St Patrick's Day Week: The Ultimate Guinness Pudding Recipe That Will Keep The Party Going Forever
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Sadly, we have come to the final day of our St Patrick’s Day week and so I thought it would be a good time to use up the leftovers from the past week in a fun and delicious way! Using Guinness, Irish whiskey and the best Irish foods around, this bread and butter pudding is traditional but unique in its own way! Enjoy!
Yesterday, my mum marked her birthday and to celebrate the day, I went a little bit wild with cakes and bakes! Including these Subway style cookies that were coffee flavoured! Perfect for when you need that coffee hit but the weather is too hot and an iced one just isn’t hitting the spot! Get ready to get baking and dunking with this recipe!
Easter may seem like the sweetest time of the year with endless amounts of chocolate at hand! However, those with a more savoury tooth are going to love this festive recipe, as it is hopping wonderful! Filled with cheesy goodness, you won’t be able to stop making them once you start! Get ready to create and dig in to these sweet bunny delights!
Winter is the perfect time to get those warming dessert recipes out and I have the perfect four ingredient one for you all today! Using hearty ingredients, this fruity delight will be a hit with the whole family! Whether you enjoy it with custard, ice cream or a squirt of whipped cream, it is incredible! Get ready to dig those spoons out lovelies!
Whilst many of you lovelies will have made festive cakes on Stir Up Sunday, there is always time to make another or your first one! Especially if it only takes 15 minutes to do! I’ve used this recipe for years, so, I wanted to share it in case you need a quick Christmas cake recipe for the festive season! Enjoy this delight lovelies!
If you are like me and don’t have a griddle or skillet to cook crumpets in don’t worry! I have found a super easy recipe for baked ones that uses only four ingredients to make this classic comforting creation! You will have no excuses from now on not to make these all the time to enjoy at breakfast, lunch, dinner or even supper!
Good Morning Lovelies,
Spring is officially in the air! The mornings are getting lighter earlier, with the birds singing away as soon as the day breaks. The temperature is rising. There are leaves back on the trees. Everything is pointing towards summer.
There so, to mark the start of a fresh season, I thought I would bring you a super easy recipe that only needs three ingredients. Looking incredibly pretty, these flower shaped jam tarts will add a pop of colour into your home that will last all year!
Here is what you need and the method to use to create them…
Ingredients
One Pack of Shortcrust Pastry
One Jar of Jam - Pick Your Favourite Flavour or Use a Mix of Colours
Icing Sugar - To Sprinkle on Top
Equipment
A Rolling Pin
A Cupcake/Muffin Tin
A Flower Shaped Cutter
A Teaspoon
A Sieve or Sugar Sprinkler
Plate or Wire Rack
Method
Start your creations by preheating the oven to 180°C/350°F before greasing your cupcake tray. Leave to one side.
Lightly sprinkle your work surface with some flour and roll out your pastry. You can use ready rolled pastry if easier.
Once rolled, use your flower shaped cutter and cut out the shapes until all the pastry has been used up.
Gently place the flowers into the tin to form the tart shells. Make sure they are touching the bottom and sides of the tin.
Next, take your teaspoon and add a dollop of your chosen jam or jams into each flower middle. Be careful not to over fill the case, as the jam may bubble up when baking.
Once ready, place the tarts into the oven and bake for around 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Make sure to watch them in case they start to burn.
When ready, pop out of the oven and allow them to cool in the pan for a few minutes. Then carefully place them onto a plate or wire rack to cool completely. During this time you can sprinkle the icing sugar on top.
The flowers are now ready to be eaten! They will keep fresh for a few days in an airtight container lovelies, so you can make plenty of them to enjoy with the family, friends or on your own with a blissful cup of tea. It’s truly time to smell the roses or in this case jam flowers!
Joey X
Good Morning Lovelies,
With the festive season in full swing and many of us starting to buy our Christmas food items, I thought now would be a good time to share my Christmas cake recipe. Plus, it is stir up Sunday!
Taking just 15 minutes to prepare and three hours to bake, this is a simple and easy creation. You don’t even have to add more alcohol to it if you don’t want to.
You can really just get creative with it and find a way to enjoy it the way you want to lovelies. Get ready to tuck in with the whole family...
Ingredients
- 3 Large Eggs
- 300g (10oz) Plain Flour
- 250g (8oz) Butter, Softened
- 250g (8oz) Light Muscovado Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Ground Mixed Spice
- Pinch of Salt
- 410g Jar of Mincemeat
- 500g (1lb) Dried Mixed Fruit
- 4 Tbsp Brandy
Tools
- 20cm (8in) Round or 18cm (7in) Square Cake Tin
- Wooden Spoon
- Large Mixing Bowl
- Tablespoon
- Scales
Method
- To position the cake centrally in the oven, put one of the shelves just below the middle of it. Set the oven to 140°C/280°F/Gas Mark 1 and line the cake tin with baking paper at the bottom and up the sides.
- Break the eggs into a bowl and add the rest of the ingredients, except the brandy. Beat the mixture until smooth, then spoon into the cake tin. With a wet hand, press and smooth the mixture on top, until it’s level.
- Bake the cake in the centre of the oven for three hours, or until the cake feels firm to the touch and a skewer comes out clean after being inserted.
