Morish Nuts

Things have been busy in the Morish kitchen! With the festive season just around the corner, we’ve had plenty of orders for Chrissy hampers and presents. Everyone wants to get their hands on some Morish nuts!

Our “elves” have been hard at work in the kitchen to get ready for the busiest time of the year. So there’s been LOTS of roasting, sorting and packing to get everyone’s Morish gifts ready before Santa arrives. What’s been the favourite this year? Our newest Chrissy gift hamper – Santa’s Nut Sack. For only $19 this is a real treat (a definite winner under the Christmas tree!) – it includes Morish Premium Caramel Nut Mix and Savoury Nut Mix, plus Morish Crunch and Peanut Brittle – delish!

And if you have someone in mind who has a really big sweet tooth – the Morish Jumbo Tote Bag has everything you (and they) could dream of! It includes Morish Cashew, Peanut, Almond, Macadamia, AND Hot & Spicy Peanuts, plus Peanut Brittle, Crunch, Soft Nougat bar, and Morish Pralene. And what makes it even better is that you can order online – have a look at our Hampers page.


 

And when can I get hold of some Morish during Christmas, you ask? We’ll be keeping things festive around here, open 8.30am – 4.30pm everyday right up until Christmas Eve. So if you haven’t stocked up on your Christmas treats and gift hampers yet, pop into the kitchen – we’d love to see you!

At 12 noon on the 24th we’ll be closing up shop, then returning to our lovely Morish home on January 10th. But don’t worry, if you’re having a few Morish cravings, you can still order from our website – we’ll deliver as soon as we get back!

Getting back into the show spirit, Morish set up at the annual Treasured Craft Creations on November 19th. Held at Claremont Showgrounds, the show runs over a full weekend and is jam packed with handmade crafts, gifts and home wares, along with antiques and collectables. The show is quite a TREASURED event to us (see what we did there?!) having participated for 15 years.


So once again, Morish took front and centre at Claremont with a stall full of your favourite Morish treats. Show-goers went NUTS over the special Choc-Coated Ginger, Crystallised Ginger, Choc-Coated Apricot, and Choc-Coated Liquorice in our show-only special bargain bin. For those who already love Morish, these exciting new snacks were certainly something to shout about!

And with so much happening at the show, they needed the energy too! For the first time ever, the brand new Polka Dot Vintage Market joined the show. With stall after stall of retro clothing and vintage accessories, Treasured Craft shoppers needed our Morish pick-me-up to get them through the day.

Also up for the taking were Morish Christmas hampers and gift packs. (PS: If you missed the show and want to snap up some of the delicious hampers to put under someone’s Christmas tree this year, have a look at the hampers page here!)




Looking forward to the next one! Watch our blog for more Morish updates and highlights.

In August this year, Morish sponsored Farm Weekly’s RIPE Magazine NutRipe Recipe Competition, where WA readers were asked to send in their favourite mastered recipes of anything sweet, and nutty!


A parade of tempting homemade treats made their way to the offices – we’re not sure how they managed to judge them! The winner from Neergabby, WA, received a Morish Premium Cabin Carry Bag full of great Morish treats!


Here at the Morish kitchen, we LOVE experimenting with new great-tasting recipes, so we’ve chosen our two favourites from the competition to share with you. We went nutty over this Macadamia Shortbread made by Kym from Neergabby, and the Macadamia Slice by Pam in Corrigin. Our Morish Raw Macadamia would be perfect to use in both these delicious recipes!


Macadamia Shortbread


Makes 24


Ingredients

115g (3/4cup) plain flour
70g (1/2 cup) cornflour
60g (1/2 cup) finely chopped Morish Raw Macadamia nuts
125g butter, cubed, at room temperature
80g (1/2 cup) icing sugar, sifted
1tsp vanilla essence
50g dark chocolate, chopped

Method

Preheat oven to 160C. Line two baking trays with non-stick paper.
Use electric beater to beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl until pale and creamy.
Sift flour and cornflour together in a medium bowl. Add to butter mixture with macadamia nuts and use wooden spoon to mix until just combined into a soft dough.
With lightly floured hands, roll teaspoonfuls of dough into 4cm logs. Place about 4cm apart on lined baking trays.
Bake for 20 mins or until light golden and cooked through, swapping trays half-way through cooking.
Remove from oven and cool on baking trays.
Place chocolate in small heatproof bowl over saucepan of simmering water, stirring until melted and smooth.
Drizzle melted chocolate over cooled biscuits.


Macadamia Slice



Ingredients

250g Granita biscuits
100g melted butter
1/3 cup glace ginger
1/4 cup sesame seeds
395ml condensed milk
1/3 cup coconut
1 cup Morish Raw Macadamia nuts
250g dark chocolate

Method

Preheat oven to 160C.
Crush Granita biscuits finely. Add to melted butter. Press into greased and lined 7 x 11cm tin.
Sprinkle with finely chopped glace ginger and sesame seeds. Pour over tin of condensed milk.
Press finely chopped macadamia nuts and coconut into condensed milk.
Bake for 35 mins or until it bubbles and browns. Remove from oven and cool.
Melt chocolate and pour over top of slice. Cool. Cut into slices.


We think these fantastic sweet treats are very... What's the word? Morish!

It’s been a very busy time of year here at the Morish kitchen – the team has just finished up with The Royal Shows in Adelaide and Perth, we’ve been travelling Western Australia with more regional shows, and have more visits to make before Christmas (we understand how Santa feels now!).

And of course we’re still hard at work hand-mixing our nuts and confectionary to get ready for the summer holiday season!

But we like to make sure you know what’s coming up at Morish, and where you can get your hands on more Morish treats! So to keep you in the loop, we come to our latest piece of news – Morish is now on Facebook!

That’s right – we’ve joined the online bandwagon. Which is great news for all our Morish friends!


If you want to hear the latest news about where we’ve been, what we’re cooking, and what’s coming up, make sure you go online and “LIKE” Morish Nuts on Facebook.

And if that’s not good enough already, soon we’ll be having specials and giveaways JUST FOR OUR FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK – sounds like a good deal to us!

In return, we’d love to hear from you and see some photos of your favourite Morish moments. We’ve even had someone make us cookies using our Caramel Coated Premium Nut Mix!

And remember, the more the merrier! So make sure to tell your family and friends all about Morish Nuts. Visit us on Facebook here.

And watch out for Morish specials just for you!

First day Royal Adelaide Show, hell... what a day for the farmers, massive thunder claps, lightning, pouring non stop rain...but who cares ... show goers braved it and came for their fix of Morish and other show bags. However by seven o'clock only the very brave were still floating around..pun of course... today looks much clearer so come prepaqred for occasional shower other wise it should be a great day big advantage Adelaide is well organised show and many of the exibits are under cover.. look forward to welcoming new and existing customers to the moriosh stand # 20 Wayville pavillion Don't forget your discount voucher

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