Fudge Cake

Although this isn't technically a 'cake', it's a recipe that Tim (my husband) grew up with & loves. It's his birthday on Wednesday and he has requested the Dann 'fudge cake', instead of an actual birthday cake. (Which is fine by me because it is YUM!)

 Here's a picture story of how you make this family recipe. First of all bash up a lot of digestive biscuits.

Boil up condensed milk, sugar, butter & golden syrup into a caramel.

Pour the caramel into the biscuits and stir. Transfer into a tray.

Melt some milk chocolate and smoother over the top

Leave to set in the fridge. Then cut into squares. 

It really does taste and look like fudge (hence the name). The texture is caramely and crumbly yuminess!

Paprika & Cheese Scones

Cheese scones are one of my all time favourite goodies that Mum used to (and still does) make. I haven't had them for yeeeears so it was about time to bake some. 

I used the BBC Good Food cheese scone recipe which is: (I actually doubled it as I wanted big scones)

225g SR flour, pinch salt, 55g butter, 25g grated cheddar, 150ml milk

I topped them with paprika and parmesan. I came across this idea when hunting the internet for different types of savoury scones and thought it would work with the cheese.

So once you've cut out the scones, instead of brushing the tops with egg I made a mixture of 2tbsp melted butter & 2tsp of paprika slopped it on and sprinkled with parmesan.

They went in the oven on 220 degrees C for about 15ish mins.

Bingo!

Shiny Happy Christmas Biscuits

I was game for home making a few last minute treats this year, but wanted something quite easy. In the past I've made chutneys and jams and they've been quite high maintenance as well as a bit pricey. I decided to make some star ginger bread biscuits. 

The recipe had some yummy ingredients including honey, vanilla pod and orange juice.

Once they were cooked and cooled I used some edible bronze lustre spray. I sprayed the front and back and made them (and the rest of my kitchen) look very shiny and Christmassy.  

Next step was drizzling chocolate! mmm

And then more stars 

Ta daaaa! Then I put them in a bag with some homemade Chocolate Bark but I'll write about that another day.