Savoury pinwheel scones by Frances

June 6, 2013

This recipe is from Gran’s Sweet Pantry by Natalie Oldfield (HarperCollins, 2013). I didn’t have cream cheese or parmesan on hand so I used a bit of sour cream, pesto and brie.

3 c self-raising flour

½ tsp salt

50g butter

½ c grated parmesan

1 ½ c milk

250g cream cheese

1 Tbs capers, chopped

1 c rocket, chopped

200g hot smoked salmon

Preheat oven to 210C. Line a baking tray or cake tin with baking paper.
Sift flour and salt into a bow. Rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in cheese and enough milk to make a firm, moist dough. Turn out dough on a floured surface and roll into a square about 25 x 25cm.

Mix the cream cheese and capers in a bowl and beat until soft. Spread over the dough, followed by the rocket and salmon. Roll up to form a long. Cut into 5 rounds and place on tray or tin, arranged in a circle.

Bake for 20-25 min.

 

Frances’s rosewater chocolate cake

June 6, 2013

I made this cake for Tui’s first birthday. It’s adapted from Julie Le Clerc’s Favourite Cakes (Penguin, 2011). She decorated hers with crystallised rose petals – fancy – but I just did ganache for another chocolate hit.

125g butter, really really softened

1 c caster sugar

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1 c sour cream

1 Tbs rosewater

1 c self-raising flour

¼ tsp baking powder

½ c cocoa

filling:

200g marscapone

¼ c pouring cream

¼ c icing sugar

½ tsp v...


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Frances's feijoa coconut loaf

May 27, 2013

I made these for my sister's birthday. One has lemon icing and one has chocolate - both good! It is Susan Fleichl's recipe in A Treasury of New Zealand Baking (Random House, 2009). What a delicious way to use the hordes of feijoas we get in autumn. I like that it uses oil instead of butter and you just mix it all together.

460g flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
pinch salt
3 eggs
420 g caster sugar
330ml vegetable oil
30ml vanilla essence
125ml buttermilk (I used yoghurt)
1 1/2 c feijoas, peel...
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Frances makes ciabatta

May 22, 2013

I had such success with a loaf of ciabatta this weekend I made another one the day after. The recipe is from Alessandra Zecchini’s Savour (New Holland, 2006). Such an easy recipe and I didn’t even get my hands doughy.

300ml warm water

2 tsp active yeast granules

¼ tsp sugar

300g flour

pinch salt

Place water in bowl with yeast and sugar. After yeast starts to bubble, about 5 mins, add flour and salt and mix into a dough. (It is very sticky and runny so I just use a...


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Happy feijoas!

May 21, 2013

Feijoa with smiley faces - you gotta love it!

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Apricot shortcake by Mama Chan

May 21, 2013

1 c flour
100g butter
1/4 c sugar
1 egg
3 c stewed dried apricots or fresh apricots

Preheat oven to 180C. Line a sponge roll cake tin with baking paper.
Sift flour, cut in butter and mix in until it resembles breadcrumbs.Stir in sugar and egg. Form a stiff dough.
Press half of the dough into the tin. Cover with apricot filling. Crumble the rest of dough over the top.
Bake for about 30 min or until the bottom layer is cooked through. You might need to cover the top with foil for an extra few min of ba...
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Triple chocolate cookies by Frances

May 19, 2013

This is Nigella's evily good recipe for her Totally chocolate chocolate chip cookies. I have never made anything with three types of chocolate before. Seems so indulgent but just what the mental health doctor ordered on a rainy day with a hot cuppa and a lie down.
I always use less sugar than Nigella in all her recipes.

125 grams ...
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Frances's chocolate-coffee cake

May 14, 2013

This is called Superb Chocolate Cake by Robyn Martin in A Treasury of New Zealand Baking (Random House, 2009). I like it because it a one-pot cake.

125g butter
3/4 c sugar
2 eggs
1 c milk
2 c flour
1/2 c cocoa
4 tsp baking powder

coffee syrup
1/2 c strong black coffee
1/2 c sugar
25g butter

Preheat oven to 180C. Line base of 20cm round cake tin.
Melt butter in a large saucepan. Mix in sugar then remove from heat. Beat eggs and milk together. Sift flour, cocoa and BP and add to butter mixture with egg-milk...
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Ginny's feijoa clafoutis

May 1, 2013

I adapted the recipe from the feijoa tart recipe I found here:
http://feijoafeijoa.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/feijoa-tart/

2 large eggs
150g white sugar
100g butter
zest of 1 lime (or more to taste)
approx 1.5cm piece of fresh ginger, grated (less or more to taste)
150 ml milk
175g flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
enough sliced fruit to cover the surface of the tart - I just topped the feijoas and cut them in half. Leaving the skins on gives a tartness to the final tart (apt, in this case!)
  1. Whisk...

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Coffee ghost

April 29, 2013

Just thought I'd throw in this cool 'ghost showing his guns' that appeared on top of a delicious latte from Cereal Killa in Dominion Rd, Auckland. Their mochaccinos are also excellent as well as their mushrooms on toast, beetroot, walnut salad, eggs bene...

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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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