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Scenic Rim Farm Box
Scenic Rim Summer Salads Now delivering to your door
Summer is a time for relaxing, catching up with friends and entertaining. This social season when you’re asked to ‘just bring salad’, turn to your friends at Scenic Rim Farm Box. They take the pressure out of entertaining by delivering locally-grown, fresh ingredients to your door – recipes included!
Scenic Rim Farm Box is the next best thing to growing your own food. This home delivery, customisable box service, is supported by more than 55 Scenic Rim farmers and producers and delivers fresh vegetables, meat, dairy, baked goods and flowers to your door in the Scenic Rim, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Ipswich and Toowoomba. This summer entertaining season get a little help from your friends at Scenic Rim Farm Box to create amazing platters, super simple salads and brag-worthy barbecues feasts.
Scenic Rim Farm Box was created by the team behind Scenic Rim Eat Local Week as a way to deliver the region’s freshest produce to the city during the COVID lockdown. As well as stunning in-season produce, you’ll receive simple, easy-to-replicate recipes created by Chef, Scenic Rim food ambassador and Farm Box operations manager Kate Raymont. You’ll find Kate’s recipes on the Scenic Rim Farm Box website, including delicious summer salad recipes featuring the fresh, locally grown produce. If you’re holidaying in the Scenic Rim, go to the Scenic Rim Farm Box website and order a produce box to be delivered to your accommodation. There’s everything you’ll need for a cooked breakfast, Saturday arvo sunset platter, simple salad and Sunday lunch. Add some Scenic Rim bubbles, beer and wine for a super-chilled weekend escape.
Don’t have time to do the grocery shop? Select our Leave it to Us Box and we’ll do the rest. For orders and recipe inspiration head to scenicrimfarmbox.com.au
CHEF KATE KANE & ASH, THE BUTCHER CO OUR DRIVERS
Local & Lovely
Carrot, Pecan & Coffee Cake
This delicious cake is a lovely, local sweet treat for a special morning tea or celebration. Chef Kate Raymont from Scenic Rim Farm Box created the recipe, drawing on the fresh, in-season ingredients available through the Farm Box website. This gluten free cake features coffee from Tamborine Mountain Coffee Plantation, carrots from Kalfresh at Kalbar, eggs from Allamburra Organics, and pecans from the Bromelton House orchard. It’s the Scenic Rim, served up one yummy slice at a time.
INGREDIENTS
200g white rice flour 120g fresh Bromelton House pecans 3 free range eggs 150g brown sugar 2 tsp cinnamon 250g finely grated Kalfresh carrots 2tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt 125ml espresso coffee made on Tamborine Mountain Coffee Plantation beans
ICING 500g cream cheese at room temperature 2 cups icing sugar juice of 1 lemon 1 tsp cinnamon METHOD
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8. Preheat oven to 170°C fan forced. Grease and line two 18cm diameter round sponge cake tins.
Combine rice flour, pecans,cinnamon and baking powder in a food processor and process into a fine flour. Beat brown sugar and eggs on high until pale, frothy and tripled in volume (about 6 - 8 mins). Mix in finely grated carrot and then fold in flour and coffee alternately. Divide mixture evenly between baking pans and bake for approximately 25 minutes. Icing: combine all ingredients and beat with an electric beater until soft and fluffy. Ice the cake when cold and decorate to your liking. Kate's used pecans, rainbow carrots and fresh flowers.
