Wickedly warming winter dessert

by Georgie

I love making Clafouti. Once you know the basic mix, you can adapt it for any apples, pears or stone fruit base.
Heat oven to 180 degrees.

Prepare the fruit 

Pears seem to be around at the moment, but apples are lovely combined with some rhubarb, and stone fruit is perfect when in season.
Peel and slice the fruit and poach briefly, just to soften. I use very little liquid when poaching, maybe a … Read more »

Pumpkin cake                      

Angela Marshall

 Use a dry pumpkin like Queensland Blue or Jarrahdale. Kents are too wet.

1 cup cooked mashed pumpkin (260 gms) – allow to cool and drain off all excess moisture
1 dessertspoon grated orange rind
3 tablespoons butter (90 gms)
¾ cup sugar (165 gms)
1 egg
1 cup sultanas (165 gms)
2 cups SR flour (300 gms)
Pinch salt
½ cup … Read more »

Truffle ice cream

Fiona Kotvojs
Gulaga Gold, Dignams Creek

Ingredients:
300 ml milk
Pinch salt
½ cup caster/pure icing sugar (not icing sugar mixture)
10 g grated truffle
2 eggs
300 ml cream

Method: 12-24 hours before making the ice cream start infusing the cream with truffle flavour. To do this, combine the cream and truffle. Refrigerate and allow to infuse for 12-24 hours. Then whisk the eggs. Combine milk, salt and … Read more »

Honorbread Scones (with thanks to Honorbread) 

Here’s what you will need: 

1 cup of oats
2 cups of flour
40 grams of butter
1 cup (250 ml) cream
1 cup currants
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of baking powder
a few sneaky chocolate buttons
flour, to dust 

Here’s what you will do: 

1. Combine all dry ingredients and butter in a bowl. Use fingertips to rub butter into the dry ingredients until … Read more »

Honey baked apples

Ingredients:

6 x apples
½ cup muesli of choice
¼ tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp honey
2 Tbsp coconut oil
ricotta and extra honey to serve

Method: 

Preheat your oven to 180C. Core the apples and place in a baking dish. Fill the centres of the apples with muesli and scatter more around the base to soak up juices.

Melt together honey, coconut oil and cinnamon and mix … Read more »

Nutmeg Cake

by Flick Ruby

1½ cups soft brown sugar
2 cups SR flour
125 gm butter
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
Generous handful of walnuts
Small 20 cm springform cake tin

Combine sugar and flour in a large bowl. Rub in the butter until it’s like breadcrumbs. Grease the cake tin with butter. Press half of the mixture evenly over the base of … Read more »