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Lilly Higgins’ chocolate orange overnight oats – RTÉ Today with Dáithí and Sinéad 🍫 😋 🍊

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By Lilly Higgins

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Recipe courtesy of Yoplait Skyr.

Ingredients

Serves 4

  • 2 tbsp honey (add more if you’d like it sweeter)
  • 100ml milk
  • Juice of 1 orange
  • 1 orange or mandarin, chopped up into small bite-size pieces
  • 1 large tub Yoplait Skyr
  • 180g oats
  • 1 tbsp each of linseed, sunflower seeds, chia, pumpkin seeds, hazelnuts, and cacao nibs
  • 100g dark chocolate, melted

Method

  1. Place the nuts, seeds & cacao nibs into a high-speed mixer and blitz till slightly grainy like coffee grounds. Mix this seed mix with the honey, orange juice, milk until combined.
  2. Add a tub of Skyr and stir until combined. Fold in the chopped orange.
  3. Taste and add a little more honey if you’d like. Fold in the oats.
  4. Divide between four bowls or jars and top with melted chocolate. Store in the fridge overnight.
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Odlums Coconut Buns for baking with kids

Category

Baking with Kids

Cook Time15-20 mins

What you need:

  • 225g/8oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
  • Pinch of Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Odlums Baking Powder
  • 75g/3oz Butter or Margarine
  • 75g/3oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar
  • 50g/2oz Shamrock Desiccated Coconut
  • 1 Egg, beaten
  • 150ml/¼pt Milk

To Decorate

  • Fruitfield Raspberry Jam
  • Extra Shamrock Desiccated Coconut

How to:

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Lightly grease 2 flat baking trays.
  2. Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder into a bowl.
  3. Rub in the butter or margarine until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
  4. Add the sugar and coconut and mix well.
  5. Mix to a fairly stiff consistency with the egg and milk. Drop dessertspoonfuls of the mixture, spaced apart on the prepared tins. Makes about 12.
  6. Bake for 15-20 minutes until risen and golden brown. Remove from oven and transfer buns to wire tray to cool.
  7. Brush the top with jam and dip in the extra coconut.

Coconut Buns