DELICIOUS MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE

Prep time: 15 mins Cook time: 35 mins Total time: 50 mins
Serves: 12

Ingredients
1¾ cups all purpose flour
2 cups granulated white sugar
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1½ tsp baking soda
¾ teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk (or substitute by putting 1 tbsp white vinegar in a cup then filling the rest up with milk; let stand 5 minutes until thickened)
½ cup butter, melted
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 cup hot coffee (or 2 tsp instant coffee in 1 cup boiling water)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9-inch baking pans (or line with parchment paper circles) and set aside.
In the large bowl of a standing mixer, stir together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Add eggs, buttermilk, melted butter and vanilla extract and beat until smooth (about 3 minutes). Remove bowl from mixer and stir in hot coffee with a rubber spatula. Batter will be very runny.
Pour batter evenly between the two pans and bake on middle rack of oven for about 35 minutes, until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean with just a few moist crumbs attached.
Allow to cool 15 minutes in pans, then run a butter knife around the edges of each cake. Place a wire cooling rack over top of each pan. Wearing oven mitts, use both hands to hold the racks in place while flipping the cakes over onto the racks. Set the racks down and gently thump on the bottom of the pans until the cakes release. Cool completely before handling or frosting.

Photo and recipe posted by Sabrina Merli

RICE CRISPY, MARSHMELLOW AND CHOCOLATE CRUNCHIES
Ingredients:
300 g baking chocolate
½ box of rice crispies
1 pack mini marshmallows
paper cup cake cups

Get a large bowl, throw rice crispies in it, add marshmallows.
Melt chocolate on hob in a glass bowl on a pot with boiling water (does get hot so be aware).
Stir chocolate until totally melted, add to all the other ingredients and mix together.
Scoop into paper cups and let it stand for abit.
TA DAAAAAA!!! Fast, cheap and easy for either a kids party or cake sale. Only took me 20 minutes max.

Recipe and photo: Leonora Shelton

JOLANDI SE LEKKER DADELBROOD
Foto en resep geplaas deur Jolandi Greyling en Velia Goosen
FOOD LOVERS RECIPES
Sit oond aan op 180°C.
375 g dadels
125 ml margarien
5 ml koeksoda
250 ml kook water

Snipper dadels en haal pitte uit.
Giet kookwater, margarien en koeksoda oor.
Roer en laat eenkant staan om af te koel.

190 ml suiker
1 eier
5 ml vanilla geursel
500 ml koekmeel
5 ml bakpoeier

Klits die suiker, eier en vanilla geursel saam tot lig.
Sif die koekmeel en bakpoeier saam.
Meng die 3 mengsels saam, skep in broodpan en bak vir 45 min.

250g strong plain flour
1 tsp fine sea salt
250g butter, at room
temperature, but not soft (blossom 50% fat)
about 150ml cold water
1. Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Roughly break the butter in small chunks, add them to the bowl and rub them in loosely. You need to see bits of butter.
2. Make a well in the bowl and pour in about two-thirds of the cold water, mixing until you have a firm rough
dough adding extra water if needed. Cover with cling film and leave to rest for 20 mins in the fridge.
3. Turn out onto a lightly floured board, knead gently and form into a smooth rectangle. Roll the dough in one direction only, until 3 times the width, about 20 x 50cm. Keep edges straight and even. Don’t overwork the
butter streaks; you should have a
4. Fold the top third down to the centre, then the bottom third up and over that. Give the dough a quarter turn (to the left or right) and roll out again to three times the length. Fold as before, cover with cling film and chill for at least 20 mins before rolling to use.

My Way:
Follow 1,2 & 3, but instead of a dough consistency it should be sloppy (as the above butter should be blossem) mix the pastry ingredients until all the lumps are gone and its all smooth.

Filling:
Mince
Cutted Mushrooms
Mixed veggies
Chopped Onions
Garlic and herbs
Garlic bbq spices
Bbq spices

Fry the filling
Pour half of the patry mix into a oven container evening out the pastry with a spoons bottom, then even out the filling ontop of the pastry, lastly pour the left over pasty over the filling and even it out aswell
Bake this in the over for 2-3 hours on slow heat

Recipe submitted by: Janie Reynette Pruis

BASIS VIR KORSLOSE QUICHE
Ek maak myne met die vlg basiese goed:
1 koppie room
1 koppie gerasperde cheddar kaas
4 eiers
Smeer ‘n tertbak, grootte van jou keuse.
Meng jou vulsel. Jy kan dan bysit net wat jy wil. Ek hou van spinasie en feta, broccoli en ekstra cheddar, oorskiet maalvleis, enige iets werk. Meng jou vulsel, skep in die pannetjie tot jou pannetjie so driekwart vol is. Meng die room, eiers en kaas, giet oor die vulsel.  Kyk dat dit mooi deurloop. Indien verkies, sprinkel nog kaas oor.
Bak by 180º C tot gaar. Rondom 30 min.
Altyd ‘n treffer.
Resep: Celeste Glöss
Foto : Adam Cloete

