Oat Slice

This slice is great for kids lunch box's or just for a treat for the kids.

Makes: 24

Ingredients

• 1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
• 1/2 cup (115g) caster sugar
• 1 cup (90g) rolled oats
• 125g butter, chopped
• 1 tbs golden syrup
• 1 egg, lightly beaten

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Lightly grease a 16cm x 26cm baking pan and line with non-stick baking paper. Sift flour into a large bowl. Add sugar and rolled oats.
2. Stir the butter and golden syrup in a small saucepan over a low heat until melted. Add to dry ingredients with the egg and stir to combine.
3. Spoon into pan and bake for 20 minutes. Leave to cool, then cut into rectangles to serve.

Fairybread cupcakes

These cupcakes are good for kids parties, baby showers or just as a treat for the little ones. You could colour the cupcakes in any colours you like, i chose pink and green.

Makes:24
Ingredients:

• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup milk
• Food colouring
• Cream cheese or icing sugar icing.
• hundred and thousands

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced oven. Line muffin or mini-muffin pans with paper cases.
2. Using an electric mixer, beat butter, vanilla and sugar in a small bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition (mixture will separate at this stage). Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Stir in half the flour. Stir in half the milk. Repeat with remaining flour and milk until combined.
3. Place half the mixture in another bowl and add food colouring. Place one tablespoon of blue colouring in the patty cases and top with the other colour, use a skewer to swirl the colours together.
4. Bake for 15-20 mins
5. Once cooled ice the cupcakes and dip in hundreds and thousands.

Condensed milk biscuits

Hey all,
These biscuits are one of the nicest biscuits you will ever try. Almost everyone has condensed milk in their cupboard so i figured this would be a good one to do.

Makes:55

Ingredients

• 250g butter, softened
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• can condensed milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup plain flour, sifted

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 4 baking trays with baking paper.
2. Beat butter and sugars in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale. Add condensed milk and vanilla and beat for a further 1 minute.
3. Add  flours. Stir with a large metal spoon until well-combined. Roll mixture into small walnut-sized balls. Place onto prepared baking trays, allowing room for biscuits to spread.
4. Gently press biscuits with a fork to flatten slightly. Bake, 2 trays at a time, for 12 to 15 minutes, swapping trays halfway through. Stand for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

Variations: You can add raisins, choc chips, smarties or anything you like to this recipe.

First Decorated Cake

hey again,

This is my first ever decorated cake i made back in the beginning of the year. I went to a cake decorating weekend course where you learn how to make fondant flowers and how to cover a cake in fondant so i made the cake during the course.

I made the little flowers and butterfly sticks out of coloured fondant with a flower and butterfly cutter.
I used a tool called "dog bone tool" and made the indents in the flowers and butterflies.

I also iced on the swirls and border by hand and put little silver baubles on the flowers.

Teenage Gourmet xo

Dad's Birthday Cake

Hey again,

This is the Cake i made for my Dad's birthday in July. The cake itself was a chocolate mud cake but i don't recommend the recipe because it tasted terrible, You could just use a chocolate sponge. '
For the decorations i used Chocolate Icing, green icing and coloured fondant which i cut into stars.
My Dad didn't say anything about the taste, but my mum is my best critic and she didn't hold back on her opinion, so the recipe went in the bin :)

Cupcakes

Hello all,
These are the cupcakes i made for my birthday party, My theme was pink, brown and white.
All the girls at my party loved them.
I used Pink brown and white icing, pink mini marshmallows , pink writing icing and brown writing icing for the decoration.
Hopefully this inspires you to make your own cupcake creations :)

The recipes i used are on my previous blog (Rspca cupcakes)

Rspca Cupcakes

Hey all,

These are the cupcakes i made for the Rspca cupcake day, i ended up raising $265 which was fantastic. total of 152 cupcakes.

I Made chocolate, vanilla and coffee flavours and when people ordered they could choose which flavour they wanted.

For the decoration i decorated them in Lions,monkeys,pigs,sheep,cats and dogs.

For the Lion i used : orange frosting, caramel popcorn for the mane, 2 mini brown m&m's for the eyes and black writing icing for the nose and mouth.

For the Monkey i used: Chocolate icing, Light Chocolate icing for the muzzle, white mini marshmallow's squashed for the eyes, chocolate melts for the ears, and black writing icing for the nose, mouth and eyeballs.

For the Pig i used: Pink icing, strawberry rollup cut into triangles for the ears, 2 brown mini m&m's for the eyes and 2 red mini m&m's turned sideways for the nostrils.

For the Dog i used : Butter cream icing, 2 mini brown m&m's for the eye and nose, 1 chocolate melt for the eye, one yellow m&m for the eye and brown writing icing for the mouth and ear.

