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Shane Smith’s chocolate ghost cupcakes  👻 👽 😋

Ingredients

Serves: 12
Prep: 10 mins
Bake: 20-22 mins

· 180g Gem plain flour
· 40g unsweetened cocoa powder
· 150g caster sugar
· 1 tsp baking powder
· ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
· Pinch salt
· 2 medium eggs
· 160ml milk
· 60ml vegetable oil
· ½ tsp vanilla extract
· 150g Gem chocolate chips

Buttercream
· 200g soft butter
· 180g Gem icing sugar
· 15g unsweetened cocoa powder
· Dash of vanilla extract

Decorate
· 400g white fondant icing
· 24 medium marshmallows
· 50g Gem dark chocolate, melted

Method
· In a large bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt and raising agents.
· In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, oil, milk and vanilla until combined. Add to the dry ingredients and mix gently before folding through the chocolate chips.
· Cover with a clean tea towel and leave to rest for 10 minutes while you preheat the oven to 200°C (180°C fan).
· Line a 12-insert muffin tin with paper cases and divide the batter evenly between them.
· Bake for 7 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 170°C (150°C fan) and bake for a further 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
· For the buttercream, beat the softened butter, icing sugar, cocoa powder and vanilla together until smooth and fluffy. Pipe a small amount onto each cooled cupcake.
· On a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar, roll out the fondant and cut out 12 x 4″ circles.
· Stack two marshmallows, one on top of the other, on top of the buttercream and drape a fondant circle over them to create a ghost shape.
· Finish with two dots of melted chocolate

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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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Anna Haugh “I love, absolutely love, making Christmas cake” 🎂🥰😍

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  • I love absolutely love making Christmas cake, it’s one of those traditions that takes me right back to childhood, bringing the recipe to life with my mother making a wish as we stirred.

    The whiskey gives it flavour and helps really preserves it, but the real magic comes from time. Time to rest, time to deepen, time to become something truly memorable.

    Keep an eye out for an upcoming post where I’ll show you the dish this is for, it’s one I think you’ll love☺️

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Simple Black Bean Stir Fry @dunnesstores #asianstyle

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  • Our Double Savers make midweek meals simple and delish without breaking the bank ✅✅ Try this tasty Black Bean Stir Fry using ingredients from our own label range 😋

    INGREDIENTS
    325g Dunnes Stores Stir Fry Irish Beef Strips
    475g My Family Favourites Black Bean Sauce
    1 head Dunnes Stores Fresh Broccoli
    150g Dunnes Stores Sliced Mushrooms
    250g Dunnes Stores Jasmine Rice

    METHOD
    Heat a large frying pan or wok over a medium, high heat and add some cooking oil.
    Stir fry the vegetables until just charred and barely cooked. Remove from the pan and set aside. Add the rest of the oil to the pan and stir fry the beef until cooked and browned all over.
    Add the cooked vegetables back to the pan along with the black bean sauce and stir through until piping hot and coated evenly.
    Serve over steaming rice. Optional: garnish with coriander to serve.
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