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Afternoon tea

Grana Padano-and-chorizo scones

30 minutes

Afternoon tea

White chocolate sponge with butterscotch sauce

1 hour 40 minutes

Afternoon tea

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Pear loaf

Name: Brownie cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 9 min
Total time: 29 min
Yield: 10–12 servings
Cuisine: Desserts & Baking
Ingredients: good-quality chocolate, roughly chopped 200 g,butter 125 g,flour 130 g,cocoa powder 3 heaped T,baking powder 1t,a pinch of salt ,caster sugar 150 g,brown sugar 100 g,free-range eggs 2,vanilla essence 1t,a handful of Chuckles ,Woolworths soft-scoop vanilla ice cream, for serving (optional)

By Abigail Donnelly

Serves 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cooking Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

125 g butter, plus 1 T
90 g sugar
2 free-range eggs
3 T buttermilk
1 T almond essence
120 g flour
1 t baking powder
2 pears, peeled and diced

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease a 23 cm loaf pan.

2. Beat 125 g butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time, then add the buttermilk and almond essence.

3. Beat in the flour and baking powder, then stir through the pears. Spoon into the loaf pan.

4. Place the remaining butter in a piping bag fitted with a small round nozzle and pipe a line of butter down the middle of the cake. (This will create the characteristic crack down the middle.) Bake on the middle rack for 40 minutes, then cool and remove from the tin.

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Photographs: Jan Ras
Food assistants: Claire-Ellen Van Rooyen And Tahila Pillay

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