BIG KIDS - THE RECIPIES

at the request of marta + jamieanne, here are the super-simple recipies from yesterdays post:

:: top hats ::

100g chocolate (i use a really nice belgian milk one but any type you like will work) - 20-30 marshmallows - 20-30 smarties or m + m's

• set out 20-30 petit-four cases
• melt the chocolate
• pour a little chocolate into the base of each petit-four case
• plop a marshmallow into each pool of chocolate
• dot a little bit of chocolate on top of the marshmallows
• pop a smartie/m + m on top
• place in the fridge to set

:: mars bar crispie cakes ::

these are pretty much a free for all + i just chuck in what i've got in the cupboard. on saturday the ingredients were something along the lines of -

5 mars bars (milky ways in the US) - 50g milk chocolate - a splash of milk - 125g rice crispies (rice pops?) - 50g white chocolate

• lightly grease a swiss roll tin
• melt the mars bars + milk chocolate
• add a splash of milk to loosen the mixture
• stir in the crispies
• press the mixture into your tin
• melt the white chocolate + drizzle it excitedly over the top
• pop in the fridge to set

:: C's smarties cookies ::

100g butter (softened) - 100g light muscavado sugar - 1 tbsp golden syrup - 150g self-raising flour - 100g smarties

• preheat the oven to 180c
• beat the butter + sugar together 'til light + fluffy
• mix in the syrup
• add half the flour + stir through
• add the smarties with the remaining flour
• bring dough together
• divide into 14 balls
• pop the balls on a baking sheet
• bake for around 12 mins 'til golden
• cool on a wire rack

ta-dah! if any of you try these, let me know how you get on. enjoy!

xx

BIG KIDS

yesterday, C + i spent part of the day in the kitchen churning out sweet treats to take round for our friend A's birthday. now, when i show you the photos of what we made you might be fooled into thinking A has just turned 5, but he hasn't, he's actually 25!


now, i'm all for making fancy cakes + bakes (in fact i absolutely love it), but sometimes only good old, kitsch, kid's party food hits the spot. oh + didn't it just! we stopped short of doing the whole jelly + ice-cream thing, but did produce 2 old faithfuls - top hats + mars bar crispie cakes.

top hats are great, look at them, they're amazing aren't they? i seriously could eat about twenty in one go - why, oh why, don't i make them more often?

+ these......wow!

mars bar crispie cakes with an over-zealous drizzling of white choc

the best thing of all, for me, was that C made the effort in the kitchen alongside me. i'm the main cook in the house, but i love when we work together in the kitchen as a team. i love it even more when he makes these gorgeous smarties cookies all...by...himself! yes i am the luckiest girl in the whole world - he doesn't do it often, but when he does it's well worth the wait! yum.

anyway, i need to go + deliver the goodies, so have a lovely evening.

xx

P.S. i wish i could pop round to each one of your houses with some treats, especially after all of the lovely comments i've received over the last couple of days. thank you, it really means a lot. xx