Baking! CookieMonster Cupcakes! Recipe!

I just love Cookie Monster ever since I was a child and I've seen many cookie monster recipes over the years and have always wanted to try one. I recently saw one using coconut to make cookie monsters fur and just thought this was a great idea as some cupcake frosting is a bit too sweet and overpowering for me!

So here goes

Regular Vanilla Cupcake recipe:

• 4oz Self Raising Flour
• 4oz Sugar
• 4oz Marg
• 2eggs
• Few drops Vanilla

Put it all in a bowl and mix together.
Fill your cupcake cases and bake for 15-20minutes at 180C

 

Cream cheese frosting:

• Cream cheese
• Butter
• Icing sugar
• Drop of Vanilla Essence

This is all down to personal taste so just mash together and add more of whichever taste you prefer!

Decoration:

• Desidited Coconut
• Blue Food Colouring
• Drop of Water

• Cadbury's White chocolate Buttons
• Liquorish
• Chocolate Chip Cookie

Fill a cup with coconut and add food colouring and a drop of water and mix until you have the right shade of blue for cookie monster!

When your cupcake has cooled using a knife or spoon cover with frosting an dunk into your blue coconut, give it a bit of a shake around to completely coat!

Pop two white chocolate buttons on top for eyes and a slice of liquorish for the pupils and stick a chocolate chip cookie in his mouth!!!

Hope you try this and love recipe! Let me know how yours turn out and send images!!!

Have you seen my Ferrero Rocher Cake post??

Or my simple Chocolate Fudge post??

xx

Baking Love ~ Minions ~ Cookies & Shortbread & Biscuits ~

Another Baking post! You never get tired of them!!

Wanted to share my ebay find with you! So here's a link to my ebay minions cookie cutter. Buying on ebay you can grab some great bargains (€1.58/ £1.23/ $1.76)  once you don't mind the wait for delivery! I forgot about these and was pleasantly surprized when the postman came!

These are great as they are plungers so easily cut your dough and press your little minions faces into it!

Here's their image:

Here's the odlums shortbread recipe, however any cookie recipe could be used with these cutters!

 

Shortbread Ingredients:

125g/4oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour

50g/2oz Cornflour

125g/4oz Butter (softened)

50g/2oz Caster Sugar

Mix all together, roll out, cut and bake for approx. 12 mins at 160C


And my process, (oops burnt a few!)

 

All lined up on the cookie sheet before baking!

 

 

Then I had an idea to ice them but didn't have any fondant icing! Fondant icing is great for these plungers, I would recommend this not my runny icing sugar water combo!!!

 

 

Painted them with a tiny paint brush and food colouring!!! Think I'll post this as a Pinterest fail!!!!

At first it seemed great but the icing kinda melted and ran in my warm kitchen!!! Maybe if I left the icing set overnight, who knows? But I was able to use the plunger on the icing after a few hours with no problem, should have taken a photo of that!!!!

 

 

 

 

Have you any baking fails? Or successes?

 

Any baking products you think I should check out?

 

xx

Get your Cadbury Creme Egg Fix before its all over!!!

If you missed out and didn't get a seat at the Crème Egg Café you can still get your Crème Egg fix here!!! As you know I love pinterest, and I also love crème eggs!!!

These  are some recipe ideas I found on pinterest that I have been trying out!!! There are so many recipes I couldn't get through them all but check them all out here on Pinterest!

 

Hot Cross Crème Egg Pudding

Hot Cross Crème Egg Pudding from Good to Know read more here!
A Crème Egg Twist/Easter on the classic bread and butter pudding!

 

Ok so I cheated a little bit with mine, but only because I need a fast desert so I used readymade custard! Not as good as the homemade but an eggcellent dessert none the less!!!!

 Crème Egg Chocolate Fondant

From one of my foodie crushes  Rebecca at Winberry Crumble hear her recipe here!

4 crème eggs
100g butter
150g dark soft brown sugar
3 eggs
50g plain flour

Crème Egg Chocolate Mug Cake

Crème Egg Chocolate Mug Cake from My Fussy Eater read it here!
If you haven't made a mug cake you need to try one, they are so simple and quick to make!!

3 tbsp plain flour

2 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp cocoa powder

½ tsp baking powder

1 egg

3 tbsp plain yogurt

¼ tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp chocolate chips

2 creme eggs

 

Caramel Egg Stuffed Croissants

 

 

Caramel Egg Stuffed Easter Croissants from Taming Twins read here!!

This is a bit of a cheat but caramel eggs are only here for a short time too!!! Another simple recipe and a great breakfast treat!!!

