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Strawberry Friands

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Time to pack a picnic and head to a park with open fields or head to the beach and curl your feet into the sand and relish in the spring sun. Grab a friend or two, perhaps a special someone and get out there and do it. Take a little treat with you, these little friands would do very nicely. I love them and their something a little bit special than just a muffin, after all their french, oh la la. So go on hop to it, get baking.
Strawberry Friands
 
1 cup icing sugar
1/3 cup plain flour
1 cup almond meal
4 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
150g butter
7 strawberries
 
Pre heat oven to 150C
 
Sift the flour, icing sugar and almond meal into a bowl, then stir through the egg white and vanilla essence. Melt butter in the microwave, and then stir through the mixture.
Chop the strawberries into slices and reserve 8 pieces to decorate. Stir the strawberries through and pour into a friand tin or muffin tray. Place a reserved strawberry on top. Bake for 15 minutes.
 
Makes 8

Steamed Orange and Berry Pudding

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For todays recipe I have made a bit of an old school dessert, a boiled pudding. Which doesn’t sound like the most appetising recipe, its sounds rather lifeless and bland – a boiled pudding. I personally think of over cooked vegetables whenever the word boiled is used. But this is great, its moist and tastes like summer with hits of orange zest and berries which is wonderful when winter is in full swing. I hope you enjoy it.
Oh and if you have the time please check out Gallery 36 Magazine I have a feature profile in it. Which is very exciting as they haven’t featured a food blog in it before, but thought Little Box Brownie was perfect for their magazine, so very exciting.
 

 

 

Orange and Berry Steamed Pudding
 
150g butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp orange zest
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/2 cup of orange juice 
1 teaspoon baking powder
250g frozen mixed berries
 
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add the zest then add the eggs one at a time beating after each addition. Sift in the flour and baking powder and stir through. Pour in the orange juice and stir to combine. 
Place the frozen berries in the bottom of a greased pudding bowl and pour over the cake batter. Take a piece of tin foil and a piece of baking paper sized to fit over the top of the bowl. Place them together and place a fold in them so that the pudding has room to rise if it is needed. Place the foil and paper over the pudding and tie in place with a piece if string. Place this in a big pot with a saucer in the bottom (this will stop the pudding from burning). Pour in some boiling water so it covers about 2/3 of the pudding bowl. Then place the lid on and simmer for 2 1/2 hours or until cooked. You will need to continue to top up the water with hot water from the kettle as the pudding cooks.