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Kick start your Tuesday morning the right way – with a warming breakfast of creamy Irish oats!

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Kick start your Tuesday morning the right way – with a warming breakfast of creamy Irish oats! One of our absolute favourites is porridge topped with some raspberries, nuts, and finished with a sprinkling of cacao nibs. Let us know in the comments below how you’re enjoying your oats this morning and don’t forget to tag us in your post for your chance to feature on our Instagram page! #FlahavansOats #IrelandsOatExperts

Serves 1 Takes 10 minutes

INGREDIENTS:

40g Flahavan’s Progress Oatlets
125ml milk
50ml water
Handful of raspberries
3 tbsp cacao nibs
Handful of roughly chopped tiger nuts (or nuts of choice)

METHOD:

Combine the milk, water and Flahavan’s Oats in a saucepan
Bring to the boil, stirring continuously.
When boiling, reduce heat to medium, then add raspberries, cocoa nibs and chopped tiger nuts, leaving a little aside for garnish.
Simmer for 5 minutes, continuing to stir.
Serve and sprinkle with the left-over toppings.
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Ballymaloe’s Famous Chocolate Orange Cake recipe

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
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.
http://www.ballymaloe.ie/recipe/chocolate-orange-cake