Jaffa cakes

The bake off challenge! I have set myself the challenge of making the technical challenge bakes from the great British bake off each week. This week it was Jaffa cakes, they were easy to make and sooo yummy!! To be honest I didn't realise they were actually a thing (other then shop bought) untill I watched the bake off on Wednesday lol! You learn something new everyday!

I used Mary Berry's recipie, I followed it exactly and it does NOT make 12 only 10 . Other than that faultless recipie :) Mary Berry's

Blueberry muffins

I had some blueberrys which were slightly too ripe, so instead of binning them I decided to make some blueberry muffins. I got the recipie from goodtoknow.co.uk. Next time I make them though I will add more sugar and vanilla essence as they didn't seem sweet enough for my liking. 

Egg fried rice

Another recipie from eat well for less, healthy egg fried rice.

Really easy to make, and tastes really healthy too, so win win.

Chicken satay noodles

After watching eat well for less on bbc one. I thought I would try out the chicken satay noodles from this weeks episode.

It was really easy to make, and sooo tastey! I changed the recipie slightly by not adding spinach, just because I didn't have any.

Gluten and lactose free chocolate cake

I made this cake for my sister Kirsty's birthday, as she has a gluten and lactose allergy. 

The recipe for the sponge is from Nigella Lawsons website. To be honest the cake on her website looks pretty boring and uninteresting so I thought adding buttercream and decoration would help to jazz it up. 

For the butter cream I just used stork margerine (which is lactose free), icing sugar, cocoa powder (keep adding both till the mix tastes good), a couple of tea spoons of vanilla essence and a couple of table spoons of hot water.

I then cut up fresh strawberrys to decorate the top. 

The cake turned out lovely, so moist and delicious, everyone enjoyed it, even my 6 year old niece 

Chocolate brownies

I am going to my friends house tomorrow, and needed to think of a sweet treat to bring so thought brownies would be perfect. Found the recipe on bbc food, it was really easy to make. I added double the amount of chocolate chips though as it just didn't look like enough 😂 they taste pretty amazing!! Might not make it to my friends house! 

Mirror up-cycle

I really enjoy bringing new life into old furniture, especially when it's this easy! I literally just bought a can of copper spray paint from halfords and sprayed a few coats onto the mirror frame. It only takes about 10 minutes to dry as well 😊