Friday 23 January 2015
Monday 19 January 2015
Yums!
Victoria Sandwich Cake
Congratulations to Suzila and Ben on their engagement last Sunday!
I wished I had the time to add more decorations and pipe their names on the cake.
Congratulations to Suzila and Ben on their engagement last Sunday!
I wished I had the time to add more decorations and pipe their names on the cake.
Friday 9 January 2015
Blondie
Blondie, a version of brownies that doesn't require cocoa powder or chocolate.
A friend's birthday was coming up and she doesn't like chocolate so much, so I thought why don't I bake her some blondies?
Thankfully she said they were good and enjoyed them!
For a twist, I added caramel chips instead of chocolate chips and place the blondies on paper cups, securing each with a ribbon.
Chocolate Chip Blondies
source : taste of home
Ingredients
11/2 cups of brown sugar (too sweet for me, you might want to adjust to your taste)
1/2 cup melted butter (I used sunflower oil)
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla
11/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup chocolate chips (I added caramel chips and a sprinkling of dark chocolate chips)
Method
Combine sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla, mix well.
Combine flour, baking powder & salt and add to mixture.
Stir in the chips.
Spread batter in 13" x 9 " greased tray. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 C.
When cooked, take out and cool before cutting into squares.
I got 40 squares out of this recipes. Delicious warm or cold. Taste even better the next day!
Happy Baking.
A friend's birthday was coming up and she doesn't like chocolate so much, so I thought why don't I bake her some blondies?
Thankfully she said they were good and enjoyed them!
For a twist, I added caramel chips instead of chocolate chips and place the blondies on paper cups, securing each with a ribbon.
Chocolate Chip Blondies
source : taste of home
Ingredients
11/2 cups of brown sugar (too sweet for me, you might want to adjust to your taste)
1/2 cup melted butter (I used sunflower oil)
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla
11/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup chocolate chips (I added caramel chips and a sprinkling of dark chocolate chips)
Method
Combine sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla, mix well.
Combine flour, baking powder & salt and add to mixture.
Stir in the chips.
Spread batter in 13" x 9 " greased tray. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 C.
When cooked, take out and cool before cutting into squares.
I got 40 squares out of this recipes. Delicious warm or cold. Taste even better the next day!
Happy Baking.
Chocolate Fridge Squares
I love eating this and always wanted to have a recipe that I really liked and easy to make.
Throughout the years I came across several, some were good but always there was something wrong like too sweet, or too much of an ingredient that I don't like or the entire recipe cost too much, not really worth the time and effort.
Surprisingly I found one in a children's cook book.
It's not ours, but a friends'- thank you very much Suzila for lending us the books!
I copied it down in such a rush that I forgot to take down the name of the book, author or even the real recipe's. I vaguely remember it as chocolate fridge something.
Throughout the years I came across several, some were good but always there was something wrong like too sweet, or too much of an ingredient that I don't like or the entire recipe cost too much, not really worth the time and effort.
Surprisingly I found one in a children's cook book.
It's not ours, but a friends'- thank you very much Suzila for lending us the books!
I copied it down in such a rush that I forgot to take down the name of the book, author or even the real recipe's. I vaguely remember it as chocolate fridge something.
Some recipes use cocoa powder, milo, or marie biscuits but this one, uses digestive biscuits and
chocolate...melted choclate and golden syrup! YUMS!!
But you can use Marie Biscuits too, the chocolate or coffee ones are equally delicious.
So if you want, try out the recipe and believe me it is worth the while.
Chocolate Fridge Squares
source: Suzila's Children cook book.
Ingredients
200g chocolate (I used dark chocolate buttons)
100g butter
4 Tbsp Golden Syrup
225g (8 oz) Digestive Biscuits (I used the entire packet save one of the short Mc Vite's Digestive)
125g pistaschio (I used walnuts)
200g chopped dried apricots (I used dried cranberries)
Method
In a bowl over simmering water melt chocolate (if not using buttons or chips, chop the chocolate to smaller bits so that it melts quicker and easier), butter and golden syrup.
When the chocolate mixture is evenly melted take off fire.
Add the broken biscuits to the melted chocolate mixture and mix well.
Pour the mixture into a greased tin, I just lined a plastic wrap to cover the sides and bottom of the
cake tin for easier lifting and less greasy.
Spread the mixture evenly and pop into the fridge for at least 2 hours.
Once hardened, take out and cut into squares!
Happy Baking.
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