Franke: 5-minute desserts for when you don’t feel like baking

Let’s admit it, we all have those moments when we wish we had a live-in chef to whip us up something that looks like it’s come out of the pages of a Master Chef recipe book. Such moments are especially enticing when the couch’s ‘pull of gravity’ is really strong and we’re overwhelmed by a powerful craving for something sweet.

We know the feeling all too well, and that’s why we asked Franke’s Make it Wonderful team to come up with a solution that lets us spend more time relaxing and less time baking. Here’s what they came up with:

You Won’t Be Able To Resist These 5-Minute Desserts Chocolate-Centred Cake In A Cup

Image: www.inspiredtaste.net, recipe: www.snapguide.com

• 4 tbsp. flour
• 4 tbsp. sugar
• 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
• ¼ tsp. baking powder
• 2 tbsp. milk
• 2 tbsp. oil
• 1 egg
• A pinch of salt
• 2 blocks cooking chocolate

Serves: 2 Method

1. Mix all ingredients together in a small bowl.
2. Grease two medium-sized coffee cups.
3. Pour mixture into cups.
4. Place 1 chocolate block in the centre of each cup.
5. Microwave mixture for 2 minutes.

No-Bake Cheesecake

Image and recipe courtesy of www.youbabyandi.com

Ingredients

• 1L granadilla yoghurt
• 1 tin condensed milk
• 1 packet tennis biscuit
• 2 tbsp. butter, melted

Serves: 6 Method

1. Place tennis biscuits on a clean surface and use a rolling pin to crush them up.
2. Mix crushed tennis biscuits and melted butter together and spread this mixture across a medium-sized baking dish.
3. Mix the yoghurt and condensed milk in a separate bowl and place in the microwave. Take this out after 2 minutes and stir. Microwave for another 2 minutes and then stir again.
4. Pour the mixture over the tennis biscuit base and leave this in the fridge to cool.

Pear Crumble

Image: www.generalmills.com, recipe: www.bbcgoodfood.com

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• ¾ cup rolled oats
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 100g butter
• 500g tinned pear halves

Serves: 4 Method

1. Mix flour, oats and sugar together in a medium-sized bowl.
2. Melt butter and pour into oats mixture. Stir this thoroughly.
3. Grease a small baking dish and pour pear halves into this.
4. Spread oats mixture over pears and bake in oven at 180° C until golden brown.

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