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I just adore Boursin cheese. It's a soft and creamy cheese which is spreadable and comes in lots of delicious flavours. I am partial to the Black Peppercorn one and the Herb and Garlic one. I use it quite a lot. It's excellent stirred into sauces, or mixed with the flesh of baked potatoes and stuffed back into the skins for fabulous double baked spuds! It's nice on a cheese board and lovely spread onto crackers, or crisp celery sticks!
They now come in packs containing six individual portions and I was sent samples of both the Black Peppercorn and the Herb and Garlic to try out! Scrummo!! These are the perfect size to take on summertime picnics or pop into portable lunches for school or work . . . or even just to munch on when you are feeling a bit peckish.
We've been having such fabulous weather lately that yesterday I decided to put some of it to good use and make some tasty Pressed Picnic Sarnies to share with the Toddster . . . with the view in mind of taking ourselves off into the Welsh countryside . . .
These are the easiest and the tastiest of picnic sandwiches. They are simply layers of meat and cheese and vegetables compressed between two layers of crisp chewy Italian Slipper bread, or Ciabatta as it is called.
You can choose your own favourite filling ingredients, but what I have shown you here is what I like to use . . . ham, turkey, salami . . . three tasty slices cheeses . . . gouda, emmenthal and edam . . . crisp and peppery rocket and sweet basil leaves . . . sweet pickled hot peppers and sweet gerkins . . . roasted red and yellow peppers, ripe tomatoes and marinated olives . . .
You line the bottom half of the loaf with a good layer of tangy grainy mustard mayonnaise . . . and the inside of the top of the loaf with a tasty layer of Boursin cheese. This helps to prevent the bread from getting soggy. You wrap all of those layers tightly in cling film and then compress them just so . . .
You do need to make these ahead of time so that you can give them plenty of time for the flavours to meld together and blend into the perfect mix of deliciousness. Three hours will do it, but ideally overnight is best if you have the time.
When you are ready for your picnic, just slice open the covering and cut that tasty baby into five or six thick slices which are then ready to wrap and pack for your portable meal! Unless of course it is raining . . . which it is today. We picnicked in the confines of our lounge as we watched it pelt against the windows. Sure . . . it would have been nicer to be gazing out upon a field of lovely sheep . . . but that's England for you . . . when life hands you lemons and all that . . . you know how it goes.
*Pressed Picnic Sarnies*
Makes 5 to 6 servings
1 Ciabatta loaf, cut in half length wise
(If you can get them the sun dried tomato or olive Ciabatta makes for a really fun sandwich)
3 tablespoons grainy mustard mayonnaise
Garlic and Herb Boursin cheese
1/4 pound thin sliced roast turkey
1/4 pound thin sliced ham
1/4 pound thin sliced German Salami
4 slices gouda cheese
Roasted bell peppers
sliced sweet gerkins
sweet pickled jalapeno peppers (or any other hot pickled pepper you like)
chopped marinated olives
thinly sliced red onions
thinly sliced ripe tomatoes
Fresh basil leaves
Fresh rocket leaves
Spread
the mustard mayonnaise on the bottom of the ciabatta. Pull out some of
the inner bread on the top half and discard. (You can blitz it into
bread crumbs and freeze it for another time.) Spread the insides of the
top half of the ciabatta with the Boursin cheese. Sprinkle the chopped
olives over top and layer on the slices tomatoes, and some more rocket
leaves. On the bottom crust of the
ciabatta, layer rocket leaves and some basil leaves. Add the sliced red
onions. Layer on the meats. Top with the cheeses. Add a layer of
roasted peppers, gerkins, and jalapenos. Cover with top layer of
ciabatta. Press down lightly. Wrap the entire ciabatta tightly with
several layers of plastic cling film, making sure it is well covered.
Place the wrapped ciabatta onto a chair and sit on it. (I know this
sounds silly, but it's the secret to a nicely pressed sandwich!)
Refrigerate at
least 3 hours or overnight. Remove from the refrigerator. Cut way the
plastic wrap and cut into individual sandwiches. You should get 5 or
six sandwiches depending on the size of your Ciabatta! These are
delicious!
Many thanks to the people at Boursin Cheese for sending me these tasty samples!
