Baking Stuffed Apples

Baked Apples With Walnut and Date Stuffing

Stuffed Baked Apples with Walnuts and Dates

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Yield: 11 stuffed apples

Ingredients

• 11 Apples, cored
• a little Lemon Juice
• 25g butter
• 1/2 cup (60 grams) Flour
• 1/4 cup (30 grams) chopped toasted Walnuts
• 6 dried Dates, pitted and chopped into small pieces
• pinch of fine Sea Salt, ground Cinnamon and ground Ginger
• 1/4 cup (57 grams) Maple, golden Syrup or Honey drizzle

Optional Toppings

• Heavy Cream
• Dried Fruit

Serve With

• Ice Cream
• Frozen Yogurt
• Greek Yogurt

Method

• Pre heat oven to 350 degrees F with the rack in the center.
• Core apples and squeeze a little lemon juice into each one.
• Melt butter in a small pan.
• Stir in flour, walnuts, dates, salt, cinnamon, ginger and golden syrup.
• Heat for a few minutes over medium heat. Carefully stuff apples with the mixture.
• Place apples in muffin pans or on a bake safe dish.
• Cover loosely with foil. Bake for about 45 min or until apples have softened and split.

anzac biscit 3

1 cup flour

1 cup shredded coconut

1 cup flattened/rolled oats

1/2 cup sugar

1 heaped teaspoon baking soda

around 60 grams butter if ya like clogging the arteries you can use up to 125 grams of butter)

1&1/2 tablespoons of golden syrup.

Combine flour, sugar, oats and coconut in a large bowl and mix em up a bit.

In a small saucepan, melt butter and golden syrup. Stir mixture so they are combined.

Put baking soda in a cup, and slap in enough boiling water to dissolve the baking soda (about 2 tablespoons worth).

Add baking soda solution to butter and golden syrup. Make sure the golden syrup/butter is still hot, but not quite boiling, else it will foam up and over your saucepan.

Pour the contents of the saucepan into the dry ingredients and mix well.

Place spoonfuls of the mixture on a greased oven tray. Bake at around 180C (350F) for 15 minutes, or until they are light brown. Makes about 20 biscuits.
Cross your fingers and hope it works

You can play around with the mixture if you want adding and subtracting of more of what u like.

Look out they are highly addictive.


anzac biscit 2

1 cup flour

         1 cup caster sugar

         1 cup desiccated coconut

         2 cups rolled oats

         125g butter

         2 tbsp golden syrup

         1 tsp baking soda

         3 tbsp boiling water

1. Heat oven to 180C (160C fan bake). Line two baking trays with nonstick baking paper. Place flour, caster sugar, coconut and oats in a bowl and stir to combine. Make

 a well in the centre.

2. Place butter and golden syrup in a saucepan to melt, or microwave in a bowl to melt. Dissolve baking soda in boiling water. Add melted ingredients and dissolved baking soda to dry ingredients and mix to combine.

3. Roll spoonfuls into balls and press onto prepared baking trays, allowing space for biscuits to spread while cooking.

4. Bake for 15 minutes or until firm and golden brown. Remove to a wire rack to cool, and enjoy!

Cooking tip: Stored in an airtight container, Anzac biscuits will last well for up to a week.

anzac biscit 1

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour

¾ cup brown sugar

1 cup rolled oats

¾ cup finely chopped dried apricots

3 tbsp golden syrup

¾ cup Extra virgin olive oil

½ tsp bicarb soda

Method

1.Preheat oven to 175°C.

2.Sift the flour into a bowl. Add the sugar, rolled oats and dried apricots.

3.In a second bowl, mix together the golden syrup, extra virgin olive oil and bicarb soda. Add the dry ingredients to the liquid and mix well until the preparation is sticky and doughy. If it’s a bit dry, add a little water, e.g. about 1-2 tbsp water.

4.Place walnut sized balls of the mixture on a flat biscuit tray lined with baking paper. Flatten the balls to a thickness of about 1cm using a fork, and leave a little space between each one.

5.Bake the biscuits in the preheated oven for about 15 minutes.

6.When cooked, leave to cool on a tray or wire rack. Store in a biscuit tin.

Homework Week 10 Term 1

Homework Sheet              Due Date: Friday 12^th April

My day for presenting news is ___________________________

I will be presenting_________________________

Remember to ...

- Learn your spelling words by writing a synonym, (similar meaning) for each one. Hint – use a thesaurus, online or book.

- Practice doing your maths certificate in 5 minutes

- Read each night for 20 minutes and get your reading log signed, ( 4 times) Giving your book a rating out of 10 and why you gave it that.

Activity – Know Your Place!

1. Look at and free hand draw a map of NZ into your homework book, inside the border.

3. In red, bullet point and label our capital city.

4. In blue, bullet point and label our main cities.

5. In green, label the Four main Islands with their English and Māori names.

6. Find and label three volcanoes, a mountain range, 3 lakes, a strait and a glacier.

Extra For Experts

2.Learn the cities of NZ by playing Our Games New Zealand at http://www.geography-map-games.com (select NZ) or use the link from our class blog.

The top class score so far is Bryn’s on 73,997, see if you can beat it! Take a screen shot/print a copy to prove it!

Activity 2 - Cultural Quiz

Use the word bank at the bottom of the page to help you answer these questions in your homework book.

1. The main islands of New Zealand are generally, (although not always) known in Maori as ?

2. The first occupation of Europeans in New Zealand was?

3. Lots of people migrated from Europe in the 19th century because of?

4. The New Zealand Wars were about?

5. What is nationality?

6. Chinese immigrants had to pay a special tax to enter NZ. It was called a?

7. What is ethnicity?

8. The names of the countries that many Pacific peoples immigrate from are?

9. Which government department decides if a person can come from another place and make their lives in New Zealand?

10. How many countries in the world accept refugees?

Wordbank:          14         Catching seals for the fur trade         Te Ika a Maui, Rakiura and Te Wai Pounamu         Arguments between Europeans and Maori over who owned the land         Famine and poverty

Belonging to a nation         A group that have some of the following in common: language, ancestors, heritage, religious and physical characteristics                  A poll tax         The New Zealand Immigration Service         Samoa, Niue, Tonga and the Cook Islands

Extra For Experts

Remember you can only do this when you have finished the above activities, but you don ‘t have to do this, it’s just an extra challenge if you would like to accept it.

Plum Preserve recipes

Stewed Plums

Serve stewed plums along with breakfast or as a dessert with cream or whipped topping.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cup sugar 
• 1/2 cup water mixed with 1 T corn flour
• 1 cinnamon stick or 1t cinnamon
• 1 kg damson plums, pitted

Preparation:

Combine sugar, water, and cinnamon stick. Boil for 3 minutes, until thick. Add plums; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer stewed plums for about 10 minutes, or until plums are tender.