Mexican Fest

I first saw this on the Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle - Here. It's very Heston Blumenthal.And I have been dying to try it, just waiting for an occasion.

There was a small celebratory afternoon tea at work last Friday and I volunteered to bring something - I saw my opportunity. I love testing stuff out on my work peeps cause there's a variety of tastes and they're willing to test my weird experiments.

Now, it's meant to look like a cornchip with guacamole and salsa. It's actually a lemon and poppy seed biscuit with a citrus marshmallow dip and fruit salsa.

It didn't look quite like the Sugarbelle picture but it's pretty close and taught me heaps (it's always a learning experience converting things from American speak to Australian speak).

The recipes for the biscuits and dip are below - adapted from the Sugarbelle website. Excuse my approximations, I wasn't recording amounts as I went but more 'feeling' my way and using my husband as a test horse.

For the 'salsa' I cut up 2 kiwis and about a cup of raspberries, squirted some lemon juice on them and sprinkled a couple of teaspoons of icing sugar over them and left them to go squishy.

I think the general consensus was that it worked, some people just went for the biscuit and mallow dip or fruit salsa and some combined all three.

Either way it's quirky presentation added a little something different to the mini party!

SweetSugarBelle’s Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies

 *Preheat oven to 400° *

250g unsalted butter

1 ½ cup Icing sugar

1 egg

2 tsp Lemon flavouring

1 tsp vanilla

2 ¾-3 cup Self-Raising flour

2 tsp baking powder

1tsp salt

2 tsp poppy seeds

Cream together butter and confectioner’s sugar.  Add to this the egg and flavorings.  Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt, adding this mixture one cupful at a time to the wet ingredients.  Mix until the dough forms a ball on the paddle.  Roll out on floured parchment paper and cut into desired shapes.  Bake at 400° for 7-8 minutes.

Fruit Mallow Dip

What You Need

1 pkg. PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

1/2 packet of marshmallows - melted in the microwave until it's all goopy

approx 150g of sourcream

approx 1 tsp of orange rind

approx 2 tblspns of fresh orange juice

Make It!

Mix ingredients until well blended - colour green if desired.

Enjoy!! C