Many thanks to the people at Boursin Cheese for sending me these tasty samples!
*Salmon Fillets with Cucumber and Dill*
Serves 4
Printable Recipe
Cucumber, dill and Salmon go so very well together. A nice light meal with wonderful flavours.
4 large salmon fillets, about 1 inch thick and weighing about 6 ounces each
fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
a bit of olive oil (I didn't use any in this pan and it worked a charm)
1/4 cup dry white wine
For the cucumber salad:
1 english cucumber
1 TBS rice wine vinegar
1 tsp fresh chopped dill weed
a pinch of salt
For the sour cream sauce:
6 TBS sour cream
2 TBS fresh chopped dill weed
2 TBS rice wine vinegar
1 1/2 TBS finely chopped shallot
1/4 tsp freshly grated lemon zest
2 tsp fresh lemon juice
1 clove of garlic, peeled and minced
fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
First make the sauce. Whisk together the sour cream, dillweed, vinegar, shallots, lemon zest and juice, and garlic. Season to taste and set aside.
To make the cucumber salad, trim the ends off the cucumber. Using a vegetable peeler, shave lengthwise into ribbons. Place into a bowl. Toss together with the remaining ingredients and set aside to marinate while you cook the salmon.
Season the salmon well on the flesh side. Heat a bit of olive oil in a large nonstick frying pan until hot. Add the fillets, presentation side down, and cook for 3 minutes, without disturbing. Carefully turn the salmon over and cook for an additional minute. Remove from the heat. Add the wine, then cover and allow to sit until the salmon flakes easily with a fork, about 3 minutes.
Divide the cucumber salad amongst 4 plates. Top each with 1 salmon fillet. Divide the sour cream sauce evenly amongst each serving and serve immediately.
Small baby potatoes, unpeeled and steamed until tender, go very well with this!
*Simple Pan Fried Haddock*
Serves 2
Printable Recipe
Quick to cook and oh so easy and delicious. We both really enjoy this!
2 boneless, skinless haddock loins
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 TBS flour
a knob of butter (I only needed a very small knob of butter. You could probably get away
with none, but the butter really adds to the flavour of this recipe)
several sprigs of fresh thyme
the juice of one lemon
Season your Haddock filets well on both sides then sprinkle with flour to coat, patting it lightly into the flesh. Set aside. Melt a knob of butter over medium high heat in a skillet until it begins to foam. Add the springs of thyme and then brown the Haddock fillets, starting with the presentation side, and then turning them after about 2 minutes.
They should only take about 2 minutes per side to cook through,
depending on the thickness of your fillets. After you have cooked both
sides, squeeze the juice of a lemon over all and allow it to bubble up.
Remove from the heat and let stand for several minutes before serving.
Delicious!
These are easy to make and so delicious! You can tell from the grease splattered piece of paper I’ve got it written down on that it’s a winner, but don’t take my word for it. Try them for yourself! We like to have them with applesauce and sour cream, with a few chives sprinkled on top, but you can have them with whatever strikes your fancy.
3 cups raw potato, peeled and finely grated
2 eggs, well beaten
1 tsp salt
2 TBS plain flour
2 TBS grated onion
Sunflower oil for frying (I just used a light spritz)
Grate your potatoes and squeeze as much liquid from them as you can, working quickly so that the potatoes don’t turn brown. Put into a bowl along with the remaining ingredients, mixing well.
Heat a skillet to medium hot, and grease well with some oil. I add about 3 TBS and swirl it around.
Once the oil is hot, drop the batter by tablespoonsful onto the hot skillet. Press with the back of the spoon to flatten a bit. Fry for about 3 minutes on each side until browned. Place in a low oven to keep warm while you fry the rest.
Serve hot with applesauce and sour cream. Delicious!
*Boeuf Bourguignon*
Serves 6
Printable Recipe
A fancy beef stew which hails from the south of France. Plan ahead as you need to make it the day before you want to eat it.
