Recipes For Sweet Treats

Plain Oven Scones

Recipe Ingredients:

1lb Self Raising Flour

100g butter

2tbsp Caster Sugar

2 egg yolks

½ pint milk

1 tsp Baking Powder

Pinch salt

Method:

Rub together flour and butter until it resembles fine breadcrumbs; add in sugar, salt and baking powder. Mix milk and egg yolks, then add enough to make soft dough. Flatten out to 1.5cm, cut and place on floured tray, brush tops with milk then bake at 200oC for 15 - 20 minutes. For a variation add in 4oz Mixed dry Fruit or 4oz chocolate chips

Chocolate Fudge

Recipe Ingredients:

3 oz full fat cream cheese

10 oz sieved icing sugar

2 oz chocolate, chopped into pieces

Salt to taste

Vanilla essence to taste

Method:

Beat the cream cheese until it is smooth and then beat in the sieved sugar. Melt the chocolate in a basin over hot water. Allow the chocolate to cool, but while still liquid, beat into the cheese and sugar mixture, together with the vanilla essence and salt. Press the mixture into a greased tin (measuring about 6x4) and smooth the top. Chill until smooth enough to cut into rough squares.

Peppermint Creams

Recipe Ingredients:

One Egg white

8oz Icing sugar

Peppermint essence

Method:

Place the egg white in a bowl and sieve in 6 oz of icing sugar. Mix well with a wooden spoon and slowly sieve in more icing sugar, half a tablespoon at a time until you have made a stiff paste. Shake a little icing sugar on the work surface and empty the paste onto this. Add 3/4 drops of peppermint essence or oil and gently knead it together with your fingers until you have a smooth paste. Roll out the mixture, cut shapes and place on greaseproof paper. Chill in the fridge and then coat the creams with melted chocolate.