For the Sheep i used:  White icing, Pink icing for the muzzle, white mini marshmallows for the wool, 2 brown mini m&m's for the eyes and one red mini m&m for the nose.

For the Cat i used: White icing,2 blue mini m&m's for eyes (you could use any colour), orange mini m&m for nose, Liquorice roll cut into triangles for ears, liquorice roll cut into strips for whiskers and black writing icing for mouth.

Recipes:

Vanilla Cupcakes:
 Ingredients :

• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup milk

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced oven. Line muffin or mini-muffin pans with paper cases.
2. Using an electric mixer, beat butter, vanilla and sugar in a small bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition (mixture will separate at this stage). Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Stir in half the flour. Stir in half the milk. Repeat with remaining flour and milk until combined.
3. Spoon mixture into patty pans and bake for 15 to 17 minutes.

Variations:
Coffee Cupcakes: Replace 1/2 cup of milk with buttermilk and add 8 teaspoons of instant coffee, a pinch of salt and another teaspoon of vanilla.
Chocolate cupcakes: Add 1/2 cup more sugar, add 1/3 cup of cocoa powder, add another 1/2 a cup of milk

Butter cream icing:
Ingredients :

• 185g butter, softened
• 2 1/4 cups icing sugar mixture
• 2 tablespoons milk

Method:

1. Using an electric mixer, beat butter in a bowl until pale. Gradually add icing sugar mixture and milk, beating constantly until combined.

For the chocolate icing just about about 2 tablespoons of cocoa and a dash more of milk.

Birthday Cake

Hey all,
this is the birthday cake i made for my birthday.

This is my second attempt at making a decorated cake. I got high marks from my family for this cake, some of the comments were " really moist and delicous and " this is like 5 star dining"
The bottom layer is vanilla cake and the top is chocolate cake. i used chocolate icing to ice (recipe follows), strips of pink and white fondant for ribbons, pink and white fondant flowers that i cut out and pink writing icing for the drawn on flowers/swirls.

Vanilla Cake recipe:

Ingredients (serves 15)

• Melted butter, to grease
• 450g (3 cups) self-raising flour
• 150g (1 cup) plain flour
• 440g (2 cups) caster sugar
• 300g butter, cubed, at room temperature
• 310ml (1 1/4 cups) milk
• 6 eggs, at room temperature
• 3 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 140°C. Position a rack on the second lowest shelf of the oven. Brush a round 25cm (base measurement) cake pan with the melted butter to lightly grease. Line base and sides with non-stick baking paper.
2. Place the self-raising flour, plain flour, sugar, butter, milk, eggs and vanilla essence in a large mixing bowl. Use an electric beater to beat on low speed for 30 seconds or until just combined. Increase the speed to high and beat for 1-2 minutes or until the mixture is thick and all the butter is incorporated. Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and smooth the surface with the back of a spoon.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 2 1/2 hours or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and set aside for 10 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack.

Chocolate Cake + Chocolate icing:

Ingredients (serves 8)

• Melted butter, to grease
• 270g (1 1/3 cups, firmly packed) brown sugar
• 185ml (3/4 cup) milk
• 125g butter, cubed
• 50g (1/2 cup) cocoa powder
• 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 150g (1 cup) self-raising flour
• 2 tbs plain flour
• 3 eggs, lightly whisked
• Chocolate icing :
• 195g (11/4 cups) pure icing sugar
• 1 tbs cocoa powder
• 10g (2 tsp) butter, at room temperature
• 1 tbs boiling water

Method

1. Preheat oven to 160°C. Brush a deep, square, 19cm (base measurement) cake pan (see tip below) with the melted butter to lightly grease. Line the base and sides of the pan with non-stick baking paper.
2. Place the sugar, milk and butter in a large saucepan. Use a fine sieve to sift the cocoa and bicarbonate of soda over the mixture. Place the pan over medium-low heat and use a whisk to stir until the mixture is smooth (don't boil the mixture). (See microwave tip.) Remove the pan from the heat and set aside for 5 minutes to cool slightly.
3. Use a sieve to sift half of each the self-raising and plain flours into the pan. Use the whisk to stir until the mixture is smooth. Repeat with the remaining flours. Add the eggs and continue to stir until well combined.
4. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake pan and gently tap the pan on a bench to release any large air bubbles. Bake in preheated oven for 45-55 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean. Set aside for 2 minutes before turning onto a wire rack. Set aside for 1 3/4 hours or until completely cool.
5. To make the chocolate icing, sift the icing sugar and cocoa into a medium bowl. Add the butter and water, and stir with a wooden spoon until smooth. Use the back of a spoon or palette knife to spread the icing evenly over the top of the cooled cake. Set aside for about 50 minutes or until the icing is firm