Some of my favourite recipes are……..

November 20th, 2009

                                   Chocolate Slice

Ingredients

  • 1 packet of cruched Marie biscuits
  • 3 oz of butter
  • 1 tin of condensed milk
  • a dash of vanilla essence
  • 1 and a half tablespoons of bournville cocoa
  • 1 cup of coconut

Topping

  • 2 ozs of copha
  • 100 grams of Cadbury’s  Milk Chocolate

Steps

Place crushed biscuits, coconut and the cocoa in a bowl and mix it together well. Melt butter in a large sauce pan on low heat and add condensed milk and vanilla essence to it. Stir it together and then add it to the dry ingredients. mix altogether and place in a swiss roll tin and press down on it evenly and firmly.

Topping 

Break up the chocolate and place with the copha in a small saucepan. Melt on gentle heat stirring until it is all melted, being careful not o burn the mixture. Pour it over the slice and allow to set. Store it in the fridge or the frezzer.

It will taste very yummy. I love this chocolate slice and I hope that you do too!!!  Enjoy.

                                 Apricot Cookies

Ingredients 

  • 1/3 cup of margarine or butter
  • 1/2 cup of sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla essence
  • 1 cup self-raising flour
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1 cup shredded coconut
  • 1/2 to 1 cup of dried apricots

Steps

Preheat the oven to 150 degrees an dgrease a baking tray. cream the margarine/butter, sugar and the vanilla essence. Add the remaining ingredients and combine them all throughly. Shape the mixture into round balls and place them on the tray and then put them in the oven to bake. Bake them for 20 minutes.

Yum Yum Yum.

                     Chocolate Raspberry Brownies

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup plain flour
  • 1/2 cup self-raising flour
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 3/4 cup of cocoa
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1  and 1/4 cups of caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 1 and 1/2 tablespoons sunflower oil
  • 2oo grams thick reduced fat vanilla yoghurt
  • 120 grams apple puree
  • 200 grams fresh or frozen raspberries
  • icing sugar to dust
  • fresh raspberries to serve

Steps

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease and line the base and sides of a 30cm x 20cm tin with baking paper. Sift the flours, bicarb soda and the cocoa into a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Whisk together the eggs, sugar, oil vanilla essence and the yoghurt in a large jug. Add the flours and mix until smooth. Fold through the raspberries and apple puree. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted in the centre. Allow to cool for 5 minutes in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack to cool fully. Cut into squares and dust with icing sugar. Serve with extra fresh berries and low fat ice-cream.

So, those are just some of my favourite recipes and I hope that you could try some of them.

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