I am a food processor...gone slightly mad

Last night it was dessert that Jamie came into my kitchen for. 


Recipe #42- MEGA Chocolate fudge Cake.


This recipe calls for a food processor. Something that my mother only has a tiny one of called Oscar. It holds one cup, thats it. Nothing more but yes it can hold less if you tried.


This was how I worked my way around having a normal sized food processor and you know what? It worked wonderful :) To sum up the recipe method; Jamie says bung all ingredients in food processor and wizz. HA good one Jamie. This recipe is meant to test me I know it! 


So with mum's one cup Oscar I wizzed 200g of dark chocolate then transferred it to a bowl, wizzed 100g blanched almonds and transferred them to the bowl, measured 120g soft brown sugar and added it to my bowl with 1 tbs of cocoa. (I gave the wizzed mixture a stir with a spoon at the point) This next bit is the test. 175g of butter and wizz. Haha you make a funny joke!


I put 175g of softened butter into Oscar with about 6 tbs of the wizzed mixture and wizzed it! Genius! I kept adding a little bit of the dry mixture until Oscar was full and refused any more. I turned the buttery mixture into the rest of the wizzed goodies and stirred with a wooden spoon. 


Next 4 eggs and 150g of Self Raising flour is needed. Oscar went to bed early at this stage and never returned to help with the cake making. I added one egg with a huge spoonful of flour to the mixture and mixed with a wooden spoon until all was mixed through well. I continued doing this with the other 3 eggs and remaining flour.


You need to butter a 25cm x 25cm tin and then coat the inside with cocoa. Pour your wizzed mixture in and crumble 100g of fudge over the top pushing the larger bits in the cake batter. Bake in a 160 degree oven for about 20-30 min. Remember if your making this that all ovens are different. We have a powerful tiny oven at home but I still needed it in there for 30min even though Jamie says 20min.


I am a magician! Or should I say I am a food processor?? Oh dear I think this cake has gone to my head.


Delish with ice cream :)

Use your imagination... fresh cream and fresh strawberries....

A non Jamie dinner tonight but Chocolate chip scones for dessert which Mari and I made on Sunday. We adapted Jamie's fruit scones recipe (recipe #32) and made Chocolate Chip scones as we both are not fan's of fruit scones.

Because we don't have a food processor that hold more then a cup we made them the manual way by rubbing the flour, baking powder, and butter together with our fingers. We added about a tablespoon of cocoa here and took a table spoon of flour out so they would be more decadent. Mari did this while I mixed the Eggs, milk and chocolate chips in a bowl. We made a well in the centre of the crumbly flour mixture and poured the eggy mixture in. Stirred and did a small kneed. Once the dough had come together we cut out our scones and put them in the preheated oven. 


MMM YUM! they were delicious! Not too sweet but just enough to make you want a 2nd but not a 3rd. Would have been delectable with fresh cream and fresh strawberries! Will def be repeating the recipe! 

Cookies make everything better

Recipe 24: Over the weekend I made Jamie’s chocolate chip cookies with Mari. We were suppose to be at KK’s house to watch the netball at 4pm but the cookies took a lot longer then we thought. We had to freeze the cookie dough before you could mould them. When I read this I thought:  Pft nope it’ll be fine we don’t need to freeze the dough.


    Oh yes we needed to! We found this out once it was made. It was gooey and sticky. It looked a delicious caramel colour and smooth texture. If you like cookie dough raw then this recipe looks like a good one, but I’m not a raw cookie dough eater. I prefer my cookies fresh out of the oven.
    We shaped it into a sausage shape, wrapped in glad wrap and froze it. We got impatient as we were already late to KK’s and got the dough out before the 30min was up. The edges were frozen but the centre was still a sticky mushy mess. We managed to cut 12 cookies out of the sausage shapped cookie dough even though we were meant to get out 15.
    Jamie says they're done when the edges start to brown.      What about the middle?? Is it meant to stay not brown?     We took the cookies out, only a couple looked overdone but they were delicious! A little crumbly round the edges but very yummy. Dad had hoped I would forget to take them with me when we finally got out my front door.


We missed the Sydney Swifts netball game but I think the cookies made up for it