Muffins...

Muffins... 

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Cookie Mish Mash Mosh

I love Cookies :D I mean who doesn't!!! This post is about how a slanted oven created a very yummy but oddly shaped mess :P

So cookies, I spent ages searching for a recipe that didn't use brown or Demerara sugar which was a nightmare!!! I found an american recipe which I then had the unfortunate task of translating to metric to fit my awful scales. So I don't really have a brilliant recipe or link for you. But there are many recipes out there. I have now, after making these cookies, got my hand on some light brown sugar, so will maybe make another post devoted to cookies with brown sugar :) So without further ado...cookies!

UNO. Mix an unspecified amount of butter and sugar together, try as hard as possible not to eat any but fail because it is too darn good!

Mixy Mixy!

Add unspecified amount of Flour.

Mixy Mixy!

Add an unspecified amount of eggy eggness!

Mixy Mixy!

Now Chuck pieces of chocolate in!!! Chocolate drops, Chocolate cuttings, Chocolate, Chocolate. As much as you want, but more is definitely better!!! 

Grease a baking tray and put on huge dollops of cookie dough (thats if you have any left after eating almost half of the mixture) Try to keep them evenly spaced apart, but don't worry too much, it all tastes the same in one big cookie. (See Below)

Bake until they are a light brown colour and crispy or doughy!!! (whichever you prefer)

And this is the end product that occurs with a slanted oven!

If all fails and you get a giant cookie mess, chop it up in to whatever shape you like and gobble down as many as possible! Alternatively eat it all in one big blob!

Sweet Apple Acres

So far away in the land of Equestria and the town of Ponyville, sits little Sweet Apple Acres belonging to the Apple Family: Applejack, Apple bloom, Granny Smith and Big McIntosh. 

 Now I know what you are thinking...Whats this obsessed Brony talking about My Little Pony for! And the answer is this:

 

YUP!!!!! 

AKA... Apple Pie... Or Granny Smith's Cutie Mark!

This was a joint effort between me and Andrew, and it turned out pretty well all considering. 

We used a simple recipe from the BBC, which I will Link here. 

So we started off with Andrew chopping a load of apples, we used a really cheap bag of eating apples from Sainsbury's, which was about 90p for 6. Andrew prefers eating apples instead of cooking apples so thats why we used these. 

Anyway so Andrew was chopping the apples up and then peeling them, its easier to do these parts switched around though, with peeling then cutting :P. As we were cutting up the apples we placed the apples in a tub with sugar and kept mixing them around to stop the apples going brown really quickly. We just used some ordinary caster sugar and a little bit of light brown sugar :)

Whilst Andrew was dealing with the filling, I was making a mess of a very simple recipe. Instead of putting only 140g of butter in, I ended up putting 225g... the measurement for the flour. So Andrew ended up taking over because I ended up making a complete hash of the measurements, but as long as you get everything proportional to each other its all good. 

After that instead of rubbing the mixture together to resemble breadcrumbs, I literally just chucked everything in the bowl and mixed it all in one. Just so you know, this wasn't intentional... I just didn't see instructions 2 and 3... I think tiredness got the better of me when making this. 

So, I mixed all of it into a ball, with the major measurement adjustments. I then floured the worktops and split the mixture in two (one for the bottom of the pie, the other for the top). We used a little bit more mixture for the bottom as we did not want the mixture falling through a really thin pastry. 

I then rolled out half of the dough into the rough shape of the square tin we were using. We placed this at the bottom of the tin and then used a knife to go round the edges to create an even edge. Whilst I started on the top, Andrew between munching on raw pastry (the weird child! :P) placed the now almost syrup like mixture of apples and sugar into the pie. I used the same technique as the bottom piece of the pie when plopping on the lid and then pushed the edges in so that the top and bottom would become more like one that two. 

I then scored the top with a blunt knife and made a whole in the top to let out steam. We popped this in the oven for about half an hour or so. The top beginning to brown off, is usually the easiest way to tell the pie is done. 

So this is the beautiful end product:

And let me just say this was mmmmm....
 The best bit for me was the pastry, I LOVE PASTRY :D
Perfect with a sprinkle of sugar and some good old Vanilla ice cream!

A pie, Granny Smith would be proud of :) 

'Trust Me On This'

As Pete Tyler once said about his Vitex drinks, this is a recipe where you are just going to have to 'trust me on this'. And if any of you don't know, yes that is a doctor who reference I have chucked in there for you :P

So this is a recipe that combines...wait for it.... MARMITE (which already has a love/hate relationship with people) and PEANUT BUTTER!!!!!!!

Now I know what you guys are thinking.... yuk! or maybe yum... if you are like me.

So this is my beloved snack Marmite and Peanut Butter on Toast... you can do this on bread if you want as well, its just as yummy... or weird...

For this I used obviously Marmite, Sainsbury's Peanut Butter Smooth, marg or butter (I am not sure which, it was either Utterly Butterly, Clover, I can't believe it's not butter or Sainsbury's Butterlicious) and just some bready bread bread.

So for this I popped two slices of bread in my green and white toaster, mmmmm :)

And then Buttered them all up silly :) 

Coated one slice with Marmite And the other with Peanut Butter. (If you only want one slice you can do a half and half )

Next SQUISH EM'  Fold them on top of each other and squish squish squish with fingers :)

Now either eat like all in one... or ... pull them back apart and eat them separately.

Now I know a lot of you will look at this peculiar concuption and be put off by the maybe not so appetising pictures, or the general concept of mixing two different things together. And I know what you mean, for me Ice Cream Floats are a travesty!!! But even if I can get just one person to try this beautiful thing, I will feel my mission to spread the word of how weird food tastes goooood will be accomplished.

Now for the taste... It's hard to explain exactly, but its got the cream of the peanut butter but with the sharp taste of the marmite with the crunchy bread. Or soft bread, it's just as perfect, perhaps more so on buttered bread :) 

REMEMBER, you have to do the SQUISHING, or else it is not the beautiful creation that it is, the SQUISHING is the vital part.... well maybe not...but it's certainly all the more fun :P 

I have been doing this ever since I was young... well younger! And I have been looked at peculiarly, but when my Aunt Sally admitted to loving this beauty too, I knew that this had to get out there and tell others about this great combo. So unless you like neither  Marmite or Peanut Butter, 'Trust me on this' and go try something a bit different :) 

Busy Bee!!!

Okay, Okay.
I am useless at updating these blogs regularly, I have been doing a few things that I will be putting up in the next few days or so. So this is really a teaser of what is to come :P
So we have 'Trust Me On This' an unusual mixture of food, which you may love or hate.
Then there is the 'Cookie Mish Mash Mosh' when you have a slanted oven and every recipe uses sugar that you don't have!
Of course there is 'Flap-A-Jack Attack' which is self explanatory, 'Sweet Apple Acres' and 'Tin Loaf' using butter instead of oil and a few others to come :)
Obviously I need to write them first! But that is my plan and not forgetting, if I can find some butterscotch, an extra special cake or cupcake for Andrew's birthday!

So watch this space, because I may have been a lazy poster but I have certainly been busy and hope to share my bake cakey makey shenanigans with you :)