 

Pack of ready to pop croissant dough

6 Cadbury's Caramel Eggs

1 Egg (beaten)

 

Crème Egg Brownies

 

 

 

Crème Egg brownies from Cravings of a Lunatic, read here!

 

8 tablespoons of butter

2 ounces semi sweet chocolate

1 cup sugar

2 eggs. beaten

½ teaspoon vanilla

½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

¼ cup flour

¼ teaspoon salt

10 to 12 mini cadbury creme eggs

 

Crème Egg Cupcakes

 

And this tasty offering from Cupcake Jemma, watch here!!!

 

 

 

So this Crème Egg season, how do you eat yours???

 

xx

Ps. if you missed my homemade Easter eggs find them here!

Homemade Chocolate Easter Egg Recipe Ideas

Yay! Reasons I love Spring.... Chocolate and Sweet Treat Related Holidays!!!

I picked up these Easter Egg Moulds in a discount shop a few years ago and they are just the best thing!!! Everyone loves a homemade treat and these eggs have gone down really well every year I make them!

Theme your eggs towards the recipient.

 

1 "Healthy" Chocolate Egg.

Ok this might not be technically "healthy" but it's the healthiest option here!

• Dark Chocolate
• Dried Cranberries
• Mixed Peel
• Chopped Nuts

I filled the base of he mould with fruit and nuts then poured in the melted dark chocolate
Let it set and join both sides
Eat!!!

2 "Sweets and Treats" Egg

• Milk Chocolate
• Dark Chocolate
• White Chocolate
• Sour Snakes
• Gummy Bears
• Skittles
• M&M's

Again fill the mould with sweets.
Drizzle over one type of chocolate, let set, repeat with next chocolate and repeat again!
Let to set completely
Fill the inside with lots of tasty sweets.
Use some melted chocolate to join both sides.

 

 

3. "Liquorish Allsorts" Egg

• Chocolate
• Liquorish Allsorts

Line up your liquorish allsorts in the mould.
Melt your chocolate.
Start to fill your mould with chocolate to hold sweets in place.
Let your chocolate set.
Fill your egg with remaining sweets.
Then use some melted chocolate to join both sides together and keep sweets inside.

Enjoy!!

4 "Tiramisu" Egg

• Dark Chocolate
• Boudoir Fingers
• Cocoa Powder
• Double Cream
• Mascarpone
• Espresso
• Sugar
• Rum/Baileys etc. (optional)

3/4 coat your egg with melted chocolate, let set so top is open.

Fill with Tiramisu:

Line with boudoir fingers soaked in espresso and rum
Mix mascarpone, cream and sugar together
Pour over fingers
Grate Chocolate over
Repeat layers until egg is full
Top with cocoa powder and grated chocolate
Garnish with a chocolate spoon



See the first one really was the healthy option!!!!

I keep these fresh and display them beautifully by wrapping in cellophane and ribbons.

Hope you feel inspired to treat your loved ones to a homemade egg-elicious treat!!!

So which is your favourite Egg??


xx

Red Velvet Cake in a Jar ~ Recipe ~ Baking Love ~

Just realised I have shown you the baking blogs I love, pinterest pic's, and jar re purposing however after all my Cake in a Jar lovin' I have totally forgotten to tell you about my Cake Jar recipe!

Well problem solved here it is:

Ingredients:

3oz Self Raising Flour

1oz Cocoa Powder

4oz Marg

4oz Caster Sugar

2 Eggs

Vanilla Essence

Red food colouring

Cream Cheese Frosting:

• Cream
• Cream Cheese
• Icing Sugar
• Vanilla Essence

Pretty simple just mix everything together and bake!!!
I baked mine in lined cake tins and baked for 10-20 mins at 160C

Again for the frosting just mix it all together, I know I have no measurements, I just put a spoon of cream and cheese in a bowl and mix and hope for the best!!! Add your sugar a little at a time to your own persona taste!!!

Now the Jar part!

Ok you probably have seen my organisation, I love storage Jars post, (if not tut tut here it is) so I have repurposed my old food jars.

Once my cake has cooled I used the open jar to cut cake to the right size to get into the Jar. Then I started layering inside the jar with cake, raspberry jam, creamy frosting and repeat.

Delicious and because I used chalk paint on my jars I can write peoples names and what it is on the jars! (and reuse for others later)

Hope you like it!!!

xx

The Liebster Award

Great New!!! The wonderful Katie Ellen (show her blog some love) nominated me to do The Liebster Award!!!

