Easter Chick Nests Recipe.

Easter is this weekend (long weekend woohoo!) and it's all about the sweet treats!

I used this Baking Mad recipe and altered it a little, swapping and adding my own ingredients, to make these super cute and yummy Easter Chick Nests:

I am awful at baking cakes - I always mess it up! I'm rubbish at timing, the amount of ingredients I use and when they rise and make a mess... I just can't! But these are NO Bake which is perfect for me and so so easy:

First of all I melted the chocolate in the microwave ('cus I'm lazy) then mashed up some shredded wheat and mixed it all together.

I then put the nests into some cupcake cases and made a 'hole' if you will to put in my chocolate icing sugar.
Next it was just a case of putting the chocolate chips and the little chick jellies onto the icing and waiting for them to set!

I loved making these they took no effort and no time at all and tasted delicious. You cannot mess these up!

Do you have an Easter treat recipes?

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Baileys Cupcakes.

As it's Pancake Day over here in the UK, and I already did THIS post on pancakes a few weeks too early (who says pancakes are for just one day!) I thought I'd show you a delicious cupcake recipe!

The cupcakes in question are made with that sweet treat - Baileys!

Cakes:
40g Unsalted butter.
140g Caster sugar.
100g Plain white flour
20g Cocoa powder
1.5tsp of Baking powder.
1 Free range egg
50ml Baileys
80ml Whole milk.

Icing:
125g Unsalted butter.
500g Icing Sugar
15ml Whole milk
45ml Baileys
Sprinkle cocoa powder.

As you can see mine did NOT turn out like the pics on the recipe but thats because I only used a tiny bit of icing sugar and freaked out at the consistency haha! I won't make that mistake again!

I got the recipe from BakingMad.com where there are tons of cute and super easy ideas to draw inspiration from. They even have a tutorial to show you how to make basic and easy cupcakes.

What are your favourite types of cupcake? I also LOVE Red Velvet!

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Slime Cakes - Recipe.

These cake weren't supposed to look like I had poured slime all over them - but they do! Don't worry they taste yummy so it doesn't matter.

Ingredients:

2oz of butter

2 cups of caster sugar

2 beaten eggs

1 cup of milk

2/3 cups of self-raising flour.

1tsp of Vanilla extract.

First of all I creamed the butter and sugar together then added the 2 beaten eggs with the teaspoon of Vanilla flavouring.

Next up I added the flour and milk in parts to create a thick mixture and placed it evenly into cupcake papers.

Bake for 10-15 mins on 180*c.

Once left to cool down I made the slimey looking icing glaze.

Ingredients:

1 cup of icing sugar

1 tbs of milk

2 tsp green colouring

1/2 tsp on vanilla extract.

First up I place the milk in a container, then added the Vanilla flavour. After this I kept adding small amount of icing and stirring until the sugar had dissolved.

Once all the sugar was dissolved I added the green food colouring until it looked bright enough.

As this glaze sets quickly I immediately placed over the top of the cooled down cakes, as it was wet it ran a little - making it look like slime! I added edible silver balls to jazz it up a little.

I've just had one and they taste great!

Don't forget tomorrow is giveaway day!

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Crafty Tuesday + Recipe.

As soon as I got in today, I popped on the oven and started baking. I recently made chocolate marshmallow muffins according to my Muffins + Cupcakes recipe - much to my dismay, they failed.

So this time I got a new recipe, which I must say worked - however, I can't taste a whole lot in the muffin! So if somebody wants to give me a pointer or if i should just get rid of this muffin pipe-dream and stick to a basic cupcake recipe - please let me know!

Here's what I did:

Mixed in: - 250g of Self-raising flour

- 50g Cocoa powder

-175g of Caster sugar

- 2 tsps Baking powder

- 100ml of Sunflower oil

- 175 ml Milk

- 2 drops of Vanilla extract

- Marshmallows and Choc chips.

Bake on 180* for 20 mins

Butter icing: - 170g of Butter

- 170g of Icing sugar

- use Cocoa powder as fit

Then covered with sprinkles.

The icing bit tastes amazing but the rest has no real taste! If any cake specialists out there wanna help me out that would be great!

I then made this little fabric toadstool-thing :)

Also been thinking once I hit 75 followers I'l do a giveaway of some little crafty things maybe? What do you guys think would be good?

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P.s If anyone of my lovely followers could teach me how to use Bloglovin' I'd love you forever!

my email is: nfgchimp@hotmail.com

Yummy Pretzels - Recipe.

Down here in little ol' Devon - we don't have big, soft pretzels! It's a crime I know, so I took matters into my own hands and decided to bake my own.

First of all I needed ingredients I haven't baked with yet, so a trip to the supermarket (and the Bicarbonate Soda exploding all over me) and I was ready.

First up I had to make the dry active yeast 'active' by dissolving 1 tbs in 50*degree C of water and leaving it for 15 mins.

This is only halfway through it activating but you can see it starts to get frothy.

Warning: It smells REALLY bad!

While waiting for that I put in my mixing bowl:

3 1/2 cups of flour,

4 tbs of sugar,

2 tsps of salt.

I then added the yeast and mixed together until I made a sticky(ish) dough.

Now this is the fun part!

Divide the dough up and roll out into thin long strips.

Fold over like a upside down 'U', cross over and fold up.

Tip: I placed flour on my hands and on the counter top to stop dough from sticking.

I also left them for 20 minutes to let the yeast react a little in the air.

Next up - the glaze:

For the glaze coating I used:

1 tbs of baking soda (dissolved in 1 cup of boiling water)

1 egg

1 tbs of water

1 tbs of vegetable oil.

Mix it together and lightly coat the unbaked pretzels.

Bake in over at 225*degrees C for 10-15 mins.

And here they are!

I can't begin to explain how good they smelt AND tasted!

After a day they will go hard BUT you can just pop them in the microwave for 20/30 seconds and they are as good as fresh!

With this one I smothered it in vanilla buttercream icing and sprinkle - AMAZING!

Enjoy! Let me know and show me pics if you decide to have a go :)

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