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Sweet Potato Pie

26/8/2015

Perhaps it's common where you are, but in the UK we rarely use sweet potatoes outside the savoury world... but this is one of those dishes that may make you look again at the usefulness of this humble vegetable.

A delicious and impressive looking pie of marbled chocolate and sweet potato. Serve cold or warm with custard, cream or ice cream.

For a 9inch Pie Dish you'll need:

350g Shortcrust Pastry (or a deep pre-baked crust)
2 Eggs
240ml Single Cream (divided into 180ml & 60ml portions for use at different times)
75g Butter
150g Sugar (White makes for the best colour puree)
2 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Pinch of Sea Salt
30g Cocoa Powder
400g Sweet Potato (Roasted & Mashed)

Delicious served cold, or warm with ice cream, cream or custard.

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Tomato Tarte Tatin

21/7/2015

The simplest of ingredients that create an amazing starter, lunch or main course with salad. Takes moments to rustle up and will disappear almost as quickly when you serve it. There's never any left for seconds!

For a starter for 4 or a lunch/main for 2 you'll need:

350g Baby Tomatoes
4 Tbsp Sun-dried Tomato Pesto
3 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
1 Tbsp Sugar
A good handful of fresh Thyme
1 Sheet of Puff Pastry

Goes great with Salad and Goat's Cheese

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Apple Caramel Roses

6/6/2015

The grand finale of any meal should be a knock-out dessert - and they don't get much more impressive than this... it's my fruitily-floral indulgent pudding, and it's far easier to make than it looks!

It's the final dish from my Cook Look Book .

For one 9 inch flan-dish sized dessert which will serve 8 people you'll need:

For the crumb base:

225g Digestive biscuit crumbs (Graham Crackers)
55g Butter
1 TbspGolden Syrup In this recipe it can be substituted with Corn Syrup.

For the Caramel layer:

150g Butter
150g Soft Brown Sugar
1 tin/397g Condensed Milk

For the Rose topping:

3 Red Apples
120g Apricot Jam
320g Puff Pastry (A ready roll sheet is ideal)
1 Tbsp sugar
Some water

Like the music? It's the instrumental of "I Don't Care" by The Xcerts.

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Cranberry Mince Parcels

20/12/2014

Mince Pies - may not be familiar to everyone - but if you've not tried them the mincemeat (in this case, completely vegetarian!) is a wonderful chutney-like filling of spiced, sweetened fruit - in this case Cranberries. So easy to make, and here served in a modern parcel rather than in traditional shortcrust case. For around 40 parcels you'll need (this will make the mincemeat... which stores for 2 weeks).

300g Fresh Cranberries
30g Dried Cranberries
75g Currants
75g Raisins
75g Soft Light Brown Sugar
Juice & Zest of one Clementine
2 Tbs Honey
1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
3 Drops Almond Extract
60ml Port (Ruby ideally - but Tawny is fine too)
25ml Brandy

Camembert & Cranberry Parcels

11/12/2014

Hot cheese and jam? Yeah, doesn't sound very posh - but this is a really easy way to impress. Strong camembert melts and intermingles with cranberry in a crunchy topped, soft bottomed (?!) parcel. YUM. For eight parcels you'll need:

540g Filo Pastry (12x oblong sheets - you'll cut them into 24 squares)
250g Camembert Cheese (1x 10cm diameter)
250g Cranberry Sauce (1 Jar)
30g Butter (Melted)
Splash of juice (Cranberry or Apple) or water

Cheat's Mille-feuille

10/12/2014

Mille-feuille is French for a 'thousand leaves' - a nod to the many layers of this dessert, and specifically the thin layers within the pastry layers. Using ready-made ingredients this is ready from fridge to table in 15 mins. For 6 people you'll need:

300g Puff Pastry (shop bought is often 340g portions - that's fine!)
300 ml Double Cream
300g Jam (Raspberry here)
1 Egg
Icing sugar to decorate

Cherry & Pear Pie

20/11/2014

Sour cherry and sweet pears are ideal bed fellows. Here they're nestled in a sweet crust, with a rich sauce that won't collapse when it's cut, and finished off with a touch of rustic charm. You'll need:

350g Shortcrust Pastry
400g Cherries (de-stoned)
400g Pears (Conference pears stay firm)
3tbs Caster Sugar
3tbs Cornflour
1/2 Lemon (Juice Only)
Icing sugar to decorate

Open Plum Tart

4/9/2014

When life hands you plums, make plum-ade.. oh no, that's Lemons. Scrap that. When life gives you a surplus of plums make this - my Open Plum Tart, laced with Almonds and Apricot. You'll need:

300g Shortcrust Pastry
450g Plums
60g Ground Almonds
30g Flaked Almonds
75g Demerara Sugar
90g Apricot Jam
1 Egg

Pecan Pastries

5/5/2014

These are a quick-turn-around treat/breakfast when friends pop by. Use ready-made pastry as life is too short to make puff-pastry, IMO. Now these aren't sweet, they're deliciously buttery with a salty undercurrent... I'll admit, t usually takes me a couple of mouthfuls to remember why I like them, but then they're moreish!! For a dozen you'll need:

2 Packets of puff pastry
170g Soft Brown Sugar (in 2x85g portions)
40g White Sugar
100g Pecans (Halves ideally)
190g Butter (160g of it softened, the other 30g will be melted)
1/2 tsp salt

Almond Pastries

Nutella Pastry

Sweet Potato Pie

Tomato Tarte Tatin

Apple Caramel Roses

Cranberry Mince Parcels

Camembert & Cranberry Parcels

Cheat's Mille-feuille

Cherry & Pear Pie

Open Plum Tart

Pecan Pastries

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