Let me explain the concept for you:

• Thank the person who nominated you and include link to their blog.
• Answer the 11 questions.
• Think up 11 new questions
• Nominate 11 other bloggers you think deserve the nomination, who have under 1000 followers.
• Alert them to the nomination on social media!

 The Q & A

1. What do you feel is the best thing about blogging?

I get to share my ramblings with the world instead of them staying in my head!

Honestly I get to research and share my passions which in the ordinary course of working I would not be able to do.

2. Do you enjoy reading blogs more than writing them or vice versa?

Both really, I love reading blogs and learning new skills from new recipes and crafts to beauty suggestions and motivational kicks up the bum!

Then I like sharing my finds!

You need both, you can't write a blog without having read one!

3. What is the most embarrassing thing you or someone you know have experienced?

This is a tough one! I kinda have a goldfish memory (or human memory since we are now worse than fishies!!!)  so I forget most things straight away!

4. What types of blogs do you enjoy most? (e.g. beauty, fashion, lifestyle, etc.)

I'm into everything really, I do like my make-up but fashion is one of my real passions, from trend forecasting to #OOTD.

Then there is baking and foodie blogs, I have a mouth full of sweet teeth so any simple bakes are a must!

Then crafts and knitting etc guess this ties in with fashion?!

I think lifestyle is a catch all, so if you give me everything I love that's great!!!!

5. Who is your biggest celebrity crush and why?

Gotta say Johnny Depp... Typical!
I'm not a big celebrity crush person, I want to get what I want and travelling around the world to stalk down my man prey just seems like too much effort!!

6. Do you have a favourite beauty brand? If so, who?

Not really, I have an eclectic make-up bag from High Street to High End, if I like something I get it!

7. One piece of make up you could not live without?

Black Eyeliner!!! Currently using Shiseido!

8. Weirdest habits of yours?

Staring off into the distance!!!

9. What do people in your offline life think of your blog?

Most don't really know/care or understand!
Except the ones that Blog too!

10. Who is your best online friend and how did you both meet?

I'm really just starting out chatting to other bloggers online so I can't really pick a best friend yet. But I am meeting so many lovely people having Twitter Chats like #syblchat #bdibNA #bdib etc. etc.

11. Who is your main online influence? (E.g. blogger, youtuber, viner, etc.)

I have to say Beauty La Linda! She go me into blogging and helped set me up!

 

Ok so there are my answers, and now for my questions!!!

1. How did you get into Blogging?
2. How would you describe your Blog Style?
3. Who is your favourite Blogger?
4. What is your Best Quality?
5. What is your favourite piece of clothing?
6. Lipstick or Lip Balm?
7. Cooking or Baking?
8. What is your Favourite Sweet Treat?
9. What is your Favourite Colour?
10. Do you have a Pet? If not, what Pet would you Love to Adopt?
11. Would you describe your home as minimalist/ modern/ retro or cosy?

Now I Nominate You!!!

1. Linda from Beauty la Linda
2. Aoife from Wonderstruck Beauty
3. Charline and Kimmy from Eat Love Wear
4. Allison from Because I Said So
5. Faye from KaboodleMum
6. Leonni from Leoinni's Little Blog
7. Alice from Dainty Alice
8. Aoife from AoifeWeefa
9. Laura from Laura Living Life
10. Sally from Sally Cinnamon MUA
11. Chelsea from Chelsea Beeswax

Hope you enjoyed reading this and hope my lovely Nominees enjoy doing this tag too!!!

Simple Chocolate Fudge Recipe ~ Baking Love ~ Blog Love ~

I love baking and chocolate so I thought it was time for another baking post. Also I have to share links to all the lovely people/bloggers I've enjoyed chatting to this week!

Last Thursday while waiting for the #USBloggerChat and browsing Twitter I came across this beauty Rebecca @winberrycrumble and her post on Popping Candy Fudge (see the full recipe here!) and what good timing as the chat was all about FOOD!!! My favourite! (thanks to the lovely host Meg(z)han @gotmeghan)

So I set about making this delicious treat!

Ingredients:

397g (1 tin) condensed milk
400g milk chocolate
25g unsalted butter, softened
100g icing sugar
Colourful sugar strands (I used stars)
3 packets of popping candy (about 15g)

I luckily had all the ingredients in my cupboard, (randomly had popping candy left over from Halloween)

Such a simple recipe, but be careful I almost burnt the pot with my chocolate!

So show this blog some love and make yourself some fudge!!!!

Share your recipes and pics with me!

xx