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LEMON DELICIOUS

LEMON DELICIOUS

Lost my Lemon Delicious recipe recently and had to test a few recipes out to match my old recipe.

One of the easiest dessert recipes to make and perfect to make with the kids.

Served either hot or cold this recipe is sure to be a hit with family or friends.Best served with whipped cream or ice-cream.

Keeps for 3 to 4 days in the fridge after baking.

Enjoy!!

 

INGREDIENTS:

150g unsalted butter, melted
Finely grated lemon rind from 2 medium sized lemons (360gms approx)
Juice from 2 lemons
1.5 cups caster sugar
3/4 cup self-raising flour, sifted
1.5 cups milk
4 eggs, separated

METHOD:

1.Preheat oven to 180°C/ Grease six 1 cup-capacity ovenproof dishes with butter.

2 Place butter, lemon rind, lemon juice, sugar, flour, milk and egg yolks in a bowl. Whisk to combine.

3.Using an electric mixer, beat egg-whites on high speed until soft peaks form. Using a metal spoon, fold one-quarter of the egg white into lemon mixture. Gently fold in remaining egg white.

4.Spoon mixture into prepared dishes. Place dishes in a large baking dish. Pour boiling water into baking dish until halfway up sides of smaller dishes. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden and just set.Leave to cool in pan for 30 minutes before removing from ovenproof dishes.

Dust with icing sugar. Serve.

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Chocolate, Prune and Port Upside down Cake

Chocolate, Prune and Port Upside Cake

This is a lovely moist cake, deep chocolate flavor with an almost brownie like texture with the added treat of those port soaked prunes.

Perfect with a little dollop of thick cream and some extra port soaked prunes as garnish.For best results ,eat on day of baking or serve warm.

You might be thinking there’s nothing luxurious about prunes but these prunes have been soaked overnight in port turning them into deliciously soft  boozy pockets of joy.Enjoy!!

INGREDIENTS:

350 grams whole prunes or 285 gm pitted prunes
1 cup of Port
250 grams unsalted butter, cubed
250 grams dark chocolate, roughly chopped (good quality)
4 eggs, separated
100 grams raw castor sugar
100 grams soft brown sugar
50 grams plain flour
50 grams almond meal

METHOD:

Pit whole prunes by slicing length-ways halfway and removing stone carefully and then reshaping back to natural prune shape.
Place the prunes in a small bowl and pour in port to soak into the prunes. Seal and store in the fridge overnight.

Next day, carefully pick the prunes from the liquid, and lay them out on paper towels and cover with another sheet of paper towel and set to one

side.

1.Preheat oven to 170C.Put the butter and chocolate into a heatproof bowl and place it over a pot of gently simmering water. Give it a little

stir when you see it starting to melt and when it is almost totally melted, remove from the heat and stir until smooth. Let this cool a little

before proceeding.

2.Place the egg yolks, caster sugar and brown sugar into a bowl and whisk until light and creamy. Pour in the cooled chocolate mix and stir well

3. sift together the plain flour and almond meal and add to the bowl, folding this in until evenly distributed.

4.In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites until thick (firm peak stage). Take a large spoonful and add to the cake mix – stir this in to slacken

the mixture. Add in the rest of the egg whites, folding it through gently.

5.Line the base of a 22cm/23cm cake tin (either spring-form or removable base works best) and butter the sides.Layer prunes in a symmetrical

pattern and then cover with the cake mix.

6.Place in a preheated 170°C oven and cook until set but still slightly soft in the middle.This will take about 45 minutes.

7.Let the cake cool in the tin for about 30 minutes and using a palette knife, run it along the sides to loosen the cake from the tin. Remove the

tin but let the cake cool completely before trying to place it on your serving dish.

 

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Christmas puddings with Muscat Custard

Christmas puddings with Muscat Custard

If you haven’t had time to make a Christmas cake this year,this recipe is the next best thing.
These rich and opulent Xmas puddings make a great gift once made and wrapped nicely.
You can reheat the pudding(s) the same way you cooked it by reheating in a steamer for 90 minutes.
This recipe is designed for 1 large pudding but will make these in 5/6 smaller pudding moulds.
Once cooked these puddings will last 1 month in refrigerator.
Serve with muscat custard, fresh raspberries, icing sugar and holly leaves for the ultimate Xmas day pudding!

