Baking

Creme Egg Rocky Road

22 February 2017

Despite it only being February I decided to have a go at an Easter themed recipe, I mean, the creme eggs are in shops so it must be ok. Every year at Easter I see the most amazing chocolatey creations. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a self-confessed chocoholic, so Easter is basically my favourite time of year. There's nothing better than a Cadbury's Easter Egg!

I love making rocky road because it's quick, easy, and tasty! There are also so many variations of ingredients that you can add or take away to put your own spin on it. But it doesn't get much better than this Easter themed one!

Here's what you'll need:

200g Milk Chocolate

180g Dark Chocolate

150g Unsalted Butter

250g Cookies

100g Mini Marshmallows

1 x Pack of Mini Eggs

1 x Pack of Mini Creme Eggs

3 x Creme Eggs

4tbsp Golden Syrup

Icing Sugar

Glass Bowl

Saucepan

Brownie Tin

Baking Paper

Step 1. Simmer a saucepan of water and place a glass bowl over - keep this on a very low heat. Melt all of the chocolate, butter, and golden syrup in the bowl. Keep this on a low heat else the chocolate will burn and turn lumpy (although this usually isn't the end of the world for this recipe)

Step 2. Whilst the chocolate is melting smash up the cookies to small pieces so that they can later be mixed in with the chocolate. Line the brownie tray with the baking paper

Step 3. Once the chocolate has cooled mix in the marshmallows, cookies, mini Creme Eggs and some of the Mini Eggs. Make sure they're all mixed in well and covered in chocolate!

Step 4. Once everything is mixed together it can be poured in the brownie tin

Step 5. Cut the Creme Eggs in half and decorate the top. Also decorate with Mini Eggs and some mini marshmallows (if you haven't eaten them all at this point)

Step 6. Place in the fridge to cool - this will take a couple of hours

Step 7. After the mixture is set sieve some icing sugar over the top!

Step 8. AKA the best step! Cut up into pieces and enjoy (or just eat it in one giant block if that's your style)!

31 October 2016

Last year I made halloween cupcakes with orange flavoured buttercream - they were terrible! So this year I decided to go a little more simple. I picked up a halloween cupcake kit from Asda; and when I say 'cupcake kit' I mean a box of cake cases and halloween characters on cocktail sticks. Super cute!

Ingredients:

3 Eggs

6oz Self Raising Flour

6oz Caster Sugar

6oz Butter

1 Bag of Chocolate Chips

Food Colouring

Icing Sugar

Food Colouring

Halloween Sprinkles

Method:

Turn the oven to gas mark 4 to heat up

Cream the butter and sugar together. Once this mixture is nice and creamy add the egg yolks - save the whites for later! Sieve in the flour bit by bit and add in the egg whites. Then, mix in the chocolate chips! Once the mixture is all mixed together split it into two and add purple food colouring to one half and green to the other (or whatever colours you choose). Add to the cake cases; half green and half purple.

Cook the cakes for 25 - 30 minutes or until done. Once done leave to cool and then comes the best part: decorating!

To decorate I used normal icing sugar. To make this you just add the icing sugar with water, I didn't measure any of this I just played it by ear. I made 3 bowls and then mixed food colouring into two. I swirled around the different colours onto the cakes and added sprinkles and the little people!

Honestly, I wont be on GBBO any time soon but these cakes are so easy and yummy!

15 October 2016

Today I decided to make Vanilla Cupcakes with Nutella Icing. I've been toying with this idea for ages and honestly the only thing that stopped me is the fact that I'm TERRIBLE at making buttercream. I don't really know what I do so wrong but it always goes wrong. Seeing ItsLittleLauren post so many amazing photos of cupcakes on Instragram makes me think, I can do this, how hard can it be? In hindsight, very.

I made the buttercream as I always do but added in Nutella. It went horribly - kind of like jelly. I'm also terrible at piping. But I'm confident that if somebody else made these they would not look or taste this bad!

Ingredients:

3 Eggs

6 oz Self Raising Flour

6 oz Caster Sugar

6 0z Butter or Margarine

Vanilla Essence

7oz Butter or Margarine

7oz Icing Sugar

Nutella

Method:

Turn the oven onto Gas Mark 4

Mix together the sugar and butter. Once this is nice and creamy separate the egg yolks and whites. Add the yolks to the mixture. Sieve the flour into the mixture along with the egg whites and fold together. Add around 1 dessert spoon of vanilla essence

Put the mixture into the cake cases and bake in the oven until done. This usually takes around 30 minutes but just keep checking.

Whilst the cakes are cooling make the buttercream mixture. Beat the butter until it's soft and then add the icing sugar. Mix together until you have a nice smooth mixture. Add the Nutella!! I added around 3 dessert spoons but you can add less/more as per your preference!

Once the cakes are cool you can then ice them!

AND THEN EAT!

4 September 2016

Whenever I want to make Rocky Road I've always followed the recipe on Tanya Burr's blog. Honestly, it's amazing! So chocoalte-y and marshmallow-y! YUM!

Recently, I've been playing about with the recipe and making a few changes to spice it up a bit so I thought it would be fun to share it with you! Your taste buds will thank you!

What you'll need:

Rectangle Baking Tin

Saucepan

Glass Bowl

Baking Paper

Ingredients:

200g Milk Chocolate

180g Dark Chocolate

150g Unsalted Butter

250g Cookies

100g Mini Marshmallows

4 x Crunchies

4tbsp Golden Syrup

Icing Sugar

Method:

Firstly, you want to melt the chocolate, butter and golden syrup. I usually do this by boiling a small pot of water and placing a glass bowl over the saucepan. I then break up the milk and dark chocolate and let it melt. Once it has melted a bit I add the butter - usually cut up into cubes so it melts easier. Then add in the golden syrup and wait for it to fully melt.

Whilst this chocolate is melting I smash up the cookies and crunchies together in a bag. You can smash them as much as you want but I like to smash most up but then leave some chunks.

Once the chocolate has fully melted into melty goodness - try not to eat it - you can add in the marshmallows and biscuits. Just stir it all together until it's fully mixed together.

Line the baking tin with the baking paper and pour in the mixture. Then leave it in the fridge to set. Leave it for a few hours or until you think it's set. I usually end up taking it out too early as I can't wait any longer!

When your rocky road it set cut it into chunks, sieve some icing sugar over the top, and serve!