How’s this for an awesome winter treat?
By Angie McGowan over on The Family Kitchen
Click over to their blog for the full recipe, but remember: American tablespoons are only 15ml (not 20ml like in Australia). PROTIP: Use 3 teaspoons (i.e. 1 teaspoon = 5ml) for every tablespoon in the recipe.
So maybe you’ve had it up to pussy’s bow with royal wedding talk? But when I found the recipe of the supposed “alternative” wedding cake for Will and Kate’s big bash tomorrow, my eyes lit up like a Christmas tree.
I dare say this will be a dead-set easy cake to make and am off to the shops tonight to buy the necessary ingredients. NOM!
I was sent this alternative recipe, which I think I prefer (for no particular reason other than I like the way it’s written)
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This has to be THE best cookbook..EVER. Hardly surprising coming from Ikea though right? Not sure when, or if this will ever available in Australia..I hope so!
The Swedish cookbook Hembakat är Bäst which means homemade is best, is a collection of 30 recipes all with this wonderful styling.
The styling of the ingredients is just mind blowingly beautiful, like no other cookbook I’ve ever seen…I love it!
Photography was by Carl Kleiner.
Via craftzine
Mcdonald’s hotcakes…Mmmmm pancakes *insert drooling*
Ever wanted to recreate them at home? Well now you can!
I finally got around to trying this recipe on the weekend, it was very similar to my regular recipe..but some tweaking..and adding vanilla O M G they totes taste just like McDonald’s hotcakes!
Many thanks to the lovely Liss at Frills in the Hills, you should totes jump over and check out her other amazing recipes!
But..onto the pancakes..
What you’ll need….
2 cups plain flour
2 tb caster sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarb soda
1 tsp salt
600ml buttermilk (i.e. one carton)
80g butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggsMethod:
Put your buttermilk into your bowl. Then add your sifted dry ingredients and melt the butter. Beat with an electric mixer until the mix is fluffy.Please don’t tell me you need guided instructions on how to actually cook them?
I doubled the recipe, cause my lot are pancake pigs. Serve with butter and maple syrup, although my fave pancake topping is dulche de leche (or Top N Fill)
Don’t forget to check out Frills in the Hills, she even made her own oreos!
How good is the humble ANZAC biscuit? Easy to make, don’t go stale for ages (if you don’t eat them all straight away), and if you get them just right, they’re perfectly chewy and brilliant comfort food (especially amongst the rain that Sydney’s getting this week – massive!)
Did you know that there are rules about ANZAC biscuits? Mostly because of the ANZAC reference, but they must always be biscuits (not bikkies or cookies) and there is only one approved recipe for the approved term ANZAC biscuits:
Ingredients
1 cup of flour
1 cup of coconut
1 cup of rolled oats
1 cup of sugar
125 grams (4oz) of butter
1 tablespoon of golden syrup
1 teaspoon of baking soda
2 tablespoons of very hot water.Method
Preheat oven to 180.
In a large bowl, mix flour, coconut, rolled oats and sugar.
Melt together butter and golden syrup. Dissolve baking soda in very hot water. When the baking soda is thoroughly dissolved, pour the water into the butter and golden syrup mix.
Make a well in the dry ingredients, pour the butter, golden syrup and baking soda in, and mix through.
Take teaspoonsful of the mix, roll them into balls, and using a fork, press them down on the baking slides, leaving room for spreading. Bake for about 10 minutes, until the biscuits are golden brown.
When you take the biscuits out of the oven, leave them to rest on the baking slide for 5 minutes, before putting them on cooling racks. When they are cool, put them in an airtight tin.
But, while this recipe is easy-peasy to make, it can be hard to make chewy biscuits. BUT! You didn’t hear this from me, but perhaps if you switched half the flour for self-raising flour, then perhaps you’ll get guaranteed-to-be-chewy ANZAC biscuits.
(h/t to Larvatus Prodeo for the info on the biscuit that deserves to be enjoyed all-year round!)
Happy Friday everyone, and doesn’t the public holiday Monday make it even noicer!
Time for Noice-ities….this week we are asking What is your favourite winter recipe?
Nothing better than warming comfort food on those chilly winter days. Although with the lovely warm weather in Sydney of late you wouldn’t think winter is on it’s way.
By the way, have you check out some of the great recipes we have on That’s Noice?
If you missed last week Noice-ities (i.e. niceties, but noice!) is a new weekly meme/blog carnival/attempt to get everyone out of the woodwork.
Basically, it’s a chance for our friends to share their noice finds – every Friday with a new theme. Something that you can all get involved in, even if you don’t have a blog of your own!
If you have a blog, you can write a post and share the link with us in the comments below. But even if you don’t have a blog, tell us about it in the comments below! As we go along, we’ll add you all to the bottom of this post as well.