Merry Christmas and safe and a Happy new year to you all!

INGREDIENTS:

300GM PITTED PRUNES (FINELY CHOPPED)
150GM CURRANTS
150GMS RAISINS
150GM DRIED CRANBERRIES
150GM PITTED FRESH DATES (FINELY CHOPPED)
100GM OF ALMONDS (FINELY CHOPPED)
100GM OF CANDIED ORANGE PEEL (FINELY CHOPPED)
1 ORANGE (JUICED AND FINELY GRATED RIND)
125ML MUSCAT
60ML GRAND MARNIER OR COINTREAU
60GM QUINCE PASTE (FINELY CHOPPED)

250GM OF SOFTENED UNSALTED BUTTER (GIRGAR BUTTER PREFERRED)
250GM BROWN SUGAR
3 LARGE EGGS
200GM FINE SOURDOUGH BREADCRUMBS
1 CUP OF PLAIN FLOUR
150ML OF MILK
2 TSP CINNAMON
2 TSP MIXED SPICE
1/2 TEASPOON OF BICARBONATE SODA

1.5 CUPS OF POURING CREAM
75ML MILK
1 VANILLA BEAN, SEEDS SCRAPED
6 EGG YOLKS
110GM CASTER SUGAR
150ML MUSCAT.

METHOD:

1. COMBINE PRUNES,CURRANTS,RAISINS,CRANBERRIES,DATES,ALMONDS,CANDIED ORANGE PEEL AND ORANGE RIND IN A BOWL.
2.COMBINE ORANGE JUICE,MUSCAT,GRAND MARNIER AND QUINCE PASTE IN A SMALL SAUCEPAN, STIR OVER LOW HEAT UNTIL QUINCE PASTE IS MELTED (5MINUTES) AND THEN POUR DRIED FRUIT MIXTURE AND MIX.
3.COVER WITH A LID OR PLASTIC WRAP AND LET STAND FOR A MINIMUM OF 4 HOURS.FOR BEST RESULTS LET STAND OVERNIGHT.
4.WHEN READY TO MAKE PUDDINGS, BEAT BUTTER AND SUGAR IN AN ELECTRIC MIXER UNTIL LIGHT AND FLUFFY, ADD EGGS ONE AT A TIME,BEATING VERY WELL AFTER EACH EGG AND THAN TRANSFER TO A VERY LARGE BOWL.
5.ADD BREADCRUMBS, FLOUR,MILK ,SPICES, BICARBONATE OF SODAS,AND 1/2 TEASPOON SALT AND STIR IN DRIED FRUIT MIXTURE TO COMBINE.
6.SPOON MIXTURE INTO EITHER A 2.5 LITRE PUDDING MOULD OR 5 X 500GM PUDDING MOULDS.
7.SECURE WITH 2 LAYERS OF FOIL WITH 1 LAYER OF BAKING PAPER CLOSEST TO THE PUDDING MIXTURE.
8.PLACE PUDDING(S) IN A LARGE SAUCEPAN AND FILL WITH ENOUGH HOT WATER TO REACH BELOW THE RIM.
9.COVER COMPLETELY WITH LID OR FOIL AND LET SIMMER OVER LOW HEAR FOR 5 HOURS.KEEP ADDING HOT WATER AS NEEDED.DON’T NOT LET WATER DRY OUT!
10.ONCE FINISHED COOKING LET PUDDINGS COOL IN BASIN OF WATER FOR 30 MINUTES BEFORE REMOVING.

