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Anita from www.godzgear.com.au
Please bring a plate…
A quick idea for
when you need a simple something to share.
Prep Time: About 20 mins
Difficulty Level: Easy
Ingredients:
Frozen Cake
Chocolate
White 500g/Dark 500g
....WARNING, Chocolate Consumption Ahead! =D
This
idea like many things, was born of necessity.
Tomorrow
I have a bible study and I need to take a plate to share, trying to keep with
my budget plans this week of cooking out of my freezer ( so I can save for some
cool things I would like : a belt sander or router!!!)I remembered I had some fruit
cake in
the freezer that Nanna gave me…
……. I remember when Nanna told me -amid
peals of laughter how, when she first came to Australia in the 60’s her husband’s boss asked them both over for a
BBQ,
and said to bring a plate…Nanna could barely contain her giggles as
she retold how she was asking her husband“why on earth did they want them to bring a
plate?
Surely they had enough plates for everyone…”
Firstly
the cake must be frozen as it will cut easier without crumbling,
and the
chocolate will set quicker; once on the cake.
1. Slice frozen cake
into about 1.5 to 2 cm thick fingers,
don’t worry about cutting perfect
sections.
NOTE:
If you have a chocolate cake,slice it thinner (1cm) and sandwich together with strawberry
jam and cream before proceeding to step 2
Vanilla sponge with crushed blueberries and lemon curd
Carrot cake sandwiched with lemon cream cheese icing
Gingerbread with vanilla ice-cream
2. Place
onto baking tray lined with greaseproof paper and refreeze while you melt
3. Melt chocolate. Place chocolate in a metal bowl that sits nicely
on top of a saucepan with about 3 cm water in bottom (of the saucepan). Bring water to boil, turn down to simmer,
stirring chocolate regularly. Be careful not to let any steam or water into the
chocolate.
4 . Dip
in chocolate. I found it easier
to dip the end in so it was covered,
then using a cake spatula to wipe
chocolate onto the other four sides.
You could quite
happily use a knife or a small spatula
I only covered to
half way with the milk chocolate as I am going to coat the other half with
white chocolate to make them look a little bit fancier
5. Place back onto baking tray and
refreeze as you melt the white chocolate!
6 .I have warm hands. As
I was holding the milk chocolate end to dip these tasty treats into the white
chocolate, I found I was melting lovely little fingerprints into
the ends.
Fine if I was eating it myself, but a bit strange when
serving to guests. So to fix this, either have a container of ice water to hold your
hand in to cool it down so you can handle the chocolate, or use tongs. I found if I
dipped the end in the white chocolate, I could then lay each piece back onto the tray
and cover the side facing upward with white chocolate. I popped the tray back
in the freezer for a few minutes. Once the chocolate had set I then turned all the pieces
of cake over and covered the top side, this worked well, as I wasn't holding
the chocolate end.
A “good” pastry chef has cold hands, as they don’t melt the
butter/oil in the pastries they are working on; they have more time to work
with it between fridge time.
I
have kept these treats in the freezer until I need them;
they are great
straight from the freezer. I would happily store for 6 months.
There you have it, a great recipe that's easy to put together in a hurry for
those bring a plate occasions!
Written
by Ruth Jurgens, a qualified
chef, keen
woodworker and born
again Christian, who loves Christ and is in humble awe and delight that He
loved her enough to die in her place. She
seeks to please Him in gratitude for what He has done for her. And in
seeking to please Him gains righteousness. What a God we serve!!!! “Who
can go a day without eating and not feel miserable, short of energy and prone
to every bug that passes? Why do we think we can go more than a day without
partaking the spiritual bread?”
"Then Jesus declared; I am the bread of life, whoever comes to me
shall not hunger and whoever shall believe in me shall not thirst"
John 6:35 ESV
"Then Jesus declared; I am the bread of life, whoever comes to me
shall not hunger and whoever shall believe in me shall not thirst"
John 6:35 ESV
1 comments
Anita. I love your idea of a guest blogger. Praise the Lord for Godly friends and the varied gifts He gives us all.
ReplyDeleteWell done, Ruth.
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