Chocolate cookies with Nutella in them

These are heaven

Chocolate Palmiers

My birthday cake

A great idea for birthday cakes is to add some cake pops!!!

Quick and easy decoration for brownies

Edible glitter 

Brownie 

Dust a little bit of glitter onto the brownies

Miniature cupcake ideas

Chocolate chip

Chocolate brownie/ chocolate

Plain vanilla miniature butterfly cakes

Vanilla cupcakes with a field and rose topping

Vanilla cupcakes

Green butter cream and piping set 

Fondant red and green made into a rose

Pipe the buttercream onto the cupcake doing loads of little movements 

Add the rose

Raspberry and white chocolate cupcakes

Makes 18

225g (8oz) unsalted butter, softened

225g (8oz) caster sugar 

225g (8oz) self raising flour

1tsp baking powder

4 eggs 

3 tbsp ground almonds

150g (5 1/2 oz) raspberries, plus 18 to decorate

175g (6oz) white chocolate, plus extra and some grated for decoration

Preheat the oven to 180c (350f, gas mark 4)

Line bun tin with paper cases.

Place the butter, caster sugar, flour, baking powder and eggs in a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric whisk for 2-3 minutes.

Mix in the almonds and raspberries then spoon the mixture into the paper cases.

Bake for 18 minutes or until golden.

Melt the white chocolate and drizzle over the cupcakes.

Put a raspberry on each one.

Coloured chocolate strawberries

With chocolate covered strawberries you can dye white chocolate to make them look tastier, I dyed mine with red food colouring to make them pink.

The ultimate marble cake

You will need:

A marble cake 

Chocolate frosting 

Any chocolate 

Chocolate buttons white and milk

Mal testers

And any other chocolate thing you like

Spread the chocolate frosting onto your amazing marble cake

Add all of your chocolates in any pattern

Grate white chocolate 

Sprinkle it on top 

And then you have created the ultimate marble cake!!!!!!!!!!!

Tip

When making cupcakes and you are not doing them in a mixer, mix the sugar and the butter until it is light and fluffy. The colour should be a very pale yellow.

Mickey Mouse cupcakes

You will need:

Chocolate cupcakes in red cupcake cases

Chocolate frosting

Chocolate sprinkles

Mini Oreos 

Cocktail sticks

Hole puncher

White paper 

Glue

Using the hold puncher, punch for each cupcake 2 circles

Cover the cupcakes with chocolate frosting

Then add the sprinkles

Get the cocktail sticks and put them into the mini Oreos

Stick them into the cupcakes

With the glue stick on the circles.

Sweet trees

I made these for my birthday.

Red chocolate cupcakes

You will need:

Cupcake mix 

Cocoa powder

Red food colouring

Butter cream

Dried strawberries or raspberries

Add the the cocoa powder to the mixture and also add chocolate

Cook the cupcakes for around 20 minutes 

Leave them to cool then pip the butter cream onto your cupcakes

Put on to the dried strawberries or raspberries to decorate.

Butterfly cupcakes

You will need:

Vanilla cupcakes

Butter cream

Fondant icing

Food colouring

Food paint

Edible glitter

Spread the butter cream onto the cooled cupcakes

Get the fondant icing and put a few drops of what ever colour of food colouring you like

Fold it in

Cut out butterfly shapes and paint on patterns with the food paint

Place the butterfly's onto your cupcakes

Sprinkle on the edible glitter.

Raspberry crush friands

Makes 12

You will need:

175g/6oz butter

115g/4oz ground almonds

225g/8oz icing sugar,sifted

65g/2 and a half oz plain flour,sifted

6 egg whites

115g/4oz fresh raspberries

For crunchy sugar frosting:

Juice of 1 small lemon

150g/5oz caster sugar

Preheat oven at 200c/400f/gas mark 6

Grease the cups of a friand or bun tin with melted butter and dust lightly with flour

Turn the tin upside down and tap it to get rid of any excess flour

Melt the butter and then leave it aside to cool

Put the almonds, sugar and flour in a mixing bowl and stir together

In a separate bowl beat the eggs white lightly for 15 seconds

Add the egg whites to the dry ingredients and mix

Add the melted butter to the bowl and mix until combined 

Pour the mixture into the cups and press one raspberry into the centre of each

Bake for 20-25 minutes until the friands are pale golden

Leave to cool slightly then turn them out on to a wire rack

To make the sugar frosting mix the lemon juice with the sugar and leave it for 10 minutes

Drizzle over the tops of the cooled cakes and leave to set for several hours.

Strawberry and apple slush

Makes 2 glasses

You need:

11oz/300g ripe strawberries

2 small eating apples

10ml/2tsp vanilla syrup

Chop the ends of the strawberries.

Chop the apples into large chunks.

Push the fruits through a juicer.

Stir in the the syrup.

Half fill 2 glasses with crushed ice.

Pour the juice over.

Raspberry purée pancake

You need:

Freshly make pancakes

2 packets of raspberries 

Icing sugar

Wash all the raspberries

Put 6 aside for decoration

Put the rest of the raspberries in a sieve

Put them down with a wooden spoon till there is almost only the raspberry seeds left

Pour it onto your pancake and put the 6 raspberries that are left on your pancake as decoration

Sprinkle icing sugar on top.

Raspberry and butter cream cupcakes

What you need: 

Vanilla cupcakes

Icing Sugar

Butter

Raspberries

Wash the raspberries and dry them

Mix the icing sugar and butter together until light and creamy

Make a small well in the cupcake, make sure you keep the part of the cupcake you take out

Put the butter cream in the well

Cut the part of the cupcake you cut out into a triangle and put that into the butter cream point facing down

Then put a raspberry in the butter cream.

Hint of lemon smoothie

To make this smoothie you need:
9 raspberries
6 strawberries
1 banana
Half of a lemon juice
Raspberry and cranberry juice

Blend it all together

Chocolate Strawberries

For my birthday, we made lots of chocolate strawberries. Here is how you make them:

melt chocolate
dip strawberries
drizzle chocolate over the top for decoration