Terry's Chocolate Orange Cake

Cake

1 Cup Boiling Water

1 1/4 Cup Pure Cane Sugar

1/2 Cup Butter

1 Cup Milk

2 Eggs, Slightly beaten

2 tsp Pure Orange extract

2 Cups All Purpose Flour (Can use whole wheat!)

3/4 Cup Cocoa

1 tsp Baking Soda

2 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp Salt

Cream butter in bowl, add boiling water and stir until melted. Add Sugar stir until dissolved then add Eggs, Milk & Orange extract. Mix well. 

Combine all other dry ingredients and add to mixture, mix well. Don't worry if batter mix is really thin! ( Just do not use the spring-form pans)

Pour batter into two lined and greased 9"x9" cake pans and bake at 340*F for 25-30 mins.

Leave to cool on rack for at least half an hour! ( then cool in fridge for around one hour before decorating) 

Chocolate Orange Cake Frosting

1 Cup Butter

1 Cup Pure Cane Sugar

2 Tbsp Orange extract 

4 eggs

4 x 28g melted unsweetened Bakers chocolate squares 

2 Tbsp Cocoa

(Mix the first three ingredients together and stir well)

Next add- 

4 x 28g melted unsweetened Bakers chocolate squares ( 120g cooking chocolate) 

2 Tbsp Cocoa...& Mix well 

Then add your 4 Eggs ...added one at a time, Beat for 5 Min's after each egg on high speed using an electric whisk or stand mixer with whisk attachment.

Chill frosting for at least an hour before frosting...then spread in between your cake for filling and then all over your cake using a spatula! 

Lastly decorate with pieces of Terry's chocolate orange and grate some over the top ...Mmmmmm

Spicy Pumpkin Bundt Cake

4 cups cake flour (I used spelt  ), plus more for dusting

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon ground ginger

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1 cup safflower oil , plus more for pan

1 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar

4 large eggs

1 cup buttermilk ( Homemade) 

1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree ( Homemade) but you can used canned

Confectioners' ( icing)  sugar, for dusting

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 14-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray. Dust with flour, and tap out excess.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
3. Beat oil and brown sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on medium speed until pale and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to low. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the buttermilk. Beat until just combined. Add pumpkin puree, and beat until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake cake until golden and a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Carefully turn cake onto rack too cool completely. Before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar.

Recipe adapted from Martha Stewart.com

Healthified Pumkin-Chocolate cookies

1 cup pureed pumpkin
1/4  cup Honey (or more? depending on how sweet you like them?) You can also use sugar if preffered
1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
1 egg
1Tbs. Vanilla
2 cups Whole wheat flour
2 tsp. Baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. Nutmeg
1/8 tsp. Ground Cloves
1/8 tsp. Ground ginger (optional)
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Milk
1 cup Semi sweet choc-chips 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Combine pumpkin, honey, applesauce, egg and vanilla and mix well (we’ll call this the WET mixture)
Combine by whisking: flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt in a separate bowl (aka DRY mixture)
Dissolve baking soda in milk, then add to WET mixture
Gradually add DRY mixture to WET and mix until just combined
Fold in chocolate chips
Grease cookie sheet and use an ice cream scoop to measure out
Bake for 10-12 minutes until they no longer look wet
Let sit on pan for 2 minutes then remove to a wire rack to cool

Some work of Edans I found xx

Thanksgiving cakepops

I used my own recipe for these cake pops.

For recipes and  to decorate them there are lots of websites to choose from I used Petitchef it has a gr8 tutorial, the only thing I done different was I used chocolate coated sunflower seeds for the beak because I could not find mini jelly beans( I would not recommend it as the shell breaks)

Peanut Butter & Honey Granola Bars

Ingredients

• 1 egg white
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 cups old fashioned oats ( not instant or steel cut )
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup raisins

1. Line a 9x13 baking tin with parchment paper so that the ends extend over the tin, preheat oven to 350F

2. Get 1/2 cup of the oats and pulse in a food processor until ground then mix back together with remaining oats and mix in cinnamon ( if you don't have a food processor then just skip that bit).

3. Beat egg white until frothy, then beat in honey, peanut butter and add the other oats mixture stir stir in butter and mix well. Stir in raisins.

4. Spread the mix over the bottom of your parchment lined baking dish evenly.

5. Place in oven and bake for 25 mins, remove and let cool for 5 mins.  The slowly cut with a sharp knife into  12-16 bars. Return to oven for further 15 mins on 300F , then remove and let cool completely.

"Cooling is important as then will be too crumbly" 

Making pizza...

I haven't made pizza for a long time as the last time I made it.. it didn't turn out too well!

Using my Mother in laws pizza base recipe and the help of my son I have made perfect pizza twice the last 2 weeks...and will defo be making a lot more..soon 

Mmmm...the finished pizza