Showing posts with label dessert recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dessert recipes. Show all posts
Monday, 10 March 2014
Weekly Inspiration - Visit an Interior Stylists home, DIY ideas & a chocoholic's delight
Monday, 3 March 2014
Weekly Inspiration - A fabulous DIY dining table, chalk paint effects, not forgetting some delicious recipes.
Last week I discovered a stunning DIY dining table of which the end results look as good as a design store piece. I am also excited to announce Chalk Paint™, decorative paint by Annie Sloan, will soon be arriving in Auckland...Yay! I will be revealing more in a few weeks time. Meanwhile I have been exploring the use of stencils with Chalk Paint™ and discovered a few clever ideas. A couple of delicious recipes and a few newly discovered homeware products, complete this week's round up.
Above: Becky who blogs at This is Happiness, has a very handy husband who created this beautiful dining table out of re-cycled timber, from scratch......Instructions can be found here. If you have a beach house, finishing this table with a white wash could also be an option.
Friday, 28 February 2014
Caramelised Figs With Maple Mascapone - 5 Minute Recipe
I love fresh figs and I also love Donna Hay's recipes so when a friend gave me an abundance of fresh figs from her garden last weekend, I knew exactly the recipe I wanted to try. This recipe comes from Donna Hay's 'Fast, Fresh, Simple', a really lovely book with lots of quick and easy recipes. The images are the results of my cooking and taken with my 35mm camera.
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Happy Valentines & Some Pretty Valentines Candy Bark
Happy Valentines Day, I wish everyone a day filled with love and happiness. I made some pretty Valentines bark to share with friends, you will find the recipe below. Last minute, only 3 ingredients and can be assembled in no time at all, it just needs 40 minutes in the fridge to set completely.
I haven't had a Valentines surprise yet but was pleasantly surprised to see that Lee Caroline hit half a million page views yesterday☺.
I haven't had a Valentines surprise yet but was pleasantly surprised to see that Lee Caroline hit half a million page views yesterday☺.
Valentine Candy Bark
Ingredients:
1 packet of 250grams dark chocolate melts
1 packet of 250 grams white chocolate melts
Red food colouring or red chocolate colouring
Silver edible decorative balls or little red decorative hearts
Method:
- Melt the dark chocolate by placing it in a bowl over some simmering water and stir until all lumps are eliminated.
- Take a metal cookie tray and cover with a sheet of cooking parchment paper/grease proof paper
- Pour your dark chocolate over spreading into a rectangular shape using a spatula
- Place the chocolate into the freezer to allow it to set fairly quickly (approximately 15 minutes in the freezer, longer in the fridge)
- Melt your white chocolate drops and add about 4 small drops of red food colouring, stir well until colour and chocolate blended
- Spread your pink chocolate over the top of the dark chocolate, start in the middle and spread it out to the edges, be careful to work fairly quickly so as not to melt and mix in the chocolate underneath
- Sprinkle with your silver balls or little red hearts or whatever you choose for your decoration and then place in the fridge to harden, around 40 minutes
- Remove from fridge, peel off the backing parchment and cut up or break into shards of whatever size you like
- Package in cellophane favour bags and tie with a pretty red ribbon if you want to give them as gifts.
Note: They can melt in hot weather so best to keep in the fridge until you need them
You can also find a recipe for Rocky Road Bark which gives simple instructions on melting the chocolate or more yummy recipes on my Sweet delights page.
Happy Valentines
Lee oxo
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Monday, 4 February 2013
Valentines Inspiration - Recipes, Printables & More
January's flown by and we're into February already, I can hardly believe it. I realised this week I only have a couple of weeks to share some Valentines day inspiration with you so I've been busy dashing around the blogasphere looking for creative ideas. I think I've discovered a few special thing to inspire you to create that perfect Valentine moment.
Valentines should start with something sweet, and they say "a way to a mans heart is through his stomach". Therefore, I'm starting with some yummy but simple Valentine recipes...
Two of my favourite foods, chocolate and cream, delicious Lemon Raspberry Chocolate cupcakes from Bakers Royale - Read recipe
Easy decorated individual flourless chocolate cakes from Tartelette. Wait till you see whats behind the chocolate wrapper- Instructions here
Neapolitan Bon Bon Cupcakes from Sprinkle Bake - See recipe
Selection of free Valentine cards from Sweet Muffin Suite - Download here
Print this free valentines day card - Instructions here
Create a word cloud from words taken from your website. Visit Tagxedo, type in your blog/website address, choose your heart shape or another shape. You can then play around with your design, select your font colour, style etc to create the look you want. You can even turn your creation into a gift of a T shirt or a mug....Visit Tagxedo for instructions. Check out their gallery for more inspiration.
My Style Me Pretty Boards for some Valentines Inspiration...
We hope you enjoyed today's inspiration.
If you missed last week's inspiration post which included a lovely DIY lampshade from paint colour chips, a mouth watering recipe for salted caramel stuffed chocolate crinkle cookies & more, you can catch up here.
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