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White Chocolate Cup Cakes

Netta — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:46:45 +0000

125gm butter

1/2 cup caster sugar

3 eggs

80gm white chocolate

3/4 cup plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

Beat the butter with the sugar till light and creamy, add the eggs, beating well after each addition. Stir through remaining ingredients.

Fill cupcake papers about 2/3 full. Bake in a 180 degree oven for 20 minutes, or until the cake bounces back when pressed in the middle.

I love serving these with whipped cream and strawberries instead of icing!

Chocolate Brownies

Netta — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:33:28 +0000

Ingredients
125 g butter
1½ cups caster sugar
½ cup cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
¼ teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Method

Melt the butter in a medium saucepan and add the sugar, cocoa vanilla and salt, remove from heat and allow to cool slightly before whisking through the eggs.
Fold through sifted flour and baking powder.

18 x 28cm tin

Bake at 170°C for 25-30 minutes.
The mixture will seem soft but will harden on cooling.
Allow to cool in tin before removing.

Melting Moments

Netta — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:09:02 +0000

Ingredients

250g butter, softened
1 1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup icing sugar
2/3 cup custard powder

80g butter, softened, extra
1 1/3 cup icing sugar
1 tbs lemon juice

Cream the butter till it’s nearly white, then add the flour, sugar and custard powder at the end. Roll into balls and squash down with a fork then cook for about 15 minutes at 106 degrees.

To make different flavoured melting moments, passionfruit etc, just change the flavour of the icing and leave the biscuit the same – vanilla extract, orange juice, rose water etc.

Speedo problem

damo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:10:34 +0000

The problem I’ve been having with the speedo is that it winds itself off the clock before I’m even out of first gear. I pulled the speedo cable and speedo driven gear out and checked them. The nylon speedo driven gear looks fine to me. The cable on the other hand is looking worse for wear so I’ve ordered an entirely new cable rather than just get an inner cable made up.

I then pulled out the instrument cluster, the back of which was covered in transmission fluid near where the speedo cable connects….. a clue? I think so.

I took the cluster to Premier Instruments in Dickson and they overhauled the cluster and found that the transmission fluid had eaten through a bunch of rubber seals and was playing havoc with the speedo.

Cluster is reinstalled, just waiting on the speedo cable. I suppose I should clean out the garage too so I have a bit more room to move.

Project KE35

damo — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:37:45 +0000

I have just purchased a 1978 KE35 Corolla, in pretty original condition. Apart from a 4K, the car is standard down to the radio and cassette player and has all the original stickers relating to tyre size and tuning information.

I just need to fix the speedo to get the car registered.

Anyway, photos below.

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