Sansa's Lemon Cake

Hey there everyone! Its been a long time coming, so here goes.

Inspired by Ro's Game of Thrones, Sansa's Lemon Cake.

You'll need

1 1/4 cups self raising flour

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs and a yolk

1/2 cup butter melted

1/4 cup sour cream

2 tspn baking powder

a tspn vanilla extract 

a pinch of salt

a lemon zested and juiced

a couple of lemons sliced for the base

Mix all the ingredients until well combined in a large bowl using a hand mixer.

Line your muffin tray with the lemon slices.

Scoop you batter into the pan until half full.

Bake at 180° for 20-25 minutes.

Enjoy hot while watching Game of Thrones.

xx

-M

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Welcome to #travellingforfood everyone! As you can tell its a very blend of my two favourite things, food and travel. This will be a food photo diary of all my travels. Happy foodspotting!

xx

-M

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Pavlova

Oh sweet pavlova!

This unholy trinity of meringue, whipped cream and strawberries is the bomb! 

Let's get started, shall we?

Check out how to make the meringue baskets here. Simply pipe a 1 and 1/2 " circle to form a basket like meringue with a base of course.

Whip up double cream and icing sugar till it forms soft peeks.

Quarter the strawberries and let it set in a about a tablespoon of sugar to let the juices flow. Leave aside for a good 20 mins.

Once the meringue baskets have cooled down, lets get the magic going.

Place down the basket.

Scoop a spoon full of the whipped cream onto the meringue basket.

Top it off with those already sweetened strawberries.

Drizzle a little of that glorious strawberry juice over it.

Say a prayer and dig in.

xxx

-M

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Fruit Kebabs

All you need is strawberries, brownies, marshmallows & lollipop sticks.

Learn to make my fudge brownies here.

Simply stack them as seen above and voilà!

Enjoy

xx

M

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Rice Krispie Treats

Somehow this keeps coming up as a suggested pin on my PINterest page. So well, I decided to try it. Rice krispie treats! How hard can it be right? And I was right, it really is easy!

All you'll need is,

3 tbspns butter

4 cups small marshmallow

6 cups rice krispies

vanilla essence

Lined a boxed pan with parchment paper and set aside.

In a large bowl, melt the butter.

Add the marshmallow and stir until completely melted. 

To this add a tspn of vanilla essence.

Add your rice crispies and mix well until completely covered in the marshmallow mix.

Evenly spread this onto the lined pan and press gently.

Leave it to set for about 2o mins.

Cut into squares or any desired shape.

I cut mine into hearts and drizzled some chocolate over them. Also the ones I made are slightly pink cos the only marshmallows I had in hand were small pink ones. Maybe you can even add food coloring to this recipe. With all this, there is an endless possibility of rice krispie treats.

xx

-M

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Chocolate Lace Lollies

 Hey there lovelies! Here's a super fun, super easy and super cute post, exclusively up for the upcoming Valentine's day.

Adapted by POPSUGAR, I made these super cute lace lollies with candy melts. Blaming Valentine's Day, I used red candy melts.

Ingredients:
Red candy melts (I bought mine from Hobbycraft)
Lollipop sticks

Simply melt the candy melts (any colour works good) in the micowave or double boiler making sure that the bowl is not touching the surface of the boiling water under that. Once melted, scoop it all into a piping bag and snip off the end making a small tip. On parchment paper line the lollipop sticks leaving a good space between each stick. Go ahead and pipe away around the stick in concentric circles overlapping helping it to hold together.

This can also be done using any chocolate of your choice.

Go ahead and do try them out!

xx

-M

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TK Maxx Baking Haul

Hello, it's me! (not Adele)

I absolutely love shopping at TK Maxx's home centre! That's my kinda heaven (and food of course, you can't forget food, always food and more food!). They have great products, of good quality and cost a lot lesser than those posh stores, you know which ones I'm talking about. So come off day, I went to TK Maxx, cause why not eh? And they had a sale going on! A SALE! What a lucky day for me!

I know as someone who loves to bake, I go crazy when I see cookie cutters. All so beautiful and  in all sizes, shapes and color too . Mind you, I have a whole lot of Christmas cookie cutters, but when I see this, ohhhhh! This cost me 4£.  

I bought around 5 cupcake liners for 1£ each in pastel colors. I usually buy my cupcake cases off Ebay as they I find them cheaper than most high street stores. Since these very pretty good, I decided on buying these.

As a barista, I love my espresso. I know there are some baristi who don't. But not me. I am who loves coffee. And at home we don't really have espresso cups, just the ones we bought from Portugal, Continente, in fancy azulejo design. So you know, we're saving that just in case the Queen stops by, who'll probably ask for a cuppa tea. So moving on, yeah, I got these cheeky espresso cups by Jamie Oliver for 5£. Also, they are stack-able!

And finally, I bought this for 3£. Its a glass jar with a lid designed for jam and preserves. I though it'd be great for posts like smoothies, milkshakes or even layered desserts.

So this was it!

Let me know what you think about posts like this. Do you think I should continue with my baking hauls?

Feel free to leave your comments below.

Much love.

xx

M

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