Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

While we are doing recipes, here is the easiest best ever chocolate cake, it looks like runny black custard, be warned, but cooks up beautifully, and never dries out.

2 cups plain flour, 

2 cups sugar, 

2 teasp baking powder, 

2 teasp baking soda, 

1/2 teasp salt,

Sift these all together. Melt 6 oz butter add good 1/2 cup cocoa, mix these and add 2 cups hot water. Add this mix and 2 eggs to dry ingredients and combine, (I find the egg beater is best for this). Line a deepish cake tin with baking paper, pour mix in and bake mod oven about 3/4 hour. It is even nicer when sliced in half and the midle spread with raspberry jam and chocolate icing. Enjoy. My all time record was making 6 of these for various friends ,in one day, when the family were at home.

Donna's No Stir Risotto

No Stir Risotto
Serves 4

2 garlic cloves crushed
100g lean diced bacon or smoked leg ham
100g sundried tomatoes – chopped
Handful baby spinach leaves – chopped or torn
100g mushrooms – sliced
1 large onion – finely diced
½ large red capsicum (oven roasted and sliced)
1½ cups Arborio rice
1 litre chicken stock
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons cream
Pepper to taste

1. Heat sauté pan
2. Cook onion and garlic – add bacon and mushrooms and cook until soft – approx 2 mins
3. Add rice and cook, stirring over medium heat for 4 minutes or until rice turns clear
4. Heat stock in microwave whilst doing step 3
5. Add all hot stock, cover and reduce heat to medium low – cook for about 15 mins (do not uncover)
6. Add sundried tomatoes, roasted capsicum and baby spinach, lightly stir through, cover and cook for 5 mins
7. Increase the heat and stir in the cream and half the cheese – cook for approx 30 secs, stirring well
8. Remove from heat, fold in remaining cheese, black pepper for taste
9. Stand for 5 mins
10. Serve with extra parmesan cheese

monkeyboyzmum wrote:
> had three glasses of red while preparing the risotto

Hmmm.

'I love cooking with wine; sometimes I even put it in the cooking!'

Chris

Donna's easy donut cake

Drive to dreamy donuts. Buy 16 donuts - some with yummy custard fillings others with Lindt chocolate on top

Return home

Beat to death the child who ate one from the stash in the fridge

Pile up on plate. Mathematical skills are desirable not essential. Some discussion on the precision arrangement of each layer useful for homeschoolers I think.

stick candles in top ones - lindt choc ones are not the best choice for the top

light candles, sing, enjoy...

Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate Mousse

125g cream cheese
½ cup sugar
1 egg
250g Cadbury chocolate
600ml thickened cream, lightly whipped

Beat the cream cheese, sugar and egg together until smooth. Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt in the microwave. Add the melted chocolate to the cream cheese mixture and stir through until well combined. Stir in the cream, again stirring until well combined. Chill until required. Pipe or spoon into glass bowls, chocolate cups or use as a filling for cakes and desserts.

Leonie

Sally's rice wraps (Sam's favourite)

Here goes, it's our "make -up" recipe. 1 packet of rice paper and some hot water on the table to soak them in.strips of beef marinated in soy sauce, honey and garlic - sauteed. vermicelli lots of veges such as : lettuce carrot (thin strips)mint - necessary spinach bean sprouts dipping sauces. To make the parcels stronger Louise suggests that 2 rice papers are used.

Janet's successful chicken rissoles

I am so excited Buddies, I have finally made a meal that all the children have eaten for tea! Chicken meatballs and white rice. Chicken mince, frozen peas and corn, 1 egg, tablpn mayo and 4 tablpn flour. Place teaspoonfuls on greased tray, cook at 220C for 15min, turn over, cook for 10 min. Yumo. No complaints. Cool.

Brenda's Baked Steak

1 or 2 slices blade steak per person (depends on appetite and size of slices, I get my butcher to do it and make a decision when I've seen the bit of meat he's cutting up - sliced to about 1.5 cms thick)
few tablespoons plain flour
couple of teaspoons each white sugar and mustard powder
1 can tomato soup
2 tablespoons each worcestershire and soy sauce
approx 1/2 cup beef stock

Mix together the flour, sugar and mustard powder. Trim the slices of meat of as much fat as you can, and generously coat each in the flour mixture.
Place in either a deep casserole or the slow cooker. Mix together the soup, sauces and enough beef stock to cover the meat, and pour over. Either leave in the slow cooker for however long these things take (I think it was approx 6 hours on Sunday) or bake in the oven at 160 degrees for approx 2.5 hours.

Serve with mash and veggies.