TO MAKE THE CUSTARD, BRING THE CREAM,MILK, VANILLA BEAN AMD VANILLA SEEDS TO THE SIMMER IN A SAUCEPAN OVER MEDIUM HEAT.
WHISK YOLKS AND SUGAR IN A HEATPROOF BOWL UNTIL THICK AND PALE THEN POUR OVER CREAM MIXTURE WHISKING CONTINUOUSLY, RETURN TO PAN AND CONTINUE COOKING UNTIL COATS BACK OF WOODEN SPOON (3-4 MINUTES), STRAIN, ADD MUSCAT AND SET ASIDE. EITHER SERVE WARM OR CHILLED.

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Coconut Rice Pudding with Poached Rhubarb

Coconut rice pudding with poached Rhubarb

Winter has brought out the favorite winter desserts back to the fore as we look for old fashioned desserts to keep us warm at night.
This rice pudding is not baked as per many other recipes but has many different flavors to keep this old favorite interesting.
Worth searching for the coconut sugar in health food shops and Asian grocers as it adds an immense flavor which compliments the rice and the poached rhubarb.Also great served with extra cream and ice cream….Enjoy!!

INGREDIENTS:

500ML OF COCONUT MILK
500ML OF POURING CREAM
150GM OF ARBORIO RICE (RINSED)
1 STAR ANISE
80GM OF CASTER SUGAR
80FM OF COCONUT SUGAR
3 EGG YOLKS

POACHED RHUBARB:
450GM OF RHUBARB (1 BUNCH) (WASHED,TRIMMED,PEELED AND CUT INTO 5CMS LENGTHS)
75GMS OF CASTER SUGAR
75GMS OF COCONUT SUGAR
1 VANILLA BEAN,SPLIT AND SEEDS REMOVED
1 STAR ANISE

METHOD:
1.Bring coconut milk, cream,rice and star anise to the simmer in a saucepan over a medium heat and stirring continuously until rice is soft (15-20 minutes)
2.Whisk sugars and yolks in a bowl until creamy and pale (5 minutes)and add to rice mixture and continue cooking for another 5 minutes stirring continuously and then remove from heat to cool slightly.
3.To poach the rhubarb, put rhubarb, sugars and vanilla seeds in a bowl and mix and then transfer to a deep pot.
4.Add the star anise, excess vanilla pod and 50ml of water and stir gently over medium heat until the sugar dissolves.
5.Bring to the simmer, cover with a lid and cook until rhubarb is just tender (5 minutes). Uncover and let cool.
6.Serve portion of rice pudding into your bowls and top with warm rhubarb and syrup and drizzle extra coconut cream and sugar to finish.

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Lumberjack cake - Cheffing Around

Old fashioned Lumberjack Cake

People enjoy and ask for old fashioned cake recipes like Grandma used to make.
This cake is perfect for all age groups and freezes very well.
Great recipe for adjustments as you can add more apple, or less dates depending on your taste.Great with almanac soaked dates or prunes.
Enjoy!!

Lumberjack cake - Cheffing Around

Cheffing Around Recipe of the month for March 2015 is the old fashioned Lumberjack Cake

Ingredients – Cake

  • 1 Egg
  • 2 Large Granny Smiths Apples (400 grams) peeled and finely chopped
  • 180 grams Chopped Dates
  • 225 grams Caster Sugar
  • 190 grams Plain Flour
  • 1 Teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
  • 125 gram Butter
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 2 Vanilla pods, split into two and seed removed

Ingredients – topping

  • 70 grams Unsalted Butter
  • 175 grams Brown Sugar
  • 185 ml Milk
  • 200 grams Threaded or Shredded Coconut

Method – cake

  1. Butter a 24 cm spring form round cake tin and line bottom with grease proof paper
  2. Pre-heat oven to 170C
  3. Combine the apples, dates, bicarbonate of soda and the boiling water in a bowl and let stand
  4. Beat the softened butter and vanilla essence, vanilla seeds and sugar with an electric mixer until it's light and creamy
  5. Add Egg and beat until well combined
  6. Slowly add the sifted flour to the Apple mixture
  7. Mix all together and transfer to cake tin
  8. Bake for 40 minutes at 170C

Method – Topping

  1. Mix butter, milk, sugar in a saucepan and stir over a low heat until the butter and sugar is melted
  2. Set aside until the cake is read

