Cakes, Sweets & Biscuits

When you are entertaining “New York Style”
This one could get you the keys to the city.
INGREDIENTS

15 graham crackers, crushed
30 g butter, melted
896 g cream cheese
300 g white sugar
180 ml milk
4 eggs
230 g sour cream
15 ml vanilla extract
30 g all-purpose flour

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9 inch springform pan.
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This is one of Nanna’s age old classics, senational every time!!!
Chewy and full of that golden syrup caramel.
Ingredients

1cup Rolled Oats
3/4 Cup Oat Bran
1 Cup Plain Flour
1 Tbsp Bicarb Soda
1 Cup Sugar
4 Oz Butter
1 Tbsp Golden Syrup
2 Tbsp Boiling Water

Directions

Mix dry ingredients except Bi-Carb
Melt butter and golden syrup gently in a pan
Mix the Bi-Carb and boiling More >

This is a quick and easy way to make an all time Aussie classic.
You can make the sponge if you like, but purchased sponge works for me and slashes the prep time.
Ingredients

1 Large Plain Sponge Cake
500g Icing Sugar
1/3 Cup Cocoa. You can add more to suit your tastes
15g Butter
1/2 Cup Milk
3 Cups Desicated Coconut

Directions

Sift the More >

This is Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen’s special reserve recipe.
Ingredients

1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup mashed pumpkin (cold)
2 cups Self raising flour

Directions

Beat together butter, sugar and salt with electric mixer. Add egg, then pumpkin and stir in the flour.
Turn on to floured board and cut into pieces.
Place in scone tray on top shelf of More >

With just a hint of cinnamon these are a great brunch-time source of energy and carb’s.
Not to mention the taste.
Ingredients

1 Small Ripe Banana
1 Cup Self Raising Flour
1/2 Cup of Self Raising Wholemeal Flour
2/3 Cups Full Cream Milk
2/3 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup of Choc buds
1 Egg lightly beaten
1/4 Cup oil
Pinch of Cinnamon

Directions

Pre-Heat the oven to 180c
Mash bananas More >

Can anyone resist these? Try putting them in the fridge and see if the will last more then a day. Not likely.
Ingredients

4 Cups of Rice Bubbles
250g Icing Sugar
250g Copha
1/2 Cup of Shredded Coconut
3 Tbsp of Cocoa

Directions

Mix thoroughly
Place in Patti Cake Mould
Refrigerate

Christmas and the holidays wouldn’t be the same without a plate of these bad boys in the fridge.
People pinching them, Nan always topping them up.
Ingredients

9 Weetbix
2 Cups of Shredded Coconut
1 Tbsp of Cocoa
1 Can Condensed Milk

Directions

Crush Weetbix and add 1 cup of coconut, the cocoa and condensed milk
Roll into balls
Place 1 cup coconut onto flat More >

This is a full bodied cake with plenty of texture and fresh zingy icing.
Ingredients
Cake:

1 cup olive oil
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 cups firmly packed grated carrot (Approx 4 carrots)
1 cup walnuts, chopped

Icing:

250g cream cheese, at room temperature
1 cup icing sugar
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As a cake it is almost as refreshing as tea cake. Light, fluffy yet with body.
Ingredients

125g Butter
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 1/2 Cups of Self Raising Flour
3 Mashed Bananas
1 Tbsp Bi-Carb (Dissolved in 2 Tbsp Milk)
1 Tbsp Vanilla Essence

Directions

Cream the butter and sugar together
Add the egg, vanilla and bananas
Mix well
Add flour and mix well
Add disolved Bi-Carb, More >

So easy and so satisfying. These marshmellow based treats can be kept frozen for up to 3 months.
The apricots and the coconut add a fruity tinge.
Ingredients

100g Dry Apricots
100g Crushed Milk Arrowroot Biscuits
50g Small Marshmellows
1/2 Cup Condensed Milk
1/2 Tbsp Vanilla Essence
150g Shredded Coconut

Directions

Cut marshmellows into small diced pieces
Combine all ingredients except coconut
Mix thoroughly and then form More >