Browsing Archive: July, 2012

Ginny's wholemeal scones

Posted by Bake Club on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, In : small cakes 

Ginny, Bake Club star, made a gazillion things for her and Dave's farewell drinks (see ginger chew, Belgian biscuits, rhubarb snacking cake and raspberry buttermilk cake). They're in NYC for 6 months now!
Ginny sent in this recipe while she was at the airport - what a trooper.

Wholemeal Buttermilk Lemon Scones
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut int...
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Raspberry yoghurt muffins by Frances

Posted by Bake Club on Saturday, July 28, 2012, In : small cakes 

I adapted this from a loaf recipe. You can put this batter in any size tin, really. I like the tanginess the yoghurt adds to the mix.

cooking oil spray

1 cup frozen raspberries

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs, lightly beaten

3/4 cup low-fat vanilla yoghurt

1 3/4 cups self-raising flour

1/3 cup ground almonds

 

Preheat oven to 180ºC. Spray an 11x21cm loaf pan or 12 muffin tins/cases with cooking oil. Line the base and two long opposite sides with n...


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John's speculaas cookies

Posted by Bake Club on Thursday, July 12, 2012, In : cookies 

John made these fantastic dutch spice cookies for Dave and Ginny's farewell drinks. They're going to New York, hence the DGNY decoration. Very creative.

John's recipe below:
Speculaas spice mix 6.5 g ground cinnamon 2g ground cloves 1.5 g grated nutmeg 1 g ground white pepper 2 g ground aniseed (from star anise) 1g ginger powder 1/2 g cardamon powder these quantities are critical and should be interfered with and changed at will in a wildly uncontrolled manner

Specu...
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Ginny's ginger chew (not crunch)

Posted by Bake Club on Monday, July 9, 2012, In : slices 

I am a huge fan of an old-fashioned crunchy, thinly-iced ginger crunch.
This recipe isn't like that. It's a bit like a mix between a ginger crunch and an Anzac biscuit (which isn't a bad thing) so I have called it a ginger chew! It's from a cafe in Golden Bay.

Oaty Ginger Chew
150g butter
2 Tbsp golden syrup
3/4C brown sugar
3/4C coconut (I used dessicated)
1 1/2C rolled oats
3/4C flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp ground ginger

icing
4 Tbsp butter
8 Tbsp icing sugar
4 Tbsp golden syrup
2 tsp gr...
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Chocolate swirl cheesecake by Frances

Posted by Bake Club on Sunday, July 8, 2012, In : desserts 

This recipe is from the Food Channel programme The Sugar Club with Dean Brettschneider and Julia Crownshaw. They added 25g brown sugar to the base, which I did not. Anyway, mine turned out really well. Super with yoghurt.

 

200g gingernuts
65g butter
1 tsp ginger
450 cream cheese
150g caster sugar
30g cornflour
2 eggs, 1 extra yolk
200g sour cream
1 Tbs lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla paste
100g chocolate

 

Method

Turn oven to 200°C. Line an 18cm-20cm springform tin with bak...


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Ginny's Belgian biscuits

Posted by Bake Club on Friday, July 6, 2012, In : cookies 

I made these with some left-over gingerbread men dough... this is a basic recipe from taste.com.
I iced them with an icing made with plum powder (natural colour, and nice flavour!)
  • Melted butter, to grease
  • 125g butter, at room temperature
  • 100g (1/2 cup, firmly packed) brown sugar
  • 125ml (1/2 cup) golden syrup
  • 1 egg, separated
  • 375g (2 1/2 cups) plain flour
  • 1 tbs ground ginger
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • Plain flour, to dust
  • 1 cup pure icing sugar, sifted
  • Plum p...

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Frances's carrot pulp crackers

Posted by Bake Club on Wednesday, July 4, 2012, In : savoury 

OK, these aren't baked, they're dried raw in the dehydrator. It's my new favourite thing. This excellent recipe is adapted from the Foods for Long Life blog. All this time I've been chucking the pulp from my juicer, now I'm freezing it to use later in crackers or baking.
There are 2 batches of crackers pictured here. I used carrot pulp in one and carrot/beetroot/apple in the other.


makes 60 crackers

1/2 cup flaxseeds
1 cup room temperature water

1/2 cup sunflower seeds, soake...


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Ginny's rhubarb snacking cake

Posted by Bake Club on Monday, July 2, 2012, In : big cakes 

Another delight from Smitten Kitchen (http://smittenkitchen.com/2012/05/rhubarb-snacking-cake/) - how can you resist a name like that. It is a bit like a shortcake, and I found it a bit dryer than I would usually like in a cake (good with yoghurt, cream or ice-cream!) but I also made it in a slightly smaller tin than they recommend, so it cooked longer.
I would probably add a bit more sour cream (or yoghurt) to the mix, but here's her original... (sorry about the US temps etc)

Cake
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Frances C loves to bake. She's also a freelance editor and DJ. She shares some of her adventures, culinary or otherwise, on Instagram.


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