Anyone for dessert?...

The origional inspiration for this dessert came from the lovely Heni

it's a crazy simple dessert and has becom a firm favourite in our house this Ramadhan.

We tweaked slightly, and opted for plain yogurt and no coconut..

but this flan is so forgiving you could tweak it just about any way you want to flavour wise.

We also added a biscuit crumb base...

basically just a standard size packet of biscuits

mixed with enough melted butter to press it into the base of a flan case

Once the biscuit base has been chiled for a while in order to firm up, 

continue with recipe as normal...

We've already made this three times in the first two weeks of fasting, which proves what a hit it's been for us.

Go ahead and visit Simplicity's kitchen for yourself and be inspired to make a simple and tasty dessert.

Le Tart ....

if you want to be posh..Jammy Dodgers if you've been missing home as much as we have this week.

It's a simple recipe, easy on the pocket masha'allah and it's even moderately child friendly if you feel that way inclined.

As you can probably tell from the pictures, we were feeling a bit to precious to have the littlies join in with this one, but do try it with them sometime they'll love jamming and sandwiching bits of biscuit together.

 In a large bowl, place 250g of butter

 add to that 250g of icing sugar

and work wonders with your spoon till it looks something like

this...

next in are two eggs, 

beat them into the butter and sugar

 

 you'll end up with lushness like this insha'allah..

then 2tsp of baking powder.

 

 then incorporate as much flour as is needed to create a soft unsticky dough

roll your dough out to a nice even thickness 

about 1cm or so and then cut out your shapes.

What you're aiming for are an even number of tops & bottoms...

as you can see we went the high tech method of cutting holes,

and went for a bottle top.

lightly grease and flour a baking tin and bake your biscuits in a moderate oven till they're cooked through

but not coloured....

once they're out and cooled , dust the tops and jam the bottoms 

and once they're stuck together finish them off by adding a little extra jam in to the centre.

The origional recipe came from my bestest friend

who has given me the push I needed to try lots of Algerian recipes 

 Why don't you give them a try insha'allah...