Knead for 30 secs on interval setting, or until dough comes together.
Place mixture onto lightly floured surface and press out until 2cm thick. Cut into rounds using a scone cutter & place onto a tray lined with baking paper.
Brush tops of scones with milk.
Bake in 220 degree oven for 10 minutes & check scones then cook for another 5 mins or until golden brown and cooked through.
Best served warm with homemade butter, jam & whipped cream. Or serve with lemon butter & cream.
We made this delicious trifle at our recent INSPIRE Christmas cooking class
INSPIRED TRIFLE IDEAS: This is a favourite recipe my friend’s Mum used to make for us. The original recipe used 2 packets of port wine jelly instead of using the cherry “juice” to make the jelly. You may also like to add cherry liqueur to the jelly 🙂 There are so many different combos for a trifle, use any kind of fruit – fresh figs, pomegranate seeds, passionfruit, mango, berries, kiwi fruit, then make a jelly to go, with that fruit even a wine or sparkling wine jelly. Match it with your style cake a plain sponge, or try chocolate, orange or pistachio. Then flavour your custard to match or use a lemon or lime curd for something different. Top with fresh whipped cream & something for a bit of crunch your favourite nuts, biscuits, toasted coconut, chocolate.
The orginal recipe was one that my friends Mum made for us when were young - then we started having it for our family Christmas!
Ingredients
Black Forest Trifle
1 chocolate cake or chocolate sponge
1 x 600g jar morello cherries, keep the liquid
2 teaspoons gelatine power
1000g cream
100g flaked almonds, lightly toasted or coconut flakes
50g dark chocolate, or to taste
Chocolate Custard
1000g milk
100g Corn Flour
150g dark chocolate, good quality (add more to taste)
150g sugar, or to taste
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
40g unsalted butter
Instructions
Black Forest Trifle
Heat 100g of the liquid from the cherry jar for 3 mins/100 degrees/speed 1, add the gelatin & mix for 5 secs/speed 5.
Add the rest of the liquid & mix for another secs speed 5.
Using a strainer pour into your chosen glass trifle container or individual glasses (8).
You can either add the cherries now & place into the fridge to set or place the cake in to soak up the cherry jelly & place the cherries on top & into the fridge to set. In a clean TM bowl whip your cream with the butterfly around 20 - 30 secs /speed 3.5-Time will vary depending on how fresh your cream is. Place the cream to one side & without needing to clean the bowl, place all the custard ingredients to the bowl. Cook for 15 mins 90 degrees speed 4 or until thick.
Pour the chocolate custard on top of the cherry jelly & cake. Place into the fridge. Once it has cooled completely spread the top of the custard with cream & sprinkle with almonds & grated dark chocolate & or toasted coconut flakes & fresh cherries. Can be made the day before, although the cream is best done on the day of serving.
I like to use the sponge cake from the Devil of a Cookbook replacing use 40g of cornflour with cocoa powder.
Strawberry & Rosewater Sorbet for Cocktails/Mocktails
Author: Arwen Genge
Recipe type: Drinks
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Strawberry & Rosewater Sorbet for Cocktails/Mocktails Delicious as a sorbet or a drink
Ingredients
100g sugar
800g ice
350g strawberries
1 lemon flesh only
100g water, optional
20g rosewater, or to taste
sparkling wine or soda water to serve
Instructions
Place sugar & zest into TM bowl & chop for 10 secs speed 10.
Add strawberries & lemon. Chop for 5 secs speed 7. Add the ice & rose water, chop for 1min 30 secs on speed 10 stiring with the spatula if needed. You may need to add the water to keep the sorbet mixture moving around..
Transfer to a Thermoserver & serve imediately or freeze into ice cube trays for later.
To make the cocktail/mocktail place a generous scoup of the sorbet (or a couple of the frozen ice cubes of sorbet into a cocktail or champagne glass top with sparling wine or soda water.
Or I have been told that vodka (to taste) with the soda water & sorbet is great too!!
Cheers!!
Notes
Place leftover sorbet into icy pole makers for a quick delicious snack for the kids. Or place leftovers into ice cube trays keep them for another day of cocktails/mocktails or chop them up again in the Thermomix before serving, you may need to add a bit of liquid to help keep them moving in the TM bowl. Suitable to make in the Thermomix Model 5 & TM31 too.
We had to choose 2 of our photos to exhibit as part of our unit – realise a creative project. So here are mine. I even learned how to mount the pictures for the exhibit.
Let them eat cake
I made the Devil of a Cookbook sponge cake recipe. I also made raspberry, rosewater & rhubarb jam to go with it. I took it into TAFE for a studio shoot. None of the other students or teacher minded helping me eat it after I had taken a lot of different shots!
Taste of the sea
I took this photo on our Prep Prop Style Shoot workshop in August.
I have adapted a Nigella recipe, this is an absolute favourite in our house. you can serve it with Mexican dishes as well. Place a reserved avocado seed into the dip to keep it from going brown, if you wont be serving it straight away. Using freshly milled cumin & coriander seeds makes it even tastier .-)
Ingredients
2 - 3 avocados, flesh
1 green chilli, fresh, optional to remove seeds
1 garlic clove
1 tsp cumin, ground
1 lime's juice, Or lemon juice
2 Spring onions chopped, roughly
handful of fresh corriander leaves
salt & pepper, to taste
1 tsp coriander ground
Instructions
Place garlic & chilli into TM bowl process for 5 seconds on speed 8.
Add remaining ingredients & use turbo button a few times till desired consistency is reached.
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