Desires of a foodaholic
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Monday 29 February 2016
Been wondering where we are? we are still here! we have just changed to a different site.
We are now Desiresofthefoodaholics.com
All our recipes including all these old ones are over there with snazzy new pictures.. See you over there!!
Monday 26 October 2015
The most wanted Bakewell tart
For the shortcrust pastry
- 175g plain flour
- 75g butter
- 2-3 tbsp cold water
- 1tsp orange zest
For the filling
- 1 tbsp raspberry jam
- 125g butter
- 130g caster sugar
- 125g ground almonds
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp almond extract
For the topping
- 80g icing sugar
- 2½ tsp cold water
- 10 raspberries
Directions :
1. To make the pastry, put the flour into a bowl and rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the water, and orange zest and mix to form a soft dough.
2. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface and use to line a 20cm tart tin. Leave in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
3. Preheat the oven to 200c.
4. Line the pastry case with baking paper and fill with baking beans or rice. Bake blind for about 15 minutes, then remove the beans and baking paper and cook for a further five minutes to make the base slightly dry.
5. For the filing, spread the base of the tart generously with raspberry jam.
6. Melt the butter in a pan, and then stir in the sugar off the heat. Add ground almonds, egg and almond extract. Pour into the tin.
7. Bake for about 35 minutes.
8. Meanwhile, sift the icing sugar into a bowl. Stir in cold water.
9. Once you have removed the tart from the oven, drizze the icing over the top, giving an messy effect and arrange the raspberries around the outside.
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Our Taste Testing Afternoon Tea
I know cinnamon buns can be time consuming, and maybe a little bit boring to make, but the result is surely worth it!
Simple steps
Very fun to make
A little messy... but lets be honest a little mess is pretty
Fool proof!!
Ingredients
For the Dough
- 1000 g plain flour
- 4 tsp dry yeast
- 150 g soft brown sugar
- 400 ml milk
- 4 large eggs
- 150 g softened butter
For the Filling
- 280 g dark brown sugar
- 5 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 100 g butter
Directions
Sunday 4 October 2015
Now Selling Our Unique Cupcakes
Yes! That's right, we are now selling a few of our favourite cupcakes in our local area of Buckinghamshire!
The choices are
- The Christmas Treat
- Red Velvet
-Sunbathe in Malibu
-Chocoholic Heaven
-Cookies and cream
- Vanilla Galaxy
- Lemon Drizzle
- Blackberry
-Childhoods Dream
For the first 4 customers that contact us they will get a batch of 6 cupcakes for free!! For the others the price list is below.
Price List
Individual - £2.50Batch of 4- £7.50
Batch of 6 - £10
Batch of 12 - £15
Batch of 24 - £25
Contact Email - Desiresofthefoodaholics@gmail.com