Triple Chocolate Fudge Muffins

2 cups self-raising flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup castor sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
90 grams butter, melted
3/4 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup sour cream
1/3 cup each white choc chips, milk choc chips and dark choc chips

Preheat oven to 180°C and line a 12 hole muffin pan with patty cases.

Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl with the choc chips and stir to combine.

Mix the wet ingredients together and then quickly mix into the dry ingredients.

Spoon mixture into the muffin pan. Bake for 25 minutes or until cooked. Be careful not to over cook muffins.

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Cheat's Shortbread

125g caster sugar
125g cornflour
2 cups plain flour
250g butter, melted
Extra caster sugar

Mix dry ingredients together.

Mix in melted butter until well combined.

Press into an ungreased lamington tin and bake at 170°C for 30 minutes.

Remove from oven and cut into 24 squares, sprinkle evenly with extra caster sugar and prick each piece with a fork.

Return to oven for 15 minutes. Allow to cool in the tin.

Note: Don't skip the final step of cutting and returning to the oven.

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Crumbed Apple Slice

1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1 1/2 cups dessicated coconut
1/2 cup sugar
185g butter, melted
1 egg
425g can pie apple

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Lightly grease a lamington tin. Line with baking paper, extending by 2cm over each long side.

Combine flour, coconut, sugar, melted butter and egg.

Press half the mixture evenly into the prepared slice tin.

Spread the apple over the base then crumble the remaining slice mixture over the apple.

Bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Allow slice to cool completely before removing from the tin.

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Vanilla Custard

2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons cornflour
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Whisk egg yolks and cornflour to a smooth paste with a little of the milk.

Heat remaining milk until it boils.

Slowly pour the yolk/cornflour mix into the hot milk while whisking. Continue to whisk until thick and smooth. Whisk in vanilla and serve.

Note: Milk must boil or custard will not thicken.

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Butterscotch Slice

115g butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup coconut
250g milk chocolate, melted

Topping:
1 tablespoon butter, melted
2 tablespoons golden syrup
395g tin condensed milk

Mix 115g melted butter, brown sugar, self-raising flour and coconut together. Press into a greased and lined lamington tray and bake at 180°C for 10-15 minutes. Cool.

Mix 1 tablesoon melted butter, golden syrup and condensed milk together. Spread over cooked base and bake for a further 15-20 minutes.

Pour melted chocolate over warm slice and allow to set.

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Garlic Smashed Potatoes

4 washed potatoes
4 heaped teaspoons garlic butter

Preheat oven to 200°C.

Microwave whole potatoes for 8-10 minutes or until soft. Transfer to an oven proof dish.

Cut a cross into the top of each potato, then using the back of a spoon or fork, squash the top so it splays out.

Place a heaped teaspoon of garlic butter on the top of each potato and bake for 10-20 minutes or until crispy on top.

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Vanilla Slice

2 sheets puff pastry
1/2 cup castor sugar
1/2 cup custard powder
1 1/2 cups cream
2 cups milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
Vanilla icing or icing sugar for dusting

Place puff pastry on lined oven tray. Prick all over with a fork then bake at 220°C for 10 - 15 minutes.

Put sugar, custard powder and cream into a saucepan and stir over a medium heat until it starts to thicken.

Add milk, 1/2 a cup at a time, and whisk continuously until the custard is thick.

Let everything cool slightly. Place in a 22cm square tin 1 sheet of pastry, then spread with the custard mixture. Top with the remain piece of pastry. Ice with vanilla icing if desired.

Allow slice to set for at least 3 hours. Dust with icing sugar before serving.

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