E-mail Entry For Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #14.

Hello everyone, I received an e-mail entry for my Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #14.

The theme is Valentines - Anything Red, White, Pink, Hearts or Roses.

The sweet little girl, Robyn, is 11 years old.

She made a Choc Chip Cookies Message for Valentines Day!

Note from Heidi-Mari: For a healthier alternative, you could substitute the margarine with butter and crease the pan with butter and not spray it with spray and cook.

 Recipe for cookies:

Ingredients: 

2 ¼ cups flour

200 grams margarine

¾  cups white sugar

¾  cups brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla essence  

1 tsp. baking powder

1 ½  cups choc chips

can add raisins or chopped nuts (optional but I didn't)

Method:

Preheat oven to 160 - 170 degrees.

Cream together margarine, brown sugar and white sugar.

Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix well.

Now add sifted flour and baking powder. Mix.

Add choc chips. (Nuts and raisins optional.)

Spray a tray with spray 'n cook.

Roll dough into letters (you may have to add more flour to make dough thick enough to roll.)

Put into oven and bake for 10 - 12 min.

Icing and Decorating:

A packet of sweets of your choice

Icing sugar

A few drops of water

Pink food colouring 

Method:

Put 3 tsp. of icing sugar in a bowl.

Add a tsp. of food colouring. 

Add a drop of water.

Stir together and add more icing sugar until thick enough.

Stir until all lumps are gone.

Ice and have fun decorating!

Optional: I cut the sweets up before putting them on the biscuits.

That sure looks like a great cookie Robyn, and lots of fun!

Thank you so much for taking part in my challenge.

Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #14 is still open till Monday the 27th of February, so you still have time to enter everyone!

Baking Greetings

E-mail Entry For My Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #13

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a good week and weekend so far.

I got an e-mail entry for my baking challenge from a dear friend of mine’s sister who is 4 year old.

Gabrielle made a tuna-mayonnaise salad! Here is her recipe:

You will need:

1 Third of a cucumber, sliced and cut into quarters

2 tomatoes, chopped

A few fresh lettuce leaves, shredded

Half a red pepper, cut into Julienne strips

2 tins of tuna, drained

Mayonnaise (enough to make the salad moist)

2 carrots, peeled and cut into Julienne strips

Method:

Wash your fresh ingredients in salt water.  Start by mixing your

chopped tomato with the cucumber, lettuce, red pepper and carrot

strips.  Mix the 2 tins of tuna into the salad along with the

mayonnaise. Refrigerate before serving.  Enjoy with fresh, homemade

bread and butter.

This was one of Gabrielle’s first things she made in the kitchen! Well done Gabrielle, your salad look delicious! Thank you so much for entering.

Everyone please remember you still have time enter this baking challenge, this theme is “salads”. You have until Monday the 13th of February to enter. 

If you would like to enter, click here.

Baking Greetings

E-mail Entry For My Baking Challenge!

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. 

I have an e-mail entry for my Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge, from a dear friend of mine’s mom. 

Aunty Hazel made Spinach and Butternut Quiche!

Here is her recipe:

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour

75g butter

iced water

1 cup butternut

tomato slices

red or yellow pepper, sliced

15ml olive oil

1 onion, chopped

1 large handful spinach

10ml butter

250ml cream or milk

3 egg yolks

1 cup grated cheese

1 slice round feta

salt and pepper

Method:

Mix the butter and flour until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.

Pour in the iced water and knead until dough forms a ball. Cover and

refrigerate for 30 minutes. Grill the butternut, tomato and pepper

with a little oil at 180 degrees celsius.  Fry the onion and spinach

in butter until soft.  Add cream, egg yolks, cheese and veggies.  Roll

out the dough and press into a pie dish.  Bake blind until golden.

Pour in filling and bake until set.

Thank you aunty Hazel for entering my challenge, your Quiche looks really delicious!

There is still a little time for anyone to enter. Challenge closes Monday the 12th of December at noon. You can enter here.

Have a blessed day

Baking Greetings

E-mail Entry For My Baking Challenge.

Hello everyone, I have an e-mail entry for my Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge! My 11 year old brother Josua. He wanted to take part in my challenge and win a recipe book for a long time and he finally got the chance.

The theme is Something for a Child so he made Marshmallow Crisps:

Ingredients:

1,5 liter rice crisps 

60 g butter 

250 g Marshmallows 

2 ml vanilla 

1 Grease a standard sized pan with butter.

2 Measure the rice crisps into a mixing bowl.

3 Put the Marshmallows, vanilla and butter in a big heavy bottom sauce pan.

4 Let it melt on medium heat.

 5 Put the rice crisps into the marshmallow mixture and stir until everything sticks together.

6 Put the mixture in the greased pan and flatten quickly with a spoon.

7 Cut the Rice Crisps in cubes while still a little warm.

Enjoy!

Thank you so much for participating Josua! This sure is a GREAT recipe and children LOVE it! Everyone please remember you still have time enter my baking challenge. You have until Monday the 14th of November to enter. 

To enter click here.

Baking Greetings

E-mail Entry for My 2# Baking Fun Challenge - Chocolate Cream Pie

Hi everyone! I got the first e-mail entry for my second Baking Fun Challenge - Chocolate. Tiffany baked a Chocolate Cream Pie and asked me to link it up for her, since she doesn’t have a blog.

Thank you so much for the entry, Tiffany!

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

1 pkt Romany Creams (crushed)

75g butter (melted)

150g marshmallows 

1 cup milk 

200g milk or dark Chocolate 

1 cup whipped cream

Chocolate flake (optional)

1 Mix the Romany Creams and melted butter together. Press it into a bowl.

2 Melt the Marshmallows and milk on the stove, stirring until marshmallows are melted. 

3 Add the chocolate, once it’s melted allow to cool. Add the whipped cream to the chocolate mixture.

4 Pour over the crust and refrigerate.

5 Sprinkle with a flake or two, if you like.

Served with a Cappuccino its perfect!

Bon Appetite!