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How to make apple and blackberry jam

Ingredients:

300g blackberries

300g apples

300g jam sugar

A small amount of water

1.peel and core the apples ,place blackberries and apples

in a saucepan with some water put a lid on until apples are soft

2.in the saucepan mash up the blackberries and apples until there isn’t any lumps

3.add sugar and let dissolve

4.heat jam until it reaches setting point

5.put jam in jars if you want

I hope you enjoy my jam recipe as much as I did. It’s a great ways of to use up blackberries you may have picked over the summer.🍎

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Easy to make spider cupcakes with a pumpkin cupcake base and cream cheese frosting! Perfect for Halloween!

This year, I have had a lot of fun making all kinds of cupcakes. Some creamy, some covered with icing and even some with berries inside! But I’ve decided for this blog, to make some Halloween cupcakes, since Halloween is coming up soon. There easy to make and also lots of fun. How bloggy is that?!?!

As the shops did not sell Halloween goodies yet, such as pumpkins and pumpkin purée, I cooked some sweet potato as an alternative and it works really well.

And here is the recipe. Enjoy!

Ingredients

Cupcakes:

2 cups (250 grams) whole wheat flour, whole spelt flour or all-purpose                 flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

4 large eggs

2 cups (480 grams) canned pumpkin puree

2 cups (400 grams) brown sugar, raw sugar or coconut sugar

1 cup (240 milliliters) olive oil (or another neutral-tasting oil)

Cream Cheese Icing:

1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, softened

12 ounces (340 grams) cream cheese

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups (195 grams) icing sugar

Decoration:

20 Oreos

1 cup (170 grams) chocolate chips or chopped chocolate

40 candy eyes (or other chocolate buttons for making the eyes)

Directions (makes 20 cupcakes)

1. Preheat the oven to 350 °F (175 °C). Line two muffin pans with paper liners.

2. In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.

3. In a larger bowl, whisk the eggs, pumpkin puree, sugar, and oil.

4. Add the dry mix to the wet and stir just until combined. Do not over mix!

5. Divide the batter among the liners, filling each one almost full, and bake for about 20 – 24 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool for 3 minutes in the pan and then remove to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.

6. Once the cupcakes have cooled, prepare the frosting. Beat the butter and cream cheese until soft and smooth. Add the salt and vanilla and beat until combined. Add in the icing sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, and beat until fluffy.

7. Spread about 1 ½ tablespoons of icing over each cooled cupcake.

8. Twist the Oreos apart and place the side without icing face up on the cupcake. You can also use whole Oreos if you prefer.

9. Melt the chocolate in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until melted. Pour into a piping bag.

10. Pipe 4 legs on both sides of the Oreo. Pipe a tiny bit of chocolate on the bottom of two eyes and place on the Oreo.

11. Keep decorated cupcakes refrigerated for one day until ready to serve. Keep undecorated cupcakes at room temperature for up to 3 days. The Oreos get slightly soft over time so decorate just a few hours before serving, if possible.

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How to make a world class pizza! (I think so anyway)

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How to make a world class pizza! (I think so anyway)

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Recipe for a tasty pizza

By Toby Bellhouse

I’ve used this pizza recipe and added to it for a while now, it’s one of my favorite recipes for pizza. Enjoy!

INFORMATION:

This pizza recipe makes 2, 10in pizzas

Leave 1  1/2 hours to make the pizza for the dough to rise (if your in a hurry use option 1 in the instructions, if not I recommend to leave it for the time option 2 says)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1 teaspoon of active dry yeast

100ml of lukewarm water (not hot)

265grams of all purpose flour

1  1/2 teaspoons of salt

EQUIPMENT:

Electric mixer with dough hook attachment, or a medium bowl and muscle power.

Stiff spatula

Cling film.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Dissolve the yeast in the water. Pour the water into the bowl of a stand mixer or a medium bowl. Sprinkle the yeast over the water, and let stand until the yeast has dissolved, about 5 minutes.

2. Stir in the flour and salt to form a shaggy dough. Add the flour and salt. Stir with a stiff spatula until you’ve formed a floury, shaggy dough.

3. Knead the dough for about 5 minutes. Using the dough hook on the stand mixer, or kneading by hand against the counter, knead the dough on medium speed until it forms a smooth, slightly tacky ball that springs back when you poke it, 5 to 8 minutes. If the dough sticks to the bowl or your hands like bubblegum, add a tablespoon of flour at a time until it’s easier to work with; avoid adding too much flour if possible.

4. Option 1 — Use the dough right away. If you're in a hurry, skip the rise and make the pizza right now. It will make a thin-crusted pizza with a cracker-like flavor. Option 2 — Let the dough rise for 1 to 1  1/2 hours. If you're planning to make pizza today, then give the dough a rise. Clean out the mixing bowl, coat it with a little oil, and transfer the dough back inside. Cover the bowl with cling film or a kitchen towel and let the dough rise until doubled in size, 1 to 1  1/2 hours. Option 3 — Store the dough in the fridge. If you're planning to make pizza in the next few days, cover the bowl with plastic wrap or a kitchen towel and refrigerate. If you have time, let it rise for about a half an hour before you refrigerate it to get things going, but it will also be fine if you need to store it right away.

