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    Print Recipe Frosted vanilla cupcakes Serves: 12 Cooking Time: 30 mins Ingredients 180g (1½ cups) cake flour 150g (¾ cup) sugar 10ml (2 tsp) baking powder 2,5ml (½ tsp) salt 125ml (½ cup) milk 125ml (½ cup) oil 2 large eggs 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract ICING 130g (1 cup) icing sugar 30ml (2 tbsp)

    TO DRINK: Altydgedacht Barbera is made from a traditional northern Italian grape variety well suited to tomato based dishes with its dusty tannins and herbs.

    Print Recipe Spiced chocolate and almond macaroons Serves: 15 Cooking Time: 50 mins Ingredients 2 extra-large egg whites (together these must weigh 60g) 50ml castor sugar 110g icing sugar 50g ground almonds 20ml (4 tsp) cocoa powder, sifted 2,5ml (½ tsp) Chinese five-spice powder FILLING 125ml (½ cup) fresh cream 200g white chocolate, finely chopped
    Print Recipe Chinese-style duck strips and pancakes Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 45 minutes Ingredients 2 x 200g duck breasts peanut or avocado oil 10ml (2 tsp) Chinese five-spice powder PANCAKES 375ml (1½ cups) flour 250ml (1 cup) boiling water sesame oil TO SERVE ½ cucumber, sliced into matchsticks 2 spring onions, sliced into matchsticks Chinese

    It’s important to be patient when allowing the dough to rise in stages, because it is during this proving process that the bubbles are formed which make the bread light.