Category: baking

Easter Chocolate Bark ๐Ÿซ๐ŸŒท๐Ÿฃ

Hi guys!

I’ve always enjoyed doing a few ‘baking’ recipes on here, every now and then, particularly at Easter time.

All that delicious Easter chocolate in the shops or that you may receive can be put to good use by yourself or your small people – it’s super easy and great fun too!

So what is Easter Bark you say? 

Well it’s shards of decorated chocolate.

And here’s how it’s done (by us anyway)

Ingredients

  • X2 large bars of Milk Chocolate
  • X2 large bars of white chocolate
  • Sprinkles
  • A selection of your favourite Easter chocolates to adorn

Recipe

Prep a baking tray with a lining of baking parchment, make sure it covers the sides of your baking tray a little too, not just the bottom.

Melt your different chocolates (we went for milk and white for the kids – dark would also be delicious) in separate bowls over water (or in the microwave)

When the chocolate that you wish to have as your base is ready (ours was milk), pour that into the baking sheet and spread out so it covers the bottom in an even layer. Don’t spread it too thin.

Drizzle over the other chocolate/s that you’ve melted (our white chocolate) either yourself or the children need a cocktail skewer to swirl the chocolate carefully to create the marbled effect.

Adorn with your sprinkles and chosen Easter Chocolate, trying to evenly distribute it throughout.

Pop into the fridge (or freezer if you are impatient like us!! ๐Ÿ˜‚)

Once it is fully solidified, break it up into shards and ENJOY!

Super easy, fun & delicious! Perfect for occupying the kids this Easter hols – my nephews and niece loved it (especially the eating part!)

Happy Easter Weekend

๐ŸŒท๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿชน๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฃ๐ŸŒท

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Twenty Two: Easy Christmas treats to make with kids ๐Ÿซ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

Now that the Christmas holidays are in full swing and the kids are at home, I thought I would share with you a few fun, easy, and relatively quick recipes for little festive treats.

These ideas are so cute. I’ve either made them with my Nephews or made them with the children at work. Either way, they are lots of fun and great for keeping the kids occupied.

I’ve included links to help you with how to make them.

1. Chocolate Reindeer

Chocolate Reindeer Rolls Recipe

2. Rice Crispy Christmas Puddings

I have previously posted during Blogmas about this recipe.

Here’s the link to that days post:

Blogmas 2023 Day Three – Festibe Baking Blogmas 2023 Rice Crispy Christmas Puddings

& Rice Crispy Christmas Puds Recipe

These are my favourite of all the recipes!!

3. Hot Chocolate Snowman Jars

Hot Chocolate Snowman Jars Recipe

These are fun but would also make a great homemade gift.

4. Easy, Festive Cupcakes

Easy Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Use whatever festive coloured icing/sprinkles that you wish to decorate them with.

3 days until Christmas!! Only 3!!!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Three: Festive Baking โœจ๏ธ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

Welcome to Day Two of Blogmas.

Today I did a spot of festive ‘baking’ with my Nephews.

We made Rice Crispy Christmas Puddings.

I’ll include the ingredients and recipe below. They are super easy, they came out so well and they are really effective.

These are fun just to make but would also be great on a festive buffet table.

Ingredients:

  • Milk Chocolate
  • Rice crispies or coco pops
  • White chocolate (half the amount of milk)
  • Smarties (The Candy cane ones have loads of red ones)
  • Christmas Sprinkles

Method:

  • Melt the Milk Chocolate slowly, 30 secs at a time until fully melted.
  • Mix in the rice crispy until well coated.
  • Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out a domed portion and place onto greaseproof paper (reshape on the paper if needed)
  • Refridgerate until hard.
  • Melt the white chocolate in the same way that you melted the milk chocolate.
  • Take the puddings out of the fridge, drizzle a small amount of white chocolate on top and let it drip down the edges to look like icing.
  • Adorn and decorate with the smarties and sprinkles to create Holly.
  • Refridgerate again so that the white chocolate can harden.
  • Enjoy!

Give them a go and let me know how you get on!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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The Platinum Jubilee ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‘‘

Happy Platty Joobs day everyone! I hope you are having fun celebrating this special occasion in British History!

Friday 3rd June 2022

(& if you aren’t – I hope you are having a great Friday anyways)

I love the Queen so I thought it would be fun to have a little afternoon party to celebrate on the Official Platinum Jubilee day.

So, I organised an Afternoon Tea Garden party at my parents house, for all our immediate fambizzle to attend.

And it was great fun!

There was lots of decorations!

There was lots of food!

I even made the Official Platinum Jubilee dessert – Lemon & Amaretto Trifle. Pretty chuffed with how it turned out to be honest!! & we had a laugh ceremoniously bringing it to the table with the National Anthem haha ๐Ÿคฃ

And lots of fun! Hanging out, enjoying the treats, listening to music and making crafts and playing games with the kids.

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ‘‘

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Biscoff Chocolate Crispy Bars ๐Ÿซ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

So, here is another blog post, and this time I thought I would do a lil baking- it’s been too long.

These no bake Biscoff bars and super easy, super quick and partly inspired by loads of random videos that I have seen on Tik Tok… so there is no real ‘recipe’ as such.

Here is what you’ll need:

โ€ขRice Crispies

โ€ขSmooth Biscoff/Biscuit spread

โ€ขDark Chocolate

Recipe:

1. Slowly melt the biscoff spread jn a bowl, in the microwave – this took about 45 seconds.

2. Mix in the Rice Crispies until they are fully covered and start to combine.

3. Push the mixture into a tin and make sure it is all compact.

4. Freeze for at least 30/45 minutes.

5. Slowly melt your dark chocolate. I do this in the microwave at 30 second increments.

4. Allow the chocolate to cool.

5. Take the crispy block out of the freezer and slice into finger sized pieces. Be quick or it will warm up too much. Place back in the freezer whilst you prep the chocolate.

