Hi guys 👋🏻
Happy Easter Hols! Here’s what I’ve been up to ✌🏼
Week One
Week Two
I hope you’ve enjoyed the long Easter weekend, if you celebrate it 🐇
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Easter Hols 🌷🐣🌞
Tag: baking
Easter Chocolate Bark 🍫🌷🐣
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!! 😂)
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
🌷🍫🐇🪹🐥🐑🐣🌷
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas Day Twenty Three: Baking Christmas Cookies 🍪🎅🏻
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:
- Follow the box instructions – pre heat the oven accordingly.
- Empty the packet mix into a bowl and combine with the oil and milk.
- Roll out into 10 equal balls and place evenly on the tray.
- Press down a little.
- Bake.
- 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)
- Enjoy!
Who doesn’t love a bit of festibe baking!?
What is your favourite festive bake?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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 👀
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 🤣
Have you attempted a gingerbread house before?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas Day Eight: Mini Christmas Pudding Rice Crispy Cakes 🍫
17 days to go!
Ingredients:
- Rice Crispies
- Milk Chocolate
- White Chocolate
- Christmas Sprinkles or icing pens
Method:
- 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.
- 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.
- Spoon into a empty cupcake tin and flatten the top.
- Refridgerate.
- Once hardened, carefully use a knife to pop them out. Place them flat side down on a plate.
- Carefully melt the white chocolate. I used 2 medium Milkybars
- Drizzle over the top and allow it to drip down the sides a little.
- Decorate to look like a piece of Holly on top.
- Pop back into the fridge so that the white chocolate hardens
- 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 🙂
Easter Baking 🐣🍫
Hi guys 👋🏻
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
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
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 🙂
Pancakes, 3 ways 🥞🤤
ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℙ𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝔻𝕒𝕪!
…ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʏᴜᴍᴍɪᴇꜱᴛ ᴅᴀʏꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʏᴇᴀʀ! ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜɪꜱ ʏᴇᴀʀ ɪᴛ ꜰᴇʟʟ ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ ꜰᴇʙ ʜᴀʟꜰ ᴛᴇʀᴍ, ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴍᴇᴀɴꜱ ᴀ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ᴅᴀʏ ᴛᴏ ɪɴᴅᴜʟɢᴇ.
ɪ ᴡᴏᴋᴇ ᴜᴘ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴛᴜᴍʙʟᴇᴅ ᴀᴄʀᴏꜱꜱ ᴊᴀᴍiᴇ ᴏʟɪᴠᴇʀ’ꜱ ɪɢᴛᴠ ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ ᴏꜰ ‘ᴘᴀɴᴄᴀᴋᴇꜱ 4 ᴡᴀʏꜱ’ ᴀɴᴅ ɪ ᴡᴀꜱ ɪɴꜱᴘɪʀᴇᴅ.
ꜱᴏ, ɪ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ɢɪᴠᴇ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴀ ɢᴏ (ᴛʜᴇ 4ᴛʜ ᴡᴀꜱ ᴛᴇᴄʜɴɪᴄᴀʟʟʏ ᴀ ᴡᴀꜰꜰʟᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ɪ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ɪᴛ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ ʙᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴛᴏᴏ ᴍᴀɴʏ 🤣)
ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴀʟʟ ꜱᴏ ʏᴜᴍᴍʏ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴏ ᴅɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛ… ᴡʜᴏ ᴋɴᴇᴡ ᴘᴀɴᴄᴀᴋᴇ ʙᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ꜱᴏ ᴠᴇʀꜱᴀᴛɪʟᴇ!
ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ!
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀?! 🥞
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas Day Twenty Four: An Easy Christmas Day Dessert 🍫🥧🎄
ONE DAY TO GO!!
The penultimate post is here.
As I said a few days ago, I have one more recipe for you! And it’s perfect for a special Christmas day occasion.
It’s a delicious, and relatively easy and quick, Salted caramel (do I need to say any more?) and chocolate tart.
It doesn’t require a lot of ingredients which is great! And apart from time for it to set it doesn’t take too long either. It only took me an hour or so one evening so its great as a fancy, last minute showstopper.
Don’t let the making caramel stage scare you… it’s not as horrendous as you’d think and, if you have a food thermometer this will really come in handy.
I will link both of the recipes that I used below.
I used pre made shortcrust. Remember to bake it blind for 15 mins before removing the baking parchment and beans (or whatever you have, I used dried pasta) pop it back in until it starts to turn golden.
I had some nice flakey salt that I added during the caramel recipe process (as stated but I doubled it) and I sprinkled more salt on, generously, once I had poured the caramel into my cooled tart.
Leave the caramel to set and then add your silky smooth ganache on top. Good quality Dark chocolate is the best.
As someone who likes baking, I enjoyed this recipe because it uses lots of different techniques that perhaps I wouldn’t bother to try usually.
And it looks impressive too!
This is going to be our Christmas day dessert, served with some thick double cream, YUM!
Give it a go!
It’s indulgent but you won’t regret it.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas Day Twenty One: Chocolate Orange Cookies 🍫🍊
Time for another baking post!
Especially because I feel like I haven’t done enough of these this Blogmas!
I do have another recipe up my sleeve, that I am hoping to make for our Christmas day dessert, so keep your eyes peeled for that one too 👀
Chocolate Orange is one of my absolute favourite flavours ever, but I also think its quite festive too.
I used a ‘Tasty’ recipe this time which I will leave a link for here
I obviously adapted it to make them Chocolate Orange flavoured.
I added some cocoa powder to make the cookie batter chocolatey, a little orange extract instead of vanilla and I used chopped up Chocolate Orange segments, instead of choc chips.
These don’t take long to make, honestly the longest part is refrigerating the mixture for a minimum of 30 mins before baking. They only take 15 mins in the oven.
This is how they turned out. The chocolate orange pieces were all gooey 😍
They are a lovely, soft cookie.
Let me know if you give them a go!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas Day Three: Christmas Tree Brownies 🎄🍫
The great thing about Blogmas is I can try out loads of yummy recipes (for research purposes of course, you’re welcome 🤣)
So, yummy recipe no 1 is coming at you today!!
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As always I used a BBC Good Food recipe as they are usually pretty fool proof and delicious.
The link is here .
These came out so well, are super chocolatey (I always add extra chocolate 🤦🏼♀️) & look how cute they are!!
I’m not as great at the finer detail when it comes to decorating things like this but, even I could do this haha! and I love how they turned out.
These would be great for a Christmas buffet table (and yes I am still having one even though there won’t be many of us, because come on 2020 or not… it’s Christmas & who doesnt love a buffet!!)
They would also make great gifts.
Here’s Day Three of my HP advent calender!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Roseanne Byford 