The Toasty Snowman

We've done some clearing out of the last few weeks and had a lot of documents etc that we didnt want to just shred or throw away so we bought an incinerator on Sunday and had a little bonfire.

After watching it for quite some time (does anyone else find a bonfire completley hypnotising?) I thought we were missing something.

Then I remembered I had been to the pound shop the other week and bought some marshmallow snowmen with the intention of using them to top hot chocolates with cream.

Marshmallows + Fire = YUM

Now, we didnt have any kind of skewers so had to make do with chopsticks. This meant getting stupidly close to the fire and at one point taking some ash to the eye. Do not try this at home with chopsticks.

You'll have to excuse the outfit/hair situation, it was a Sunday and I was feeling uber cosy!

If you toast a snowman marshmallow just right, all his features will be lovely and toasty.

Yum yum yum.

See you soon,

Chloe

Baking Brownies.

The boy has been on a clean eating, bootcamp attending madness spree for the last 4 weeks and so to celebrate the end of the madness he went and ate all the meat with his dad and asked if I would bake him some brownies.
I got given a Hummingbird Bakery cookbook last Christmas and knew they had a yummy brownie recipe.
I got to work.
You can find the recipe here.

I got all the ingredients together including some yummy dark chocolate:

 I then had to heat up  some water in a saucepan and put a bowl on top. From GBBO I believe this to be a Ban Marie.

 

I popped the chocolate and butter in and stired it until it was lovely and smooth.

 Once it was all looking and smelling lovely the sugar and flour are mixed in.

 

Then the eggs. It looks less lovely at this point.

Pop it in the baking tray and bake for 30 mins. I also grated in some Dairy Milk for extra yum.

 Warning: You take this out of the oven and it will smell so good you will want to dig right in. But its very hot. So don't.

This bit is optional. I made a little heart stencil and put icing sugar in it. How cute?

Safe to say he very much enjoyed them!!
Hope you had a great weekend!!

See you soon,

Chloe

P.S You'll notice the little bit taken out of the corner. That may of been me.