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Almond Cake with Apricot Brandy Sauce

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Serves:10

The cake owes its moist, spongy texture to the same thing that gives the sauce its luscious consistency: Kerrygold Irish Butter made with grass-fed cow’s milk. The soft, creamy butter does double duty in this dessert, and the result is a dish that’s twice as hard to forget.

Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs plus 1 egg yolk
  • 1/3 cup each: apricot preserves and sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 3/4 cups flour, divided
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 (7 oz) tube pure almond paste, crumbled
  • 1/2 cup sliced almonds
  • Apricot Brandy Sauce:
  • 1/4 cup Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup peach brandy
  • 1/4 cup apricot preserves

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350° F. Lightly butter a 9-inch round cake pan; set aside. With a mixer, cream together the Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter and sugar until light and fluffy – about 3 to 4 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, including yolk, beating well after each addition. Add the preserves, sour cream and extract and beat for 1 minute more. Stir together the flour, baking powder and salt; lightly fold into the batter with almond paste. Spread evenly in prepared pan and sprinkle with almonds. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the center of the cake is firm when the pan is lightly tapped. To prepare sauce, in a medium saucepan melt the Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter. Stir in brown sugar and cook for 2 minutes. Stir in remaining ingredients and simmer over low heat for a few minutes more. Drizzle over cake slices.

http://kerrygoldusa.com/recipes/almond-cake-with-apricot-brandy-sauce

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Gingerbread Granola Yogurt Parfait

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Ingredients

  • ​250g Glenisk Greek 0% Fat Vanilla Yogurt 
  • 140g Porridge Oats
  • 55g sliced almonds
  • 65g chopped walnuts
  • 50g dark brown sugar
  • 60g dark treacle
  • 40ml of vegetable oil
  • ½ tbsp. vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ¾ tsp ground ginger
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • 75g raisins

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 150ºC. Line 2 large baking sheets with foil.
  2. In a large bowl, mix oats, nuts and wheat germ. In another bowl, whisk brown sugar, black treacle, oil, vanilla, salt and spices. Stir the treacle mix into oat mix and make sure all is coated. Divide between 2 baking sheets, spreading evenly.
  3. Bake granola until browned, 50 to 60 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. Halfway through baking time, switch baking sheets from top to bottom and front to back.
  4. Remove sheets from oven and let granola cool. Stir in rasins (if desired) once cool.
  5. To assemble parfait :layer granola into serving glasses glasses. All a layer of yogurt. Repeat layers once and serve.
  6. Granola can be stored up to 2 weeks in an airtight container and refrigerated.

gingerbread granola yogurt parfait