#filo cups

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Banoffee whisky cups as the 84rd bake from the 2016 Great British Bakeoff cookbook. The filo pastry was much better than for the chai pears, I did it by hand as I don’t have the pasta machine. The key is to keep the dough non sticky, use plenty of cornflour, it won’t affect the end taste. The caramel sauce became very thick for me, but it was soft enough luckily to adjust the approx tsp size blobs with my finger to the bottom of the cups. The whisky bananas are amazing. That’s the strongest taste in the final cup, balanced by the cream and caramel and the crunch from the cups and crumbs.

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Filo cups with salmon. Something you need to try!

You will need:

filo dough

200g sour cream

1/2 red onion, chopped

2 tbsp dill, chopped

pinch of salt and pepper

squeeze of lemon juice

100g smoked salmon

Pre-heat your oven to 170*C.

Place sour cream, chopped onion, chopped dill, salt, pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice in a bowl and mix. Add the salmon, torn in small pieces and mix a bit again.

Cut filo pastry into 9 squares, push each one to a muffin hole and divide the salmon mix between them.

Bake in 170*C for about 15 minutes.

Best, Marta

[vannimamibaking]

Chai pear cups as the 82nd bake from the 2016 Great British Bakeoff cookbook. The base is cinnamon filo pastry. Its a really hard balance to stretch it and fill the cup, for me the circles kept squeezing back after the butter and became too small. It needed a bit of extra after stretching. If it was even a bit thick the cup was thick with bubbles, in this case you can still press those down while warm, so it dries without taking up bubble space from the fillings. The chai vanilla custard is really nice by itself too. The pears are easy to bake. The caramel is simple with the almonds, and makes plenty, if broke to small pieces. This will be a great party food if you have time to prepare.

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Tuna and watermelon soldiers, beef and kimchi filo cups canapés in the evening sun

Tuna and watermelon soldiers, beef and kimchi filo cups canapés in the evening sun

I don’t know about you but here we are all waiting for the summer. Those lovely hot days in the garden and nice drinks in the evening sunshine. This morning I woke up and it was perfect! Just a breezy wind and an almost clear blue sky. I got up and went for a walk along the seafront with a friend. We had a lovely catch up and managed to get some exercise done at the same time, a great way to…

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