Delish Mango and Lemon tart

I love this recipe as it's refreshing and so tasty! You'll absolutely love it - I know you will - happy baking! :-)
I got this recipe and altered it slightly from my Granny who saw Gino D'Acampo make it on a TV cooking show.

 Ingredients:

Ready roll pastry. ( It's not cheating - don't worry.)
2 mango's
1 egg white
200g of golden caster sugar, ( or demerara it tastes the same.)
150ml of double cream
4 free range eggs
Zest and juice of 2 un-waxed lemons.

Method:

1. Set the oven temperature to 190C

2.  Take the pastry and roll out to fit a 20cm flan tin. Prick the pastry with a fork. Make sure some of the pastry hangs off the side as you don't want it to shrink later on.

3. Put grease proof paper over the top and fill with baking beans to blind bake. Bake for 10 minutes. Then lift out the grease proof paper and bake for another 5 minutes.

4. Brush the pastry wit egg white and bake for another 5 minutes until the pastry case is shiny.

5. Bring the oven temperature down to  150C.

6. Whisk the caster sugar and the eggs until foamy.Then beat in the cream along with lemon zest and lemon juice.

7. Peel and cut the mango into small chunks ( about 1cm wide) and arrange on the bottom of the pastry case - pour over the lemon mixture.

8. Bake in the oven for 45-50 minutes it should have a slight wobble.

9. Cool at room temperature take out of the tin and enjoy!

Happy baking!  :-D  And trust me it tastes better than it looks! :-)

Apple Puffs

An easy dessert to make, filled with apple deliciousness! I have put some cinnamon in to the apples for extra hint of spice.

 Ingredients 

Ready roll pastry

4 granny smith apples peeled , cored and cut into 8-9 pieces per apple

A shake of cinnamon

1 egg

 A couple of table spoons of brown sugar

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Put the cut apples into a medium sized pot and put on the heat, keep stirring every minute or so to stop the  apples burning and sticking on the bottom of the pan.

2. Once the apples are getting softer and you can almost break them up with the wooden spoon add a shake of cinnamon. Stir into the apples and carry on stirring every minute or so.

3. When the apples are soft take off the heat and place onto a small cooking rack.

4. Roll out the pastry and when the apples are only just warm, with a wooden spoon, put a strip of apple in the middle of the pastry, use all of the apples!

5. Break the egg into a cup and beat to make the egg wash. Then put a bit of egg wash on either side of the pastry. Take the left side and put it over to the right side.

6. Put slits diagonally onto the top of the pastry and put the rest of the egg wash on the top with a big sprinkle of brown sugar.

7. Bake for 20- 25 mins until golden brown.

8. Serve with ice cream or cream.

Strawberry Cheesecake

This is amazing! This recipe was from Nigella Lawson's website and I have put my own little twist on it. You don't have to use strawberries in a cheesecake, you can use many types of fruit and chocolate. This recipe serves 6-8 but if you want to make the cheesecake bigger just use bigger quantities.

Ingredients

125g digestive biscuits

75g soft butter

300g cream cheese

60g sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

250ml double cream

2 pots of strawberry jam

Punnet of strawberries

25g caster sugar

Method

1. Crush up all of the biscuits into a bowl until they look almost breadcrumb like.

2. Melt the butter on a low heat by stirring with a wooden spoon every few seconds. Once the butter has melted pour into the bowl of crushed biscuits, find a loose bottomed tin and tip mixture into it. Spread it out evenly making sure there are no gaps in the base. Put in the fridge for around 20 mins.

3. Meanwhile take half the strawberries and chop the tops off of them. Put the caster sugar and strawberries into a jug and blend. Put through a sieve so the mixture is smooth.  

4. Take the cream cheese, vanilla extract and sugar, then beat until smooth. Whip the double cream and add into the creamy mix. Put 2 tablespoons of strawberry jam into the mix and fold together. 

5. Spread strawberry jam over the base until it is covered (yum!) then put the creamy mixture on top and spread out evenly, it should now have a cool strawberry ripple effect.

6. Put in the fridge for 5-6 hours. Before serving cut the tops off the rest of the strawberries and make a cool pattern with them. I have sliced them into four pieces and made a cool pattern around the middle. Drizzle the sauce you made earlier randomly around the top of the cheesecake.

It will taste really nice. Have fun making it! (◕‿◕✿)

Apple Crumble

Crumbly on the outside, hot juicy apple mixture in the middle. This is one of my favourite recipes of all time. :)

Ingredients


4 large cooking apples
250g of flour
100g of butter
50g of brown sugar

Method


1.  Turn oven onto 180C and then peel, core and chop the cooking apples.

2. Put in a pan with a little bit of water and then put on a medium heat to stew until soft.

3. While the apples are stewing, make the crumble by putting: 250g of flour and 100g of butter, together and make into a breadcrumb like mixture by crumbling the mix through your fingers lightly. Leave for 10-15mins.

4. Scoop the soft apples into a dish and sprinkle the crumble over the top, spread out the mix with a fork so it covers all the soft apples.

5. Put into the oven and cook for around 20-25 mins ,until the crumble on top has gone golden brown.
  

When you serve the apple crumble it tastes really nice with cream or ice-cream! ζ°)))彡