Voluptuous rocky road

Yummy yummy yummy , I've got rocky road in my tummy.

200g chocolate
100g butter
2tbsp golden syrup (I perfume out of a squeezy bottle, unlike uncle gav!)

Melt this over a pan of boiling water. Once melted add 4 handfuls of mini marshmallows and 4 handfuls of cornflakes. Mix together and pop in a grease proof paper lined baking tray!

Stick in the fridge until set.

PANCAKE DAY! AmeriBritish Pancakes

I have been looking forward to this day all week! Fine then all year!

With a few friends round, I thought why not make a big batch of lovely British pancakes. I open the fridge, measure out the milk, add a touch of water, 5 serving spoons of plain flour and go to grab 2 eggs... but no! I had 12 eggs at the start of the week! I wanted to cry.

So what I did was substituted the eggs with vegatable oil.

And so the AmeriBristish Pancake was born.

Tastes like British, looks like American.

chocolate fudge icing covered brownie with white chocolate chips

This was an experiment that just went so right!

OMG!

The recipe that I put up recently (chocolate fudge cake) is where I go the inspiration from this one! I made the same icing and then to make it even better put the most amazing chocolate brownie underneath.

So I started with the brownie! super easy!

100g milk chocolate
75g butter
125g caster sugar
2 eggs
45g plain flour
2 tbsp of drinking chocolate (I use the sainsbury's one that has sugar and powdered milk in)
pinch of salt
50g milk/white chocolate buttons/drops/broken up bar

melt the chocolate and butter together in a bowl (i find a metal mixing bowl is the best) over a pan of boiling water. Once all is melted, take off of the heat and then mix in the sugar. Add the eggs, then the flour, drinking chocolate and the salt. Don't forget the chocolate pieces !

Pop into a tray lined with grease proof paper and then into an oven that should be at 180 degrees. cook until it looks crusty on top. Put the icing on the brownie straight away!

For the icing see the chocolate fudge cake in my earlier recipes!

Grand Mary cake

Growing up I always remember my great grand mother making these lovely little upside down fairy cakes covered in jam and coconut. So I made a big one ! 

125g butter

125g caster sugar

125g self rasing flour

2 eggs

Vanilla essence 

Mix all together as usual . Grease or line a tin with grease proof paper. Then cook in the oven at 180 degrees for about half an hour, until a knife comes out clean !! 

Place the jam (strawberry or raspberry) on top while the cake is still warm out of the oven. Wait to cool , take out of the tin and sprinkle with sweetened coconut ! De-lish ! 

Short bread !

This evening while catching up on the great British bake off I found the urge to make some bickies!!! 

As I have just tidied the kitchen as well! They will be done at 12.05 ! A tad late but so easy to make. I have been measuring the ingredients and sitting back down on the sofa while mixing !

125g butter

55g caster sugar

180g plain flour 

Cream the butter and sugar together, then mix in the flour until it becomes a smooth paste ! Roll out on the work surface but I patted mine as I have no rolling pin at the moment ! Cut into fingers , sprinkle with caster sugar, pop in the fridge for 20 mins and then In a pre heated oven for 15 mins until golden brown. Sprinkle with cinnamon and serve with tea. 

Late night snack ! Yummy ! 

Quick Spanish omlette

Soya sauce and eggs are an amazing combination. I discovered this while perfecting my signature dish of egg fried rice! Another thing that I never run out of in the kitchen is garlic salt (or granules). No fresh garlic as it won't get used. You can buy this from any supermarket in the spice and herb section!

This is great for a buffet as well! Serve as tapas with Parma ham, olives, manchego cheese (the best cheese in the world, see supermarkets deli counter!)

ingredients: 

1 onion

3 slices of bacon

4 small potatoes

3 eggs

Garlic salt

Soya sauce

Start by boiling the potatoes (I always put salt in the water), it doesn't matter if you chop them into small squares or into thin slices. At the same time fry the onions and bacon, which should be finely chopped. Fry in oil and add garlic salt.

Mix the egg in a bowl with a little dash of water. Add soya sauce and garlic salt. The soya sauce should make the mixture a little bit darker but it need quite a bit, roughly 4tbsp.

Once potatoes are done, add then to the frying pan with the egg mix. Then leave to cook until the bottom of the omelette is cooked. Then stick under the grill to finish the top.

Eat with ketchup!

Nan's Bread and butter pud

Last night I had nothing in the house to eat except some stale bread, a few eggs and a bit of milk, some sorry looking apple and my jar of cinnamon. So i rang nan! 

My uncle loves this recipe and so do i now. I had made it before dinner and while we were eating i popped it in the oven! 

Ingredients :

eggs

milk

butter

bread as much as you have

sugar-caster or granulated or brown

apples and cinnamon or jam 

Start by buttering all of the slices of bread, cut into soldiers and layer into a deep oven dish. Mix eggs and milk in a bowl (make enough to cover the bread) and add a tbsp of sugar, then pour over the bread. cut the apples into segments and lay on top of the pudding. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top and pop in a pre heated over of 180 degrees. cook for 20 mins or more.

Keep some and eat it the next day cold! It's better cold!