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It's a Trifle to make

17/11/2021

 
Christmas Trifle

​This Christmas Trifle is the perfect combination of fresh berries, jelly and cream. And it is so simple to make!
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Ingredients
  • 1 x 450g / 14 oz Madeira cake or Pound cake store bought (Note 1)
  • 85 ml orange or other fruit flavoured liquor (like Cointreau), or apple, orange or other fruit juice (or 2 tbsp brandy)
  • 21 g gelatine powder (Note 2)
  • 1.5 litres Cranberry juice, original (ie WITH sugar added, not No Added Sugar, Note 2)
  • 2 – 3 punnets strawberries, halved
  • 1 each punnet blueberries, raspberries

CREAM:
  • 625 ml heavy / thickened cream (or pure whipping cream)
  • 50 g white sugar (caster sugar ok)
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

HOMEMADE THICK CUSTARD (OR 900G 1 TUB PAULS DOUBLE THICK VANILLA CUSTARD):
  • 750 ml milk (full or low fat)
  • 50 g caster sugar (superfine sugar)
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (or extract) (Note 4)
  • 50 g caster sugar (superfine sugar), extra
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 80 g cornflour / corn starch

Instructions
  • Cut cake into 3 cm / 1.2″ cubes. Cover bottom of 3.5 L / 3.5 qt trifle dish with cake (might not use all) and sprinkle with liquor or juice. 
  • Optional extra: Scatter over 1/2 to 1 punnet halved strawberries (this is not in ingredients list).

CRANBERRY JELLY:
  • Put half the cranberry juice into a saucepan over medium heat (3 cups / 750ml). Bring to a simmer, then turn off stove.
  • Meanwhile, put remaining room temperature cranberry juice into a bowl. Sprinkle gelatine all across surface (don't dump in one place). Whisk until mostly dissolved.
  • Pour in hot cranberry juice. Whisk until gelatin is fully dissolved. Proceed with recipe – jelly will be warm.

JELLY LAYER 1:
  • Pour HALF the cranberry jelly liquid carefully over the cake in the trifle dish. Refrigerate uncovered for 1.5 hours until it is partly set – still quite soft, but not watery (ie if you gently place a strawberry on it, it will stay on the surface).
  • Pour remaining jelly in a bowl and leave on the counter (do not refrigerate).
  • Meanwhile, make the custard (see below).

CUSTARD LAYER:
  • Remove trifle from fridge. Spoon over the custard, smooth surface, press on glass to seal (stops jelly bleed). Refrigerate for 1 hour until surface has firmed up a bit – just enough to hold the jelly (jelly is soft so custard doesn’t need to be fully set). 
  • Put remaining jelly in the fridge at the same time (to thicken a bit, but not too much, see video, so you get a neat, clear layer of jelly – read Note 5). CHECK jelly at 30 minutes, just to ensure it's not setting too fast.

JELLY LAYER 2:
  • Remove trifle and jelly from fridge. Jelly should be sloppy. Carefully spoon over jelly, smooth surface. Scatter over 1 punnet halved strawberries (or half each raspberries and strawberries). Refrigerate for 3 hours+ (can leave in fridge for 48 hours, until ready to assemble).

ASSEMBLING:
  • Cream: Beat cream, sugar and vanilla until softly whipped.
  • Once jelly is set, just before serving, top with cream, then pile over remaining berries. Dust with icing sugar. 
  • Serve!! PS It is imperative to ensure every servings includes a bit of every layer in the trifle 

HOMEMADE CUSTARD:
  • Bring milk, ¼ cup sugar and vanilla to a simmer in a large saucepan over medium heat. Do not boil.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together remaining ¼ cup sugar and yolks, then whisk in cornflour until smooth.
  • While whisking, carefully pour in about ½ cup of milk mixture. Once mixed in, slowly pour in remaining milk while whisking. Once incorporated and smooth, pour back into saucepan.
  • Return saucepan to stove over low heat. Whisk constantly until it becomes thick and custardy – this will happen quite quickly, about 45 seconds (ie it is liquidy when you start, then suddenly it thickens). Once thickened, remove immediately from heat – it will continue to thicken.
  • Pour into a bowl and cover with cling wrap, pressing onto surface. Leave on the counter until trifle is ready to layer with custard. Makes 750ml. (Note 5)

Stapled Superannuation - combining your employees' super funds into one

17/11/2021

 
The ATO has release additional requirements when it comes to nominating an employee's super fund. You will have an extra step to take if you have new employees who start from 1 November 2021 and they don’t provide you with the details of their chosen super fund.
You may need to request their ‘stapled super fund’ details from the Australian Taxation Office. A stapled super fund is an existing super account of an employee that follows them as they change jobs.

This change aims to stop your new employees paying extra account fees for unintended super accounts set up when they start a new job.

What you need to know
You may need to request stapled super fund details when:
• your new employee starts on or after 1 November 2021
• you need to make super guarantee payments for that employee, 
• your employee is eligible to choose a super fund but doesn’t
You and your representatives can request stapled super fund details for your employees if you have full access to Online services for business. You need to review and update these accesses to protect the privacy and safety of your employees’ personal information.
You must meet your choice of super fund requirements and any stapled super fund obligations by the quarterly due date or you may face penalties.

What you need to do from 1 November 2021
Step 1: Offer your eligible employees a choice of super fund
If an employee joins you, you must give them a super choice form, this is critical so you get the super details of the employee so you can pay them, as non payment and late payment are one of the priority audit areas for the tax office and not having the employees super details is not a valid excuse.
Step 2: Request stapled super fund details
If the employee doesn’t give you their fund details, you can look up on the ATO to see if the employee has a fund listed with them and then make payment to that super fund. This is what has changed, you can now see if the ATO has fund details on record. If you need to do that step, our admin and bookkeeping team can support you. 
The criteria thing is after 28 days, if you don’t have the employees fund details from them then look them up with the ATO. The employee will get an SMS and/or email if you look up their info if they are registered with a MyGov account.
Step 3: Pay super into a default fund
You can pay into a default fund, or another fund that meets the choice of fund obligations if:
• your employee doesn’t choose a super fund, and
• The ATO has advised you that they don’t have a stapled super fund.

NEW! Director ID Number is required for all company directors

17/11/2021

 
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The following is only relevant to existing company directors and those thinking of becoming a company director.
ASIC has launched a new number by which a company director will be identified. This ID number has been created to help prevent the use of false or fraudulent director identities, and as a precursor to the amalgamation of ASIC and ATO into a new system called the Modernising Business Register or MBR, arriving in 2023. 

The 15-digit number will be known as the Director Identification Number (DIN or Director ID)  and is a unique identifier that a director will only need to apply for once as it will always be linked to them.
A director will keep their DIN even if they stop being a company director, change their name or move interstate or overseas. 

When to apply
The dates for when you need to apply, depend on when you become a director. 
1. Existing directors (appointed prior to 1 Nov 2021) have until 30th November 2022 to apply.
2. If you become a director between 1 November 2021 and 4 April 2022, you will need to apply within 28 days of your appointment. 

How to apply for a DIN
Although all existing directors only need to apply by 30 November 2022, we strongly recommend you do this one-time set up now to avoid any future penalties.
Please follow this link to apply. (The link will take you to the official Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS) website).
In order to login to the ABRS website and apply for the DIN, you will need to Setup a MyGovID app on your phone if you don’t already have one. 
Note: MyGovID is different to MyGov, which is your personal government portal.

Should you need assistance with applying for the myGovID or the DIN, please let us know at [email protected]. 



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