Tanya Burr's Flapjack

Who's up for another sweet treat?

I'm sharing a recipe with you all that i've recently tried from the Tanya Bakes book. Tanya's Smarties Flapjacks. I did swap the smarties for sprinkles as I can't eat chocolate but feel free to use smarties. I loved how it turned out - and it tasted pretty good too if that doesn't convince you to try it yourself.

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Prep time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

You will need:

★20cm square baking tin

Ingredients:

★125g butter

★10 tablespoons golden syrup

★100g light soft brown sugar

★250g porridge oats

★1 tube of smarties or another choice of decoration

Let's make the flapjacks!

Preheat the oven to 180℃ / 350℉ / GM4. Line a 20cm square baking tin with greaseproof paper.

Melt the butter in a medium pan over a low heat, then add the golden syrup and sugar. Heat gently until the sugar has dissolved and stir until everything is well combined.

Remove from the heat and stir in the oats. Mix until well combined.

Pour into the tin, spread out and smash down with a metal spoon, then bake in the oven for 20 minutes.

While still hot, press the smarties into the top. Leave to cool in the tin. Once cool, cut into squares.

Go give it a try, you'll love it!

*all credit goes to Tanya for the recipe. Opinions are my own and this post is not sponsored*

Thank you for reading,

Valentines cupcakes

 

Hello everyone..

Since it's nearly Valentines Day, I've created some delicious sweet treats for the occasion. The cupcakes are plain sponge flavouring with vanilla butter icing on top but when you bite into the base of the cupcake you see pink and plain sponge marble so follow this recipe and you could create them yourself!

 

What you will need:

 

4 1/2oz butter/margarine

4 1/2oz Demerara sugar/brown sugar

4 1/2oz self-raising flour

3 eggs (2 if large)

1tspn baking powder

red food colouring

Dr.Oetker vanilla icing (squirty tube)

red cake decoratives (red sprinkles)

 

Oven:

 

180 degrees Celsius

bake time: 25 minutes

 

How to make the sponge mix: 

 

Weigh out your sugar, flour and butter and add them to a mixer with your teaspoon of baking powder and eggs. Mix everything together until the mixture has no visible lumps of flour, sugar or butter in it. Add two-three drops of red food colouring to the mixture and stir the mixture in a figure of eight with a knife. This will make the marble effect, so don't jus stir it normally because you'll not get the right effect. Then evenly scoop the mixture into your cupcake cases and bake for 25 minutes. They're done if you poke a knife into the top and it comes out clean.

 

Leave to cool for 10-15 minutes!

 

Decorate the cupcakes:

 

First, grab a plate so that you can squeeze a tiny bit of icing out of the tube before piping. This makes sure the tube is ready to be used on your cupcakes and has broken the seal.

 

Now pipe the icing from the outside of the cupcake around until you reach the middle. Sprinkle some red sugar on the top and you have your Valentines themed cupcakes!

 

 

 

Have fun baking, let me know if you re-create them!

 

Thank you for reading,

 

 



Pancake Day!

 

Happy Pancake Day everyone..

 

Shrove Tuesday! The day you can make some yummy treats and forget about dieting and healthy eating. Whether it be home made flipping or buying scotch pancakes from the shop, you can enjoy Pancake Day how ever you like. We all love a sweet treat every now and then so why not have some Pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday?

 

You may like savoury over sweet but I like them to be sweet and sugary. Spreading a layer of black current  jam between each Scotch pancake creates a delicious sugary sensation! Finishing them off with a sprinkle of icing sugar on the top to create the perfect sweet treat.

 

 

Enjoy eating your pancakes! Let me know what your favourite pancake topping is in the comments.

Are you sweet or savoury?

 

Thankyou for reading,