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Rachel’s Swedish Cardamom Cookies

rachel cardaomon cookies

Makes about 40 cookies.

You will need:

  • 225g (8oz) butter, softened
  • 125g (4½oz) icing sugar
  • 275g (10oz) flour
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 2 teaspoons ground cardamom, see my Tip, above left
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest, finely grated
  • Pinch of salt
  • 200g (7oz) chopped pecans or sugar crystals/nibs – (coloured, if you like, available in some speciality food shops) (optional)

Put the softened butter in a bowl and beat until it is soft. Add in half of the icing sugar and continue to beat, then add in the other half. Keep beating until it is all incorporated. Next, add in the flour, the beaten egg, the ground cardamom, the finely grated orange zest and the salt, then continue to beat until everything is well combined.

Roll the dough out into a log shape approximately 4cm (1½in) wide and about 35cm (14in) long.

Roll the dough in the chopped pecans or the sugar crystals/nibs, whichever you’re using, if you’re using them, then transfer the dough to a large piece of parchment paper or cling film and roll it to cover it. If you have used pecan nuts or sugar crystals/nibs, press them in to the sides of the dough.

Put the dough in the fridge for a few hours or leave it in it overnight.

When you want to cook some, or all, of the cookies, cut the dough into ½-¾cm slices then lay them flat on a parchment-lined tray. Cook in an oven preheated to 180°C, 350°F, Gas 4 for about 15-24 minutes (the cooking time will vary, according to thickness), or until a light golden colour. Carefully lift on to a cooling rack to cool completely.

 

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Ballymaloe’s Famous Chocolate Orange Cake recipe

Weigh the eggs. Take the same weight in butter, sugar and flour. Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and light in texture. Wash the oranges and add the finely grated rind of 2 and the juice of 1 to the butter mixture. Mix the flour and baking powder and add alternately with the eggs. Beat thoroughly. Bake in a 24cm (91/2in) tin in a moderate oven, 180°C/350°F/gas 4, for 50 minutes approx. Cool the cake and split it in two. Sandwich with the orange butter icing and spread the chocolate icing over the top and sides allowing any excess to run off.
To make the orange butter icing, finely grate the rind of the orange and squeeze out the juice. Beat the icing sugar, butter and orange rind together. Add in enough juice to make the icing a spreading consistency.
To make the chocolate icing, melt the chocolate in the water. Remove from the heat and beat in the butter and then the eggs very thoroughly. Leave to cool and set before icing and filling the cake.
Serves 12

For the Orange Cake:

  • 4 eggs
  • softened butter
  • sugar
  • plain flour
  • 2 oranges
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

For the orange butter icing:

  • 1 orange
  • 110g (4oz, 1/2 cup) icing sugar
  • 55g (2oz, 1/4 cup) softened butter

For the chocolate icing:

  • 170g (6oz) chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 50g (2oz, 4 tablespoons) softened butter
  • 2 large eggs
http://www.ballymaloe.ie/recipe/chocolate-orange-cake

 

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Rachel’s Swedish Cardamom Cookies

rachel cardaomon cookies

Makes about 40 cookies.

You will need:

  • 225g (8oz) butter, softened
  • 125g (4½oz) icing sugar
  • 275g (10oz) flour
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 2 teaspoons ground cardamom, see my Tip, above left
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest, finely grated
  • Pinch of salt
  • 200g (7oz) chopped pecans or sugar crystals/nibs – (coloured, if you like, available in some speciality food shops) (optional)

Put the softened butter in a bowl and beat until it is soft. Add in half of the icing sugar and continue to beat, then add in the other half. Keep beating until it is all incorporated. Next, add in the flour, the beaten egg, the ground cardamom, the finely grated orange zest and the salt, then continue to beat until everything is well combined.

Roll the dough out into a log shape approximately 4cm (1½in) wide and about 35cm (14in) long.

Roll the dough in the chopped pecans or the sugar crystals/nibs, whichever you’re using, if you’re using them, then transfer the dough to a large piece of parchment paper or cling film and roll it to cover it. If you have used pecan nuts or sugar crystals/nibs, press them in to the sides of the dough.

Put the dough in the fridge for a few hours or leave it in it overnight.

When you want to cook some, or all, of the cookies, cut the dough into ½-¾cm slices then lay them flat on a parchment-lined tray. Cook in an oven preheated to 180°C, 350°F, Gas 4 for about 15-24 minutes (the cooking time will vary, according to thickness), or until a light golden colour. Carefully lift on to a cooling rack to cool completely.

