Culinary Hotline - Family-Friendly School Holiday Bakes with Grace Stevens
From a decadent chocolate-filled French toast to a comforting apple cake and a homemade Crunchie, these easy recipes are sure to keep everyone happily baking and snacking together.
All Recipe by Grace Stevens
Ingredients:
- Oil & butter for frying
- 2 eggs
- 15ml milk
- 3ml baking powder
- Chocolate spread
- 4 slices thick cut white bread
To serve:
- Bananas
- Blueberries
How To Make Chocolate Spread filled French Toast
- Combine eggs, milk and baking powder in a dish large enough to dip the bread into, then mix well.
- Spread chocolate spread onto two slices of bread and cover with the remaining slices.
- Heat a frying pan with butter and oil.
- Dip each sandwich into the egg mixture, taking care to cover all the bread.
- Place immediately into a hot pan and fry until golden brown on both sides.
- Serve immediately with chopped bananas and blueberries.
Ingredients:
For the apple cake:
- 3 eggs
- 300g castor sugar
- 100ml milk
- 45ml sunflower oil
- 210g flour
- 10ml baking powder
- 3ml salt
- 385g pie apples
Streusel:
- 70g flour
- 100g brown sugar
- 3ml ground cinnamon
- 45g butter
How To Make Apple Cake
- For the cake: Whisk eggs and sugar well, then add milk and oil. Sift in flour, baking powder and salt. Mix until combined. Pour batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Arrange apples over the batter.
- For the streusel: Combine dry ingredients, add butter and rub in until the mixture resembles wet sand. Place streusel over the pie apples and batter until well covered. Place cake into a preheated oven at 180 for 30 – 40 minutes until golden brown. Turn out onto a plate. Serve warm with custard or whipped Chantilly cream.
Ingredients:
- 250g butter
- 15ml golden syrup
- 5ml bicarbonate of soda
- 250ml coconut
- 250ml flour
- 3ml salt
- 500ml oats
- 250ml dark brown sugar
- 150g chocolate
How To Make Crunchies
- Preheat oven to 180. Grease 25cm x 25cm baking tin.
- In a saucepan melt the butter and the syrup. Add the bicarb.
- Mix all the remaining ingredients except the chocolate together in a large bowl.
- Add the melted butter mixture and combine well.
- Pour out the batter into the baking tin and press flat with the bottom of a glass.
- Bake for 30 – 40 minutes until golden brown
- Allow the crunchies to cool for 10 minutes in the tin.
- Place chopped chocolate over the top of the crunchies and when it melts, spread evenly over.
- Allow to cool completely in the tin and cut into squares.