Recipe Box: Courgette Chocolate Chip Cookies/Tray Bake

Hello!

I had a bit of time along with extra courgettes today so I decided to make some veggie cookie goodness! My lack of baking trays (I only have two!) meant that the cookies didn't have enough room to spread out which led to a massive cookie tray bake bonanza... Hey, I'm not complaining, they taste great!!

I recently bought a set of cup measures so I'll finally be joining the cup crowd! ;)

Ingredients

• 2 cups of sugar.
• 1 cup of butter.
• 2 eggs, beaten.
• 4 cups plain flour, sifted.
• 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda.
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon.
• 1 teaspoon salt.
• 1 cup grated courgette.
• 1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips. 

To the kitchen!

• Preheat the oven to 175 degrees celcius. 
• Cream the butter and sugar together, add beaten eggs. 
• In a separate bowl, mix the flour, bicarbonate, cinnamon and salt together. 
• Add the two bowls together, and once mixed, add in the courgette and chocolate chips. 
• Once everything is well mixed together, arrange dollops of the cookie dough a few centimetres apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. You may need more than one sheet!
• Bake for 20 mins and leave to cool on a wire rack. 
• Enjoy warm if possible! 

Hannah xo

Recipe Box: Super Choco Hot Choc

With London feeling colder and colder each day, I decided to make my favourite pure indulgence hot chocolate :) It's over-the-top chocolately so not suitable for everyone but I do love to treat myself every now and again!

Want to try it for yourself? It's simple and very versatile so please do custom make your own favourite!

In your favourite mug, make up your own favourite hot chocolate as normal. I love to use the different flavours of the Options range; orange and mint are particularly good :) Pour it into a pan and heat gently. Next, add in your favourite milk chocolate bar (a regular sized Cadburys Dairy Milk is my go-to for this task!). Once the chocolate has mostly melted, pour it back into the mug. I prefer to leave a few chunky bits of chocolate in there as a nice surprise for while I'm drinking it ;) Next add spray can cream and marshmallows and a few chocolate shavings on top to make it look pretty! Easy as pie :)

What is your favourite hot chocolate?

Hannah xo

Recipe Box: Chocolate Cupcakes

Howdy!

I'm enjoying a lovely break from work so decided to do some baking. If only I had known what I was letting myself in for...

I used this sweet recipe from this lovely lady and gave it a go. It was all going to plan until I decided I'd also try out the frosting recipe and discovered I didn't quite have enough butter. I mistakenly thought I could use my non-existent maths skills to adjust all of the ingredients' quantities to meet my butter shortage and just make a smaller amount of frosting. This didn't quite work out and I ended up with a big watery slop which still tasted pretty darn good, surprisingly! I figured I'd use it as a very thin sauce to moisten the cupcakes (see photo above...). Dessert was saved! Well, it was saved until I got ill... it turns out that my body doesn't like cocoa powder and because I'd consumed rather a lot that day I landed myself a pretty hefty migraine which wiped me out well and truly. Luckily for me, it seems to be only dark chocolate which affects me and is my least favourite kind anyway. And my Grandad has already volunteered to eat all of my future dark chocolate, what a trooper! :)

Not my most successful baking mission...

But on the bright side, we now have the Internet in our new home.... HURRAY! I'm feeling better already ;)

Hannah xo