 

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Coffee Crème Brûlée with Nougatine Biscuits

Screenshot_2020-05-12 Ballymaloe Cookery School ( ballymaloecookeryschool) • Instagram photos and videos

Coffee Crème Brûlée with Nougatine Biscuits

Serve this icy cold in one large dish or individual ramekins. Serve with Nougatine biscuits as an extra treat or even ladyfingers.

 

Serves 4

200ml (7fl oz/scant 1 cup) milk

200ml (7fl oz/scant 1 cup) cream

4 large or 5 small organic egg yolks

40g (1 1/2oz/scant 1/4 cup) castor sugar

1 1/2 tablespoon (1 3/4 American tablespoons) Camp coffee essence

4 dessertspoons (1 American tablespoon) Demerara sugar

1 ovenproof dish (19cm wide x 4.5cm deep/(7 1/2 x 1 3/4 inch) or 4 ramekins x 100ml (3 1/2fl oz/scant 1/2 cup) each capacity

Preheat the oven to 150ºC / 300ºF /Gas Mark 2

Put the milk and cream into a heavy bottomed saucepan and bring to the boil. Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar, gradually pour the boiling liquid over the egg yolks whisking all the time. Add the coffee and whisk again.  Pour the mixture through the sieve into an ovenproof dish or 4 ramekins.

Bake in a bain-marie in the preheated oven for about 25-30 minutes until just set but slightly wobbly in the centre, or 40-45 minutes for the individual ramekins. (Shallow wide dishes cook faster, 20 minutes approximately.)

Cool, cover with cling film and chill well.

Sprinkle with Demerara sugar – it should be a thin layer, tip off excess if necessary. Glaze with a blow torch. Coffee crème brûlée is already very rich but serve with a little pouring cream if you must and some nougatine biscuits or ladyfingers.

Nougatine Biscuits

My brother Rory O’Connell makes these lacy and deliciously crisp biscuits, they keep perfectly for several days. Serve them with ice creams, sorbets, mousses and soufflés. They are also perfect with perfectly ripe fruit such as pears or peaches.

175g (6oz) nuts, a mixture, or the entire quantity of a single nut such as almonds, walnuts, pecan nuts and Brazil nuts. Hazelnuts may also be used but should be roasted and peeled before chopping

150g (5oz/generous 1/2 cup) caster or granulated sugar

3/4 teaspoon apple pectin

125g (4 1/2oz/generous 1 stick) butter

50g (2oz/1/4 cup) glucose syrup

2 teaspoons water

Preheat the oven to 190°C / 375ºF / Gas Mark 5

Chop the nuts in a food processor, using the pulse button, to render them to a semi-coarse texture.

In a small saucepan, combine the remaining ingredients and cook on a very low heat just until the mixture is melted and smooth. Add the nuts and stir to mix.

Using a silicone baking mat or an oven tray lined with parchment paper, drop on scant teaspoons of the mixture allowing plenty of room for the mixture to spread as it cooks. A standard oven tray, 40cm x 35cm (15 x 13 inch), will accommodate about 4 biscuits this size. You can of course make smaller biscuits by reducing the amount of mixture.

Cook for about 10 minutes or until the biscuits have spread into lacy and lightly caramelised flat crisps.

The cooked biscuits will be soft and molten when removing from the oven so allow the biscuits to cool slightly on the tray before removing to a wire rack to cool.

Any remaining uncooked mixture will store perfectly in the fridge for up to 5 days.

04/11/2019 (PB) (23454)

https://www.fromballymaloewithlove.com/recipes/coffee-creme-brulee-with-nougatine-biscuits

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Swedish Cardamom Cookies

rachel cardaomon cookies

Makes about 40 cookies.

You will need:

  • 225g (8oz) butter, softened
  • 125g (4½oz) icing sugar
  • 275g (10oz) flour
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 2 teaspoons ground cardamom, see my Tip, above left
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest, finely grated
  • Pinch of salt
  • 200g (7oz) chopped pecans or sugar crystals/nibs – (coloured, if you like, available in some speciality food shops) (optional)

Put the softened butter in a bowl and beat until it is soft. Add in half of the icing sugar and continue to beat, then add in the other half. Keep beating until it is all incorporated. Next, add in the flour, the beaten egg, the ground cardamom, the finely grated orange zest and the salt, then continue to beat until everything is well combined.

Roll the dough out into a log shape approximately 4cm (1½in) wide and about 35cm (14in) long.

Roll the dough in the chopped pecans or the sugar crystals/nibs, whichever you’re using, if you’re using them, then transfer the dough to a large piece of parchment paper or cling film and roll it to cover it. If you have used pecan nuts or sugar crystals/nibs, press them in to the sides of the dough.

