Chocolate & Banana Cake!

Back to sunny Scotland after two weeks away, I was jet-lagged and exhausted. However, my demand market awaits so I was happy to find a new recipe for the Office on one of my favourite websites. I have baked chocolate & banana cakes before and I do not remember being particularly impressed but this recipe looks easy and tasty so I thought I would try again.

This cake has 175g of mashed banana and 100g of chocolate chips baked into it. The icing is made out of 100g of milk chocolate and 100ml of soured cream topped with dried banana chips. I thought it was actually a lovely moist chocolatey cake but the Husband just said it is 'alright'.

The cake was finished in two days in the Office.

Orange & Lemon Cookies!

Cookies galore this weekend! These cookies are from an old favourite cut-out cookie recipe. I bought new cookie cutters this week and I was really keen to try them out. As you can see, I got clovers, four-leaf clovers, hearts and suns. These cookie cutters are meant to cut the cookies out so that they can hang off a coffee mug but they did not turn out that well for me.

Half the dough was mixed with lemon zest to produce lemon cookies. The other half was mixed with orange zest and a tablespoon of orange juice which produced round orange cookies as the dough was then too wet for cut-outs. I also made two different types of icing to go with the cookies - lemon & orange - which makes it took me three hours for about 50 cookies.

My parents-in-law were once again my first tasters and they seemed to like them!

Smarties Cookies!

Smarties chocolate overdose weekend! This is an original recipe for M&M cookies but for some reason, the UK does not seem to sell regular chocolate M&M but only the peanut version, so I decided to substitute M&Ms with Smarties!

This recipe also includes chocolate chips, cocoa powder, flour, sugar, eggs, butter, bicarbonate of soda and vanilla extract. This cookie came out of the oven really chocolatey sweet, chewy and quite pretty with the Smarties colours. The Husband has described them as 'alright'.