This recipe is from the BBC Good Food Magazine and is simply delicious.

Brazil nuts & banana bread

Ingredients

• 100ml sunflower oil , plus extra for greasing
• 140g caster sugar
• 140g plain flour
• 140g Brazil nuts , roughly chopped
• 50g desiccated coconut
• 1 tbsp butter , diced
• 2 large, very ripe bananas (about 175g peeled weight)
• 1 large egg , plus 1 large egg white
• 5 tbsp milk
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon 

1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a 900g loaf tin, then line the base and ends with a long strip of baking parchment. Stir together 2 tbsp each of the sugar, flour, nuts and coconut. Add the butter and rub together to sticky crumbs. Set aside.  
2. Mash the bananas well, then stir in the sunflower oil, egg and milk. In a separate large bowl, mix half of the remaining sugar, followed by the remaining flour, nuts and coconut, then the baking powder and cinnamon.
3. Whisk the egg white to stiff peaks, add the final bit of sugar and whisk again until stiff and shiny. Stir the banana mixture into the dry ingredients, then lightly fold in the egg white mixture. Gently scrape into the tin and scatter over the crumb mixture.
4. Bake for 40 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean, covering with foil if the bread starts to go too brown. Cool in the tin, then remove and thickly slice, eating with butter, if you like. 

Chocolate & Oats Cookies

 

This recipe is Easy and delicious!
From the Good Food Magazine!

Ingredients

• 100g plain flour
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ¼ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 125g unsalted butter
• 175g soft brown sugar
• 25g caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 50g walnuts , chopped
• 175g porridge oats
• 50g dark chocolate , chopped into small chunks 

 (I did not have the walnuts an the bicarbonate of soda at home, and they came out quite good!)

1. Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Mix the flour, bicarb, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Cream the butter, sugars, egg and vanilla with electric beaters. Stir in the flour mixture, then add the nuts, oats and chocolate.
2. Line 2 baking sheets with non-stick baking parchment and drop large tbsps of dough onto them. Press down gently. Bake for 8-10 minutes until light golden. Let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. underdone but will finish cooking on the hot tray. Wait until they are completely cool then pack into a tin lined with baking paper. 

 
 
 Enjoy!!
 
 
 

Scones with raisins - Scones com passas

After living 3 years in Britain, I decided that it was time to bake some traditional recipes, and Scones was one of my first attempts to get more involved in British cookery!
Here is my favourite an easiest recipe:

Ingredients:

225 gr self raising flour

1/2 tsp salt

30 gr caster sugar
55 gr butter
55 gr raisins or sultanas
150 ml milk

1 tbsp baking powder

Preheat oven 200 degrees.
Mix flour, salt, sugar, add butter with hands(like making crumble). Add raisins and slowly add milk (you might don't need all of it). Open the dough with a rolling pin,  1 cm thick, and cut out in circular shape. Put them on  a tray and brush with milk, to give them a golden colour. Oven bake for about 15 min, until golden!! Enjoy with a lovely cup of tea!!

I love to eat them with some whipped cream and jam!! Yummi...


Scones com passas

 
Depois de viver três anos na Inglaterra, eu decidi que era hora de preparar alguns pratos típicos, e Scones foi uma das minhas primeiras tentativas de se envolver mais na culinária britânica!
Esta é a minha preferida e a mais fácil:


Ingredientes:
225 gr farinha com fermento
1 / 2 colher de chá de sal
30 gr de açúcar refinado
55 gr de manteiga
55 gr de passas ou sultanas
150 ml de leite
1 colher de sopa de fermento em pó

Pré-aqueça o forno a 200 graus.
Misture a farinha, o sal, o açúcar, acrescente a manteiga com as mãos (ate parecer uma farofa). Adicione as passas e adicione lentamente o leite (você pode não precisar de tudo). Abra a massa com um rolo de macarrão, 1 cm de espessura, e corte em forma circular. Coloque-as numa forma e pincele com leite, para lhes dar uma cor dourada. Assar no forno por aproximadamente 15 minutos, até dourar!

Gosto de comê-los com chantilly e geléia! Yummi ...