Sprinkle Up Your Taste Buds - Nutworks Gourmet Sprinkles Range

Sprinkle up your taste buds

As a food blogger, recipe developer and local food ambassador I am so excited about the NEW Gourmet Sprinkle range from Nutworks found in Queensland Woolworths Stores Stores and made right here on the Sunshine Coast.

Nutworks have brought me on board to promote this delicious new product range.

This Sprinkles range has me excited. Nutworks are well known for having natural and healthy high quality ingredients and with these products even the simplest dish can become extraordinary from just one of these packets of flavour.

For example my Savoury Smokey Zucchini Herb Muffins with cream cheese frosting came alive with the Gourmet Sprinkles. Just by adding the Nutworks Texas Smoked Sprinkles the muffins have instant wow factor.

RECIPE >>> CLICK HERE
The Gourmet Sprinkle Range has been a conceptual idea for some time. In 2013 Nutworks created the original flavours and held a focus group for invited foodie and local business guests to come and taste the original and first trials of these sprinkles. The sprinkles were well received.  Over the next year and a half the recipes were refined, trialled and improved. At the same time Nutworks team were pitching the concept to the market. Finally at the end of 2014 the Gourmet Sprinkle Range was accepted as part of a 1 year contract into selected Queensland Woolworths Stores.

An exciting development for local food on the Sunshine Coast indeed.

What I absolutely love about the Gourmet Sprinkles range is how they not only taste sensational but how healthy they are for you as well.

Nuts are very important in a well-rounded diet. The diversity of flavours within the sprinkle range ensures that there is an opportunity at every meal to get the recommended serve of nuts for your daily intake. Research shows that nuts reduce your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and can help with weight management.

And these ranges are just using natural ingredients and spices to create outstanding flavours.
Sprinkles are perfect for busy multi-tasking mums and families. Great for creating an outstanding dish for a dinner party, an event or just delicious family dinners without all the hassle of trying to perfect flavour combinations and spending heaps of time in the kitchen.

With flavour ranges of:

SAVOURY

·      Texas Smoked Almond

·      Asian Cashew

·      Mushroom, Rosemary Walnut

·      Lime Pepper Cashew

SWEET

·         Banana Coconut Boost

·         Raspberry Crumble Boost

·         Lime Coconut Boost

·         Apple and Cinnamon Boost

The Sprinkles Gourmet Range has a flavour combo to make any meal or snack outstanding.

I am really looking forward to working with Nutworks, a local food producer that I love to promote this range and craft some stunning recipes around them so stay tuned to the blog, newsletter and facebook and Instagram for more information and recipes!!
And if your wanting to try the ranges yourself they are even currently on special at Woolworths stores until the 19/09/2015

Check out the hash tags to find out what others are doing with the sprinkles and share your own ideas and recipes!

#Sprinkles #Nutworks #Allnutswelcome #TEXASalmond #Nutworkssprinkles #sprinklelove
#nutsforsprinkles #cookingwithBek 

Disclosure:
I am currently working as a paid product ambassador for Nutworks with their new Gourmet Sprinkles range, all opinions however are my own.
Recipes (c)RebeccaMugridge2015

Gluten free zucchini, herb & pepita smokey herb muffins with cream cheese frosting & Nutworks smokey sprinkles

It has been a long running inside joke in my family that I should open a muffin shop. I seem to be always making muffins and crafting new ones. There is something so wonderfully comforting and exciting about a muffin all at the same time, and the flavour possibilities are pretty much only as endless as your imagination!

What is not to love??

When Nutworks told me about their exciting new Gourmet Sprinkles range I was excited to try it, even more so when I started tasting the flavour combinations they had come up with. I have long been a fan of their products and natural ingredients.
In fact when you read the back of these sprinkles, their is not an additive or preservative in sight.

Nothing quite dresses a muffin up more than a whipped topping and a pop of crunch and flavour on top. Well these handy packets take all the guess work and prep work out as they are ready to snip and go.

As a busy mum, I really like that!!

When I tasted their Texas smoked my mind flew to paprika and smokey flavours and cream cheese so I crafted these muffins around my daydreaming taste buds. I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making them!

Bek xoxo

Zucchin, herb and pepita muffins with whipped lemon cream cheese frosting and Nutworks Smokey Sprinkles

Ingredients

2 free range eggs
1 large or 2 small zucchini
1 cup grated cheese
1/4 cup baby spinach leaves
2 cups self raising gluten free flour (could also use buckwheat with baking powder added)
1/8 cup olive oil
1/4 cup sundried tomatoes slivers
1/4 cup smoked ham/bacon/vegetarian ham or leave out. Cooked and sliced thinly.
1/4 cup pepita seeds
1 cup water (or as needed)

 1 packet cream cheese
1/4 cup chives chopped
1/4 cup parsley chopped

1/2 large lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon smokey paprika

Nutworks Texas Smoked Sprinkles. (Find me at woolworths.)

