Cooking with Kelly

I love these orange and pecan nut muffins inspired from and bake them often. So easy to prepare - you place all the ingredients in your food processor and blitz.
The zingy flavour from the fresh orange is perfect for winter tea time treats.

1 whole orange weighing 200gms cut pieces of skin off around the stalk & bottom end until you get to exactly the weight remove pips
200ml sugar
1 egg
125ml raisins - I used fruit cake mix
125ml pecan nuts
125ml unflavoured oil
125ml buttermilk
10ml vanilla essence
500ml flour
5ml baking powder
5ml bicarbonate of soda

Preheat oven to 180°C

Place the orange and sugar in the bowl of your food processor and blend
Add the egg, oil, nuts, raisins, buttermilk and vanilla and blend until smooth
Sieve the flour, baking powder and bicarb and add to the processor. Blend until just combined.
Place mixture into muffin tray top with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar if you wish or a few extra finely chopped nuts
Bake at 180°C for 20-25min until golden

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Foundations of Good Cooking Lesson 6: Baking Basics & Sweet Treats 🍰🧁

This week the kitchen smelled amazing as students explored the science and techniques behind successful baking. From mastering light, fluffy muffins and buttery scones to learning the secrets of perfect biscuits, they gained confidence measuring, mixing, and baking from scratch.

On the menu: Muffins,Scones, Biscuits 🍪, Chocolate Cake , Baked Cheesecake, Sticky Toffee Pudding and pizza 🍕 and foccacia.

Along the way, students learned about raising agents, mixing methods, texture, and how small changes can make a big difference to the final result. Plenty of delicious treats were enjoyed, and even more baking skills were added to their growing repertoire!