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Have you been good lately? Then you’re well-placed to receive a food treat from a friend or loved one soon. Lucky you, because treats are delicious!
A treat is generally a sweet smaller portion of food – like lollies, caramel ice-cream or red velvet cupcake , that is given as an unexpected gift. A treat can also be given for celebrations, such as cake for birthdays.
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Red velvet melting moments
By LexiLindley
Details
servings 10
Level of difficulty Easy
Preparation time 90
Cooking time 23
Cost Average budget
- 250g unsalted butter
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp red food colouring
- 225g plain flour
- 35g cocoa powder
- 85g icing sugar
- 30g cornflour
- For the cream cheese icing
- 50g unsalted butter
- 125g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla paste
- 50g cream cheese
- ¼ tsp lemon extract
Classic melting moment biscuits married with red velvet cake and cream cheese icing
Top rated treat recipes
Vanilla Chocolate Chip Muffins/ Cupcakes
By Joydeep Pal, Joydeep's World of Food
Vanilla and ChocChip Cupcakes are really hot favourites for desserts
- 25g Butter
- 75g Sugar
- 250g Self Raising Flour
- 225 ml milk (semi-skimmed or whole)
- 1teaspoon Vanilla Essence
- 1 Egg
- 20gm Cashew
- 20gm Almond
- 20gm Raisin
- For Frosting,
- 50g butter, diced, at room temperature
- 150-200g (1 cups) pure icing sugar, sifted
- 30ml (1/5 cup) milk
Vanillekipferl
By chefrbc
Sieve the flour onto a baking board
- 50g ground almonds
- 50g ground hazelnuts
- 280g flour
- 70g sugar
- pinch of salt
- 200g butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 5 packs of vanilla sugar
- 0.5 cups icing sugar
Apple and Marzipan Crumble Cake
By eatproperly, How To Eat Properly
This recipe is inspired by one of my Christmas presents, The Kitchen Diaries II by Nigel Slater
- 250g apple, peeled, cored and cut in to small pieces
- 175g softened butter
- 175g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 255g plain flour
- 2 ¼ tsp baking powder
- pinch ground cinnamon
- few drops vanilla extract
- Finely grated zest of one lemon (optional)
- 100g marzipan broken into small pieces
- Crumble topping
- 110g Plain flour
- 75g butter
- 2 tbsp demerara sugar
Peppermint Creams
By george100icke
A lovely gift for a friend
- Icing Sugar, 400g
- Oil of Peppermint
- Whites of 2 medium eggs.
Chocolate Cookies
By agrawal.shweta.n, Merry Tummy
The best chocolate cookies using drinking chocolate
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour/maida
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp hot chocolate powder
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon honey
Apple Cake
By Karina23
Place sugar, baking powder and eggs in a bowl and combine using a mixer
- 5 eggs
- 2tsp baking powder
- 5 apples
- 1 cup of plain flour
- 0.5 cup of vegetable oil
- 1 cup of sugar
- Cinnamon to taste
- Icing sugar to dust
Swiss Roulade
By sheida
Swiss roulade, simply called swiss cream roll, is a light rolled thin sponge cake filled with whipped cream (any ty...
- Sponge cake:
- Large eggs --- 4
- Egg yolk ---1
- Corn flour --- 4 tablespoons
- Granulated white sugar --- 1/2 cup
- Pure vanilla extract --- 1/2 teaspoon
- Cream filling:
- Whipping cream --- 1 cup
- Pure vanilla extract --- 1/2 teaspoon
- Granulated white sugar --- 2 tablespoons
Banana Loaf
By Squelchy23
A banana recipe for people who don't like bananas
- 3 very ripe bananas
- 170g (6oz) (just) melted butter
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda in 1tbsp water
- 170g (6oz) brown sugar
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- 255-285g (9 oz-10oz) plain flour
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
Chocolate Chip Cookies :D
By nikita
A retro recipe for chocolate-studded biscuits with a soft squidgy middle - make plenty as they're guaranteed to be
- 150g salted butter, softened
- 80g light brown muscovado sugar
- 80g granulated sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 225g plain flour
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 200g plain chocolate chips or chunks
Apple topped Honey & Whisky Drizzle Cake
By lizdenial
A delicious drizzle cake
- For the Cake
- 1 granny smith's apple (peeled, cored & sliced)
- 2tbsp honey
- 100g light brown sugar
- 150g butter or margarine
- 100ml thick double cream
- 200g self raising flour
- 1 tbsp water
- For the Drizzle
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp whisky
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- Boiled corn – 1/4 cup
- Lime juice - 1 tsp
- Green chilli chopped-2
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Baked Krapfens
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- For filling
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