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Chocolate Orange Truffles
200g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped (or 200g if you use my method) 1/4 cup thickened cream 1 tablespoon orange juice 1 teaspoon orange rind Step 1 Combine 200g chocolate and cream in a heatproof, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on medium (50%) for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring every minute with a metal spoon, or until melted and smooth. Stir in orange juice and rind. Cover. Refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours or until firm. Step 2 Line a tray with baking paper. Using 2 teaspoons of chocolate mixture at a time, roll into balls. Step 3 Sift cocoa into a shallow dish. Roll balls in cocoa to coat. Place on prepared tray. Refrigerate until firm. |
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Basic Truffles
200g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped 1/3 cup thickened cream 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 cup cocoa powder Step 1 Combine chocolate and cream in a heatproof, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on medium (50%) for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring every minute with a metal spoon, or until melted and smooth. Stir in vanilla. Cover. Refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours or until firm. Step 2 Line a tray with baking paper. Using 2 teaspoons of chocolate mixture at a time, roll into balls. Step 3 Sift cocoa into a shallow dish. Roll balls in cocoa to coat. Place on prepared tray. Refrigerate until firm. I like to add some icing sugar to the coco to sweeten it |
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Ingredients
3 cups almond meal (ground almonds) 2 cups pure icing sugar, sifted 2 eggwhites 1 large orange, rind finely grated 1/4 teaspoon almond essence 24 cloves Method 1. Step 1 Preheat oven to 160°C. Line 2 flat baking trays with baking paper. 2. Step 2 Combine almond meal and 1/2 cup icing sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre. Add eggwhites, orange rind and almond essence. Using your hands, mix until dough comes together in a smooth ball. Roll walnut-sized pieces of mixture into 24 small pear shapes. Insert 1 clove (stem side up) into top of each pear. 3. Step 3 Place almond pears upright, 5cm apart, on prepared trays. Bake, 1 tray at a time, on lowest shelf in oven for 20 minutes or until firm to touch. Place remaining 1 1/2 cups icing sugar in a deep, small bowl. Dip hot almond pears, 1 at a time, into icing sugar and turn to coat. Return almond pears to warm tray. Dust heavily with remaining icing sugar. Allow to cool on trays. 4. Step 4 Place almond pears in small paper cases before packing in a gift box. |
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Shortbread
225g Plain flour, sifted 115g Rice flour, sifted 115g castor sugar, sifted 1 pinch of salt 225g butter, at room temperature 1/2tsp Vanilla extract 1. Preheat an oven to 150C. 2. Grease a baking tray or lamington tin 3. Combine flour, rice flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. 4. Add vanilla and mix well 5. Rub in butter and knead gentle until a smooth dough forms 6. Either transfer to a floured surface and use a cookie cutter or shape as desired, press into the lamington tin (my method) or shape into a round shape about the size of a small pizza (traditional method) 7. Bake in the oven for 40min until golden brown. 8. While still warm cut into bars (lamington tin) or pizza wedges. 9. Cool |
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"Magic" Cookie Bars. They may not be a traditional Christmas recipe, and it came from the label on a can of sweetened condensed milk, but my family makes them every year at Christmas.
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Some of the recipes I use as gifts over christmas. The shortbread is of the rice flour packet. The other ecipes are off the internet (Taste.com) and adapted a little.
I usually insert a macadamia or hazlenut into the centre of the plain chocolate truffles. The recipe I use suggests using the same amount of chocolate and coating the formed tuffles in chocolate. I have never brothered to do this. |
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Do Australians really call shortbread petticoat tails "pizza wedges"?
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No that is purely how I described what I do, mostly because I baked it on a pizza tray.
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![]() I made brownies, applesauce cake and ciabella (Italian anise cake) for my open house. I also make a pumpkin chiffon pie for holidays. I do not, however, have any of the recipes at my fingertips (I'm old fashioned; they're all on paper). Seaboe |
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My recipes are also on paper. At first they were in a food magazine I buy, which I can no longer find. So I googles choc truffle recipes...and printed them out. ![]() I should add the recipe say good quality dark chocolate, but I just use the store brand dark chocolate |
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Are there any good holiday-related vegetarian entrees? I can make a veg dish easily, but I don't know if there's a dish that veg*ns customarily eat.
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