Baking | Chocolate Orange Biscuits

I'm a massive lover of home cooked treats and love to try out new recipes so of course when I read online about chocolate orange biscuits I had to bake some myself so here's the recipe!

Blogmas - Day Nineteen Festive Biscuits

I love to do a bit of baking and Christmas is the perfect time to get my bake on! This is my recipe for the perfect biscuits and even though it may not seem the normal recipe it works amazingly and the biscuits taste great.

Recipe
4oz Butter / 110g
2oz Sugar / 60g
Vanilla Essence - a small drop
6oz Flour / 170g

Easy to Bake Cupcakes!

I'm a massive baker and love to cook for myself and sometimes even others, one of my favorite things to bake is cakes and biscuits and thought I would share with you my easy cupcake recipe and some tips on how to make the best kind of cupcakes.

You will need Flour, Sugar, Eggs, Butter, Baking Powder and Vanilla Essence. Two bowls, Cupcake Tray, Scales and a cooling rack. Don't worry if you don't have things like Baking Powder and Vanilla Essence or if you don't have a cooling rack!

Preheat oven at gas mark 4, 180 C

Step One - Measure out 100 grams of Flour, Sugar and Butter

Step Two - Mix the butter and sugar together to create an ice cream textured mix - take your butter out the fridge for an hour before baking to soften it

Step Three - Add half a teaspoon of Baking Powder and two cap fulls of Vanilla essence ( you don't need to add these so don't worry if you don't have them!) Add one egg and mix

Step Four - add half a bowl of flour and fold into mix, add second half and fold - don't mix the flour it will go everywhere and create a mess, you must fold it in

At this point you can add any ingredients that you want to include for example chocolate chips or raisins and then stir mix to make sure it's evenly spread throughout the mix

Next add an even amount of mixture into a cupcake tray and bake for 12-15 minutes until cakes are firm and are starting to brown!

Leave to cool for around 30 minutes and then get creative! I use icing sugar and sprinkles or chocolate drops and make my cakes look colorful and fun!

Chocolate Brownies

My family was sent a rather lovely and creative gift for Christmas a massive jar of Chocolate brownie mix and some instructions. I love to bake and was super excited to receive such a fantastic gift, I've made brownies in the past and have had some hits and misses with the mixture and how they have turned out so I was eager to give this one a whirl to see how they came out.

I thought the jar was a great idea it had all the ingredients in layers with a label telling you what to add, how long to bake for and what temperature to bake them on. I also find with brownies leaving them in longer then needed does them a bit of justice, the instructions said to leave them in for 25-35 minutes so I checked at 30 minutes and left them in for 45 minutes.

They came out great and were absolutely delicious, they had risen just a little bit but they had also harden enough to pick up but were still a bit gooey in the middle. I think this was a brilliant idea and can't wait until next Christmas as I might give it a go myself!