Hello my festive friends! Today I have an awesome recipe for you. Now it's not one of my own but it is one that myself and my dad have followed this year, and honestly it creates such yumminess! I got the recipe from All Recipes. I'll post the recipe here too, but please follow the link to the website for more recipes. I love this site and use it a lot!

Ingredients

• 110g (4 oz) butter
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 4 teaspoons cocoa
• 225g (8 oz) Rich Tea biscuits, crushed
• 1 handful of raisins
• 225g (8 oz) cooking chocolate - half milk & half dark

This is the easiest thing to make and taste super! So if you're looking for a quick and easy recipe for Christmas, this Tiffin will do the trick!

Method

1. In a saucepan, melt the butter, sugar, syrup and cocoa. Add the biscuits and raisins when melted. Stir to combine.
2. Pour mixture into a Swiss roll size tin and press down. Melt the cooking chocolate and pour over the mixture in the tin.
3. Pop the tin into the fridge and leave for about 1 hour to set. To serve, cut into about 20 pieces.

 I hope you enjoyed this recipe! Let me know if you use it and how it went!

Speak soon
 and MERRY CHRISTMAS!
 

Ingredients:
4oz Butter
4oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs
4oz Self Raising Flour
Vanilla Extract
Icing Sugar
Food Colouring

If you want to make more, you could double (8oz) or do 6oz of everything and 3 eggs.

Recipe:
1.) Measure out the butter.
2.) Measure out the sugar.
3.) Put butter and sugar together in a big bowl.
4.) Mix butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
5.) Crack the eggs. You may wish to beat them first.
6.) Add the eggs to the mixture one at a time. Be careful not to let it curdle.
7.) Stir until light and creamy.
8.) Measure out the flour.
9.) Sieve the flour into the bowl.
10.) Mix the flour in, using figure of  eight motions and add the vanilla extract.
11.) Spoon into paper cases, ready for the oven.
12.) Remove from the oven after 15 minute and leave to cool

To make the butter cream

Mix icing sugar with butter- you have to guess a lot with this as it depends how you like it. Then add the food colouring of your choice and pipe onto the cupcakes.




Speak soon

Ever wanted to make fudge, but worried it'd be too hard? Well think no more and follow my very simple recipe for delicious creamy vanilla fudge! My recipe has been manipulated to make fudge that I like, and I have looked online and gathered bits and bobs from other recipes to make my own.


Ingredients
300ml Milk- can use cream and milk
350g sugar- sorry teeth
100g Butter
2 tsp Vanilla Extract

 Step 1- Mix the sugar, butter and milk together in a saucepan.


 Step 2. Place on heat and stir continuously for about 15-20 minutes. OR until reached the 'soft ball' phase. To test this get a jug and fill it with cold water. Put a bit of the mixture in and if it forms balls (near enough to ball shapes) it's ready.








 Step 3. Take off the heat and mix in the vanilla extract.

 Step 4. Whisk until the glossiness disappears. It should look matte.

      Of course I broke up for my 'summer' holidays on the 31st May, and I don't return to University until September. So there is a lot of time for me to try new things this holiday. So I thought 'why not blog about it?' and blog about it I shall!



1.) First of all, and this is a task I've been telling myself I'll do for years now and that is getting fitter. I'm not THAT unfit, but I'd love to tone up a little around the belly section. Don't get me wrong, I have learnt to love my body, and everyone else should too. But if you fancy getting in better shape, toning up or exercising for fun, summer is the perfect time to do so! I started the 30 Day Abs Challenge, and managed the first 5 days, but with the arrival of our new pup Marvel, every free bit of time I have, I prefer to lounge on the sofa! However seeing as I have about 3 months away from University, I have more than enough time to make a better schedule. Maybe do some yoga on the Wii Fit!


2.) Last year for Christmas I was given the
wonderful gift of a Great British Bake Off recipe book- marvellous! So this summer I want to try out some of the lush recipes I have found in there. Perhaps i'll start off with a simple recipe of a baguette, then later become a baking genius and equal Paul Hollywood's and Mary Berry's cooking skills- although let's face it, that probably isn't going to happen. When I was in year 7, we were baking pastries and I designed what I called 'Cheese and Onion Cones' which basically were what they sound like. However I ended up having to rename and redesign them into 'Cheese and Onion Slugs'. They don't sound great but to be honest the tasted great!


3.) My hair has been growing out now for a long time, and it's finally fairly long. However I really want it longer. For some reason my hair is rather thin and dry and gets split ends rather quickly, despite the fact I tend to stay away from heat stylers! So maybe I'll find some magical and majestic fruit that makes your hair grow longer and stronger, but if that fails I really want to try some different products and if anyone knows any ways to make hair grow I'll take them! Long hair is great in summer, sometimes it can be quite hot, but having lushess long beachy curls is one of many dreams of mine!

4.) Being spontaneous is something I've always wanted to be. You know, like the kind of person who just takes off with a backpack and goes travelling or on little journeys to the countryside, trekking over hills and photographing the wildlife. I feel as though in life a lot of us hold back sometimes if we don't know the full details- which to be honest is safer! However I think it has lead me to over think things. Sometimes the best days and nights come from the spontaneous decisions we make. This also comes along with trying to be happier. Summer if a great time to be happy. The sunshine provides so much Vitamin D (probably less in England haha) that it's hard not to want to smile.

5.) I actually have a Diploma in photography and last summer I took some lovely wildlife photos, and spent time going to lovely places in order to take them. I loved being able to capture a single moment. So this summer I want to put my Diploma to some use and get snapping. If and when this happens I will upload them to here for you all to see!

What new things will you all be trying this summer?
See you Thursday! Keep day dreaming and be strong! X