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Easter Recipes

March 26, 2013 in Baked Goods, Recipes, Sweets

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Looking for something simple to make this Easter? How about my Easter S’mores

Or, perhaps you are feeling a bit more adventurous. Why don’t you try my Easter chocolate kisses? Hollow chocolate Easter eggs, filled with home made ice cream. Yum!

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Choc Mint Cookie Pops

August 21, 2012 in Recipes, Sweets

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So what’s the best thing about making cookies? Eating the dough out the bowl of course!! When I was a kid, and my mom would bake, my sister and I would always insist on licking the bowl, or stealing some dough. So when my friend sent me a link to cookie dough pops from the Bakerella website (who was trying out The Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook)  , I was so excited to try and make them.

Choc Mint Cookie Dough, enrobed in white chocolate, placed on a stick for easy eating. Need I say more?
The recipe has been adapted from here:
Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
pinch of salt
1 slab of Peppermint Aero chocolate, broken into tiny pieces
200g white chocolate (for coating the cookie pops)
ice cream sticks, cut in half

Method
In an electric mixer, beat together the butter and sugar, until light and fluffy
Add the milk and vanilla, and mix again
Add the flour and salt, and mix to form a dough
Add the broken up Aero pieces (I like to break my chocolate up in the wrapper using my kitchen hammer – yes, I have a kitchen hammer :D )
Chill the dough for about 30 minutes in the fridge
Roll the dough into ping pong ball sizes (or whatever size appeals to you), and then place them on a baking paper/wax paper lined baking tray, and stick half and ice cream stick through the centre
Pop the tray into the freezer for about 30 minutes
While the cookie dough is freezing, prepare a double boiler for your white chocolate coating.
Reserve 3 pieces of your chocolate, and put the rest in the double boiler.
Heat the chocolate to about 45*C
Take it off the heat and add the pieces you have reserved.
Stir the chocolate until it cools down a bit, and then take out the cookie dough from the freezer.
Dip each ball of cookie dough into the chocolate, then dab on a piece of wax paper/baking paper, and place on another piece to set.
You can decorate your cookie dough pops with sprinkles, or even add some food colouring to the chocolate coating.
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Easter Smores – Simple, quick and delicious!

April 1, 2012 in Recipes, Sweets

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The abundance of chocolate at Easter time fills me with excitement. I remember as a kid when the Easter bunny would come and visit and we would put down a tray full of baby powder, so he would hop through it and leave a easy to follow trail to the Easter eggs he had hidden for us.

Now that I’m older, I don’t eat half as many easter eggs as I used to, but one of my favourite ways to eat them is as follows:

  • take a marshmallow egg,
  • break it in half,
  • place each half on a Marie biscuit,
  • nuke it in the microwave for a couple of seconds until it increases in size,
  • smoosh it down with another Marie biscuit

 

 

Easter Smores – Simple, Quick and Delicious!

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