Chocolate - covered Toffee Pretzels

I recently saw a post on the Made with Pink blog for homemade Turtles.

http://www.madewithpink.com/

They reminded me of the Take 5 candy bars that you get in America. They are basically a pretzel base with a layer of caramel, peanut butter and peanuts covered in milk chocolate.

Yum Yum.

They inspired me to have a go at making a home made version.

I melted the Werther's original toffees with 1 tablespoon of whipping cream and then sandwiched the toffee between two pretzels.

Yes, it was a messy job. Prepare to have sticky toffee go EVERYWHERE!

At this point, I wanted to add a dollop of peanut butter but I was covered in toffee by this point so decided to give the peanut butter a miss on this occasion.

Then I melted some milk chocolate and covered the pretzels.


Oh. My. Gosh.
A-mazing. With a capital A.

The pretzel shapes make them look like little hearts which is ideal for Valentines' Day!

Warning: they are totally addictive.
I've made them to take to London this weekend for relatives but I am not sure that they will last the week...

Pink & Purple Cupcakes

I haven't made cupcakes since Christmas which feels like forever ago now.

I wanted to make some as a Thank You for someone.

Pink and Purple seem like "thank you" kind of colours to me.

I made choc cupcakes and topped with vanilla frosting which I tinted pink and purple. I then topped with some fondant decorations.

My piping was a little off I have to admit. I also made some other cupcakes which I'll post later on in the week as they are not finished yet.

Marble Cake

Wow. It feels like forever since my last post.

I did make a lovely marble cake recently.
I love marble cake.

My Gran used to make it for me every birthday.

I can still remember the excitement of seeing all of the different colours- yellow, pink, chocolate and green.

As you can see, I made mine simple. Chocolate and vanilla.

I used my regular cup cake recipes quantities and swirled the mixtures together.

It was yum.

More Christmas Cupcakes

Okay, so I know Christmas is officially over but I had to blog about the second batch of Christmas Cupcakes that I made.

Edible glitter is just so Christmas-ey!

I went for pink glittery reindeers!

I also tried a glittery red ponsettia!

I made these cupcakes for the family for Christmas Day.

The kids loved them!

I also made frosted brownies and sweet and salty crunch bars, courtesy of Nigella's Kitchen.

I hope you all had a lovely festive break!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Nxx

Christmas Cupcakes

Beks and I were asked recently if we wanted to make some cupcakes to sell at my friend's little boy's school Christmas fair.

Naturally we jumped at the chance!

I made a variety of decorations out of rolled fondant.

Some Christmas themed...

.. and others not so Christmas themed!

Edible glitter is definitely my new best friend!

Beks made chocolate and vanilla cupcakes.

These were my favourite. Little flowers and butterflies. Very girly.

The fair was last week, but because I was working away from home I didn't get to go!

Beks manned the stall, and we did really well! Everything sold out!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!

XX

Xmas Pops!

Christmas Tree Cake Pops!

I had seen these on the Bakerella website and Mr G had recently bought me the Cake Pops book!

They were surprisingly easy!

I made Oreo Truffles and then shaped them into cone like shapes, and then dipped them into green candy melts.

I used a toothpick to get the pine effect and then sprinkled on some coloured mini choc chips to look like xmas tree lights!

French Toast Cupcakes

I recently saw a post on the Art of Being Perfect Blog for French Toast Cupcakes

I knew I had to try them!

They should be called Cinnamon Toast Cupcakes, but they are undeniably delicious!
And absolutely perfect for getting you into the Christmas spirit!

The recipe is so easy!


Check out "theartofbeingperfect.blogspot.com"

I topped mine with a cream cheese frosting, a handmade fondant flower and a dusting of cinnamon.