Prosciutto roll ups

This recipe is from the 2016 Longos calendar.  Was a big hit at our Christmas party.  Make sure you use the puff pastry dough and not the sheets.  I learned the hard way that there is a big difference :)

Sorry I forgot to take a picture of the end result so here is a picture from the Longo calendar.

Made them again and remembered to take a picture 😊And I rolled them incorrectly ......half and half looks better 😕

My sister-in-law Cindy made them and they look better than mine.  Yum.

One bite pecan tarts

One bite pecan tarts

Try to get the dough as thin as possible in the mini muffin tray because it does puff up a bit.  

Ingredients

• Dough
• 170g cream cheese, softened
• 225 butter, softened
• 250g plain flour
• Filling
• 30g butter, softened
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 330g brown sugar
• 10ml vanilla
• 160g finely chopped pecans

Instructions

1. Beat the cream cheese and butter together
2. Then mix in the flour. Gathering your patience, divide the dough between 2 x 24 mini-muffin trays (no need to grease).
3. Use lightly floured fingers to pat it down and bring it up the sides. Set aside.
4. Pre-heat oven to 160C.
5. Mix all the filling ingredients together:and using two teaspoons, spoon into the dough filled muffin trays.
6. Bake for around 20 minutes or until pastry is golden on the edges.
7. Stand for 5 minutes, then cool on wire rack.

Lemon loaf

Lemon Loaf

Made this tonight.  Apparently tastes like the lemon loaf from Starbucks.  Never had it myself so cannot comment on that.  But it was delicious and really wakes up the taste buds.

For the Loaf
1/2 cup Butter
1 Cup Sugar
2 Large Eggs
1 Lemon, Juiced and Zested
1 1/2 Cup Flour
1 Tsp Baking Powder
Pinch Salt
1 Tsp Vanilla
1/4 Cup half and half

For the Glaze
1 1/3 Cup Icing Sugar
1 Lemon Juiced
1/2 tsp Vanilla

For the Loaf
Preheat Oven to 350
Grease & Flour a Loaf Pan
Cream Butter and Sugar together
In a separate bowl mix eggs and vanilla well, add lemon juice and zest
Add egg mix into the butter mix, beat slowly
Add remaining Ingredients and mix well
Bake for 45 Mins,

For the Glaze
Mix all ingredients in a bowl until well combined and spread over warm loaf.


Update:
Made this again but used 3 small pans.  I thought it should only take 30 minutes but I had to put them back in for a total of 40 minutes.  Yummy.