1 3/4 pounds of braising beef or steak
3 TBS olive oil (I used half the amount with this pan)
1/2 cup cubed pancetta
3 onions, peeled and finely chopped
2 fat cloves of garlic, peeled and minced
1 1/2 TBS plain flour
1 3/4 cups of full bodied red wine, plus an extra splash if need be
(I normally use a Shiraz)
a bouquet garni (A few springs of thyme, a bay leaf and a few parsley stalks
tied together)
2 TBS butter (Only used one TBS, again for the flavour)
1/2 pound of chestnut mushrooms, cleaned and halved
2 TBS finely chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Pat the meat dry. Trim well, discarding any sinew or excess fat. Cut into large chunks. Heat 1 TBS of oil in a dutch oven and brown the pancetta lightly. Remove with a slotted spoon to a bowl and set aside. Brown the meat in two batches in the fat that remains in the pan. Once browned scoop out and add to the pancetta, once again setting it aside. Add the remaining oil and fry the onion in it very slowly, covering the pan, until very soft and caramelized, about 25 minutes in time, stirring occasionally and adding the garlic to the mixture halfway through the cooking time. Stir the flour into the onions and cook for about a minute, then add the wine and bring to the boil, stirring. Add the meat and pancetta, along with the bouquet garni and bring back to the boil, then reduce the heat to a slow simmer and cook, covered, over very low heat until the meat is tender, about 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
Turn off the heat and leave the casserole overnight. Next day bring the dish back to the boil, then turn the heat down and simmer. Melt the butter in a skillet. Add the mushrooms and fry until lightly browned. Tip them into the stew and allow to cook for another 15 minutes or so. Season the stew with some salt and black pepper to taste and, if you think it needs it, another splash of wine. Sprinkle with the parsley to serve.
Serve hot with some mashed potatoes on the side. Delicious!
I love cooking with chicken breasts. They can happily accept many flavours and I love coming up with new ways of preparation. I think this is a delicious experiment of mine that I will be repeating often! You needn't serve this curry with anything more than some plain steamed basmati rice, and maybe a steamed green vegetable on the side. It really is delicious!
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 TBS butter ( I used half this amount and half of the required oil as well)
2 TBS olive oil
1 large onion, diced
2 fat cloves garlic, minced
1 TBS curry powder (I use a medium strength)
1 TBS peeled and grated fresh gingerroot
The grated zest and juice of 1 large orange
1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1 cup hot chicken broth
2 heaping TBS mango chutney
1 TBS chopped fresh coriander (cilantro)
1 TBS chopped fresh mint
½ cup lightly toasted cashew nuts
Thinly slice the chicken breasts lengthwise and then again in half so that you end up with four thin pieces from each. Season well with salt and pepper.
Heat the oil and butter in a large skillet over medium high heat until hot and the butter sizzles. Toss in the chicken pieces and brown them well on both sides. Remove to a plate and cover to keep warm.
Reducing the heat sauté the onion, stirring until tender and translucent. Thisshould take 3 to 4 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for about a minute longer, taking care not to brown it as this makes it bitter. Add the curry powder, orange zest, ginger and orange juice, stirring to scrap up the brown bits from the bottom of the skillet. Add the coconut milk and chicken broth and bring to a boil. Boil for a few minutes to reduce somewhat and then return the chicken to the pan, simmering for 3 minutes or so to cook through. Stir in the chutney and sprinkle with the coriander, mint and cashew nuts before serving.
Serve hot with some steamed or pilau rice on the side and some naan bread to sop up all that lovely sauce.
*Anthony’s Favourite Fly-Off-The-Plate Pancakes*
Family size (must mean at least 4 or five people)
Printable Recipe
This is another oldie from my big blue binder. In the amount area it only says family size so I take it to mean that means a lot, because I had a rather large family. My Anthony loved these and for good reason. They are quite simply delicious. The addition of sour cream gives them a wonderful tenderness. I always made them silver dollar size when I was making these. I think he liked them that way because he could get a whole one into his mouth at one time, you know how boys are! Break out the butter and Maple Syrup, you’re in for a real taste treat today!
2 cups plain flour
¼ tsp salt
2 TBS white sugar
6 tsp baking powder
2 large free range eggs
2 cups milk
5 TBS sour cream
4 TBS melted butter
Oil for frying (I only lightly spritzed with oil)
Whisk together the flour, salt, sugar and baking powder in a large bowl. Put the eggs, milk, sour cream and melted butter into a large beaker and whisk them together well. Make a well in themiddle of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients all at once. Whisk together vigorously until they make a smooth batter.
