Mother's Day Bakes

Happy Saturday!
As tomorrow is Mother's Day, I thought I'd share some yummy bakes to make Mother's Day that extra bit special...

No Bake Orange Cheesecake
This is a bake that you can get the whole family involved with, its so simple and fun, the kids will love helping out with this one.

Ingredients
15 digestive biscuits
6 tbsp. melted butter
400g cream cheese
Grated zest of 3 oranges (save the segments for the decoration)
200g marscapone cheese
100g caster sugar
3 tbsp. milk
184ml pot double cream

Method
Crush the biscuits roughly with a rolling pin.
Pop into a bowl and mix together with the melted butter. Put the mixture into a 23cm loose-bottomed cake tin. Use your fingers to spread it evenly, and press it down the tin to form the base. Put it into the fridge to set for about 30 minutes.
Put the cream cheese, orange zest, marscapone, sugar and milk and mix well with a wooden spoon until well combined.
Put the cream in a clean bowl and whisk it until its the consistency of thick custard. Add to the orange mixture and mix well.
Remove the cheesecake tin from the fridge. Pour the filling over the base and spread evenly.
Decorate with the orange segments and return to the fridge for at least 4 hours until set.


Mango Crunch Cookies
This recipe is an easy way to get the little ones into the kitchen!

Ingredients
140g butter, softened
50g golden caster sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp maple syrup
100g dried mango, roughly chopped
175g plain flour, plus extra for dusting

To decorate
200g icing sugar, sifted
3 tbsp mango juice
Sprinkles

Method
Heat the oven to 180C.
Place the butter and sugar in a food processor and blitz until smooth and creamy. Add the egg yolk, vanilla, maple syrup and mango. Whizz to blend in and chop the mango a little more finely. Add the flour and briefly blitz to form a soft dough. T
urn out onto a floured surface and shape into a ball. Chill for 20 minutes.
Using a rolling pin, roll the cookie dough to the thickness of a £1 coin on a lightly floured surface, then cut out biscuit shapes with a 10cm cutter for large, or a 5cm cutter for smaller cookies.
Transfer to a baking tray lined with baking parchment, and cook for 12-15 minutes or until lightly golden and firm. Remove and leave to cool on a wire rack.
If decorating, mix the icing sugar with the mango juice to make a runny icing. Drizzle or spoon the icing over the biscuits, then add the sprinkles if using, and leave to set. Will keep in a biscuit tin for up to 1 week.

There you have it! Two yummy bakes to make your Mums day this Mother's Day.

To find more Mother's Day recipes, check out the BBC Good Food website.

Happy Baking!

Charley x

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