Coconut Macaroons

"So easy and gluten free"

Ingredients
2 cups Desiccated Coconut
2 egg whites
1/2 cup caster sugar

Method
Heat oven to 160 degrees Celsius
Mix all ingredients untill they come together.
Line a baking tray with baking paper
Place 1.5 tablespoons of mixture into a scone cutter and press down to compact the mixture.
Bake in oven for 12 mins until golden on the outside.

My daughter ate the egg yoke :) 

Easy Cup Cakes

"my toddler loved helping me with these, the recipe is so robust it didn't matter that she ate some of the mixture. I halved this recipe so I didn't make too many"

Ingredients
2 Cups Self Raising flour
3/4 Cup Caster Sugar
3/4 Cup Milk
2 Eggs
125gm butter, melted and cooled
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Method
Heat oven to 200 degrees Celsius
Put everything into a bowl and mix together
Divide mixture into patty pans and bake for 15 mins.

{Caramalised white chocolate twist - get piece of white chocolate, I used a white chocolate melt, and press it into the mixture in the patty pan.}

Icing
1 Cup of Soft icing mixture
90 gms Softened butter
3 teaspoons Milk
1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Put all ingredients into a mixture until creamy.
You may need to double this icing if you want to be generous.

Dahl with pumpkin

Ingredients 
1 Large Onion diced
3cm piece of grated ginger {about a tablespoon)
2 cloves of garlic pressed
1 red birds eye chilli chopped
1 teaspoon ground Turmeric
1 teaspoon ground Cumin
1 can of lentils
500 gm Pumpkin chopped {leave skin on}
3 cups of chicken stock

Method
Fry Onion over a medium heat in a tablespoon of butter and generous amount of salt and pepper till soft.
Add ginger, garlic, chilli, Turmeric and cumin, fry for 2 mins.
Add Lentils, Pumpkin and stock.
Bring to boil then turn down heat and let slowly bubble away for 25 mins covered, then take the cover off for around 20 mins to cook off some of the extra liquid.

Never fail Banana cake

In celebration  of my new follower I am posting this recipe.

“I am a terrible cake maker, but this recipe always works and is a great way to use up all the old bananas that my toddler doesn't finish. Never Waste another banana, put over ripened bananas in the freezer and when you have 3 it 's time to make banana cake. “

Ingredients

3 Ripe Bananas

2 eggs

1 ½ cups of self-raising flour

1 teaspoon of Bi-carb soda

½ cup of extra virgin Olive oil

¾ Cup of Sugar {Use less if bananas are really really ripe)

¼  Teaspoon of cinnamon

1 Teaspoon Vanilla extract

-          Optional - spices nutmeg, ginger, handful of chopped walnuts.

Mix all together in food processor, blender, barmix with processor attachment.

Pour into a lined Baking tin {no need to grease}, or lined muffin tins.

Put in Moderate Oven {180 Degrees} for 30-40 minutes until the top is firm and springs back. If making muffins it will take less time, about 20 mins.