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Recipe of the Week: Cauliflower Cheese Soup

 

Cauliflower Cheese Soup

This comforting soup is perfect for tucking in to after a brisk walk in the spring sunshine (or rain!)

Cauliflower Cheese Soup

  • Servings: 2
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 364 per portion
Fat 24g (11g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians

Ingredients

  • Sunflower oil 1 tbsp
  • Onion 1, peeled and chopped
  • Cauliflower 1 head, cut into florets
  • Vegetable stock 450ml (¾ pint)
  • Milk 150ml (¼ pint)
  • Low fat soft cheese 110g (4oz)
  • Cheddar cheese 75g (3oz), grated
  • Dijon mustard 1 tsp
  • Snipped chives to garnish (optional)
  • Walnut or olive bread, warmed to serve (optional)

Instructions

  1. Heat oil in a large pan and cook onion for about 4 minutes until softened.
  2. Add cauliflower, stock and milk to the pan and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 8-10 minutes until cauliflower is cooked.
  3. Stir in cheeses and mustard and purée with a stick blender until soup is smooth.
  4. Season to taste and reheat gently until hot. Serve scattered with chives and with warm walnut or olive bread, if you like.

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Win a fantastic Morphy Richards 48280 Fastbake Breadmaker in our prize draw

Bake beautiful bread with less fuss

As its compact you’ll only need a small space in your kitchen for this handy machine.

It bakes heavenly-smelling loaves,
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Cauliflower Cheese Soup

Cauliflower Cheese Soup

  • Servings: 2
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 364 per portion
Fat 24g (11g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians

Ingredients

  • Sunflower oil 1 tbsp
  • Onion 1, peeled and chopped
  • Cauliflower 1 head, cut into florets
  • Vegetable stock 450ml (¾ pint)
  • Milk 150ml (¼ pint)
  • Low fat soft cheese 110g (4oz)
  • Cheddar cheese 75g (3oz), grated
  • Dijon mustard 1 tsp
  • Snipped chives to garnish (optional)
  • Walnut or olive bread, warmed to serve (optional)

Instructions

  1. Heat oil in a large pan and cook onion for about 4 minutes until softened.
  2. Add cauliflower, stock and milk to the pan and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 8-10 minutes until cauliflower is cooked.
  3. Stir in cheeses and mustard and purée with a stick blender until soup is smooth.
  4. Season to taste and reheat gently until hot. Serve scattered with chives and with warm walnut or olive bread, if you like.

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Recipe of the Week: Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

 

A gorgeous but simple Mothering Sunday bake.

 

Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 491 per portion
Fat 37g (23g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Instant coffee 2 tsp
  • Unsalted butter 175g (6oz), softened
  • Caster sugar 175g (6oz)
  • Eggs 3, beaten
  • Self-raising flour 175g (6oz), sifted
  • Double cream 400ml (14fl oz)
  • Icing sugar 1 tbsp
  • Stem ginger in syrup 2 pieces, finely sliced
  • Blueberries and/or edible flowers to decorate (optional)

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat oven to 180°C/160°fan/Gas 4. Grease and base-line two 18cm (7in) sandwich tins. Mix coffee with 1 tablespoon boiling water.
  2. In a large bowl, cream butter and caster sugar until fluffy.
  3. Beat in coffee and eggs, a little at a time. Fold in flour and then pour into tins.
  4. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until sponge springs back when lightly touched. Cool in tins for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  5. Whip cream with icing sugar and1 tablespoon of syrup from ginger. Use half to sandwich cakes together. Spread remaining cream on top and decorate with ginger, blueberries and/or edible flowers. Chill until ready to serve.

 

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Mothering Sunday bake

An easy but decadent bake for Mothering Sunday

Every shop that you wander into will have made sure you know it’s Mothering Sunday this weekend, as there’s no end of signage everywhere badgering you to spend.

Mother’s Day can be met with mixed emotions as many cannot be with their own mum, for many different reasons.

Mums should be celebrated though. Parenting is one of the hardest, most challenging ‘jobs’ in the world and those who do it well deserve a big thank you.

This cake is really easy to
make but looks really pretty.

