Easy Pancake Recipe

A few weekends back randomly, me and my brother decided to make some pancakes for breakfast. Even though we had just had a fry up, oh well - it was Sunday! Or the perfect thing for the bank holiday! In our household, we don't eat eggs, eat them in things but not actually in the house? So, I have never add a scrambled, fried or boiled egg..its a long story. But we searched on the web for a recipe and combined a few we saw/picked the best one and adapted it to our taste. 

About 30 minutes later, we had a stack of pancakes and two very hungry people....

Matcha and Mint Lemonade

When I saw that EatCleanTea where running a blogger competition, I just knew that I had to enter. They set bloggers the task of using their matcha green tea powder to come up with a drink recipe that is out of the ordinary way to use the powder. I am a big fan of tea, green tea and also matcha green tea - so this competition was right up my street. It was time to put the thinking cap on.

Meat free mango glazed sausage skewers

I have to admit that despite having been a vegetarian (no meat or fish) for more than ten years I love an easy (lazy) life and usually don’t put too much of an effort in to preparing my meals. However, this recipe for sticky sausage skewers which uses mango chutney as a glaze has been a revelation! If you are hosting any veggies this summer for a BBQ this is a recipe which is bound to go down well, and it’s easy to boot! 

Ferrero Rocher Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting

I sometimes have this urge to bake, it can come at the most random times and when it does I love it! This time around I had the feeling that I wanted to make something sweet and chocolaty so I decided to make these super easy Ferrero Rocher Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting! I wasn't planing on writing a post on them but due to popular demand on instagram here goes! p.s I am no professional baker so use your own recipe and methods if it suits you! 

This Recipe Makes 16 Cupcakes

Cupcakes:

188g of Self-Raising Flour
155g of Butter or Margarine
1/2 Teaspoon of Baking Soda
2 Teaspoons of Bicarb of Soda
3 Tablespoons of Cocoa Powder
150g of Caster Sugar
1 Cup of Milk 

NOTE - My family don't eat eggs, making this an eggless recipe if you do eat eggs then you can adapt the recipe. Minus the milk, bicarb of soda and add 2 large eggs instead. 

Frosting:

150g of butter or margarine 

185g of Icing Sugar

Generous Amount of Nutella (this is all up to personal preference, I added loads!)

Decoration:

Ferrero Rocher's 

Strawberries

Anything !

To Make the Cupcakes: 

(Pre-Heat at 180 Degrees)

1. Sift the all the dry ingredients into one bowl and set aside, in another mixing bowl you want to start creaming the butter and sugar together until it makes a pomade (goes fluffy). Make sure you butter is soft before using. 

2. Add in half of the dry ingredients and half of the milk and carry on mixing until thoroughly combined. You then want to add the rest of the mixture and the milk and make sure that everything is mixed well until smooth. At this point if you are following the eggless recipe then you may have to add some more milk. (Where I have put milk, is the equivalent of 1 egg)

3. Divide the batter between the cupcake cases that you own, mine are from Poundworld! Pop into the oven on the second shelf for 20 minutes. Depending on your oven they may take longer, so just check by inserting a cocktail stick and seeing if it comes out clean or not. Clean = Ready

4. Take them out to cool and start making the frosting - the tasty part! Add the butter into a mixing bowl and make it go like a pomade similar to the cupcakes, the sift in the icing sugar until its nice and fluffy. Then you add all the Nutella you want and go crazy if you want a rich colour and rich taste, and go light if you don't want it to overpower the cake. We ended up adding around 5 heaped tablespoons but I could have added more. 

5. I then took a piping bag and very badly piped each cupcake, gave up in the end and used a spoon to apply the mixture. Then add your decoration and they are ready to eat! 

Hope you enjoyed reading, and let me know if you make them! 

 

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DIY| Quick & Easy Iced Coffee

 

Today, I have for you a quick and easy DIY summer drink that you can enjoy on a hot summers day! When I say its quick and easy I mean it really is, it doesn't involve any fancy equipment or blenders ect just a few simple things that you should have lying around the house! I used my tumbler from Starbucks so the amount of things I used doubled compared to a smaller cup or cute little jar. 

Step 1

The first things you want to do is to add your teaspoons of coffee into your cup, I used 2 and a little bit and this Nescafe is really strong but I like some strong coffee. To this I added some Caramel Syrup but you can add sugar if you prefer or nothing as well - its up to personal preference. 

Step 2

You then want to add some hot water to the coffee, only enough to mix the coffee thoroughly but if you prefer your iced coffees a lot more stronger than add more water. Make sure you stir it properly so that everything is mixed well together. 

Step 3

Then you want to fill it up with milk seen as though this is a iced coffee, we need something colder than the water to give it that iced feel as well as colour that it makes. I added more milk afterwards as I love more milk, but again its personal preference. Then you want to add some ice cubes, this will instantly add the 'iced and cold' feeling to your drink and that's it! Time to enjoy!

How easy?! Very. I will be making this a lot this summer, and its a lot cheaper than going out and buying one! Hope you enjoyed reading. 

 

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Recipe||Eggless Chocolate Cake ♥

I thought I would mix things up a little bit on my blog and share with you a recipe that I have been using very recently to make a 'Chocolate Cake' but there is something special about this one and that is that it is eggless! My family and I don't keep or eat eggs in the house, so when it comes to baking we substitute things and I have tried so many recipes in the past that have just been to difficult to make or even don't work. There are so many recipes you can find for cakes these days, type want you want to bake in to google and i can guarantee you will find something! I hope that I will be doing more of these recipe style posts in the future, where I basically take you all along with me - enjoy and don't get too hungry!
This recipe can be made not chocolate, by not adding the coca.

Ingredients 
- Condescend Milk - 1 medium tin
- Flour - 200g
- Butter - 70g
- Milk - 1 Cup
- Baking Powder - 1 tsp
- Bicarb of Soda - 1 tsp
- Double Cream to your desire I used a small pot
- Coca Powder again to your desire I eye balled it! 

Tools
- Mixing Bowls x2 (one small, and one large)
-Electric Whisk
- Spoons
-Knife (not pictured)
- Weighing Scales
-Baking Tray/Dish

Method
-After you have got all your ingredients out and ready with the tools that you need, we can begin our baking adventure!
- First thing you need to do is empty out the tin of condensed milk into the larger mixing bowl and put the butter into. On a slow speed start to whisk together both the milk and butter until they are combined. 

- In the smaller bowl you want to measure out the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, bicarb of soda, coca powder) and use a spoon to fold them together. 

- You want to add half of the dry ingredients mixture into the other bowl and whisk together, start on a slow speed and gradually get faster. 
- At this point you also want to switch the oven on at 180/160 

- Add the other half and carry on whisking, the mixture will become thick so don't panic!
- Then to thin it down and make it the right consistency for a cake batter you want to slowly add the cup of milk this will thin down the batter and make it more cake like. 
- After this you want to grease your baking dish with some butter to avoid anything sticking and then pour the batter into the dish and spread evenly using the back of a spoon.

- Pop in the oven for around 30 minutes, or until golden brown and to check whether it is cooked or not stick a knife in slowly and if it comes out clean you are all done!
- I forgot to photograph this but, all you want to do is pour the cream into a bowl/mixing bowl and whisk until thick and then spread on top of your cake or even cut the cake in half and spread like a sandwich. I also didn't manage to take a clear photo of the cake, so just imagine it in your head! 


Hope you enjoyed this post, and let me know if I should carry these things on! xx