Well, I had some chocolate buttercream left over from yesterday when I used it for my "Germany" cake, so I needed to figure out what to do with it! Besides eating it straight out of the bowl...hmmm!

See what I mean about the food colourings you get here....they just don't turn out bright enough and the red always ends up as pink, no matter how many tubes you use!

I have decided to order decent proper gel colourings...no more faffing around!

So, it was my lovely friend's birthday at the weekend and since I'll see her tomorrow...I figured it would be nice to bake her something and of course it has to be chocolately! And I got to use up the (well some) chocolate buttercream.

 

 

 

 

So, I made a version of the chocolate and hazelnut cupcakes from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook.

I wanted to tweak the recipe a bit by using Baileys instead of milk in the recipe, or part Baileys ...but I discovered that when I went to add it (the Baileys) that the cupboard was bare....none left at all.

I'd drank it at some point. sigh!

Oh well!

They're still yum.....buttercream, sweets and good ole sprinkles on top never fail!

Hope she likes them.

Not to self.....big bottle of Baileys on the shopping list!

Chocolate Smartie Cookies

These are just the best party cookies ever..I bake them all the time, I take them everywhere I go, they're always in the house for when the kids have friends over and they are a part of every Bake Sale I take part in...and of course, they are rather yum! This is a fun recipe to make with kids....moreso the smarties part!


125g dark chocolate
125g butter
275g sugar
2 large eggs
200g plain flour
25g unsweetened cocoa
1tsp vanilla
1tsp baking soda
smarties galore


Preheat oven to 170°C. In a bowl, melt the chocolate and butter together over a pan of hot water. Leave to cool for about an hour...this part is important, otherwise you end up with a huge choccie smartie cookie which has oozed all over your baking tray (also yum!)
When cool, add eggs, sugar and vanilla and beat together until well mixed. Fold in flour, cocoa and salt.
Line a baking tray with baking paper and drop tbsp of the mixture onto the sheet, or slightly roll together and press onto baking paper. leave a gap between the cookies as they do spread.
now the best part....just stick on as many smarties as you deem acceptable onto each cookies, (I do 4 or 5) and bake for 9-10 mins. They should be slightly puffed up when you take them out of the oven, then leave them to cool....if you can! I have burnt my mouth many a time on these fresh out of the oven because as everyone knows, that's when they all taste best.

Enjoy!

About Me!

My name is Wendy, I'm a mum to 4 (wonderful and mad) children. I love to bake...helps keep me sane. I live in Germany, so I try to bake with the lack of self-raising flour and decent food colourings, which can't be found in the typical German supermarket. Where there's a will there's a way, so I do fine!