Put the dough in the fridge for a few hours or leave it in it overnight.

When you want to cook some, or all, of the cookies, cut the dough into ½-¾cm slices then lay them flat on a parchment-lined tray. Cook in an oven preheated to 180°C, 350°F, Gas 4 for about 15-24 minutes (the cooking time will vary, according to thickness), or until a light golden colour. Carefully lift on to a cooling rack to cool completely.

 

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Coffee Crème Brûlée with Nougatine Biscuits

Screenshot_2020-05-12 Ballymaloe Cookery School ( ballymaloecookeryschool) • Instagram photos and videos

Coffee Crème Brûlée with Nougatine Biscuits

Serve this icy cold in one large dish or individual ramekins. Serve with Nougatine biscuits as an extra treat or even ladyfingers.

 

Serves 4

200ml (7fl oz/scant 1 cup) milk

200ml (7fl oz/scant 1 cup) cream

4 large or 5 small organic egg yolks

40g (1 1/2oz/scant 1/4 cup) castor sugar

1 1/2 tablespoon (1 3/4 American tablespoons) Camp coffee essence

4 dessertspoons (1 American tablespoon) Demerara sugar

1 ovenproof dish (19cm wide x 4.5cm deep/(7 1/2 x 1 3/4 inch) or 4 ramekins x 100ml (3 1/2fl oz/scant 1/2 cup) each capacity

Preheat the oven to 150ºC / 300ºF /Gas Mark 2

Put the milk and cream into a heavy bottomed saucepan and bring to the boil. Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar, gradually pour the boiling liquid over the egg yolks whisking all the time. Add the coffee and whisk again.  Pour the mixture through the sieve into an ovenproof dish or 4 ramekins.

Bake in a bain-marie in the preheated oven for about 25-30 minutes until just set but slightly wobbly in the centre, or 40-45 minutes for the individual ramekins. (Shallow wide dishes cook faster, 20 minutes approximately.)

Cool, cover with cling film and chill well.

Sprinkle with Demerara sugar – it should be a thin layer, tip off excess if necessary. Glaze with a blow torch. Coffee crème brûlée is already very rich but serve with a little pouring cream if you must and some nougatine biscuits or ladyfingers.

Nougatine Biscuits

My brother Rory O’Connell makes these lacy and deliciously crisp biscuits, they keep perfectly for several days. Serve them with ice creams, sorbets, mousses and soufflés. They are also perfect with perfectly ripe fruit such as pears or peaches.

175g (6oz) nuts, a mixture, or the entire quantity of a single nut such as almonds, walnuts, pecan nuts and Brazil nuts. Hazelnuts may also be used but should be roasted and peeled before chopping

150g (5oz/generous 1/2 cup) caster or granulated sugar

3/4 teaspoon apple pectin

125g (4 1/2oz/generous 1 stick) butter

50g (2oz/1/4 cup) glucose syrup

2 teaspoons water

Preheat the oven to 190°C / 375ºF / Gas Mark 5

Chop the nuts in a food processor, using the pulse button, to render them to a semi-coarse texture.

In a small saucepan, combine the remaining ingredients and cook on a very low heat just until the mixture is melted and smooth. Add the nuts and stir to mix.

Using a silicone baking mat or an oven tray lined with parchment paper, drop on scant teaspoons of the mixture allowing plenty of room for the mixture to spread as it cooks. A standard oven tray, 40cm x 35cm (15 x 13 inch), will accommodate about 4 biscuits this size. You can of course make smaller biscuits by reducing the amount of mixture.

Cook for about 10 minutes or until the biscuits have spread into lacy and lightly caramelised flat crisps.

The cooked biscuits will be soft and molten when removing from the oven so allow the biscuits to cool slightly on the tray before removing to a wire rack to cool.

Any remaining uncooked mixture will store perfectly in the fridge for up to 5 days.

04/11/2019 (PB) (23454)

https://www.fromballymaloewithlove.com/recipes/coffee-creme-brulee-with-nougatine-biscuits

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Coffee Crème Brûlée with Nougatine Biscuits

Screenshot_2020-05-12 Ballymaloe Cookery School ( ballymaloecookeryschool) • Instagram photos and videos

Coffee Crème Brûlée with Nougatine Biscuits

Serve this icy cold in one large dish or individual ramekins. Serve with Nougatine biscuits as an extra treat or even ladyfingers.

