Magical Mini Chocolate Cakes

These mini chocolate cakes are awesome.  They are easy to make, taste delicious and you don’t use any flour! 

Original recipe by Stone Soup.  Adapted and pictures by Amanzi-Fundu

50g Chocolate

40g brown sugar

40g butter

1 x egg, separated

Preheat to 180C (350F).

Grease 4 x ramekins.

Melt the chocolate and add the sugar.

Add butter, egg yolk and 2 tablespoons boiling water and stir for another few seconds, until well combined.

Whisk egg white with a pinch of salt in a clean, dry bowl.

Gently fold chocolate mixture into the white foam until only just combined.

Divide mixture gently between the prepared ramekins. Bake for 15 – 20 minutes.

 Cool then serve with ice cream or custard.

Toffee Sponge Cake with Toffee Sauce

You have no idea how chuffed I am that I am able to bake again.  Ok, my baking isn't great but I do try.  I made this cake which I thought was really nice but then I like anything to do with toffee.  Enjoy!

Ingredients – for the cake:

55g x Butter

100g x Sugar

2 x Eggs

100g self raising flour

1 x teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 x teaspoon golden syrup

1 x teaspoon vanilla essence

50ml Milk

Ingredients - for the Toffee Sauce:

85g vegan butter

100g muscovado sugar

250ml  Cream

1 x tablespoon black treacle

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180°c. Grease a baking tin.

In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the eggs then fold in the flour, and bicarb.

Add the milk and vanilla essence and Syrup.

Put the batter  into a baking tin and cover with tin foil.

Place in the oven and cook for 25 minutes. Remove the foil and cook for a further 10 minutes. Do a skewer test to check the puddings are done.

During the last 10 minutes of cooking make the toffee sauce.

Melt together the butter and sugar over a low heat and add 100ml of the cream. Bring to the boil and cook, stirring for 5-8 minutes until the sauce starts to thicken.

Stir the remaining cream into the sauce and allow to cool slightly.

Pour over cake before serving.

Pancake Day

Today is Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday).

Pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent because they were a way to use up rich foodstuffs such as eggs, milk, and sugar, before the fasting season of the 40 days of Lent.

My daughter and I made a stack of pancakes when I got home from work... she loves pancakes... as does my son and my dog.

Pancakes with lightly whipped cream and Raspberry Jam



Pancakes with Banana and Chocolate Sauce

Pancakes with cinnimon and lemon

Deep fried Mars Bars

Deep fried Mars Bars.  Have you ever since your life?  Having never tried them I decided to see if I could make one.  They are really easy to make and they tasted quite strange yet very nice at the same time. I think they’d be really nice with a bowl of vanilla ice cream.. maybe next time!

Pictures by Amanzi Fundu

Ingredients:

2 x Cups oil (or enough to deep fry)

2 x Small Mars Bars

¼ Cup Flour

2 x Cups prepared batter

Toffee Sauce

Method:

Heat the oil in a pot.

Dip the Mars Bars into the flour and shake to remove any additional flour.

Dip in the batter and ensure that they are evenly coated.

Place (carefully) into the hot oil.

Cook for about a minute.

Remove from oil, place on a plate, drizzle with toffee sauce and serve immediately. 

Lemon Posset

As you already know, I love anything with lemon in it.  This recipe was really easy to make and extremely tasty.  I can’t wait to make it for my friend, Sandra, who also loves lemon.

Original Recipe by Stone Soup.  Adapted Recipe and Pictures by Amanzi-Fundu

Ingredients:

1 ¼ Cups Double Cream

1/3 Cup Sugar

3 tablespoons Lemon Juice

Method:

Place cream and sugar in a saucepan and simmer gently for 3 minutes or until sugar has dissolved.

Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice.

Divide between 2 – 4 serving containers.

Refrigerate for 6 hours or until you’re ready to serve.

Sprinkle with lemon zest.

Note: If like me you want it a bit more lemony, just add more lemon juice.

A belated Christmas get together

My friends, Kelly PM, Sandra, Kelly PG and Darren were supposed to come for dinner before Christmas but we had to cancel it because of the snow.  We eventually got around to getting together and I decided to make Spaghetti.  I also made them cross stitch keyrings using the first letter of their names and their favourite colours.  My mom also came so in total there were 9 of us.  The entire meal cost me £12.00 which I thought was really good as it's still a long way till pay day and I am having to watch the pennies. 

Main Course:

Spaghetti with Tomato, Chorizo and Bacon

Dessert:

Chocolate Mousse

Splodge

Home made bread

Home made Salad dressing

Salad



They key rings that I made




Add a chocolate heart




Wrapped up




Ready to garnish




Spaghetti




Chocolate Mousse and slodge




Home made bread - hand made.




Home made bread





Home made salad dressing