Heat a large non-stick skillet or griddle over medium high heat. Grease lightly with a little bit of oil, swirling it to lightly coat the bottom of the pan. Drop the pancake batter onto the heated pan or griddle in heaping tablespoonfuls. Cook over medium high heat until the surface is coated with small bubbles and the underside is lightly browned before flipping them over to cook and brown the other side. Remove to a plate and keep warm in the oven while you are cooking the rest, using up all the batter. Serve warm with knobs of ice cold butter on top and sweet lashings of Maple Syrup.
These freeze very well. Just pop them between layers of grease proof paper and pop them into a zip lock baggie. You can then take out as many or as few as you want at any given time, warming them up for a few seconds in the microwave.
PS - You can very easily cut this recipe in two if you don't want to make quite so many. I did.
*Jammy Breakfast Sandwiches*
Serves 4
Printable Recipe
Quick, delicious and different! A hot eggy bread sandwich filled with lovely meltingly rich cream cheese and sweet jam, all brown and butterly crunchy on the outside and dusted with caster sugar. Quite simply, lovely . . .
3 large eggs
1 TBS of caster sugar
2 TBS whole milk
A few drops of pure vanilla essence
8 slices of brioche
4 heaping TBS of your favourite flavour of jam
4 heaping TBS of cream cheese
A large knob of butter for cooking
More caster sugar for sprinkling
Lightly beat together the eggs, caster sugar, milk and vanilla in a shallow dish large enough to fit the bread slices into.
Open the slices of bread and spread the cream cheese on half of them and the jam on the other half. Put them together cheese sides to jam sides in the middle, pressing firmly so that they stick firmly together.
Melt the butter over medium low heat in a large skillet until it is foaming. Soak each sandwich in the beaten egg mixture until all the egg has been absorbed, allowing them to soak on both sides. Place the soaked sandwiches into the foaming butter and fry for one to two minutes on each side until golden brown and crusty all over, adding more butter as necessary.
Remove to warm plates and slice into fingers. Dust lightly with caster sugar to serve and enjoy!
I was recently challenged to use Soy Sauce in a unique way by the Kikkoman people. They sent me three bottles of sauce . . . their regular Soy Sauce, their Teriyaki Sauce and the Low Salt Soy Sauce. I do admit I am a great fan of their sauces.
I think their Soy Sauce is the best ever and I am being totally up front and honest when I say that. It's naturally brewed, with only four ingredients (soybeans, wheat, salt and water) and has a fabulous flavour and colour.
The challenge was to come up with a recipe that was not Oriental in nature . . . hmmm . . . I am awfully fond of using it in stir fries and such . . . and I always like to give my Chinese takeaway a liberal splash of the stuff . . . but . . . could I possibly do it?
The challenge was to come up with a recipe that was not Oriental in nature . . . hmmm . . . I am awfully fond of using it in stir fries and such . . . and I always like to give my Chinese takeaway a liberal splash of the stuff . . . but . . . could I possibly do it?
Let's see . . . I came up with several . . .
One of my favourite things has always been the Beef Dip Sandwich. This is a sandwich composed of shaved roast beef in a toasted baguette that you dip in a hearty beef broth to eat.
Scrummo! I love em!
I also love a good burger . . . who doesn't.
I decided to combine the two, and created a hearty burger served up in toasted French Bread with a beef broth dip.
I used the low salt Soy Sauce in both the meat mix for the burger and in the broth for the dip. It turned out to be quite, quite delicious.
Not only was it quite delicious . . . but it was quite simply very easy to execute as well, AND economical too!
Hearty, filling, economical and easy. You just can't get better than that!
*French Dip Burgers*
Serves 4serving size packets)
1/2 tsp ground black pepper or to taste
2 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed
softened butter
For the Dip:
chopped fresh parsley and sliced dill pickles for garnish (optional)
Place the patties
under the broiler and broil for 5 to 6 minutes per side until nicely
browned and thoroughly cooked, turning once.
Place two halves onto each of four heated
plates along with a small bowl of the dip for each. Garnish with some
sliced dills and chopped parsley if desired. Serve immediately.
The second recipe which I came up with was these delicious appetizer meatballs.
