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Happy lil ❤’s are baking #3

What did you bake with your little ones this week? Or, if you don’t have anything new we’d love to see something from your archives 😉

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 This week Master D and I baked Chocolate Chilli biscuits. They were inspired by a recipe in Sweet Alternative (which Hinterland Mama blogged about). We adapted the recipe to ingredients we had on hand.

We used:

2 cups flour
250 g butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp bicarb
1/2 cup cocoa
shake of nutmeg
shake of cinnamon
pinch of salt
1 egg
200 g chocolate melts
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp vanilla essence

Cream butter and sugar, add egg.
Add remaining ingredients, with the chocolate lucky last and mix until it is a good dough.
Roll into balls and then squish them with a fork.
Bake at 180°C (around 350°F) for around 10 minutes.

Master D likes to line up our ingredients
 I find the more opportunities I give Master D, the more he surprises me with how capable he is. He cracked the egg and there was no shell to pick out! With my help he weighed the ingredients before pouring them in 🙂 And he loves turning on our mixer!

This biscuit dough is also super yummy raw! See Master D agrees 🙂

Mmm, the biscuit dough is really good mama
We all enjoyed them afterwards – even Little Miss Q
(I was doing the dishes and looked back round to see this)!

Chocolate! Thanks big brother 🙂
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Happy baking, Kelly

January 18, 2012 by

Recipe: chocolate making

Making chocolates was always super fun when I was a kid. Choosing the molds, whether to add colour or flavour. Never mind getting to sample the end product! Actually, it might have been chocolate making that started my chocolate obsession?? (On a side note, my husband recently worked out my weekly chocolate budget… I’m not sure if he was more amazed, disgusted or proud of my clear dedication) Anyway, back to our current chocolate making.

Master D chose to make bears, frogs and tools. We melted about a cup of chocolate for each mold – just in the microwave for about 40 seconds. For our frogs we made choc mint, just by adding some peppermint essence. For our bears we made peanut chocolate with crunchy noodles (yumo, just add a tablespoon of peanut butter and half a cup of crispy noodles) and for the tools Master D decided on white chocolate with green food colouring and rose water essence (odd)!

While we were making them Master D looked at the bench and said (with a fair bit of glee) ‘we’re making a mess mum!’ 🙂 After letting them set for about an hour we had a taste test, although I was apparently only allowed to eat the frogs. Master D chose to eat a hammer first but soon afterwards told me that his tummy was rumbling and could he have another?

Thanks for reading, Kelly

October 18, 2011 by