Bourbon Biscuit Brownie Recipe

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Hello everybody, welcome back to our blog. How is your day going? Today's blog post is by Lydia and as you can see from the title, this post is a recipe! We haven't done a recipe on the blog for a while, so, I thought I would do a recipe. This isn't my own recipe, it's one I found on Olive Magazine, but I wanted to try it as they sounded really good and they are! This recipe is for Bourbon Biscuit Brownies, they are delicious, plus really easy to make. They combine 2 of my favourite sweet treats Bourbon biscuits and brownies. Anyway, let's continue with the recipe!

Ingredients:
15 Bourbon Biscuits,
100g Butter,
200g Dark Chocolate,
4 Eggs,
250g Caster Sugar,
100g Plain Flour,
1 tsp Baking Powder,
30g Cocoa Powder,

Method:
1. Heat the oven to 180°C (Gas Mark 4). Line a 20x30cm rectangular brownie tin with baking parchment.
2. Keep 5 of the bourbon biscuits for decoration, and use a sharp knife to cut them down the middle and separate the 2 sides. I then left them just as the sides to decorate the brownies. Roughly chop the rest of the bourbon biscuits into chunky bits.
3. Melt the butter and chocolate together in a microwave or in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, then cool to room temperature.
4. Whisk the eggs and sugar together with an electric whisk until the mixture is pale, has doubled in volume and leaves a trail when you pull the whisk out.
5. Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture then sift in the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder. Fold this in then stir in the chopped bourbon biscuit pieces. Spoon into the tin and smooth down.
6. Scatter over the reserved bourbon biscuit bits, however, I just placed them on as 10 bits.
7. Bake for 25 minutes or until the top is shiny and the middle just set. Cool completely then lift out of the tin and cut into squares.
8. Serve and enjoy.

So, that's the end of the recipe. I have to say these brownies are some of the best I've made! They are delicious too. If you like brownies and/or bourbon biscuits this is a recipe you should try, they are amazing! If you do try this recipe, we'd love to see them! Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed reading!

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Terry's Chocolate Orange Cookies

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Hello everybody, welcome back to our blog! How are you all today? Today's blog post is by Lydia, and as you can tell by the title it's a baking blog post! It's getting closer and closer to Christmas, and as it's near that time of the year, we have a festive recipe blog post for you here. Both Jade and I love a chocolate orange, we always have them around this time of year. Especially when we get them as gifts at Christmas. I love watching a Christmas film and sharing a chocolate orange with my family of an evening in the countdown to Christmas. So, we made some chocolate orange cookies, and here's how we made them!

Ingredients;

1. 110g Unsalted Butter, softened,
2. 200g Light Brown Sugar,
3. 1 Large Free-range Egg,
4. 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract,
5. 165g Plain Flour,
6. Pinch of Salt,
7. 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder,
8. 1/2 Teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda,
9. 30g Cocoa Powder,
10. Terry's Chocolate Orange .

Method;

1. Preheat oven to 190°C (Gas Mark 5). Line two large baking trays with Parchment paper.
2. Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and beat until incorporated,
3. Add the flour, pinch of salt, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cocoa powder, mix until a dough comes together.
4. Divide the mixture into balls. Spread out evenly on the baking trays.
5. Put a segment of the chocolate orange on each ball of dough.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes, until spread out and crackling on top. 
7. Once cooked, allow the cookies to cool on the trays for 5 minutes - in this time the cookies will harden a bit to make them easier to move. Finish cooling on a wire rack.
8. Once cooled, enjoy the delicious cookies.

So, that's the end of the blog post. I hope you enjoyed reading, this recipe makes such nice cookies! If you don't like chocolate oranges then you can use the same recipe but change the chocolate orange to a chocolate of your choice. These cookies were delicious! We also made different cookies using the same recipe just had the small pieces of terry's chocolate orange mixed into the mixture. They were both just as nice. If you make these cookies we would love to see them! Thank you again for reading, I hope you enjoyed reading.

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Monster Brownies

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Hello Everyone! Welcome back to our blog. Today's blog post is by Lydia and is a recipe! September flew by and now we're in October, and as we are, it's only right for there to be a Halloween baking blog post here on our blog! I made these 'Monster Brownies' the recipe is essentially a normal brownie recipe, just the decoration on them makes them perfect for a Halloween party! So, lets get on with this blog post.

Ingredients:

• 185g unsalted butter,
• 185g dark chocolate,
• 85g plain flour,
• 40g cocoa powder,
• 50g white chocolate,
• 50g milk chocolate,
• 3 large eggs,
• 275g caster sugar.

Decoration Ingredients:

• White chocolate,
• Edible eyes.

Method:

