Fluffernutters
- Marshmallow Fluff
- Peanut butter (smooth or creamy
- 2 slices bread
Spread peanut butter onto one slice of bread. Cover with Marshmallow Fluff. Top with second slice of bread and enjoy!
Apple Pie
- 125 g Short Crust Pastry
- 500g green cooking apples
- 60g sugar
- 50g sultanas
- 1 tablespoon water
- castor sugar
Prepare Short Crust Pastry or use pre-packaged one.
- 2 cups plain flour
- pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons of butter or margarine
- cold water
- Place flour and salt into a mixing bowl.
- Rub butter through mixture until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Add water one teaspoon at a time and mix to a stiff dough which leaves the sides of the bowl cleanly.
- Knead lightly until smooth.
- Wrap in grease-proof paper and chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes
- Flour bench top and roll out half of pastry mix to a shape large enough to cover the base and sides of a pie dish, allowing 1 cm of overhang.
- Brush rim of pie dish with cold water. Place pastry over pie dish and trim sides.
Apple Pie Filling:
- Peel apples and cut into quarters, slice thinly.
- Place in bowl. Sprinkle with sugar and water.
- Microwave, covered until apples are tender.
- Add apples and sultanas to pie base.
- Roll out second half of pastry and cover dish, pressing to rim to seal.
- Skewer several holes in pastry to allow steam to escape while cooking.
- Place dish on baking tray and bake in moderate oven (180 Deg) for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
Banana in a Blanket
- 1 flour tortilla
- Peanut butter
- Mini M&M's®
- Banana
- Heat tortilla in microwave on a paper towel for about 15 seconds. Spread tortilla with peanut butter. Sprinkle M&M's® on peanut butter. Lay peeled banana on the edge of tortilla. Roll tortilla around banana.
Chocolate Brownies
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup self-rising flour
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 175 degrees C.
- Grease and flour an 8x8 or 9x9 inch baking pan.
- In a medium bowl, beat together the butter and sugar.
- Add eggs, and mix well.
- Combine the flour, cocoa and salt; stir into the sugar mixture.
- Mix in the vanilla and stir in walnuts if desired.
- Spread evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are firm.
- Cool before cutting into squares.
Rocky Road
Ingredients:
- 500g milk chocolate
- 1 packet of white/pink marshmallows
- I packet of soft jelly worms
- ½ cup crushed nuts (walnuts, pecan or unsalted peanuts)
- ½ cup sultanas
Preparation:
- Place marshmallows, nuts, and raisins into a bowl.
- Put chocolate into the top of a double boiler over simmering water; stir until melted.
- Pour melted chocolate over ingredients in bowl, quickly fold to blend well and spread in a greased 30 X 20cm tin.
- Chill until firm then cut into squares to serve.
Recipes from Launched!
Ants on a Log
Peanut butter
Celery sticks
Sultanas
Wash the celery and cut into pieces 12 centimetres long.
Spread peanut butter into u-shaped part of celery, from one end to the other.
Press sultanas into the peanut butter.
Jelly Bean Bird's Nests
4 cups of crispy chow mein noodles
One packet of jelly beans
¼ cup of butter
2 cups of miniature marshmallows
Patty cases
In a saucepan combine marshmallows and butter.
Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until combined.
Stir in noodles until very well coated.
Spoon mixture into patty cases and make a well in the middle.
Refrigerate two hours until firm.
Remove nests from patty cases and fill with jelly beans.
Cheese Scones
25 g of butter
One egg
40 g of grated cheese
100 ml of milk
175 g of self-raising flour
½ a level teaspoon of baking powder
cookie cutters
Heat the oven to 220C.
Put flour and baking powder in a large bowl.
Mix in grated cheese, egg and pour in milk using a blunt knife to mix well.
Cut the butter into small pieces and rub it through the flour mixture until it looks like fine breadcrumbs.
Gently press the mixture with your hands to make a soft dough.
Sprinkle flour onto a clean surface and use a rolling pin to roll out the dough until it is 1cm thick.
Use the cutters to cut out shapes.
Squeeze the leftover dough into a ball and roll out again. Cut out more shapes.
Put the shapes onto a baking tray, leaving spaces between them, then brush the tops of them with a little milk.
Bake the scones for 7 or 8 minutes until they've risen and turned golden.
Lift them onto a wire rack to cool.
Bugs and Dirt
Loose plain biscuits
Chocolate sprinkles (ants)
Jelly worms
Raisins (beetles)
Crush he biscuits in a bowl.
Add ants, beetles and worms to the 'dirt'.
Place bowl in centre of table.
Grab a spoon and scoop up as much as you can eat.
Vietnamese Rice Cake in Banana Leaf
Sticky rice
Green bean paste
Pork meat
Banana leaf
Salted sour onion as an accompaniment
Chocolate Muesli Crackles
Three-quarters of a 250 g block of copha
1 ½ cups of icing sugar
3 tablespoons of cocoa
3 cups of toasted muesli
Cooking oil spray
Baking tray
In a large bowl, mix muesli, icing sugar, and cocoa.
Slowly melt the copha in a saucepan over a low heat.
Allow to cool slightly.
Add to muesli mixture, stirring until well combined.
Spoon mixture into greased baking tray and refrigerate until firm.
Gorp
Sultanas
Sesame seeds
Oatmeal
Dried apricot
Sunflower seeds
Peanuts
Pretzels
Chocolate chips
Cheese puffs
Candy coated chocolate balls
Mini marshmallows
Mix together what you'd like and enjoy!
Kushi-Dango (Sweet Skewered Dumplings)
1 cup of glutinous rice flour
¾ cup warm water
Sauce:
¾ - 1 cup of water
½ cup of sugar
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
1 ½ tablespoons of corn starch
1 ½ tablespoons of water
bamboo sticks
Put rice flour in a bowl and add warm water.
Knead the dough well.
Make small round dumplings.
Place the dumplings in a steamer and steam on high for 10 minutes.
Cool dumplings and skewer 3-4 on each bamboo stick.
Mix water, sugar and soy sauce in a pan and heat.
Mix corn starch and water in a cup and set aside.
When he sauce boils, add the corn flour mixture and mix quickly.
Slightly grill the skewered dumplings and brush with sauce.
Squisharoonies
One packet of green jelly crystals
24 large marshmallows marshmallows
Water in a spray bottle
Pour jelly crystals into a bowl.
Wet marshmallows and roll 3 or 4 in the jelly crystals at a time to coat.
Hopel Popel
One clove of garlic, crushed
Spray cooking oil
1 medium onion, peeled and finely chopped.
125 g sliced button mushrooms
½ kilo boiled potatoes, diced
4 large eggs
125 g grated cheese
Salt and pepper to taste.
Sauté the bacon, onion, garlic and mushrooms gently in the oil, preferably in a non-stick pan, then add the potatoes and allow them to warm through.
Beat the eggs, season with salt and pepper to taste and pour over the potato mixture.
Sprinkle with grated cheese and cook slowly until the eggs have set.
Brown the top under the grill (optional)
