Rocky Road Cake

A chocolate feast!

 15min + 2hrs in fridge

Ingredients:

• 125g butter
• 300g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
• 3x 15ml tbsp golden syrup
• 200g rich tea biscuits , broken into small pieces
• 100g mini marshmallows
• 150g glacé cherries, chopped
• icing sugar for dusting

Instructions:

 Melt the chocolate, butter and golden syrup in a pan or microwave slowly, stirring regularly to prevent burning the chocolate.

Mix the biscuit pieces, mini marshmallows and cherries in a dish (roughly 9×9 inches or 23×23 cm) with half the chocolate mix, and spread evenly across the dish.

Pour the rest of the chocolate mix over the top and press all the mixture down so it’s nice and densely packed.

Leave in the fridge for at least 2hrs or overnight, then cut into small squares and dust with icing sugar to serve. No-one can resist…

Tomato & Goat’s Cheese Tart

Tasty, quick & easy. Perfect for a week night dinner!

 40min

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry (block/sheet, 375-500g)
• Tomato purée (1/3 of a tube, ~2 tbsp)
• 4 large tomatoes, thinly sliced
• 125g soft goat’s cheese
• A handful of fresh basil leaves
• Salt, pepper & olive oil

Instructions:

 First preheat the oven to 200°C. Then, start by rolling out the block of pastry on a floured surface to fit your standard oven tray (or use ready-rolled pastry). Place on greaseproof paper in your chosen tray.

Spread liberally with tomato purée leaving about an inch round the edge for the pastry to rise. Add the sliced tomatoes on top overlapping slightly. 

Interleave the tomatoes with the fresh basil leaves and add the goats cheese on top in little dollops. Season and drizzle with olive oil.

Bake in the oven for 20mins until the pastry is golden brown and the tart looks ready to eat!

TIP: It can be equally tasty with different cheeses and other little things like olives or anchovies.

Guacamole

Fresh-tasting Mexican dip with all the goodness of avocados.

10 min

Ingredients:

• 3 avocados
• 1 big tomato, peeled
• 1 medium onion
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1 cloves of garlic
• ½ tsp cumin
• salt & pepper to taste

Instructions:

Prepare and blend all the ingredients together.

Add more cumin, salt and pepper to taste.

TIP: Serve with tortilla chips or fajitas.

…Thanks for the recipe Mar!

Hummus

A popular Middle Eastern dip made from crushed chickpeas and tahini.

15 min

Ingredients:

• 1 can of chickpeas (400g)
• 4 tsp of tahini
• 4 tsp of natural yougurt
• 8 mint leaves
• juice of 1 lemon
• 2 cloves of garlic crushed with ½ a tsp of salt
• paprika
• extra virgin olive oil
• parsley (optional)

Instructions:

Blend all the ingredients together in a suitable container.

Taste and add more of any ingredient if required (generally tahini/mint/salt).

Serve spread on a plate sprinkled with paprika, olive oil and parsley (as shown in picture).

TIP: Good for dipping toasted bread or pitta and raw vegetables, such as carrot or cucumber.