I have seen a lot of recipes for appetizer meatballs through the years which make use of chili sauce and jam, melted together to glaze them.
I created my own sauce for these using honey, tomato ketchup, Worcestershire Sauce, Mustard, horseradish, garlic and . . . Soy sauce! (Natch!)
They're zippy, easy and very tasty if I don't say so myself.
The recipe makes enough for two to three servings, but amounts can be very easily multiplied to make more for a larger crowd. Enjoy!
*Deviled Appetizer Meatballs*
Makes 2 to 3 servings
1 tsp prepared mustard
1 tsp creamed horseradish
1/4 tsp salt
Preheat the oven to 200*C/400*F/ gas mark 6. Have ready a small shallow casserole dish.
Spray a non stick frying pan with some cooking spray and
brown the meatballs carefully on all sides. Place them into the
casserole dish.
Pour all of the ingredients for the sauce into the
frying pan. Bring to the boil and then pour over top of the meatballs
in the dish, turning them to coat them with the sauce.
Bang the dish
into the oven and allow to cook for 15 to 20 minutes until the meatballs
are well glazed and the sauce has thickened nicely. Serve hot.
Many thanks to Kikkoman for providing me with these sauces and for coming up with this blogger challenge!
Many thanks to Kikkoman for providing me with these sauces and for coming up with this blogger challenge!
I think I am really rather late climbing onto the Pulled Pork band wagon. I know it's been around for a while . . . but in all truth, until I tasted my son's fabulous sandwiches recently in Canada, I hadn't even been tempted to taste such a thing.
I think it was a consistency thing for me. I am not overly fond of pork that's well done . . . I am not sure why. When my son said he was making pulled pork sandwiches I thought to myself, here we go . . . and thought I would be polite and eat it anyways . . . but guess what?
I fell in love. Simples . . .
Totally and completely in love. In fact I fell so completely and utterly in love I found myself wondering how I had managed to get this far in life without having tasted one!
Of course I had to make them for Todd when I got home. I knew he would love them. Of course I had to put my own spin on them as well . . .
Homemade barbeque sauce . . . you know it's good. Melted cheddar, chopped spring onions and chopped dill pickles . . . even better. In fact I'd call these totally scrumdiddlyumptious!
*Pulled Pork Sandwiches*
Serves 4Printable Recipe
2 tsp salt
1/2 of a single serving can of Dr Pepper, Root Beer,
or Coca Cola
or Coca Cola
For the sauce:
2 cups tomato ketchup
1/3 cup soft dark brown sugar, packed
1 small onion, peeled and grated finely
2 TBS sunflower oil
3 cloves of garlic peeled and crushed
1 TBS cider vinegar
1 TBS tomato puree (paste)
1 TBS Worcestershire Sauce
1 tsp dried mustard
1 tsp smoked paprika
fresh ground white pepper and salt to taste
To finish:
toasted buns
butter
sliced strong cheddar cheese
chopped dill pickles
chopped spring onions
Put
the spices for the pork into a mortar and pestle and grind them fine.
Rub this mixture all over the pork, rubbing it in well. Put this into
the bottom of a slow cooker. Pour the Dr Pepper (Root Beer or Coca
Cola) around the pork. Pop the lid on and cook for 1 hour on high, then
reduce to low and cook for 6 to 7 hours until the pork is fork tender.
While the pork is cooking make the sauce. Combine all of the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes until thick and the flavours have melded well.
While the pork is cooking make the sauce. Combine all of the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes until thick and the flavours have melded well.
Once
the pork has cooked until nice and tender, remove it from the crock
pot. Scrape off any fat and discard. Using two forks, shred the pork
to your desired consistency. Return it to the crock pot along with
prepared Barbeque Sauce to your taste, stirring it all together.
Butter
and toast your buns under the grill. Top with cheese, pickles and
onions, Pop back under to melt the cheese. Divide the shredded pork
amongst the buns, close up and enjoy!
