Saturday Sweet-Tooth: Oreo Bark

I'm really lucky to work somewhere where the atmosphere is really laid back and relaxed. Some times I stay behind late for numerous reasons and wish I could do some baking to kill time before I leave (after I've finished work, obviously) but we have no oven. Then the other day I was browsing through my bloglovin' feed and stumbled across this recipe and decided I'd get my baking hat on in my lunch break.

It is so super simple to make, and tastes super scrummy that I just had to share it with you. It certainly went down well with my colleagues and I can't wait to make it again for family and friends.

The recipe is pretty simple; you just need to grab a couple of bars of chocolate and melt it. Ideally I would've like to do it in a bowl over water, but I used the microwave instead. I found that checking it every 10 seconds and giving it a stir helped to prevent the chocolate getting that gritty texture.

Once the chocolate had melted I poured it onto a tray I'd lined with cling film. Once it was all spread out (the thickness is entirely up to you) I crushed up some Oreos and squished them on top. Covered with another layer of cling film and put it in the fridge. 

Once it had cooled and gone hard (around 30-40 mins) I took it out and broke it into pieces, and voila!

Perfect afternoon snack right? (Plus fruit makes it healthy....)

What do you think? Will you be trying this?

Laura

Just to clarify, not my recipe, it came from Brown Eyed Baker, I simply wanted to share it :)

Saturday Sweet Tooth: Attempting Red Velvet Cupcakes

Over the bank holiday weekend I was in the mood to do some baking, but rather than buying a kit I wanted to make some myself. So, in the middle of Asda, I did a quick Google of Red Velvet Cupcakes (thank you 3G) and picked up the ingredients.

I got the recipe from here (not trying to plagiarise) so you can get the full list and instructions you can go there; but here's what we did!

Cream together your butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.

You then need to add the buttermilk. Buttermilk can be found in the milk section FYI. I thought it'd be with the condensed milk and stuff.

Then you need to add the eggs and stir!

Then it's time to add the red food dye. My tip, add the whole bottle!!! (You'll see why.)

Next up vinegar (which the boyfriend had to do, I HATE VINEGAR)

Then it's time for flour, cocoa powder and stir!

Transfer to baking cases and bake in the oven.

This is why you need to add more food dye...

Then get icing and decorating. 

Whilst these tasted delicious, they were definitely velvety, they weren't exactly red. Next time, on recommendation from my good friend Rachel, I'll be using food paste or the whole darn bottle.

Lesson learned.

What do you think?

Laura xoxo

Saturday Sweet-tooth: Easter Egg Cookies

 

So with Easter coming up soon I thought I'd try my hand at making some Easter Cookies for you to bake and share with all your loved ones (maybe even eat them all yourself.... I'm not judging!)

So I began my using the cookie mix from Vivianna Does Make-Up's cookies, which I love making (and have saved in my phone), however when you should be adding the chocolate I added broken up Cream Eggs and Mini Eggs.

Make sure you leave enough room between each one otherwise this could happen!

Here are the finished articles!

Are you doing any Easter baking this year?

Laura xoxo