Method
Pre heat oven to 180'c.
Line a muffin tray with cases or grease.
Whisk eggs and oil together in a large bowl.
Sprinkle in some salt and add into this mixture the cheese, ham, zucchini, pepita, paprika, sun-dried tomato  and spinach and some of the water.
Gently fold the flour through the wet mixture, add a little extra water from the cup of water as needed. Mixture should be reasonably runny, easy to stir texture.
Fill cases approx 3/4 full.
Bake for around 20 minutes or until golden on top.
Remove from heat and allow to cool on a wire rack.
Whip the cream cheese with an electric beater/mixer with the lemon juice and nice and smooth and a little fluffy. Adjust amount of lemon to taste. You can use just a hint and replace with water.
Use a spatula to top each muffin with the cream cheese and top with the Nutworks smokey sprinkles.
Enjoy!!

Note:

These are fantastic to take to a BBQ, picnic, dinner party

Fruit and Nut Chocolates and Slice

Fruit and Nut Chocolate Delights

(GF, DF, Refined Sugar Free)
I love Cadbury fruit and nut chocolate and I also love experimenting in the kitchen and creating different twists on classic recipes and food.
My grandmother, who was a great chef always said, "There are no new recipes, there are new personalities in food." I think this is never more true than today and I believe it is what makes food so exciting.

I love to put my own style and ideas and twists into my cooking, always have. Recently a friend of many years remarked how I have always been one serving food and cooking, even when we were young, carefree and partying teenagers - yep I was the one feeding everyone and bringing baskets of salads and baked goods, up early with the cooked breakfasts camping.

I guess I get it from my mother, who got it from her mother, who got it from her mother... Yes I come from food loving women, don't you love how things run in families? Cooking and beautiful food has always been around me, as has being in commercial kitchens and seeing my mother make food for delighted customers, I realised back then that people enjoying food is an experience and people enjoying your food is exhilarating!
It became one of my great loves and passions in my life.

I love cooking shows and I was delighted to watch an episode The Great Australian Bake Off where all the contestants had to make the exact same recipe.
All the variables were the same. Same room, same room temperature. same oven types, same equipment. same amount of allotted time, same ingredients, measuring devices.
And YET not any of them were the same in the end result!
This was a delight to see at it reinforced to me what my grandmother always said. We are all so different, we are all beautiful, unique personalities and like with art and no two artists being the same, food is no different and no two cooks are exactly the same either.
We each have our own personality with our food and our cooking, and that makes cooking and food wonderfully exciting!!

While inspired by the timeless classic this recipe is definitely not Cadbury chocolate or even intended to be just like it in any way, it is rather very very different, it is the end result of much eating taste testing and experimenting in my kitchen and it is a recipe both my kids love and that has made it a winner in our house alone!

Fruit and Nut Chocolates

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup organic cocoa butter. ( I use Cacao Power certified organic pure raw cocoa butter, you can buy from health food shops, I got mine from Maleny IGA it is the edible natural fat of the chocolate bean)
• 1/4 cup organic rice malt syrup ( I got mine from Coles supermarket in Nambour, so it is quite a common product to find)
• 1/4 cup cacao powder
• pinch pink Himalayan salt
• 2 cups assorted chopped dried fruit and assorted chopped nuts of choice (only roughly chop the nuts so there is interesting texture)

Method

• In a saucepan very gently over a low heat melt the cocoa butter.
• Once melted add in the other ingredients and stir together until well combined.
• Have chocolate molds ready (I actually used miniature muffin trays for the ones pictured)
• Fill molds about 1/3 with chocolate mix.
• Sprinkle in fruit and nuts into each one.
• Top with chocolate mixture.
• Place in the fridge to set, at least 1 hour depending on size of molds used.
• Remove from molds when firmly set, serve.
• Keep in a sealed container in the fridge.

Notes

• Use your imagination and put your own personality on them! Try different fruit and nut combo's, salted peanuts is rather nice!

Toddler Tips

• Make them nice and small so they are perfect for little hands.
• These are great chocolates to give the kids, knowing they are refined sugar free and have lots of antioxidents in them and no hidden nasties.

Fruit and Nut Chocolate Slice

This is sooo YUM!! It is hard to keep this for long at our house!\

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup organic, raw cocoa butter (see notes above)
• 1/4 cup cacao powder
• 1/2 cup organic rice malt syrup
• pink pink Himalayan salt
• 2 cups chopped dried fruit and nuts ( I have used figs, prunes, cashews and peanuts)
• 1 &1/2 cups macadamia paste (I use Nutworks beautiful natural macadamia paste)
• 1 &1/2 cups desiccated coconut (I also buy this at Nutworks as it is a great price and in bulk)
• 2 tablespoon organic rice malt syrup

Method

• Very gently melt the cocoa butter over a low heat.
• Once melted stir in  cacao powder and 1/2 cup rice malt syrup and pinch Himalayan salt.
• In a large bowl combine the macadamia paste, coconut and remaining rice malt syrup. Mix well.
• Press the macadamia mix into a baking paper lined tin. ( I use chemical free baking paper called "if you care" which I get from Organics on a Budget, also where I got my cacao powder)

• Mix together your dried fruits and nuts, they should all be roughly chopped so there is still plenty of texture but in smaller, easier to eat pieces. Personally I love the combination of dried figs, prunes, cashews and peanuts.
• Sprinkle a little extra Himalayan pink salt over your fruit and nut mixture (optional)
• Put this fruit and nit mix as a layer on top of the base, spreading out evenly.

