Happy Halloween!

On insta, I have seen so many creative recipes for Halloween! So, today as I had to work and will be late coming home! I thought I would make a nice suprise sweet treat for my boys when they come back from school! I needed something super quick and the boys love oreos so I made some bats with them and spider designs!

All you need is 2 oreos per bat, break one in half and stick them down with white chocolate or icing as the wings, add some candy eyes. For the spider web, I drizzled the white chocolate and added a chocolate chip for the spider body and black icing for the legs!!

For our dinner, I made hot dog mummies as I saw this recipe post from Warburton. So simple to make and delicious! I will be making this again! In the hot dog bun, add some ketchup, grated cheese, hot dog from the tinned/jar, add more cheese and wrap it around with the bacon to make it look like a mummy. You can use olives for the eyes, I didn’t have any at home so I used some grapes! Put them in the oven for 20 – 25 minutes GM6 and enjoy!

Celebration Coronation Fudge

It’s the Coronation of King Charles III this weekend and I made some Coronation Celebration Fudge for my afterschool clubs kids for their treat! It was my 1st time making fudge and I was really surprised how simple it was to make with only a few ingredients!

All you need is 4 ingredients – White Chocolate – 400g, Condensed Milk tin – 397g, Vanilla Extract – 1 x tsp, and Sprinkles! I spotted this recipe from Eats Amazing blog and I have adjusted her recipe slightly as I didn’t have enough white chocolate at home and it still worked! It is a really quick treat to make of you want to take it to parties or give away!

All you have to do is line a tin with baking paper, melt the white chocolate & condensed milk, and add the vanilla extract either using a double boiler method or microwave. Mix it altogether and pour the mixture into your tin, make it smooth and then add your sprinkles on top. Pop it into the fridge to set for at least 2 hours or overnight. Once the fudge is hard, use a sharp knife and cut it into little pieces. I brought some coronation sprinkles from Asda so it has patriotic red, white, and blue colours. Looks really colourful and effective against the white fudge!

The fudge is delicious, and very sweet so you should cut it into little pieces as it is very morish and calorific!! Lol! I managed to cut 30 pieces using my 8 x 8-inch tin!!! Enjoy the coronation celebrations! 🙂

Home-made gifts!

Home-made gift from April!

My friend, April is so sweet, when she came over, she made a lovely home-made gift for us which includes ingredients to make pasta (we love pasta!) and chocolate brownies! Also, she brought over some of her ‘rocky road’ from her Australia’s day treats! What a wonderful gift to receive as it was so thoughtful! She said that her mum back home in Australia would make wonderful food parcels wrapped in cellophane and it would contain utensils to cook them in with wooden spoons and bowls etc made specially for her family and friends. What a fabulous idea! I think it is always nice to receive gifts which are home-made as they tend to be the most thoughtful.

Last year, I made my team some home-made treats for Xmas, which included some marble cake, pisatchio & cranberry shortbread biscuits and some truffles! It did take a long time to prepare although I do find it very rewarding when they opened their treats with such delight!! 🙂