Method – Combine and complete

  1. After 40 minutes baking, remove cake from oven and spread the topping and then bake for a further 20 - 25 minutes until the topping goes golden brown
  2. Cool cake completely in cake tin before removing
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Upside down Quince and Ricotta Cake

There is a late season run of Quinces at the moment and this cake is an amazing way to showcase their wonderful flavors, texture and color.
This cake can be kept in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 5 days and best eaten warm with double cream and a drizzle of fresh quince syrup..Enjoy!!

quincecake

Ingredients – Pouching Quince

  • 4 Quinces (aprox 1.5 kg)
  • 5 pieces of Orange peel
  • 6 cups water
  • 650 gram Castor sugar
  • 2 Cinnamon sticks

Method – Pouching Quince

  1. Rub ,wash and core the quinces.
  2. Dissolve the sugar over low heat and then add all the rest of the ingredients.
  3. Simmer slowly for approximately 2-3 hours, or until the quinces change to a crimson red color.
  4. Carefully drain the quinces and preserve all of the poaching syrup into a container altogether in an sealed container.

Ingredients – cake

  • 3 eggs
  • 170 grams Castor Sugar
  • 1/2 cup of Ricotta
  • 230 grams Self Raising Flour
  • 175 grams Melted Butter
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Vanilla Essence

Method – cake

  1. Simmer about 3/4 cup of the poached quince syrup, until it is reduced to about 1/2 cup.Preheat oven to 160C.
  2. Using a mixer, beat eggs and sugar for 10 minutes, or until the mixture is thick.Add vanilla essence.
  3. Pour the melted butter in next and then folds in the sifted flour alternately with the ricotta.
  4. Using a 22cm cake tin, well buttered and with the bottom-lined, place the poached quince in concentric circles.
  5. Drizzle over the 1/2 cup of reduced quince syrup.
  6. Using a spoon, spread the batter over the carefully placed quince and bake at 160C and bake for about 1 hour.Test with a skewer.
  7. Let cool for 30 minutes before serving onto a serving plate and serve slightly warm with double thick cream and a drizzle of the spare quince sugar syrup.
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Mango Cake - Cheffing Around

Upside Down Mango and Lemon Cake

This time of year Mangoes are in abundance and affordable.This cake is best eaten of the day it is cooked either hot or cold. Serve with double cream and some fresh mango for nice contrast. Enjoy!!

Mango Cake - Cheffing Around

This time of year Mangoes are in abundance and affordable.This cake is best eaten of the day it is cooked either hot or cold. Serve with double cream and some fresh mango for nice contrast. Enjoy!!

Ingredients

  • 2 large Mangoes
  • 340 gram softened butter
  • 340 gram castor sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 240 gram of self raising flour
  • 2 tablespoons baking powder
  • 90 gram ground almonds
  • zest of 4 lemons
  • 2 tablespoons of lemons

Glaze

  • 1/2 cup of lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup of caster sugar
  • 6 tablespoons of water

Method

  1. Butter and line a 28 cm spring form tin.Preheat oven to 180C
  2. Peel and slice mango into wedges and arrange on the base of your cake tin
  3. Beat the butter and sugar until light and creamy.
  4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  5. Sift the flour and baking powder together and fold into butter mixture, alternately with the ground almonds, zest and juice.
  6. Pour the mixture over the mangoes and bake at 180C for 40 minutes.
  7. Reduce the temperature to 150C and bake for an additional 25 minutes.Check that it is cooked by inserting a metal skewer: you will know it is cooked when the skewer comes out clean.
  8. Leave to cool for 30 minutes before inverting on to your cake plate.
  9. To make Glaze, combine the lemon juice, sugar and water in a saucepan and stir over a gentle heat until the sugar dissolves.Bring to the boil, without stirring, until the syrup has thickened.This will usually take about 5 minutes.Using a pastry brush, brush over the top of the cake.

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Rich Fruit Cake

This cake recipe is perfect for a wedding cake or a decorated Christmas cake. We are currently decorating 3 different cakes for Xmas and we will post pictures of the finished products once ready!
From all the staff at Cheffing Around we would like to wish you all a very merry Xmas and a bright and prosperous 2014!

