Lemon Drizzle Loaf

This zingy lemon drizzle loaf is perfect to quickly rustle up and will taste delicious, to make this you will need:

3 eggs

170g self raising flour

170g caster sugar

170g butter

1tsp baking powder

110g icing sugar

1 tbsp granulated sugar

2 lemons

Method:

1. Begin by pre heating the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, mix together the eggs, flour, sugar, butter, baking powder and the zest of the two lemons. Pour the mixture into a loaf tin (or you can make it into a cake or tray bake by choosing whichever tin takes your fancy). 

  

2. Bake in pre heated oven for 25 minutes or until golden and a skewer inserted comes out clean.

3. Whilst the cake is cooking, prepare the icing. Mix together the icing sugar and juice of one and a half  lemons until all combined.

4. While the loaf is still warm, poke holes into the cake with a knife or a skewer and pour over your icing so that it will seep into the cake (yum!).

5. Mix the granulated sugar with the remaining half of the lemon juice, and pour over the top. This will create a delicious sugary crust.

Enjoy!

Scrummy Triple Chocolate Cookies

As a massive chocaholic, these triple chocolate cookies are perfection. They are easy and simple to make and are great to sell for charity bake sales or just to munch on throughout the day.

What you will need:

150g granulated sugar
220g brown sugar
225g unsalted butter
1tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
385g plain flour
pinch of salt
1tsp bicarbonate of soda

100g white chocolate chips

100g milk chocolate chips

100g plain chocolate chips

Begin by preheating the oven to 180 degrees centigrade.

1. Cream together the butter and sugars, I usually do this with a hand held electric whisk for about 2 minutes to get the mixture light and fluffy.

2. Add the vanilla extract and eggs and mix well until everything has been incorporated.

3. Combine all of the dry ingredients together and gradually add them to the creamed mix.

4. Stir in all of the chocolate chips until they are evenly distributed among the cookie dough.

  5. Roll into medium sized balls and bake on non stick or lightly greased trays for 10-12 minutes.

Enjoy!

Happy Baking!

Introducing me

As a new blogger, I thought I would tell you what my blog will be about...
My posts will be about baking, new recipes, old recipes and tips and tricks that I have discovered. I do occasionally find myself rambling so you may find that I go off on a tangent, like I'm clearly doing now. Apologies.
I love trying out and inventing/adjusting recipes which I plan to share for people to (hopefully) enjoy and test out themselves! Baking mainly for friends and family, I try to decorate my bakes uniquely for that person, especially for birthdays! So here are some of the cakes that I have done before, I am stupidly writing this before dinner and am making myself extremely hungry....

A checkerboard cake with a Cath Kidston inspired design

My friend with her birthday sheep cake

Some s'more cupcakes

A three tiered fudge cake with tempered white chocolate decoration

 

 Harry Potter/Les Miserable/Wimbledon Cake (weird combo, I know)

 

Cheese, Chilli and Sweet corn Muffins