- Remove from the oven and place the tin on a wire rack. Leave the cake to cool for 15 minutes, then spoon over the brandy. Leave it to cool completely in the tin.
- Remove the cake from the tin and peel away the baking paper. Wrap it in clean paper and then foil, before storing it away in a cool place for up to 3 months or until ready to decorate.
When do you think is the perfect time to enjoy this cake lovelies? Have you already been baking? Don’t forget to share your creations with me, as I would love to share them!
Joey X
How are we already nearing the end of October? It seems like the last few months of the year are flying by on a broom stick! As we prepare for the big Halloween parties this week, I wanted to share with you all a fun and super simple recipe that you are perfect for any spooky scenario.
Get those hands ready because things are about to become bloody messy. Well, not really, but all will be revealed mwahahahaha…
Ingredients
One Cup of Plain Flour
1/2 Cup of Water
A Jar of Jam (Any Flavour)
Tools
Baking Tray
Baking Paper
Mixing Bowl
Mixing Spoon
Fork
Rolling Pin
Hand Shaped Cookie Cutter or Knife
Teaspoon
Method
Start by preheating your oven to 375(F) or 190(C), before lining a baking tray with baking paper. Place to one side.
Next grab a mixing bowl and add in the flour and water. Mix together until you have a smooth dough. If it is a little sticky, add a bit more flour, but only until it becomes sticky.
Lightly flour your surface and roll out the dough using a rolling pin until it is around 1/8” thick.
Once the dough is ready, use a hand shaped cookie cutter or trace careful around your own hand with a knife/use a knife to make a hand shape to cut out hand shapes from the dough.
When the shapes have all been made, take a teaspoon and place a small amount of jam into the centre of half of the hand shapes. Ensure to make a border around the edges and leave half of the hand shapes plain for now.
After placing the jam in the right spot, carefully place one of the plain hand shapes onto the jam filled ones. Then take a fork and carefully crimp around the edges to seal the pair together.
Once all hand shapes have been made, place onto the baking tray and bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.
When the hand pies are ready, remove from the oven and enjoy or decorate them with spooky items if you want to. You can also use them at any party, film night or Halloween soirée lovelies.
I hope you all enjoy these spooky creations and let me know if you make them!
Joey X
Normally, I’m a bit of a sucker for prepared ginger. Often using the powder or puréed form, I get mine off the shelves nine times out of ten. Yet, there is something super special about having fresh ginger in a gingerbread mix. Especially when it comes to Christmas.
However, when faced with ginger, I don’t know much about how to prepare it or what really to do with it. So, when I was asked if I would like some help by Microplane, I instantly said yes.
Upon arrival, I was amazed at the sleek and inventive design. Super light but with all the shine you would expert, the Microplane Ginger Tool is a three in one gadget that makes peeling, grating and cutting fresh ginger a breeze.
With a sturdy rubber end and an easy to grip handle, I took my fresh ginger and decided to give the slicer the first big test. Much like a mandolin slicer, this was quick and easy to do. Whilst I was a little worried I would cut myself, as I am super clumsy, on the smaller blade, I actually found that my hands didn’t go anywhere near it. All I felt were the sleek pieces of ginger that came off it.
Impressed so far, I moved onto the grater next. This is what I was most interested in using, knowing that it would be this part I would use the most when making gingerbread men at Christmas.
Holding onto the tool and the ginger, it was again a smooth and easy piece of kit to use. The grater took no time at all to make a large amount of fine ginger that I could easily place into a mixture.
The hidden but key third feature was the peeler. If you weren’t looking closely, you would wonder where the peeler actually was. Placed onto the side of the tool, it is a little hard to see, yet, when you use it you definitely don’t miss it. It is a small but mighty feature, taking the skin off the ginger in no time at all.
Overall, I was really impressed with the tool and will definitely be using it again. In fact, I know that I will be using it on other foods as well when baking or cooking. I can’t wait to put the tool to the test at Christmas in fact, because it means that I can make quick gingerbread presents easily. Something I know my neighbours will like.
Ginger isn’t a normal kitchen staple, but it might just become one now!
Joey X
The 4th of July would not be a great day if it wasn’t for the food! Coated in red, white and blue, there are so many choices all over the world, which celebrate America, including this very simple idea!
With only three ingredients, you can make this festive recipe in literally no time at all! Even if you aren’t the best baker in the world, I promise you that you will ace this no matter what! So much so that you will be making these a lot…
Ingredients
- Pretzels
- Red, White and Blue Coloured Chocolate Buttons
- Multicoloured Chocolate M&M’s
Tools
- Two Mixing Bowls
- A Spoon
- A Baking Tray
Method
Start by placing a heatproof silicone baking mat or baking paper onto your tray. Then pre-heat your oven to 200(C).
Place the pretzels onto your tray in a single layer, before topping with one candy melt each.
Bake in the oven just until the chocolate has melted. You will probably have to watch them to make sure they don’t burn.
Remove from the oven when ready and press an M&M onto the centre of each chocolate button.
Leave out to cool completely or place into the fridge to allow them to set fully before serving. Once ready enjoy!
What will you be baking to celebrate the 4th July lovelies? Let me know!
Joey X