Recipes

[Emmagee]

Someone out there will definately know this but not one single recipe book I own, (and there are about 30!) has a recipe for chocolate crispy cakes! - either rice crispies or cornflakes, we're not fussy. Please make a small girl very happy.

Recipe for party girl:

100g milk chocolate
25g unsalted butter
1 teaspoon golden syrup
50g cornflakes (or krispies)

Melt choc and butter, then add the syrup. Coat cornflakes by pouring them into the choc mixture, put in cases and set in fridge.

(so says Nigella!)

As we are swapping recipes on this thread...(good idea Emmagee) does anyone have Nigella's recipe for ice-cream that was on Nigella Bites last week. The only thing I wanted to watch all week and I video taped the wrong channel!

Thanks in advance!

As it happens Winnie, I bought the book at lunchtime. As a disciple of How to Eat and Domestic Goddess, I am pretty disappointed with it (I mean deep fried Bounties????). Anyway, here's your ice cream recipe.

3 Seville oranges or 1 eating orange and 2 limes
175g icing sugar
Large pot (584ml) double cream
wafers to serve

If using Seville orange, grate the zest of 2 of them. Squeeze the juice of all 3 pour into a bowl with the zest and sugar. If you're going for the sweet orange and lime option, grate the zest of the orange and one of the limes, juice them and add to the sugar as before. Stir to dissolve the sugar and add the double cream.

Whip everything until it holds soft peaks and then turn into a shallow air-tight container (of around 2 litres) with a lid. Cover and freeze until firm (from 3 to 5 hours). Remove 15 minutes or so before serving.

Thanks, Bells x

Emms, an easier method is, mars bars and some marg melted in a pan and then add the crispies or cornflakes, and you can make this into a tray bake, by putting it in the tin and then adding melted milk choc over the top. My mum still makes it and even adds raisins or dates to the tray bake and it is brill!

I add mini marshmallows to chocolate, butter, golden syrup and rice crispies. Some melt into it, giving a gorgeous chewiness.

Can anyone supply an easy fullproof choc cake recipe that i can make with the kids for Grandma's birthday - got to able to stick smarties on the top? Ems you out there?

Easy chocolate cake:
6oz self-raising flour
6oz castor sugar
6oz butter/soft margarine
3 eggs
cocoa powder
ground almonds (optional)

Substitute 1 tablespoon of flour with one of cocoa powder, and for a more moist cake, one of flour for the ground almonds. Put everything in a food processer and blitz till well mixed.

Pour the batter into a lined 8" cake tin, and bake at 180deg C till a skewer comes out clean, I start testing after 45 mins, but it usually takes an hour (in a decidedly inaccurate Aga).

I generally ice with butter cream as smarties have a nasty habit of leaching their colour when put on to glace icing. You can buy special cake decorating smarties which maybe colour fast, but I've never tried them and their colours are not as bright as sandard ones.

Good luck!

Thanks Molecule,
Can i do it without a food processor - don't have one? and when you say lined tin, do you mean greaseproof paper - as you can tell i'm a bit of a novice!

Anyone got any recipes for day to day meals. I am not the best cook and am put off by long lists of ingredients but I seem to be feeding my 12 month old on chicken & veg, beef & veg or fish & veg casseroles. Any tips. Also she won't eat anthing other than Ready Break for breakfast - any ideas?

Anyone got any recipes for day to day meals. I am not the best cook and am put off by long lists of ingredients but I seem to be feeding my 12 month old on chicken & veg, beef & veg or fish & veg casseroles. Any tips. Also she won't eat anthing other than Ready Break for breakfast - any ideas?

I give my son a yogurt (yeo valley doesn't have lots of additives - don't get the baby ones they cost more) for breakfast. I'm american and for us yogurt is a breakfast food, not a dessert like it is here. He loves it and usually consumes a bit of my toast as well.

Sullie, your kid's diet sounds great! Ready Brek is a good breakfast so why change it? You could add banana or other fruit to it, but it's very nutritious and salt and sugar free so I'd say keep going. If your dd fancies a change you could do pasta and a tomato sauce or red lentils with chicken or veg as a change - my son loves both. Or cauliflower cheese, or macaroni cheese or meatballs with spaghetti or baked potatoes with cheese or beans or tuna or mushrooms. If you're feeling more adventurous, there is a website with recipes called www.babyspoon.co.uk you could try.