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Cakes, Slices and Biscuits
M
OCHA
C
ARROT
C
AKE
C
Makes: 23 cm ring pan
Ingredients:
1 cup
self-raising
fl
our
½ teaspoon
bicarbonate of soda
½ cup
caster sugar
½ cup
crushed pineapple
1 cup
grated carrot
¾ cup
chopped pecans
60
g
chocolate
2 eggs
⅓
cup
oil
Icing:
60
g
cream
cheese
20
g
butter
1½ cups
icing sugar
1 tablespoon
lemon juice
¼ cup
chopped pecans
Method:
Grease a 23 cm ring pan. In a large bowl place
fl
our,
bicarbonate of soda, sugar, pineapple, carrot and
pecan nuts. Place chocolate into a small bowl and
cook on 800 W for 1 to 1½ minutes, stir halfway
through cooking.
Add chocolate, eggs, and oil to
fl
our mixture and mix
until well combined. Pour into prepared pan. Preheat
oven to CONVECTION 180 °C. Afther preheated,
put enamel shelf in lower shelf position, cook for 40
minutes. Beat together all icing ingredients except
pecan nuts. Spread icing over cooled cake and
sprinkle with pecan nuts.
C
HOCOLATE AND
C
OFFEE
T
RUFFLES
Makes: Approximately 24
Ingredients:
1 cup
icing sugar
4 tablespoons
cocoa
1 tablespoon
instant coffee powder
60
g
plain sweet biscuits, crushed
60
g
copha
1 teaspoon
vanilla essence
½ cup
condensed milk
chocolate
sprinkles
Method:
Sift icing sugar, cocoa and coffee into a bowl. Add
biscuits and mix until well combined. Place copha in a
small bowl and cook on 1000 W for 1½ to 2 minutes.
Cool copha slightly and add to dry ingredients. Mix
well. Add vanilla and condensed milk, combine until
mixture is thick. Chill for 30 minutes. Pinch off pieces
to form balls slightly smaller than a walnut shell. Roll
in chocolate sprinkles and chill.
S
WISS
R
OLL
C
Serves: 8
Ingredients:
3
medium eggs, beaten
125
g
caster
sugar
125
g
plain
fl
our
Filling:
jam or cream
icing sugar to dredge
Method:
Whisk eggs and sugar together in a heatproof bowl
until pale and creamy, and mixture leaves a trail on
the surface when the whisk is lifted. Carefully fold in
half of the sifted
fl
our, and then fold in the other half.
Fold in 15 ml of hot water. Tip the tin to allow mixture
to run into corners. Preheat oven on Convection
200 °C with wire shelf in lower shelf position. Place
tin on wire shelf and cook on Convection 200 °C
for 10 mins. Place sheet of greaseproof paper on a
damp tea towel and dredge paper with caster sugar.
Quickly turn the Swiss roll out onto the greaseproof
and carefully remove the baking parchment. Spread
with jam or desired
fi
lling. Roll up from short side with
the aid of the greaseproof paper. Dredge with icing
sugar.
C
HOCOLATE
F
UDGE
P
UDDING
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
100
g
self-raising
fl
our
100
g
caster
sugar
pinch of salt
25
g
cocoa or drinking chocolate
50
g
margarine
1 egg,
beaten
5 ml
vanilla essence
60 ml
milk
Sauce:
100
g
soft brown sugar
25
g
cocoa or drinking chocolate
150 ml
hot water
Method:
Place
fl
our, sugar, salt and cocoa into a mixing bowl.
Melt margarine in a small dish on 600 W for 40 secs
- 1 minute or until melted. Add melted margarine to
fl
our, along with egg, vanilla essence and milk. Beat
well. Pour mixture into souf
fl
e dish. Mix together
brown sugar and cocoa and sprinkle over mixture.
Pour over hot water and cook on 1000 W for 5 - 6
minutes or until set on top. The pudding will separate
on cooking, giving a chocolate fudge sauce at the
bottom.
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