1. Cut 185g unsalted butter into small cubes and put into a medium bowl. Break 185g dark chocolate into small pieces and put into same bowl.
2. Fill a small saucepan (Quarter full) with hot water, put bowl on top so it rests on the rim of the pan. Put on a low heat until butter and chocolate have melted, stirring occasionally. Remove bowl from pan. Leave the melted mixture to cool to room temperature.
3. Turn the oven on to 160°C (Gas mark 4), and grease and line your tin.
4. Tip 85g plain flour and 40g cocoa powder into a sieve held over a medium bowl, make sure to get rid of any lumps.
5. Chop 50g white chocolate and 50g milk chocolate into chunks on a board.
6. Break 3 large eggs into a large bowl and tip in 275g caster sugar. With an electric mixer on maximum speed whisk the eggs and sugar. They will look thick and creamy. This can take 3-8 minutes, depending on how powerful your mixer is.
7. Pour the cooled chocolate mixture over the eggy mousse, gently fold together with a rubber spatula, get all of the mixture from the sides by doing a figure of eight, moving the bowl around each time.
8.  Hold the sieve over the bowl of eggy chocolate mixture and resift the cocoa and flour mixture, shaking the sieve. Gently fold in the powder using the same figure of eight action as before. then stir in the white and milk chocolate chunks until they're dotted throughout.
9. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin, scraping every bit out of the bowl with the spatula. Make sure the mixture is even, and put in the oven. Set a timer for 25 minutes, when the timer goes off, open the oven and shake the tin, if it wobbles in the middle, its not quite done-so put in back in the oven for a few minutes.
10. Once the brownie is cooked take out of the oven and leave to cool. Once its cooled then cut the brownie into squares, as many as you like.
11. Then melt the white chocolate for decoration.  Drizzle the melted white chocolate over the top of the brownies. Then add the eyes. And enjoy! You could add more decorations but I just stuck to the white chocolate and eyes!

Well, that's the end of this blog post! I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Let us know through twitter if you made these! We would love to see them! Thank you for reading.

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Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to our blog, how are you today? Today's blog post is by Lydia, and as you can tell by the title this blog post is a recipe. The recipe is for chocolate cupcakes, this recipe isn't my recipe, it's actually a Mary Berry recipe, and I will tell you now, they are probably the best chocolate cupcakes that I've ever made! It is a really good recipe! So, let's get on with the recipe.

Ingredients for the cupcakes:

• 40g Cocoa Powder,
• 3 Eggs,
• 175g Butter (unsalted), softened,
• 165g Caster Sugar,
• 115g Self-Raising Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Powder,
• 4 tbsp Boiled Water.

Ingredients for the icing:

• 60g Butter (unsalted),
• 30g Cocoa Powder,
• 250g Icing Sugar,
• 3 tbsp Milk (if needed).

How to make the cupcakes:

1. Pre-heat oven to 200°C (Gas Mark 6),
2. Line the cupcake tin with cupcake cases,

3. Sift the cocoa powder into a bowl, pour boiling water and mix into a thick paste,

4. Add the remaining cake ingredients and mix with an electric whisk (or beat with a wooden spoon),

5. Put mixture into cake cases, make sure the mixture is evenly spread out,

6. Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 12-15 minutes, until well risen and springy to touch.

7. Once baked put move the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool down.

How to make the icing:

1. Melt butter and pour into a bowl and sift the cocoa powder,

2. Stir in the icing sugar a little at a time until glossy and spreadable,

3. If the icing is too thick gradually add the milk until it reaches the desired consistency.

4. Pipe the icing over the cupcakes, although I just spread the icing onto the cupcakes.

5. Add decorations, if you want. I just added white and gold sprinkles on top, and this is the finished product!

That is the end of the recipe, I absolutely love this recipe. It is so good! I seriously recommend that you make these cupcakes as they are so yummy, plus they seem to go down well with my family. The order that this recipe is much different to what I normally do but it's so much better!

Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed this recipe blog post! If you follow this recipe then be sure to let us know and tweet us some pictures of your masterpieces! Thank you for reading and I hope that you enjoyed it! Have any of you got a recipe that you swear by? If so let us know and we will check it out. 

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Chocolate S'mores Cookies

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Hello everyone and welcome back. Today's blog post is by me, Lydia. In this blog post, I will be giving you the perfect recipe to make delicious chocolate s'mores cookies. At one of our sleepovers we decided we wanted to do some baking, so we looked up an easy cookie recipe and then we thought that we would add a little bit of a twist by putting Nutella and marshmallows in the middle. 

Ingredients:

200g butter

300g caster sugar

275g self-raising flour

75g cocoa powder

1 large egg

Nutella (Chocolate spread)

Marshmallows

How to make them:

Step 1: Put you oven on at 200 degrees Celsius, and put greaseproof paper on a baking tray ready for when the cookies are done.

Step 2: Mix together the butter and sugar, we used an electric hand mixer but it would work just by hand. You want to whisk it until the butter turns into a pale colour.

Step 3: Once the butter and sugar are creamed together then add the egg. Crack the egg into a separate bowl to start with to make sure that it is a good egg, and then put it in with the mixture and mix together.

Step 4: When the egg has been mixed in then you can add the dry ingredients, the self-raising flour, and cocoa powder. Once they have been mixed you can start to make them into the cookie shape.

Step 5: To make the cookies we got a bit of cookie dough rolled it into a ball and then flattened them out.

Step 6: Then after the base has been flattened out you get a teaspoon full of the Nutella and put it in the middle of the base of the cookie and make sure it is spread equally. After that add the marshmallows, when we made them we put four little ones on the Nutella.

Step 7: As you will want the cookies to be soft and gooey inside you then have to put a top on them, to do this you just have to make a top the same way you made the base and put them on top of the marshmallows.

Step 8: Put them in the oven, let them cook for 11 minutes so they are still soft and gooey. They will look uncooked but trust me they are. 

After the cookies have been cooking in the oven for 11 minutes take them out and let them cool down first before you try them. They should have small cracks in where the tops were cooking, and when you open them they should be all gooey inside.

Thank you for reading this blog post! I hope you all enjoyed it and will want to make these cookies. They are really nice and are still soft in the middle the day after. If you do make these cookies tell us if you enjoyed them and maybe send us a picture on twitter at @2peasinapodblog 

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