(A tasty salad from the archives for a delicious Bank Holiday weekend! For 56 other tasty salad offerings check out The Tumblewood Contessa Blog! http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com/blog/salads-saturday-dishes/)
I haven't been really able to do a lot of cooking this week during the day, what with all of this work going on in our bathroom, and at night I'm far too tired. You wouldn't think that renovating just one room would create such chaos, but it does . . . happy to say though, things are well on the way towards being done, and there should only be a few more days of mither. It's looking great so far!! Anyways, simple food has been the rule of the day with as little cooking as possible. You can't really plan much with the power being turned on and off haphazardly . . . it would be terrible to have a cake or a roast in the oven and have the power shut down.
Today I was really craving salad and oddly enough grilled cheese sandwiches. I got to thinking and we all know what happens then . . . my creative mojo goes into overdrive and you just never know what I am going to end up with. Most of the times it's something quite, quite delicious . . . others maybe not so delicious, but always interesting largely edible. I'm happy to say that today I ended up with something quite, QUITE delish!
Think about it . . . crisp salad greens scattered across a nicely chilled plate . . . and topped with some of your other favourite salad ingredients . . . crisp and peppery radishes . . . crunchy cucumber . . . snappy and sweet red onions . . .
Now top that with a fantastically devilishly moreish fresh Lemon Thyme and Honey Mustard Vinaigrette dressing . . . not a lot . . . just a drizzle . . . coz there's more to come. Oh sure you could use regular thyme if that's all you have . . . but the lemon thyme just adds just a teensy bit more depth to the flavours . . .
Finally . . . top all that goodness with a crisp freshly toasted Cheese Sarnie, deliberately sliced on the diagonal . . . some of the cheese oozing out . . . just laid here and there on the top . . . now a final drizzle of that scrummy dressing . . .
Presto! A deliciously easy, scrummily edible, moreishly wanton Grilled Cheese Sarnie Salad.
And you thought salads were mostly boring??? Aha!! Not in this house! This just could not get any better!
*Grilled Cheese Sarnie Salad*
Serves 4
Printable Recipe
Don't knock it til you try it. This salad rocks! Fresh salad fixings, topped with toasted cheese sarnie croutons and drizzled with a lemon thyme honey mustard vinaigrette!
4 small heads of baby gem lettuce, washed trimmed and leaves separated
(tear any larger leaves into bite sized pieces)
4 large radishes, washed trimmed and slivered
1/2 small red onion, peeled and slivered
1/4 of a medium sized English cucumber, washed, unpeeled, cut in half lengthwise and
then sliced into half moons
8 slices of fresh bread
4 ounces of good strong cheddar cheese, grated (a heaped cup)
softened butter
For the dressing:
4 1/2 TBS extra virgin olive oil
2 TBS apple cider vinegar
1 TBS liquid honey
1 TBS Dijon mustard or to taste (grainy or smooth, it's up to you)
a few springs of lemon thyme (you may use ordinary fresh thyme if that's all you have)
fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
A few springs of thyme for a garnish (optional)
First make the dressing. Strip the leaves from the thyme sprigs and whisk half of them together the olive oil, vinegar, honey and mustard until thoroughly amalgamated. (Reserve the remaining thyme leaves for the sarnies.)Season to taste with salt and pepper and set aside.
Wash and dry the lettuce. Scatter the leaves onto four plates, tearing any larger leaves into bite sized pieces. Scatter the radish, onion and cucumber over top.
Spread the softened butter onto one side of each slice of bread. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Toss together the cheese and remaining thyme leaves. Place 4 of the bread slices, butter side down into the heated pan. Top each with an equal amount of the cheese/thyme mixture. Top the cheese with the remaining slices of bread, butter sides up. Toast over medium heat, until golden brown on the outsides and the cheese is melted. Cut each sandwich into 3 or 4 pieces diagonally.
Give the dressing a quick whisk and then drizzle some of the dressing over each salad. Top each with 1 cut sandwich, and then drizzle the sandwiches with some of the dressing. Garnish each salad with a small sprig of thyme if desired. Serve immediately!
It has been said that cupcakes are becoming very passe. What a fickle lot we are . . . I expect that the Macaron will be the next thing to go out of culinary fashion . . .
What cupcakes and macarons once were, the Whoopie Pie now is!! These little babies are taking the country by storm!
Coming from North America I am no stranger to the Whoopie Pie. I have been making the chocolate ones for years.
They are a typically Amish treat originally used as a thrifty way to use up leftover cake batters. Quite ingenious I think, but then again . . . the Amish are well known for their thrift and ingenuity.