5. Prepare the oven for baking. If your dough is refrigerated, take it out and let it warm on the counter while the oven heats or preferably 2 hours to come completely to room temperature. Arrange a rack in the bottom third of the oven. Place a baking stone, or upside-down heavy baking tray on the rack. Heat the oven as hot as it will go.

6. Prepare the pizzas. Divide the dough in half, and pat or roll one of the pieces into a 10-inch round. Transfer the round of dough to a floured baking peel, the back of a sheet pan, or a piece of parchment paper. Top with personal choice amount of sauce, some cheese and any other toppings.

7. Bake the pizza for 5 to 10 minutes. Slide the pizza into the oven on top of the baking stone or baking sheet. Bake until the cheese is melted, the crust golden, and you see a some charred bits on the top and edges, 5 to 10 minutes. Baking time will vary depending on the heat of your oven and how thick or thin you rolled your pizza.

8. Cool (briefly!) and eat. Transfer the pizza to a cutting board. Let the pizza cool just enough so it won't burn your mouth when you take a bite before cutting. Meanwhile, top the remaining round of dough and bake it.

RECIPE NOTES

Freezing pizza dough: The pizza dough can also be frozen for up to 3 months. Thaw it in the refrigerator for at least 12 hours before you plan to bake it.

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How to make Pancakes

It serves 6 people          Cooking 4mins    Easy to make
By
Darragh  Scanlon

Ingredients:

• 100g flour
• Pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 300ml milk
• 1tsp melted butter or sunflower oil

Method:

• Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and make a well in the center.

• Crack the egg into the well; add melted butter or oil and half the milk. Then start stirring slowly and then start to beat well to make a smooth batter.

• Stir in the remaining milk then beat it all together for 1min or in a blender or a food processor.

• Leave it it sit for 30mins , then stir again before using.

• To make the Pancakes, pre heat your pan until very hot then turn down the heat down to medium.

• Put a small bit of oil on your pan before you put on your batter.

• Then pour in enough batter to coat the base of the
pan.

• Cook over heat for 1-2mins or until the top of the batter looks dry.

• Flip the pancake with a palette knife and then flip it and cook the other side.

• Then put on to a plate and put on toppings of your choice.

AND ENJOY!

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By Rebecca England

What you need:

175g/6oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour

225g/8oz Butter or Margarine (room temperature)

125g/4oz Chocolate (good quality, at least 60% cocoa)

325g/12oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar

2 teaspoons Goodall's Vanilla Essence

4 Eggs (beaten)

80g Shamrock Chopped Walnuts

Pinch of Salt

½ teaspoon Baking Powder

1How to:

1. Preheat oven to 160°C/320°F/Gas 3. Lightly grease an oblong brownie tin. 25cm/10" x 15cm/6". Small roasting tin would also do.

2. Melt the butter/margarine and chocolate together over a low heat.

3. Remove from heat, add the sugar and mix well.

4. Add vanilla essence, eggs and chopped walnuts.

5. Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder together and gently stir into chocolate mixture.

6. Pour into prepared tin and bake for about 40-50 minutes until crusty on top.

7 . Remove from oven and allow to cool, cut into brownies.

Enjoy!!

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AN EASY WAY TO COOK CARBONARA
By Lucas Bolger

Ingredients

 Pasta (any type just make sure you know how to cook it)
 2 eggs
 Bacon bits
 50 milliliters of Milk/cream (it doesn’t matter)
 Parmesan cheese

Instructions

I. Start to Cook the pasta
II. Get the 2 eggs and put the 2 *yolks* in a bowl
III. While the pasta is cooking put the milk/cream, the 2 yolks from the eggs , some Parmesan cheese in a mug then mix it up until it’s creamy
IV. Cook the bacon bits evenly
V. When the pasta is finished put the strain the pasta and put is a pot
VI. Turn the stove on and put the pot of pasta on it
VII. Then pore the bacon and mixture in with it
VIII. Don’t stop mixing and keep on turning the stove on and off keep on doing this unit I’ll it becomes a creamy sauce if you don’t it will become scrambled.

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Recipe for apple pie by Anna Purcell

INFORMATION:

This recipe makes an apple pie roughly 10 1/2 inches wide and will take 35mins to prepare and another 20mins worth of cooking time (it might take less time than this so keep a close eye on it)

INGREDIENTS:

200g butter
250g flour
3 apples
3 tablespoons sugar (to taste)
Milk to glaze the top
Powdered sugar to decorate

METHOD:

-Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
-Put the butter and flour into a bowl, and mix it using your hands.
-sprinkle some flour onto your work surface and put half of your pastry dough out on it and leave the rest off to the side.
-Chop up your apples then put them into a saucepan along with your sugar and cook until soft
-Start to flatten your dough then roll it out using a rolling pin
-Make sure your piece of dough is big enough to cover the bottom of your dish/plate
-Place the dough onto your dish and poke small holes in it using a fork
-Pour the apple onto the dough
-Roll out the rest of your dough and cover the apple with it
-Press down the sides using a fork
-Now brush milk over all of the pastry to give it a golden brown crust
-Put it into the oven for 20mins or until golden brown
-Sprinkle some powdered sugar on top for decoration
-ENJOY!!!!