Baking - Ashgrove Cheese, TAS, Australia

Easy Chocolate Beetroot Cake

September 29, 2015 by Anne Bennett Leave a Comment

I love this recipe, it requires only one bowl to wash up, and the beetroot is easily interchanged with many other flavorings. Ingredients 370g Melted Ashgrove Unsalted Butter 2 ¼ cups Caster Sugar 6 eggs 4 cups S.R. Flour 1 ½ cups Cocoa Powder 2 Tb Vanilla Essence 2 cups H2O 2 cups of grated fresh beetroot (yes, just grate fresh beetroot) Method: Sift flour sugar and cocoa, add eggs, essence, […]

Classic Chocolate Chips Biscuits

September 25, 2015 by Anne Bennett Leave a Comment

Classic Chocolate Chips Biscuits There really is nothing better than home cooked chocolate chip biscuits, and this recipe has been tried and tested over a thousand times. Baked daily by various team members and myself for well over 12 years; in a cafe I owned and manager in Hobart called KAOS. A fresh jar […]

ANZAC BISCUIT

May 28, 2015 by Anne Bennett Leave a Comment

Did you know ? The first known Anzac biscuit recipe appeared in The War Chest Cookery Book, which was published in Sydney in 1917, but this recipe was for a cake, not a biscuit? It is said that biscuits with a similar recipe to the one we knew today appeared in magazines under different names, […]

Scones

December 12, 2013 by Anne Bennett Leave a Comment

My Mum Connie has been making scones for as long as I can remember. Anyone who grew up on a farm will have fond memories of summer, shearing sheds and scones. My grandmother baked scones as did her mother, grandmother and so on – their advice has always been “the best scones are mixed and […]

Nana’s rock cakes

December 12, 2013 by Anne Bennett Leave a Comment

Who doesn’t love nana’s baking? Lets bring back the classic rock cake – yummy, warm golden fruity goodness. Shopping list Ashgrove unsalted butter, self raising flour, sugar, eggs, dried fruit. 230g Ashgrove unsalted butter 2.5 cup SR flour 3/4 cup sugar 3 eggs 1 cup dried fruit Steps Cream together until light and fluffy, softened […]