Wedding Cake - Cheffing Around

Wedding cake by Cheffing Around managing director Adrian Grant

The fruit mix – ingredients

  • 2.25 kg Sultanas
  • 600 gram Fruit Peel
  • 750 gram Dried Apricots (chopped)
  • 750 gram Prunes (chopped)
  • 600 gram Currants
  • 600 gram Walnuts (chopped)
  • 750 gram Raisins
  • 600 gram Glazed Cherries (chopped)
  • 600 gram Tinned Pineapple (chopped)
  • 3 grated apples
  • 3 carrots (grated)
  • 6 cups Brown Sugar
  • 3 Tea Spoons Cinnamon
  • 3 Tea Spoons Nutmeg
  • 3 Tea Spoons Mixed Spice
  • 6 Table spoons Honey
  • 2.25 cups Sherry
  • 2.25 cups Port

Tip: Dried fruit best purchased at a Cash and Carry as we found this reduces the cost of the cake.

The fruit mix – Method

Marinate all the ingredients in a very large bowl (45 cm) for at least a week covered with 2 layers of glad wrap. You need to stir this up every day during this period.

The cake – Ingredients

  • 1.25 kg of Girgar butter (melted)
  • 18 eggs (beaten)
  • 8.25 cups plain flour (sifted)
  • 3 cups self raising flour (sifted)
  • 3 spring form cake tins (1 x 24 cm, 1 x 26 cm, and 1 x 28 cm)

Note: This mixture will make 4 cakes as it's best to have a spare just in case, and you can always use the fourth for something else if not needed 🙂

The cake – Method

  1. Grease and line the three cake tins with baking paper.
  2. Mix the cake ingredients into the fruit mix making sure it's mixed well.
  3. Flatten with a fork
  4. Bake for 140 minutes at 145C and then finish of at 130C for 125 minutes or until the center is cooked and skewer comes out clean.
  5. Allow to cool in cake tin over night before removing from tin
  6. Wrap in foil once cold

The icing – Ingredients

  • 3 kg Royal Icing
  • 11 packets of 250 gram Marzipan
  • 1 kg of Apricot Jam

The icing – Method

  1. Fill in any holes in the cake with apricot jam to get a smooth surface
  2. Marzipan on top and sides till the cake is level, even and smooth
  3. Leave dry for 3 days
  4. Turn cake over and make a bridge for the bottom and make sure cake is level with sides and bottom (no gaps)
  5. Leave dry for a further 3 days
  6. Try and do these next steps (to step 11) in the early morning or late at night when the temperature is cooler to prevent cracking.
  7. Roll out Marzipan on dusted bench with icing sugar till about 1cm thick and will visibly cover the entire cake in one layer.
  8. Boil up 1 cup of apricot jam with a little water
  9. Brush entire cake with apricot jam / water mix
  10. Cover the cake from the top with the Marzipan using a pin to remove air bubbles.
  11. Gently ease the Marzipan down to the bottom of the cake and trim evenly at the base
  12. Repeat this for all three cakes
  13. Let dry for a week
  14. Repeat steps 6 through 13 but with the Royal Icing instead of the Marzipan. Remember this is the presentation layer so take extra care.
  15. Once dry, adhere cakes to a cake board using apricot jam as the glue

Stacking and Ribbons

  1. Measure circumference of the cake with ribbon
  2. Cut evenly
  3. Position ribbon using small pins with heads the same colour as the ribbon.
  4. Use pieces of thick wooden dowel for the stands
  5. Cut the dowel to length making sure each on is exactly same length
  6. Make a cross in the cake exactly where the stands will go
  7. Using a knife, make a cross fully inserted to the bottom of the cake and careful remove any excess cake
  8. Gently force the dowel into cake until the cake board is level and straight

You can use any decoration you like for the finished product. We used doves and some fresh African Lilies with stems removed as the centerpiece of the cake. Most cake shops have centerpieces to buy or order if you don't have the time to make it.

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