Peanut Butter Bites
Preparation 40 Minutes
Cook Minutes
Serves 25
Method
- Combine currants, sultanas, oats, peanut butter and vanilla essence in a food processor. Blend until a smooth, thick paste is formed.
- Divide and roll into 25 balls and place on top of skewer.
- Dip balls in melted chocolate. Before chocolate is set place two half marshmallows for ears, one pink candy for a nose and Sunbeam currants for eyes.
Ingredients
1 cup Sunbeam Australian Currants
1 cup Sunbeam Sultanas
1 ¼ cup rolled oats
½ cup unsalted peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla essence
½ tsp ground cinnamon
300g white chocolate melts
25 white marshmallows
25 pink candies, eg. smarties
Sunbeam Currants, extra
Recipe Collection
Australian Ice-cream Pudding
Preheat oven to 180oC.
Brush a 2 litre pudding basin with vegetable oil, then line with plastic wrap, trying to keep wrap smooth without wrinkles. Place in the freezer to chill. In a bowl combine Sultanas, Raisins, cranberries, apricots, Macadamias and orange liqueur. Leave to soak for 30 minutes. Place softened ice cream in a large bowl stir in soaked fruit. Fold in whipped cream and pour mixture into prepared pudding basin. Place in the freezer and freeze for 4 hours or overnight.
To prepare orange cake, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in Almond Meal, orange juice and rind. Pour into a greased and paper lined 20cm cake tin and bake for 1 hour. Allow too cool in the tin, before turning out onto a board.
To finish pudding, ease ice-cream pudding from basin and place on top of cake. Trim the cake edges if required and serve cut into thick slices.
Toasted Almond & Blueberry Salad
- Toast almonds in a pan on medium heat then set aside.
- Wash berries and slice strawberries into halves.
- Crumble blue cheese and combine salad ingredients together.
- Combine dressing ingredients and blend until smooth, pour over salad when serving.
Baby Spring Vegetables
Preheat oven to 180ºC.
- Place the carrots and corn in a large pot of boiling water and cook for 5 minutes or until almost tender. Add asparagus and zucchini and cook for 2 minutes. Drain well and place in serving dish.
- Combine butter, apricots, Brazil nuts and chives in a saucepan and cook until nuts have begun to brown. Pour over cooked baby vegetables and toss to coat. Serve.
Currant & Apple Crumble
Preheat oven to 180°C.
For crumble topping, place flour, cinnamon and butter in a food processor and whiz for 1 minute or until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add brown sugar and pulse to combine.
Place the mixture into a large bowl. Add the whole almonds and macadamias to the food processor, pulse until coarsely chopped, add nuts to the flour mixture to combine ingredients then set aside.
In a separate bowl place apples, currants, caster sugar and stir well to coat.
Tip into a 1.5L baking dish, then scatter over the crumble topping.
Sprinkle the crumble with flaked almonds.
Bake for 45-50 minutes until the crumble is golden and bubbling. Dust with icing sugar, serve with ice cream and enjoy
Turmeric Chicken Curry
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Heat oil in a frying pan. Add onion, ginger and garlic, cooking over low heat for 4-5 minutes until tender. Stir in spices and cook a further minute.
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Add coconut milk, chicken and almond meal to pan. Simmer over a low heat partially covered until chicken is cooked through.
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Serve curry sprinkled with flaked almonds, tomatoes and coriander. Accompany with rice and cucumber.
Hot Cross Bun Waffles
Cut Hot cross bun in half
Heat your waffle iron and place both halves on the waffle iron to toast
Scoop vanilla ice-cream and place between the toasted bun
Drizzle with chocolate sauce and serve.