• Pour the chocolate mixture over the top and place in the fridge to set.
• Once set, (allow a good 2 hours or do it overnight)remove from tin by lifting out the baking paper carefully, place on a chopping board, removing the paper and slice into desired bars or sqaures.
• Store in a sealed container in the fridge using baking paper between layers.
• Enjoy!

Notes

• This is such a great recipe to add your own personality too and come up with your own favourite combo! Try things like sultannas, dried apricots, cranberries, goji berries, dates, brazil nuts, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts.
• Perfect for entertaining and for a beautiful table setting like at Christmas time.
• Done up in a glass jar tied with ribbon makes a beautiful gift.

Toddler Tips

• Both my kids LOVE this slice, my toddler does however take a bit longer to eat it and does get very chocolatey messy!!
• If putting in lunch boxes, put a piece in a sealed container in the freezer the night before and include a small ice brick or frozen drink in their lunch box. Cocoa butter chocolate doesn't soften as quickly as coconut oil based chocolates but it will soften in hot temperatures.

*Note for more chocolatey inspiration check out:

The Coconut Mama - absolutely amazing website full of coconut love, including her gorgeous chocolate ice magic! Natural New Age Mum's Chocolate Bars >> Yes, all your favourites made healthy or allergy friendly!

Happy Cooking
Bek XX

I really appreciate the support you all give me dear blog readers, my books, my blog, my recipes, my journey and my cooking - it all means so much!!
Love Bek XXX

Reipe and photography (c)RebeccaMugridge2013

My recipes are a collection of beautiful food to me and as such on my blog and in my books you will find a diverse range. In amongst them I have vegan, vegetarian, raw, nut free, dairy free, gluten free, sugar free, local food, seasonal food, health food, detox food, slimming food, protein rich food and many that are not any of those things too...!

Cashew, Brazil Nut, Lentil & Quinioa Nut Roast

Cashew, Brazil Nut, Lentil & Quinoa Nut Roast 

Serve with Eat Me I’m Wild Tomato and Cumin Sauce

Healthy and delicious. This recipe was a HUGE hit at the taste testing demonstration at the Maleny Supa IGA, the feedback on the day from the public was amazing, and people even asked me on the day if they could buy this ready made and during the couple of weeks afterwards asked in store where they could buy one too! 

I love a nut roast, I have been making nut roasts for years and this one I am really proud of.

It holds it's shape really well, slices easily and tastes best the second day so is a great recipe to make in advance. ENJOY!

Ingredients

• 1 leek, chopped

• 1 jar Eat Me I’m Wild Tomato and Cumin sauce to serve

• 1 tablespoon ABC Kepac Manis soy sauce

• 1 cup Maleny IGA cashews

• ¾ cup Maleny IGA brazil nuts

• ½ cup Maleny IGA hazelnut meal 

• 2 carrots, grated

• 2 cups Maleny Bakery Wholemeal Bread, turned into bread crumbs 

• 1 & ½ cup Maleny IGA brown lentils

• 3 rawganix free range eggs

• 1 & ½ litres vegetable stock

• ¼ cup Quinoa, cooked according to packet directions

• ½ cup extra vegetable stock, as needed

Method

• Preheat oven to 180`c.

• Grease a loaf tin and line with baking paper.

• Pour the vegetable stock into a saucepan and bring to the boil.

• Cook lentils in stock until tender.

• Cook leek in a frypan until soft

• Roughly crush the cashews and brazil nuts, leaving some big pieces for texture.

• Cook quinoa according to packet directions.

• In a large bowl whisk the 3 eggs

• Add in bread crumbs, nuts, quinoa, carrot, soy sauce, ¼ cup stock and lentils, mix together well

• Pour mixture into prepared loaf tin, press down gently

• Cover loaf with a sheet of baking paper

• Bake for approximately 25 minutes or until firm

• Remove from oven, cover with foil and let rest for 10 minutes before cutting

• Heat the Eat me I’m Wild sauce

• Serve (also see notes)

Notes

• Serve hot or cold with roast vegetables or salad and mashed potato and the heated Eat Me I’m Wild sauce or even a homemade gravy.

• This nut roast benefits from being allowed to cool and then chill in the fridge for a few hours or overnight to really firm up and set, you can then serve cold, which is delicious or re-heat in the oven to serve it warm.

Toddler Tips

• Cut into bite sized pieces and serve with mashed potato

• A great, tasty high protein and high fibre meal

• Serve theirs with organic tomato sauce

This recipe is from the collectible, free Local Product Local Recipe - recipe cards that you can pick up in store at the Maleny IGA. Promoting products and producers from the Sunshine Coast region.
The Maleny IGA now has online shopping and delivers right across the Sunshine Coast.