Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Ooey Gooey Chocolate Cake...In a Cup!





I know it doesn't look like anything special in this picture, but this has been one of my favourite treats when I'm craving something a little sweet and I had to share it with you all!

This super easy and quick recipe was on I found online a while back, and with a few changes I've made it perfect to suit my cravings. 

All you need to make this simple desert are:

  • ¼ Flour
  • ¼ Sugar
  • around 1 Tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa (I'm not a big chocolate person, for those of you who really like chocolate try 2 Tbsp, it's still amazing just too much for me)
  • a pinch of Salt
  • a bit of Cinnamon
  • ¼ water
  • 2 Tbsp of Vegetable or Canola Oil
  • a few drops of Vanilla
I find this is easier to mix in a larger bowl before putting in the mug, but of course this can all be don't in the one mug to save dishes. Just make sure you are using a microwavable mug for this. It's good, but not worth ruining a microwave over.

So first you want to mix the Flour, Sugar, Cocoa, Salt, and Cinnamon together making sure it is all incorporated into one pile of powder. 
Then add your wet ingredients: Water, Oil, and Vanilla and mix all that into the dry ingredients until there are not more lumps and the mixture is smooth.

For baking your cake, since all microwaves are different, place the mug in the microwave for 1 minute tasting with a toothpick to see if its done. If the toothpick comes out clean, the cake is done.
If not done continue cooking for 1 minute at a time until done. 
Mine are always ready in 2 minutes.

I hope you all enjoy this as much I do, and share it with all your friends and family. 



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Thursday, 26 December 2013

My Christmas Traditions.




Happy Holidays Everyone!

Yesterday was Christmas, and I'm sure many of you had a traditional Christmas Turkey Dinner. 
I have to say my family doesn't have many traditions, if there has to be one it would be NOT having turkey on Christmas.

This year we decided on have Salmon en Croute this year with sides of roasted veg and asparagus. 
The salmon is a super easy recipe that we were able to prepare the day before. For a detail recipe you can click here to check one out for Sorted Food. 
For the roasted vegetable we used:
  • baby potatoes
  • carrots
  • shallots
  • rosemary
  • a few cloves of garlic
  • olive oil
  • lots of salt and pepper
Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F
All we did was boil the potatoes and carrots for a few minutes just to soften them a bit. This helps them when roasting to get that soft on the inside and crispy on the outside texture. Then toss all the above ingredients into a roasting pan and cook them until golden.

Roasted Veg/Salmon en Croute just out of the oven/ Everything plated up

This is probably my favourite thing to have for dessert, and we've been having it for years.

Sticky Toffee Pudding!

There are many recipes online for this, and over the years we just kind out figured out our own ways of making it. Which I think is the best thing about family favourite meals, eventually they become your own. 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, if you don't celebrate I still wish you the best.

Let me know in the comments some of your Christmas Traditions, If you don't celebrate what sort things do you do instead??? 

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