Category: Baking

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Kerrygold Buttery Irish Potato and Apple Bake

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Cook:  15 minutes
Serves:  8

Ingredients:
  • 3 pounds potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
  • 1 1/2 pounds tart cooking apples (such as Granny Smith), peeled and cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
  • 6 slices thick cut bacon, coarsely chopped
  • 6 tablespoons Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter
  • Chopped chives for garnish, optional
Directions:

Cook potatoes in boiling salted water for about 8 minutes or until almost cooked through. Add apples and cook for 5 minutes more or until potatoes and apples are tender; drain well. While potatoes are cooking, heat oven to 400° F and lightly butter an 11 X 7-inch baking dish. In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes or until golden brown and crisp, stirring frequently. Remove with a slotted spoon, then remove all but 2 tablespoons of bacon fat; add Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter to skillet. When butter has melted, add potatoes and apples. Toss well to coat with butter; cook and stir for about 5 minutes over medium-high heat to lightly brown. Transfer to prepared baking dish and top with cooked bacon. Bake for 15 minutes. Sprinkle with chives, if desired.

http://kerrygoldusa.com/recipes/buttery-irish-potato-and-apple-bake-with-bacon/

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Pineapple & Coconut Traybake

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CATEGORY: Weekly Recipe
COOK TIME: 35 mins

What you need:

  • 225g/8oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
  • 175g/6oz Sugar
  • Pinch of Bread Soda
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 tablespoons Oil
  • 1 x tin (432g) Crushed Pineapples (drained)
  • 225g/8oz Desiccated Coconut
  • 100g packet Chopped Walnuts

Topping (optional)

  • 50g/2oz Butter
  • 225g/8oz Cream Cheese
  • 350g/12oz Icing Sugar

How to:

  1. Preheat oven 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line a Swiss Roll Tin 28cm x 18cm (11″ x 7″).
  2. Place eggs, oil and pineapple into a mixing bowl and beat together.
  3. Add flour, sugar and sieved bread soda and mix until well blended.
  4. Finally stir in the coconut and walnuts.
  5. Transfer to the tin and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown in colour. When removed from oven, allow to sit in tin for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire tray to cool.
  6. When cold cover with topping, if used, and cut into squares.

To make topping

  1. Beat together the butter, cream cheese and sieved icing sugar.
Pineapple & Coconut Traybake
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Clodagh McKenna‏, My Carrot Cake with Orange Blossom frosting recipe

Makes 1 Cake (10 portions)

INGREDIENTS:

3 eggs

140ml/5floz vegetable oil, plus extra for greasing

220/7oz light brown sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg

350g/12oz grated carrots, (grated weight)

100g/3½ oz golden raisins

100g/3½ oz walnuts, chopped

200g/7oz self-raising flour

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

For the orange blossom frosting 

300g/10½ oz cream cheese, chilled

70g/2½ oz butter, at room temperature

300g/10½ oz icing sugar, sifted

1 orange, zest only

2 teaspoons of orange blossom water

METHOD:

1.          Preheat the oven to 180°C and oil and line a 13 x 23cm loaf tin with greaseproof paper.

2.        For the carrot cake: beat the eggs in a large bowl, then add the oil, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, grated carrot, raisins and chopped walnuts.

3.        Sift in the rest of the dry ingredients and bring the mixture together using a wooden or large metal spoon until well combined. Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf tin, smooth the surface and bake in the oven for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. If you’re using a ceramic baking dish then you’ll need to add 15 minutes to the cooking time.

4.       Remove from the oven and allow the cake to cool in the tin for about five minutes before removing. Cool completely on a wire rack before serving.

5.        For the orange blossom frosting: beat the cream cheese and butter together in a bowl until well combined. Add the icing sugar, orange blossom water and finely grated orange zest and mix until the frosting is smooth and thick. Using a palette knife, spread the frosting evenly over the cooled cake, dipping the knife into a bowl of hot water if the icing is hard to spread out.

6.       Decorate with orange zest on top of the frosting.

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Odlums Honey & Oat Quick Bread

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Honey & Oat Quick Bread

CategoryBreads

Cook Time40-45 mins

What you need:

  • 200g/7oz Odlums Coarse Wholemeal Flour
  • 175g/6oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
  • 50g/2oz Odlums Porridge Oats, plus extra for dusting
  • 1 level teaspoon Odlums Bread Soda
  • 250g carton Yoghurt
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
  • 3 tablespoons Honey
  • 150ml/¼pt Milk

How to:

  1. Preheat oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5. Lightly grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin and sprinkle some oats inside the tin.
  2. Put the wholemeal flour, plain flour and oats into a large mixing bowl and mix well. Sieve in the bread soda and mix to combine.
  3. In a separate bowl beat together the yoghurt, egg, olive oil, honey and milk. Add to the dry ingredients and combine together gently until all dry ingredients are moistened.
  4. Transfer to the prepared tin and sprinkle the extras oats on top, then make a cut down the centre with a knife.
  5. Bake in a central position in the oven for 40-45 minutes until well risen and golden brown. Loaf is baked when tapping underneath produces a hollow sound.
  6. Turn onto a wire tray to cool. Delicious served warm with butter and a drizzle of honey.

Honey & Oat Quick Bread

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Sweet And Moist Greek Honey Cake

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A sticky Greek cake that tastes a little like the much more complicated Greek dessert Baklava

Thanks to Angela for this simple cake recipe that kids just love.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of plain flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon of orange zest
  • 3/4 cup of butter
  • 3/4 cup of white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 3/4 cup of milk
  • 1 cup of chopped walnuts
  • 1 cup of Haughton Honey
  • 1 cup of white sugar
  • 3/4 cup of water
  • 1 teaspoon of lemon juice

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 175c/350F. Grease and lightly flour a 9″ square cake tin. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and orange rind. Set this to one side.
  2. In a large bowl mix together the butter and the sugar with a whisk until light and fluffy. Then blend in the eggs one at a time. Gently blend in the flour mixture prepared earlier with the milk and stir in the walnuts.
  3. Pour the batter in to the prepared tin. Place in the preheated oven for 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool for 15 minutes and then cut the cake into diamond shapes before pouring the honey syrup over. Decorate with lemon zest if you wish.
  4. To make the honey syrup combine the honey, 1 cup of white sugar and 3/4 cup of water. Bring slowly to a gentle simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in the lemon juice and continue cooking for a further 2 minutes. Keep warm before pouring on to the cake.

Notes for the cook: if you have a fan-assisted oven then reduce the specified temperature in the recipe by about 15% ~ 1 teaspoon = 5ml and 1 tablespoon = 15ml ~ some ingredients are measured in cups and some equivalents are; 150g, 6oz (1/2 cup) = 120ml, 4fl oz

http://www.haughtonhoney.com/our-honey/recipes/sweet-and-moist-greek-honey-cake