Heal Your Hands
A recipe to help nourish chapped skin and heal split cuticles
This luscious-sounding formula—fondly called “Hot Buttered Thumb”—was designed by the owner of a Los Angeles nail salon to nourish chapped skin and heal split cuticles. It uses warm milk to help break down dead skin and brown sugar to gently slough it off—and it is deliciously scented with cinnamon and spiced rum.
Find out the nail salon secret for smooth, healed hands, even in the coldest winter weather:
Ingredients
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup spiced rum
Dash of nutmeg
1 cup milk, heated
2 to 3 drops cinnamon essential oil
2 hand towels
2 quart-size plastic bags

1. In a bowl, mix brown sugar, rum, and nutmeg to a scrub consistency. Fill another bowl with the warmed milk and cinnamon oil.
2. Soak hands in milk for 2 to 3 minutes.
3. Massage the exfoliating scrub onto hands and slough off dead skin; rinse with warm water.
4. Wet the hand towels with hot water. Pat hands dry and apply a moisturizer.
5. Slide hands into plastic bags and wrap each with a warm, wet hand towel; let sit for 5 minutes and then remove.

Posted by: Alice Meintjes

Ingrediënten

½ rode kool
1 grote ui
20 gefileerde boter
tijm
laurier
4 klontjes suiker
100 gr honing
2½ dl water
1½ appel
4 el balsamicoazijn

Neem een rode kool en verwijder de buitenbladeren. Snij ze in vier en daarna en kleine, fijne reepjes. Neem een ajuin en snij die ook in kleine, fijne reepjes en laat het aanstoven. Snij de appels in blokjes, maar laat de schil eraan.
Doe de rode kool bij de ajuin. Schud alles op, zodat de kool onderaan de pot is en geschroeid wordt. Zes klontjes suiker mogen bij de rode kool en kruid met peper, zout, tijm en laurier.
Giet bij de rode kool vloeibare honing en een scheut balsamico azijn. Doe het deksel op de kookpot en laat het 40 min stoven.
Doe de appelblokjes erbij en een scheutje water. Laat alles nog een kwartier stoven.

Rode kool
1. Zet de rode kool nooit in water.
2. Snijd de kool heel fijn.
3. Stoof de kool goed aan.

Resep: Marlé Buysse

KWEPERKONFYT (BOTTEL KOUD)
Resep verskaf deur Monique Els
FOOD LOVERS RECIPES
1,2 kg geskilde, gerasperde kwepers
2,5 kg suiker
500 ml kookwater

Skil en rasper kwepers voordat dit geweeg word. Meng suiker en water in ‘n pot, plaas op die stoof en roer tot suiker gesmelt is.
Voeg gerasperde kwepers by en roer goed.
Kook vinnig vir 30 min en roer dikwels, maar saggies sodat dit nie aanbrand nie.
Koel af en bottel.

OATS BARS
Die een is rerig lekker.
250 g butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2,5 cups cake flour
1,5 cups oats
½ cup coconut
3 tablespoons golden syrup
Melt butter, sugar, syrup. Add vanilla, dry ingredients.
Bake in pan at 180 ºC for 20 minutes. Press down on it before you add syrup mix, to ensure it is not too crumbly.
1 tin condensed milk
60 g butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup.
Boil until thick (and stir constantly, it burns in 2 milliseconds) and pour over slices. Cut in bars and let cool.
Variation: Jazz it up by adding nuts, seeds or dried fruit of choice to first mixture.
Photo: Kiti De Jager

BULLY BEEF ROLL
Posted by Casper Aucamp
Photo: Hans Jonker en Wilna Dorfling
FOOD LOVERS RECIPES
1 Puff Pastry roll
Marmite
1 egg, beaten
1 can bully beef
1 onion, finely chopped
1 cup cheese
2 tablespoons chutney

Mix the onion, cheese and chutney with the bully beef.
Roll puff pastry open.
Take the back of a teaspoon and spread the marmite evenly over the puff pastry.
Spoon the mixed ingredients on pastry. Spread evenly. Roll up puff pastry.
Place on baking tray.
Cut puff pastry but do not intersect.
Brush beaten egg over the meat roll.
Bake at 180°C until golden brown.