Here are the 2 receipes from THIS MORNING
I thought GR was wanting everyone to send him their celeb cookbooks cos he thought they were rubbish ?????
Ob so his wife could sell her one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chocolate Crunch Brownies
250g/8oz unsalted butter
425g/14 oz golden caster sugar
4 large free range eggs, beaten.
65g/2 and a half oz plain flour
40g/1 and a half oz cocoa powder
400g/13oz plain chocolate (either chips or a bar broken into small pieces.)
Makes: 24 Brownies
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 30-35 minutes
? Preheat oven to 180 C/350 F/GM4
? Melt the butter in a small pan and pour into a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar and eggs mixing well. Then add the flour and cocoa powder.
? Add the chocolate chunks and stir through. Lightly grease the square tin and pour in the mixture.
? Bake for 30-35 minutes
? Remove from the oven and cut into 2 inch squares. Using a palette knife, remove from the tin onto a cooling rack. This helps to stop the brownies over-cooking and becoming a little dry.
Danish Pastry Pizzas
300g/10 and a half oz strong white flour
Half tsp fast-acting/easy bake yeast
Half tsp caster sugar
1 tsp salt
1tbsp olive oil
200ml/7fl oz tepid water
4 tbsp passata
100g/4oz thinly sliced ham or Parma ham
1 tsp dried oregano
125g/5oz grated mozzarella
Salt and pepper
Makes: 12
Prep time:20 minutes (but best to leave dough to rise for 40 mins)
Cooking time: 25 minutes
? Preheat oven to 180 C/ 350 F/GM4
? Put the flour, yeast, sugar and salt in a large mixing bowl.
? Make a well in the middle and pur in the oil and water.
? Use a spoon to begin with, stir the liquid around and as the flour slowly collapses into the liquid mix into the dough.
? Once you have a lump of dough start using your hands.
? Bring the dough onto a well-floured work-surface and begin kneeding.
? After 5 minutes place the dough into a clean mixing bowl and ;eave in a warm place to rise for 40 minutes.
? After the forty minutes is up, the dough should have doubled in size. Take out of the bowl and kneed again for a minute or so before pulling the dough into a rectangular shape, roughly 40cm x 25 cm on a large chopping board.
? Spoon the passata over the pizza dough and spread evenly around. Sprinkle evenly with the ham, dried oregano, mozzarella and seasoning.
? Turn the pizza so that the longest side of the rectangle is in front of you. Very gingerly, start rolling the pizza up like a swiss roll.
? Cut into 12 pieces, approximately 1cm thick and carefully put on a baking sheet, lined with baking parchment cut side up.
? Bake for 25 minutes.
Ham and Cheese Muffins
300G/ 10 and a half oz se;lf raising flour
½ tsp mustard powder
½ tsp paprika
75g/ 3 oz butter
6 slices honey roast ham chopped into 1-cm pieces
185g/ 6 ½ oz mature cheddar cheese, grated.
1egg beaten
250 ml/ 9fl oz milk
6 tbsp finely grated parmesan (to sprinkle on top)
Makes: 12 muffins
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
? Preheat oven to 190 C/ 375 F/ GM5
? Lightly grease a 12 hole muffin tin (alternatively use muffin cases in the holes)
? Sieve the flour, mustard powder and paprika into a large mixing bowl. Rub in the butter until this resembles breadcrumbs. Add the ham and cheese, then stir in the egg and milk.
? Spoon equal amounts of the mix into the 12 muffin cases and sprinkle a little parmesan on top of each.
? Bake for 20 minutes
? Remove to a wire cooling rack.
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