Kitchen porn

Urban Outfitters, biscuit pocket mug:

Cool, Quirky and stops you 'accidentally' eating the whole packet infront of the box ( only 2 biscuits fit in the pocket). Great for Christmas pressies too! Buy yours here.

Giant Cupcake Pan:

 For making the King of all cupcakes, Lakeland sell a good one here.

 

For the Queen of all cupcakes:

 Slightly more affordable but still guaranteed to impress! Purchase in time for best friend's birthday cake here.

Lucky Charms:

For those of you big kids like myself who have fond memories of this lucky little leprechaun's breakfast This is sure to excite! American Sweets have hundreds and thousands (see the pun there?!) of other old favourites for those with a sweet tooth. Great for stocking fillers!

Clever Cake Divider

 An amazing little contraption that will save any 'your bit's bigger than mine' spats. Great for limiting the calorie intake too! Get yours from Mocha

Millionaires Shortcake

This has to be one of my favourite puds and with the girls coming over for a little dinner party I shrugged my shoulders and headed off to Tesco deciding to give it a go. Needless to say the girls were suitably impressed and I beamed a little inside at my handiwork!




I have to say it was very easy to make but looked as though I could have been slaving away at it for hours which was exactly what I was hoping for. So for those of you who like myself enjoy 'moonlighting' as a domestic goddess I thoroughly recommend you try this!

This is what you will need ...

• 250g plain flour
• 75g Caster Sugar
• 175g Butter softened
• 1 tin carnation caramel
• 200g plain chocolate
• 80g white chocolate 

To make the shortbread base, mix the flour and caster sugar in a bowl. Rub in the butter with your hands until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Knead the mixture together until it forms a dough, then press into the base of the prepared tin. Prick the shortbread lightly with a fork and bake in the pre-heated oven for about 20 min or until firm to the touch and very lightly browned. Cool in the tin.




After the base is cool (and this is the hard bit) open your tin of carnation caramel and using a spoon spread over the shortbread. Once this is done suck spoon to efficiently remove all traces of caramel (this part is essential to show thanks to the caramel god)








For the topping, melt the chocolate slowly in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Pour over the cold caramel and leave to set.




Finally melt down your white choc using the same method as before and then drizzle randomly all over cake to create a lovely Jackson pollock type effect!

Leave to set for at least an hour before your guests arrive, serve with ice cream and sit back and enjoy the praise!

Break-up Brownies

Break-up Brownies

These brownies were made for break ups!

Warmer, richer and sweeter than Channing Tatum's thigh!

When a friend is in crisis and nothing but the filthiest, chocolatiest, melt in the middle naughtiness will do.... Look no further, this recipe is The One. The best thing about these bad boys is that is you can bake them in 40mins thanks to our dear friend Betty Crocker.


All you need is:

• 1 box of Betty's finest choc chip cookie mix
• One Betty's Brownie mix (I like choc fudge but sticky choc, chewy choc or whatever floats your boat will do)
• 6 regular sized mars Bars

So here goes..

1. Line chosen baking dish with baking paper
2. Make cookies according to Betty's instructions and pour into paper lined dish.
3. Place Mars bars in a row on top of cookie mixture.
4. Make brownies (again following easy peasy instructions) and then pour mixture on top of your cookie mars bar yumminess and pop in the oven for 30 mins.
5. Wait for aroma to fill the room whilst staring at oven wishing time would pass more quickly!

Et Voila.... The most handsome filthiest brownie you will ever come across (better than any man)

Best served warm with lashings of Vanilla Haagen Dazs

If for some obscure reason you have any brownies left they will keep for a week in an air tight container (keep well hidden).

These brownies are not strictly for break ups, they can be used in any times of crisis!