Orange cream biscuits

I sent some of these in the post, early last week. 

They arrived in record time, I was surprised. but ever so glad! It was the best feeling to send someone a home cooked pressie, from me to them. Just awesome. 

I'm planning to do it again next month. Have you heard of #fucktober? I hope Eden likes baked goods ;)

Orange cream biscuits 

120 grams butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup custard powder

1 tablespoon orange juice

pinch salt

1 teaspoon grated orange rind

1 egg

1 1/2 cups SR Flour

Preheat oven to 190C.

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add in orange juice and rind, and stir to combine.  Then stir in egg. 

Lastly, stir in sifted flour, custard powder and salt. 

Form into small balls. Place on a greased tray and press with a fork dipped in flour, to flatten.

Bake for 15 minutes.

Remove to a wire rack to cool.

Icing

75 grams butter

3/4 cup icing sugar
1 teaspoon milk

1/2 teaspoon orange rind

To make icing, beat the butter and icing sugar in a small bowl, Beat in the milk. Stir through the orange rind. 

Spread one biscuit with about half a teaspoon of icing, and join with another biscuit of the same size.

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Orange, coconut and cardamom biscuits

Occasionally, well often, the biscuit barrel is bare. If it happens before our next big shopping day, we bake.

The last time it happened we made chocolate biscuits, and used up the cocoa. I must buy more.

I looked for what we had, and that was three oranges in the fruit bowl. I could use the zest. I looked for an easy recipe, I always look for the easiest recipe. I found one and decided to add some extras I had in the pantry.

I like these biscuits. I like that Izzy can help by rolling the dough in balls herself, even though at least three or four biscuits worth of dough go missing in her mouth. But isn't that the best bit for kids in the biscuit making process? She would have eaten the lot if I let her.

3/4 cup Self Raising Flour
100 gr butter or marg
1/4 cup caster sugar
zest of an orange
1/4 cup dessicated coconut
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom 

Preheat oven to 180C.

Place all ingredients in a bowl.
Rub together with your fingers and form into a soft dough.
Roll into small balls, you should have about 24.
Place on a greased baking tray and lightly press with a fork.

Bake at 180C for 10 minutes.

Flogging this recipe at With some grace

Spring brings....bursts of orange

 A simple poppy

 Nasturtiums

 Arctotis daisy

'Harry Wheatcroft' rose

 Marigold

They all remind me of fireworks. How about you?

Easter jaffa cake

Izzy wanted to cook a cake. A brown cake. By this I assumed she meant a chocolate cake. I have some oranges to use up, so we combine the two and made a jaffa marble cake.

Marble Jaffa Cake

2 eggs

cream

1 heaped teaspoon orange zest

1 cup SR Flour

1 Tblspn cocoa

orange food colouring

Crack 2 eggs in a 1 cup measure. Fill to top with cream.

Add zest and flour, stir to combine.

Divide mixture in half. Add cocoa to one half, and orange food colouring to the other.

Add half of the cocoa to a lined cake tin in blobs here and there. Add all of orange and then add rest of cocoa mix on top.

Bake for 30 minutes.

My sous chef/bowl licker!

I iced our cake with just icing sugar, cocoa and water. Then went about making grass, carrots and a bunny with fondant we had left over in the freezer, from a Cake to the Rescue cake. This is what ours turned out like, pretty darn good if I say so myself!

Orange Salad

It's as simple as

4 oranges, sliced into rounds

1 small onion, thinly sliced

you can add 

 100gr olives

or pistacchio nuts

try this dressing

  1/2 cup olive oil

2 garlic cloves, crushed

1/2 tspn cumin

1/2 tspn sweet paprika

  

*****or*****

Orange and Beetroot Salad 

8 baby beets (canned), cut into wedges

2 oranges, segmented

1/2 onion, sliced thinly

 

with this dressing

1 Tblsp balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar

2 Tblsp olive oil

2 Tblspn fresh mint