 

Serves 4

200ml (7fl oz/scant 1 cup) milk

200ml (7fl oz/scant 1 cup) cream

4 large or 5 small organic egg yolks

40g (1 1/2oz/scant 1/4 cup) castor sugar

1 1/2 tablespoon (1 3/4 American tablespoons) Camp coffee essence

4 dessertspoons (1 American tablespoon) Demerara sugar

1 ovenproof dish (19cm wide x 4.5cm deep/(7 1/2 x 1 3/4 inch) or 4 ramekins x 100ml (3 1/2fl oz/scant 1/2 cup) each capacity

Preheat the oven to 150ºC / 300ºF /Gas Mark 2

Put the milk and cream into a heavy bottomed saucepan and bring to the boil. Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar, gradually pour the boiling liquid over the egg yolks whisking all the time. Add the coffee and whisk again.  Pour the mixture through the sieve into an ovenproof dish or 4 ramekins.

Bake in a bain-marie in the preheated oven for about 25-30 minutes until just set but slightly wobbly in the centre, or 40-45 minutes for the individual ramekins. (Shallow wide dishes cook faster, 20 minutes approximately.)

Cool, cover with cling film and chill well.

Sprinkle with Demerara sugar – it should be a thin layer, tip off excess if necessary. Glaze with a blow torch. Coffee crème brûlée is already very rich but serve with a little pouring cream if you must and some nougatine biscuits or ladyfingers.

Nougatine Biscuits

My brother Rory O’Connell makes these lacy and deliciously crisp biscuits, they keep perfectly for several days. Serve them with ice creams, sorbets, mousses and soufflés. They are also perfect with perfectly ripe fruit such as pears or peaches.

175g (6oz) nuts, a mixture, or the entire quantity of a single nut such as almonds, walnuts, pecan nuts and Brazil nuts. Hazelnuts may also be used but should be roasted and peeled before chopping

150g (5oz/generous 1/2 cup) caster or granulated sugar

3/4 teaspoon apple pectin

125g (4 1/2oz/generous 1 stick) butter

50g (2oz/1/4 cup) glucose syrup

2 teaspoons water

Preheat the oven to 190°C / 375ºF / Gas Mark 5

Chop the nuts in a food processor, using the pulse button, to render them to a semi-coarse texture.

In a small saucepan, combine the remaining ingredients and cook on a very low heat just until the mixture is melted and smooth. Add the nuts and stir to mix.

Using a silicone baking mat or an oven tray lined with parchment paper, drop on scant teaspoons of the mixture allowing plenty of room for the mixture to spread as it cooks. A standard oven tray, 40cm x 35cm (15 x 13 inch), will accommodate about 4 biscuits this size. You can of course make smaller biscuits by reducing the amount of mixture.

Cook for about 10 minutes or until the biscuits have spread into lacy and lightly caramelised flat crisps.

The cooked biscuits will be soft and molten when removing from the oven so allow the biscuits to cool slightly on the tray before removing to a wire rack to cool.

Any remaining uncooked mixture will store perfectly in the fridge for up to 5 days.

04/11/2019 (PB) (23454)

https://www.fromballymaloewithlove.com/recipes/coffee-creme-brulee-with-nougatine-biscuits

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Ballymaloe’s Famous Chocolate Orange Cake recipe

Weigh the eggs. Take the same weight in butter, sugar and flour. Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and light in texture. Wash the oranges and add the finely grated rind of 2 and the juice of 1 to the butter mixture. Mix the flour and baking powder and add alternately with the eggs. Beat thoroughly. Bake in a 24cm (91/2in) tin in a moderate oven, 180°C/350°F/gas 4, for 50 minutes approx. Cool the cake and split it in two. Sandwich with the orange butter icing and spread the chocolate icing over the top and sides allowing any excess to run off.
To make the orange butter icing, finely grate the rind of the orange and squeeze out the juice. Beat the icing sugar, butter and orange rind together. Add in enough juice to make the icing a spreading consistency.
To make the chocolate icing, melt the chocolate in the water. Remove from the heat and beat in the butter and then the eggs very thoroughly. Leave to cool and set before icing and filling the cake.
Serves 12

For the Orange Cake:

  • 4 eggs
  • softened butter
  • sugar
  • plain flour
  • 2 oranges
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

For the orange butter icing:

  • 1 orange
  • 110g (4oz, 1/2 cup) icing sugar
  • 55g (2oz, 1/4 cup) softened butter

For the chocolate icing:

  • 170g (6oz) chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 50g (2oz, 4 tablespoons) softened butter
  • 2 large eggs
http://www.ballymaloe.ie/recipe/chocolate-orange-cake