Bake it for a mum you know who deserves a treat. (You could also leave your Dairy Diary open at this page as a big hint to your children/other half!)

I’ll be making two this year – one for my own long-suffering mum, and one for my sister-in-law Jo, who’s a brilliant mum and who also recently lost her own mum.

 

Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

Coffee Sponge with Ginger Cream

  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 491 per portion
Fat 37g (23g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Instant coffee 2 tsp
  • Unsalted butter 175g (6oz), softened
  • Caster sugar 175g (6oz)
  • Eggs 3, beaten
  • Self-raising flour 175g (6oz), sifted
  • Double cream 400ml (14fl oz)
  • Icing sugar 1 tbsp
  • Stem ginger in syrup 2 pieces, finely sliced
  • Blueberries and/or edible flowers to decorate (optional)

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat oven to 180°C/160°fan/Gas 4. Grease and base-line two 18cm (7in) sandwich tins. Mix coffee with 1 tablespoon boiling water.
  2. In a large bowl, cream butter and caster sugar until fluffy.
  3. Beat in coffee and eggs, a little at a time. Fold in flour and then pour into tins.
  4. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until sponge springs back when lightly touched. Cool in tins for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  5. Whip cream with icing sugar and1 tablespoon of syrup from ginger. Use half to sandwich cakes together. Spread remaining cream on top and decorate with ginger, blueberries and/or edible flowers. Chill until ready to serve.

 

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Recipe of the Week: Frangipane & Apricot Croissants

Frangipane & Apricot Croissants

Warm pastry filled with soft almond and apricot filling. Delicious!

Frangipane & Apricot Croissants

  • Servings: 25
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 663 per portion
Fat 41g (14g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians

Ingredients

  • Butter 25g (1oz), softened
  • Caster sugar 25g (1oz)
  • Ground almonds 50g (2oz)
  • Plain flour 1 tbsp
  • Egg 1
  • Ready-made croissants 2
  • Apricot halves in natural juice 6
  • Flaked almonds 1 tbsp
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C/180°fan/Gas 6. Beat butter, caster sugar, almonds, flour and egg to a paste.
  2. Split croissants almost through. Spread with a generous amount of frangipane paste, top with apricots then spoon over remaining frangipane (reserving a little to use to ‘glue’ almonds to the croissants). Push tops back down. Brush pastry and apricots all over with a little juice from can. Spread remaining frangipane on top then scatter with flaked almonds.
  3. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes until crisp. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

 

This #tripletested recipe is taken from the 2018 Dairy Diary – Britain’s best loved diary!

Forget Blue Monday – make today a peach one!

Today is supposed to be the gloomiest day of the year.

But let’s not dwell on that.

Yes, we’re all trying to ‘be good’ after Christmas, but just for today why not bake a yummy treat and take it to work or to a neighbour or a friend?

Share a slice of this scrummy Peachy Lemon Cake and have a chat with someone who you think may need a little cheering up.

Some kind words (and cake), can make all the difference….

This recipe is taken from the 2018 Dairy Diary, which is still available to purchase here.

 

Peachy Lemon Cake

 

Peachy Lemon Cake

  • Servings: 10
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 285 per portion
Fat 17g (10g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Butter 175g (6oz), softened
  • Golden caster sugar 150g (5oz) plus extra for sprinkling
  • Lemons 2, finely grated zest only
  • Eggs 3 large
  • Plain flour 150g (5oz)
  • Baking powder 1 tsp
  • Plain yogurt 4 tbsp
  • Peaches 3, stoned and each cut into 8 wedges
  • Plain yogurt or crème fraîche to serve (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°fan/Gas 4. Line a 23cm (9in) cake tin with baking paper.
  2. Cream together butter, sugar and lemon zest until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in eggs then sift in flour and baking powder. Gently stir in yogurt.
  3. Spoon mixture into prepared tin and scatter peach wedges randomly on top, pressing them in a little. Bake for 1 hour until risen and golden. 4 Cool in tin for 10 minutes then cool on a rack. Refrigerate. 5 Sprinkle with sugar and serve with yogurt or crème fraîche.

 

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