Cinnamon and Sugar Swirls

Makes about 32

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 sheet puff pastry (butter) 9x10 1/2

Method:
1. Preheat oven 190C.
2. Line two trays sheets baking paper.
3. Melt butter in microwave.
4. Combine 1/3 sugar to cinnamon. Set aside.
5. Sprinkle some of the remaining sugar onto table/chopping board.
6. Place pastry sheet onto sugar and sprinkle more sugar on top of pastry.
7. Using a rolling pin, roll out pastry. Add more sugar when rolled completely.
8. Brush pastry with melted butter.
9. Add remaining cinnamon and sugar to pastry. Let it dissolve into butter.
10. Roll up pastry, jelly roll style (tight as possible).
11. Place roll, seam side down, onto table/chopping board. Slice carefully, try make it the same shape and width.
12. Place on tray and leave 5cm gap at least.
13. Sprinkle on more sugar if you have a sweet tooth and bake for 15 minutes minimum.
14. Store in a tight container in a safe place to stop Pop eating them. They are addictive!
15. Enjoy sugary sweets! Love Jaz.

Chocolate & coconut slice (aka weetbix slice)

Preparation Time
10 minutes

Cooking Time

15 minutes

 

Makes

24 Pieces

 

Ingredients

• 3 wholewheat breakfast biscuits
• 1 cup (85g) desiccated coconut
• 1/2 cup (120g) caster sugar
• 1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
• 2 tbs cocoa
• 150g butter
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 1/2 cups icing sugar mixture
• Extra 1 tbs cocoa
• 2 tbs hot water

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C. Lightly grease a 16x26cm baking pan and line with baking paper. Break up biscuits. Place into a mixing bowl with coconut and sugar. Sift over flour and cocoa and stir.

Melt butter in a small saucepan over a low heat. Pour over dry ingredients. Add vanilla. Mix well.

Spoon mixture into prepared pan and press down to level. Bake for 15 minutes or until cooked.

Sift icing sugar and cocoa into a small bowl. Add water and stir well. Ice slice while still hot. Cut into squares to serve.

Lemon Chicken Kattar Style

Ingredients
8 small skinless/boneless chicken thighs
1 lemon
Olive oil
2 or 3 garlic cloves
Dried basil

Method
Wash and thoroughly dry chicken thighs
put in a bowl to marinate
rub about 1/2 to 1 tsp. of salt into chicken
sprinkle about 1 tablespoon (or more or less if you like) of dried basil and mix well with your hands
make a mixture of 1 lemon, and olive oil - whisk the olive oil in the lemon until the color turns more solid and a little pale, keeping it a little tart
chop garlic cloves very finely and add them to the mixture
pour mixture over the chicken and mix well with hands- cover and
marinate for one up to eight hours

remove chicken from marinade
place in a small roasting pan or casserole just big enough so that the chicken thighs are touching each other,
pour the mixture over the chicken -
cover top of pan with aluminum foil
bake in a preheated oven at 325 for approx. 45 minutes - to an hour - depending on how big your chicken pieces are.
remove the aluminum foil about 15 - 20 min before end of cooking time to let them brown a little bit.

Impossible Pie

Ingredients
4 eggs
1/2 cup (125g) melted butter
1/2 cup (72.5g) plain flour
1 cup (250g) sugar
1 cup (90g) coconut
2 cups (500ml) milk
2 tspns vanilla essence


Method:
Blend all ingredients and pour mixture into a greased pie tin.
Bake in the oven at 170 degrees for 1 hour or until firm