These are some of our favourite recipes that we have worked with over the years

 Coconut Specials

Tarts for something different  and a change from mince pies.

Ingredients: 225g Puff Pastry, 50g Butter, 100g Desiccated Coconut, 100g Sugar, 2 Eggs, A liitle Jam. (Makes 14)

Grease a Patty Tin.  Roll out Puff Pastry.   Using a round pastry cutter, cut rounds and place into Patty tin. With a pastry brush, coat the pastry base with Jam.  Beat together the butter, Coconut, sugar and eggs. Divid the coconut mixture over the top of the jam.

Bake in the oven for 30 minutes until golden brown.  When cooked remove from tin and cool onto a wire rack.

 Apricot Meringue

This is a great recipe.

Ingredients: 6 Egg Whites, 350g Caster Sugar, 450ml Whipping Cream (whipped), 6 Apricot Halves

Line a baking tray with grease proof paper.  Whisk egg whites until stiff, continue whisking while adding sugar 1 tbsp at a time until mixture is very stiff and glossy.  Using a large star nozzle to a piping bag, pipe 8 swirls onto the baking tray.  bake in oven for 1- 1.1/4 hours (Gas mark 1/ 140'c) until crisp and dry. Leave to cool.

Place whipped cream into piping bag, place half of the merinque swirls onto a plate. Pipe a line of cream onto each swirl and layer with slices of Apricot, pipe another line of cream then sandwich together with another swirl.

Add more cream to the top of the swirl to decorate and add more apricots.

 

 Almond Tart

If you like bakewell tarts you will love this:

• 6oz Puff Pastry Frozen or you can make your own
• 2oz Ground almonds or Almond Paste
• StrawberryJam
• 4oz Butter
• 4oz Caster Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 4oz Self-raising Flour
• 2 tbsp Milk
• 1/2 tsp Almond Essence

Grease 10" Flan Dish, Roll out pastry and line the bottom and sides of dish.  Then roll out the remainder of the pastry, slightly thicker than 1", cut into strips 1/2" wide and set aside.

Cream Butter, sugar and eggs together until smooth.  Add sifted flour and almond essence, almond paste / ground almonds.

Spread Jam into the pastry base then cover with the cake mixture.  Then taking care not to disturb the filling place make a lattice with the pastry over the top and crimp the edges, turning in the overlap of pastry form a rim.

Bake in oven at gas mark 6 for 20 minutes, then gas mark 4 for a futer 15 minutes.  Enjoy

 Lemon July Cake

Very moist cake, one you must try it is delicious.

Base:  4oz Butter, 4oz Sugar, 1 egg beaten, 6oz Self-raising flour, zest of two lemons

Cream Butter, sugar & egg together, add lemon zest, then sift in the flour and mix together.  Pour into a loaf tin and bake for 20 minutes on Gas Mark 5.

1st Topping: 1/4 pint Water, 3tbsp Suga, 1 tbsp cornflour, Juice of two lemons

Mix water with cornflour into a paste.  Boil with the othr ingredients until the mixture begins to thicken, stiring constantly. Spread on the cooked cae base while the mixture is still warm

2nd Topping: 1/4 Pint milk, 1tsp cornflour, 1oz butter, 3oz sugar and Desiccated coconut to sprinkle

Boil milk and cornflour together until it thickens.  Add the butter, sugar creamed.  Mix well and sprea on top of july cake.  Sprinkle wth the coconut and cut into slices and serve.