recipes_Australia_September_2017

30 recipes+ SEPTEMBER 2017

RECIPE

AMANDA KELLY-LENNON

PHOTOGRAPHY

ROB SHAW

STYLING

KATE BROWN

FOOD PREPARATION

CARLY SOPHIA TAYLOR

AS SEEN

ON OUR

COVER!

cook the cover

Love our cover recipe? So do we – it’s a wonderfully indulgent chocolate cake,

but we’ve made it a little less naughty by lowering the fat content

Choc tactics

Chocolate & Ricotta

Layer Cake

SERVES 12 PREP 15 minutes + 30 minutes

to chill COOK 45 minutes

NUTRITION 1452kJ; 9g fat (1g sat);

6g protein; 62g carbohydrate; 1g fibre

a serve COST $1.90 a serve

1 cup skim milk

1½ cups firmly packed brown sugar

125g reduced-fat dairy spread

¼ cup cocoa powder, sifted

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1½ cups self-raising flour

2 eggs, lightly whisked

140g reduced-fat smooth ricotta

3 teaspoons icing sugar, plus extra, to dust

1 quantity Chocolate Cinnamon Icing

(recipe right)

100g small strawberries, halved

1 Preheat oven to 1800C/1600C fan-forced.

Grease and line base and side of a 20cm

(base measurement) round cake pan

with baking paper. Combine milk, brown

sugar, dairy spread, cocoa powder and

bicarbonate of soda in a saucepan; cook

and stir over low heat for 3 minutes or

until sugar dissolves. Increase heat. Bring

to the boil. Remove from heat. Cool.

2 Add flour and eggs to chocolate mixture.

Pour into prepared pan; level surface. Bake

for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted

at centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for

5 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack

to cool completely.

3 Whisk ricotta and icing sugar together

in a bowl. Using a large serrated knife, split

cake in half. Place one piece of cake on a

serving plate. Spread with ricotta mixture.

Top with remaining piece of cake.

Chill for 30 minutes.

Chocolate

Cinnamon Icing

MAKES 1 quantity PREP 5 minutes

1 cup icing sugar

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

30g reduced-fat dairy spread

1½ tablespoons boiling water

Combine icing sugar, cocoa powder and

cinnamon in a bowl. Add dairy spread

and water; stir to make a smooth icing.

4 Spread Chocolate Cinnamon Icing

over top and side of cake. Decorate with

strawberries. Serve dusted with icing sugar.