6. Carefully pour/spoon the chocolate over the crispy fingers.

7. Place on some non stick baking parchment to cool.

8. Bon apeiti!

These were a big hit with my husband, he really enjoyed them.

Mine don’t look the best, but they taste great!

Great for any chocoholics out there!!!

Let me know if you give them a go! Happy Baking.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Twenty Three: Baking Christmas Cookies ๐Ÿช๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿป

2 days to go!

I love a bit of festive baking – and its super fun when you get the kiddies involved. Me and my Nephews made some festive chocolate chip cookies – heres how it went.

What do you need:

  • Cadbury cookie pack
  • Oil
  • Milk
  • Baking tray
  • Baking parchment
  • Mixing bowl
  • Spoon
  • Festive sprinkles
  • Icing sugar

What do you need to do:

  1. Follow the box instructions – pre heat the oven accordingly.
  2. Empty the packet mix into a bowl and combine with the oil and milk.
  3. Roll out into 10 equal balls and place evenly on the tray.
  4. Press down a little.
  5. Bake.
  6. Add Sprinkles on top with a little icing so that they stick (or you could bake them with the sprinkles on top but they do melt a little)
  7. Enjoy!

Who doesn’t love a bit of festibe baking!?

What is your favourite festive bake?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Fifteen: Decorating a gingerbread house

10 DAYS TO GO PEOPLE!! 10 DAYS!!

This is not a drill.

And what better way to get you into the festive spirit than constructing and decorating a gingerbread house.

Let’s take a peek ๐Ÿ‘€

The icing provided was really bad so I whipped up my own just using icing sugar and water, with a make shift piping bag from parchment paper.

We had a laugh and it came out ok in the end … I’m fairly certain there were more sprinkles on my floor than on this roof though ๐Ÿคฃ

Have you attempted a gingerbread house before?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Thirteen: Chocolate Christmas trees ๐Ÿซ๐ŸŽ„

12 days until Christmas! – 12!!! Where is the time going.

So, lets make sure that we are fully in the festive spirit with another tasty (& super easy) Christmas recipe.

I made these with my nephews and we had lots of fun.

๐ŸŽ„ Chocolate Christmas Trees ๐ŸŽ„

Ingredients:

  • White Chocolate
  • Mini Kinder bars
  • Festive Sprinkles
  • Magic Stars
  • Green food colouring

+

  • Baking parchment

Method:

  1. Place a Kinder bar, vertical, at the bottom of your piece of parchment.
  2. Slowly melt your white chocolate, 30 second increments until it is all fully melted.
  3. Mix in some green food colouring.
  4. Mix until it forms a thick paste/dough.
  5. Roll out and cut into a triangle tree shape.
  6. Place the triangle on top of the Kinder bar leaving a bit sticking out the bottom as the stump.
  7. Leave to cool a little but don’t let it harden.
  8. Place a choc star on top and decorate with your festive sprinkles.
  9. Leave in the fridge to harden completely
  10. Enjoy!
They were a big hit!

Let me know how you get on if you give them a go!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Eight: Mini Christmas Pudding Rice Crispy Cakes ๐Ÿซ

17 days to go!

Ingredients:

  • Rice Crispies
  • Milk Chocolate
  • White Chocolate
  • Christmas Sprinkles or icing pens

Method:

  1. Melt the milk chocolate slowly, 30 second increments, in the microwave or in a ban marie. I used 1 and a half large bars of Dairy Milk.
  2. Once it is fully melted tip in the rice crispies, gradually mixing to combine. Add as many as you can until they are all coated in the chocolate.
  3. Spoon into a empty cupcake tin and flatten the top.
  4. Refridgerate.
  5. Once hardened, carefully use a knife to pop them out. Place them flat side down on a plate.
  6. Carefully melt the white chocolate. I used 2 medium Milkybars
  7. Drizzle over the top and allow it to drip down the sides a little.
  8. Decorate to look like a piece of Holly on top.
  9. Pop back into the fridge so that the white chocolate hardens
  10. Enjoy!

1.5 Large bars of Dairy Milk and Rice Crispies combined made roughly 10.

What do you like to bake at Christmas?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Easter Baking ๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿซ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

I love an excuse to bake and Easter is the perfect one.

Also, I can now eat chocolate again as I gave it up on the 8th of Jan until Good Friday! Horray.

So, here are two Easter bakes that I have made this Easter weekend.

They are super easy, relatively quick and even child friendly.

Let’s take a look!

Chocolate Easter Nests

Chocolate Easter Nests

I surely don’t even need to include a recipe for this Easter classic!?!

This Easter season special is great to do with kids and one of my favourite ‘cakes’ whenever I seem them on sale.

I had to use shredded wheat this time as we already had it in the cupboard but my preference is cornflakes, and of course I used Cadbury chocolate and mini eggs.

Cadbury Creme Egg Brownies

Cadbury Creme Egg Brownies
Gooey goodness!

These brownies came out super gooey and were so delicious, especially warm!

I had this ‘Brownie in a jar’ mix from Christmas, that I hadn’t used yet and all you needed to do was add 125g of butter and 2 eggs (whisked together first). Super easy!

I then cut the creme eggs in half and pushed them into the batter, fondant side up.

A brownie recipe that I use alot is a BBC Good Good one, I’ll leave a link here .

What is your favourite Easter bake?

Let me know if you have a go at these.

Have a great Easter Weekend.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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