It is said that when the lucky husbands and children of these thrifty Amish housewives opened their lunch pails and spied these little treats inside, they would shout out with loud "Whoopie's!"
Hence the name Whoopie Pie.
One thing I love about the British is that they are not afraid to embrace foods of different cultures and make them their own.
You can find all sorts of designer whoopie pies showing up in the more up-to-date cafes and bakeries across the land.
This is my attempt to create a truly "British" Whoopie Pie. What could shout out England more than the good old Bakewell Tart!
I spent almost all of today working on these and perfecting them. I am really pleased with the results.
These tasty little cakes have all the characteristics of a traditional Bakewell tart . . . an delicious cake batter, containing ground almonds . . . raspberry jam, the almond icing on top and the glace cherry.
The only thing that is not traditional is that gorgeous whipped marshmallow filling . . . oh and there's no crust, but to be honest . . .
You won't miss it a bit!!!! I think I'm on the cutting edge of something really wonderful here.
I think you will find these . . . very . . . very . . . very . . . moreish!
And that's NO lie! (I'm pretty proud of these. Can you tell??) A bit messy to eat for sure, but oh . . . so . . . scrummy!
*Bakewell Whoopie Pies*
Makes about 20
Printable Recipe
Delicious double almond cake/biscuits with a filling of seedless raspberry jam and lucious marshallow cream, drizzled with an almond drizzle icing and topped with flaked almonds and glace cherries. Oh my but these are some good. I believe if I opened my lunch bucket and found one of these, I'd be shouting "Whoopie" too! To make perfectly round whoopie pies use a piping bag with a wide piping nozzle.
75g unsalted butter, melted (5 TBS)
1 large free range egg
150g of caster sugar (3/4 cup)
125g sour cream (slightly more than 1/2 cup)
25ml of cold milk (about 3 TBS) Plus 1 TBS if needed
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
275g plain flour (2 cups, less 1 TBS)
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
50g of ground almonds (1/2 cup)
For the marshmallow cream filling:
100g mini or regular marshmallows (18 large ones)
50ml of milk (1/8 cup)
125g of very soft unsalted butter (8 1/2 TBS)
about 4 heaped TBS of seedless raspberry jam, stirred to loosen
For the drizzle:
200g icing sugar, sifted (about 1 1/2 cups)
cold water
few drops of almond extract
To finish:
10 glace cherries, halved
flaked almonds
Preheat the oven to180*C/350*F/Gas mark4. LIne some large bakign trays with nonstick baking paper and set aside.
Whisk the egg with an electric hand whisk until light and fluffy. Continue to whisk adding the sugar a bit at a time until thick and glossy. Beat in the melted butter, sour cream, milk, vanilla and almond extracts. Sift the flour and baking soda together and then add this to the liquid mixture, beating it in until smooth. Fold in the almonds and if need be the additional TBS of milk. You want a fairly thick batter, not too runny. Spoon into a piping bag with a wide piping nozzle fitted.
Pipe walnut sized balls onto the baking sheets, leaving about 2 1/2 inches between each. (Alternately you can spoon walnut sized blobs onto the sheets) This will take a few batches of baking so don't worry if they don't all fit on the trays at once.
Bake for 12 to 13 minutes, until slightly browned and crisp around the edges. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before removing to a wire rack to finish cooling. Repeat with remaining batter until it is gone.
To make the marshmallow cream, place the marshmallows and milk in a small saucepan. Cook, stirring, over low heat, until the marshmallows have melted and completely amalgamated with the milk Remove from the heat and cool. Add the butter and beat together until smooth and light.
To assemble, sandwich two cookie/cakes together with a layer of raspberry jam on the bottom, topped with a dollop of marshallow cream. Place the sandwiched whoopie pies onto a baking rack. Whisk together the icing sugar, a few drops of almond extract and enough cold water to make a runny drizzle. You don't want it too runny or too thick. Just add it a bit at a time until you get the proper consistency. Drizzle this over the whoopie pies, topping each with 1/2 of a cherry and some flaked almonds before it sets. Allow to set before serving.
These will keep for several hours once filled and iced. Best eaten on the day they are baked! (Not a problem I'd say!!)
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