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Peach Crumble

This is surely a no fail recipe- even for the most novice of cooks! So easy and ever so morish!

Recipe

Ingredients
2 Cans tinned peaches, drained.
115g Plain flour
220g Sugar
1/4 Tsp Salt
1/2 Tsp Ground cinnamon
112g Unsalted butter

8"square dish (I used two small dishes), buttered

Preheat oven to 180c

1. Put the peaches in the buttered dish.

2. Sift together the dry ingredients and rub in the butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Sprinkle on top of peaches. Place in oven and bake for 35-45 minutes until tops are golden and crispy.

3. Stand for 10 mins.

4. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Of course you can use apples in place of the peaches. Or plums or apricots or rhubarb...

Can also be eaten cold, which I personally prefer.

Mini-Mini Cupcake

Holy Cuteness!

Cupcakes For A Chelsea Fan

Hexagons are a tricky bunch of shapes.

My 29th Birthday

The day started off beautifully and ended on a even better note with a surprise dinner with my beautiful (and sneaky!) girlfriends.

I Love You All

Chewy Peanut Butter Blondies

Recipe

Ingredients
1/3 cup Butter
1/2 cup Creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup Packed brown sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Plain / all-purpose flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1/4 cup Mini chocolate chips (optional)

Preheat oven to 180°C. Lightly grease an 8-inch square pan.
Melt the butter over low heat. Whisk in the peanut butter and brown sugar. Leave aside to cool for a minute.
Whisk in the eggs and vanilla until smooth.
Stir in the flour and baking powder. Stir in the chocolate chips, if using.
Spread the mixture into the prepared pan, and bake for 20 – 25mins, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Taken from here

Nutella Bread Pudding

Recipe

Ingredients
12 Slices brioche bread (a little stale is good)
1 1/2 cups Nutella (I used a whole 400g jar!)
2 cups Light cream (I used single cream)
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 cup Sugar
3 Large eggs

Preheat oven to 170c. Grease a square 8" cake tin with unsalted butter.
Make 6 sandwiches. Cut each sandwich is 6 pieces. Squash the pieces in the pan.
Heat the cream, salt and vanilla extract in a small saucepan and heat until warm.
In a large bowl, whisk the eggs and sugar together.
Add the cream mixture into the egg mixture, whisking constantly as not to cook the eggs.
Pour mixture on bread. Cover with foil and bake for 30-40 mins. Remove foil after 20 mins.
Stand for at least 10 mins before serving.

Eat with custard or serve warm with vanilla ice cream!

Original recipe here

Blessed

As I laid in bed feeling sorry for myself that I had a golf club as a foot, Jessica appeared with a chopping board laden with fruit, crisps and a yogurt and bought it over to my bedside table and placed it down.

"This is for your breakfast Mummy. Don't worry, I'll look after you Mummy."
Oh and she left me me a note too.

My sweetheart wrote it all by herself! On toilet tissue with mixed up words and everything *heart melts*

Jen's Baby Shower

I threw Jen a baby shower with the help from Jo. It was the first time I organised a baby shower and I really enjoyed it. Sprained ankle and all.

Some of the prep.

Top left to right: Gift basket I put together. Memento/guest book. Baby photos of guests with messages. C.D for the shower & games card. Rock dummies as prizes for the games. 'It's a Girl' ribbon for the cookies.

Shortbread cookies as favours with the baby's initial.

Shower.

Mum-To-Be!

Games

Can't wait for the baby to arrive!

Chinese Pandan Birthday Cake For San

The Smaller Things In Life

Ain't it great when life throws a giant chip in your McDonald meal?

Glee Cupcakes

From my previous post about Glee, how else could I proclaim my love for the wonderful feel-good series? Well, by making Glee themed cupcakes of course!!

Valentine Cookies

Valentine Cookies For Order

Eilleen's Birthday L.V Bag Cake

First order of the year. First time making a 3D bag cake.

L.V Speedy and Tiffany & Co ring box (the 'doughnut' pieces were for the candles)

Back.

Details.

The cake was a 3 layer vanilla sponge with a buttercream filling. The details were made with gum paste, fondant, edible lustre paint, and edible glue. Everything but the board was edible!

More photos here

Lemon Chiffon Cake

It feels like eating portions of fluffy clouds... lemon flavoured of course.

DOH Nuts

Krispy Kreme at Bluewaters

Pancakes and Bacon...

... are a marriage made in heaven. With maple syrup, it makes the perfect threesome.

Buffalo Chicken Wings

My brother has me hooked on watching Man Vs Food. After a particular mouth watering episode I had an craving for buffalo wings and needed to scour the in-tar-net and find a recipe pronto.

Recipe

Ingredients
20-25 Chicken wings (mixture of flats and drumsticks- you could disjoint the tip from the wing, but I don't because thats my favourite part!)
Salt and pepper to season
Vegetable/peanut oil for deep frying

6 tablespoons Cayenne Pepper Sauce
1/4 cup Margarine
1 tablespoon White vinegar
1/8 teaspoon Celery seed (I had celery salt and used that instead)
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon Cayenne pepper (more or less to taste)
1/8 teaspoon Garlic salt
1 dash Black pepper
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 to 2 teaspoons Tabasco sauce (more or less to taste)
(I added 1/4+ cup of Sugar because I wanted a sweetness along with the tanginess and hotness)

Prepare chicken wings and pat dry.

Season with salt and pepper.

Deep fry in batches for 10-15 minutes each time (ensure the meat is throughly cooked through).

While the chicken wings are frying, put all the ingredients in a small saucepan and cook on a low heat until the margarine (and sugar) has melted. Remove from heat.

Drain the cooked chicken wings on paper towels.

Pour the sauce on to a tray and toss the chicken wings in. Cover all the wings with the sauce.

You can choose to 'bake' the sauce on the chicken wings by placing the tray into a preheated oven (200c) for about 5 minutes. I like mine lightly coated with the sauce, that way the wings remain crispy. Or you could have it swamped in sauce like my bro, who basically drinks the stuff! It's THAT good!