- Warm up the caramel to 45 degC
--- In a separate pot, boil the water.
-` Turn off the heat.
- Dissolve the gelatine in the water.
-- Mix this preparation thoroughly into the warm caramel.
- While it is still warm, pour it approximately 1 cm thick onto the base.
- When cooled and set, decorate by coating the entire top with chocolate.
Muffins
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Equipment: 12 cup muffin pan with (7x3 cm) muffin cups
100g butter, melted
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 eggs, beaten
250g Crella Chocolate Spread
2 cups self raising flour, sifted
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 tsp icing sugar
- Preheat oven 200 oC and lightly grease muffin pans.
- Mix together the butter, sugar, eggs, Crella Chocolate Spread, flour and milk.
- Add the chocolate chips to the mixture.
- Fill each muffin pan about 3/4 full and bake for about 30 minutes or until cooked through.
- When cool, lightly dust with icing sugar.
Caramel Doughnut
Simply fill doughnut with Crella Caramel before or after frying.
Caramel Cheesecake
- Or mix it thoroughly for an even flavouring
- Then fill your cheesecake moulds.
- Decorate using a little caramel.
Caramel and Peanut Slice
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Equipment: 18 x 28cm lamington pan
2 eggs
450g Crella Butterscotch Spread
150g melted butter
1 cup unsalted peanuts
1 cup plain flour
- Preheat oven 200 oC and lightly grease lamington pan.
- Place the mixture in the pan and bake for 30 minutes or until cooked through.
Sponge Rolls (Swill Rolls)
- You can sell Swiss rolls in large, family size pieces or in single serve slices.
- Before rolling up Croissant, put some Crella Caramel in the centre.
- When using baked croissants, cut them along the back.
- Add some Crella Caramel using a piping bag.
- For that extra finish either:
- Dust with icing sugar.
- Cut 7 cm round puff pastry biscuits.
- Bake as usual.
- Join two biscuits, with both top sides facing in, using Crella Caramel.
- Using your finger or spatula, fill the edges with caramel.
- Fill the horns with Crella Caramel.
- Or make a variation by piping a line from deep in the horn to the outer rim.
- Then continue to fill completely with cream.
- Finish by dusting lightly with icing sugar.
- Or dip one end into coconut or granulated peanuts
- Fill the whole Cannoli with Crella Caramel
- Fill half a Cannoli with Crella Caramel and half with cream.
- Or mix caramel with your favourite cream to fill Cannoli.
Note that Crella has called some of the products BISSCAKE.
We call them this because the type of product falls between a soft
textured cake and a biscuit.
- Fill the pies with the mixture.
- Make a shortbread lid with a small hole and place on top of the tart
- Wash with egg
- Sprinkle some almond on the lid to garnish before you bake it.
- Bake in moderate oven, Approx. 180 oC
- Make empty shortbread tart shells. Small, medium and large.
- You ca make these in advance and store them for use later.
- Or in the small tarts, pipe a rosette of Crella Caramel in the center.
- Place a piece of walnut (or similar) on top of the caramel
- To finish either:
- Sprinkle some coconut or similar product over the tarts.
- Or sprinkle chocolate of fondant over the top
- Or coat the caramel in chocolate or fondant.
- This will keep them fresher for longer, and they are delicious
- You can add nuts after coating.
- These tarts are great after petit-fours.
- Use a piping bag with a star tube. Pipe cream around the inside lip of the tart.
- Fill the centre with Crella Caramel.
- Or you can pipe Crella Caramel around the edge and cream in the centre.
- To finish either:
- Simply add a cherry on top.
- Or sprinkle over with chocolate or fondant.
- Or add pieces of walnut or crushed nuts.
- You could use a pastry brush to paint edges of the tart with melted apricot jam.
- Touch the wet edges with toasted or raw coconut or similar.
- As another variation, melt the caramel to around 50 oC and pour into precooked tart shells. These are great when coated in chocolate.
Always put nuts, chocolate or any other dry ingredient on the highest point of the filling.
This prevents them from sticking to the paper bag when packed.
Never use hands or wet utensils to take any pastry cook filling from the container. Apart from contaminating it, the water will change the balance of ingredients and it can ferment or grow mould.
When spreading caramel onto sponges or any soft or crumbly product use a piping bag with a medium size tube to pipe it on.
Caramel Carrot Loaf
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Equipment: 10 x 20cm loaf pan
1 ¼ cups plain flour
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
1 tsp baking powder
¾ cup caster sugar
½ cup vegetable oil
2 eggs, beaten
½ cup walnuts or other nuts, roughly chopped
1 – ½ cups carrot, grated
200g cream cheese
250g Crella Smooth Caramel