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Minute Molten Mug Brownie

Hi everyone! As you may have seen we have had a slight blog redesign, with a new banner which should make us easier to find on twitter and instagram! Please let us know what you think of these, we're slowly learning all about blog coding and layouts so please bear with us whilst we figure out how to make the blog look and feel the best it can be! However, now is the thing you've been waiting for- the recipe!
Coming of the back of our delicious minute mug cookie recipe, we are bringing you all yet another super delicious, minute long recipe for the impatient chocoholics out there! The recipe can be made in any microwavable mug, perfect for curling up on the sofa and eating whilst watching some Sunday night TV! Once again this recipe is only measured out in tablespoons, so can be measured at home or in the office (if you're feeling particularly naughty!). This recipe is incredibly moist and gooey, and if you prefer a harder brownie you can keep it in the microwave for slightly longer! The chocolate chips in this recipe can be swapped for a dairy free Nutella style spread, we normally use Natures Store chocolate hazelnut spread which we find tastes exactly the same as normal Nutella! We hope you enjoy!


You will need:

- 2 tbsp water-
- 2 tbsp dairy free butter/ margarine-
- 4 tbsp caster sugar-
- 2 tbsp cocoa-
- 4 tbsp plain flour-
- 1 tbsp dairy free chocolate chips (or dairy free nutella like spread if you fancy it!)




1) Melt the butter in the microwave at short 20 second bursts until fully melted.


2) Mix all the ingredients into the butter well so that the mixture is smooth and has no lumps.


3) Pop your brownie mixture into the microwave for 40-70 seconds depending on how squidgy you like your brownie!

4) Leave to cool for 1-2 minutes until just warm and serve!

We hope you enjoy another super quick and simple mug cake recipe as much as we enjoyed eating it!

Happy Baking!

xoxox
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Halloween Icing Figurines!

Trick or Treat?!

Our Halloween cupcakes blog is up (the cupcakes are to DIE for mwahahaha...) and to top the cupcakes we made some little icing Halloween figurines!
To make the figurines all you need is some royal icing (or modelling icing), some food colouring, cocktail sticks, paintbrushes and some eerie imagination!

Below we have included pictures of all the monsterous icing figurines we made to sit on top of our Halloween cupcakes and some picture instructions on how to make the quickest and easiest pumpkin ever!

Have a freakishly happy Halloween everybody!

xoxox










How to make the pumpkin:
Roll some orange food dye into the icing and keep rolling into a semi flat ball until there is no creases and is super soft to the touch.

                                              

             Take a cocktail stick and press indents into the sides of the pumpkin ball, working
                                                     slowly and to the top of the pumpkin.


                                             
                        Use some black or brown food colouring in a tiny bit of icing, roll into a little
                                                           sausage and attach to the top.

                            For the leaves, add some green food colouring to some icing, mould into
                                         a leaf shape and use a cocktail stick to create the lines!

                                             

And there you go!
Happy Halloween!
xoxox


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Chocolate Orange Marbled Halloween Cupcakes!

  Get ready for a shock as these delicious monstrosities have a spooky surprise in store!
you will need:
For the monsterific cakes
- 150g caster sugar-
- 150g soft dairy substitute margarine-
- 2 eggs-
- 150g self raising flour-
- 1 grated rind of an orange-
- 10 ml of orange flavouring-
- orange food colouring (or yellow and red)-
- 1 tsp. baking powder-
 -10g cocoa powder-

For the spooooooky icing
-50g soft dairy free margarine-
-200-300g icing sugar (depending on consistency)-
-juice of half an orange-
-orange flavouring-
-orange food colouring (or yellow and red)-
For the monsterific cakes:
1) Preheat the oven to 180°c and set out a cupcake tray with twelve cupcake cases.

2) Cream the margarine and sugar together in a bowl until light and fully combined, then whisk in the eggs one at a time (doesn't matter if the mixture separates just keep mixing and it will come together).
3) Next, add the grated orange rind and flavouring.



4) Gently fold in the flour and baking powder, then separate the mixture into two even bowls. in one bowl, add 10g of cocoa powder and gently fold in. In the other, add 5 drops of orange food colouring and mix until bright orange.

5)Finally, add a spoon full of each mixture into each cupcake case. once this is done, use a toothpick to swirl the mixtures slightly to create a marbled effect. bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until light and fluffy and clean when poked with a skewer.

For the spooooooky icing
1)Cream the icing sugar and margarine together until combined.
2)Add in the orange juice and orange flavouring until it is orangey enough for you!

3)Then add the orange food colouring until spooky and bright orange!
4)Pipe (or spread) the icing on top of the cooled cupcakes, add your spooky decorations and enjoy!

We hope your Halloween is extra spooky!
xoxox




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Yummy Rustic Homemade Pizza

Eating without dairy doesn't mean that we have to exclude all the yummy things in life, such as our personal favourite: pizza! This pizza is made entirely from scratch, using all cheap ingredients that are really easy to find! The pizza base might take a while to prepare (has to double in size like bread doesn't it?) but you can freeze the base which will speed things up for the future. On the plus side, the sauce takes a mere 5 minutes to make, and doesn't involve scales (which makes for excellent Uni grub!)
 Hope you all enjoy!


Ingredients:
For the base:
2 1/2 average mug size scoops of flour (strong or normal, we have used strong wholemeal)
-1 sachet of quick dry yeast-
-250ml of warm (not hot!) water-
-4 capfuls of virgin or sunflower oil-
-2 pinches of salt-

For the sauce:
-Half a tin of plum tomatoes-
-Half a chopped onion-
-4 chopped sundried tomatoes or tomato puree-
-Splash of tomato ketchup-
-2 chopped cloves of garlic-
For the topping:
We enjoyed our pizza with buffalo mozzarella and salami, but you can go for anything you want!
Method:
Pre-heat the oven to 200°C
For the base:
1) Measure out all ingredients and into a bowl add the flour, yeast and salt.


2)  Make a little well in the middle of the flour, and then add the oil and slowly pour in the warm water.  Roll this mixture into whole ball of dough, at this point it doesn't matter if it is a little bit wet as the rolling flour will absorb this.


3) Spread a little of the flour onto a surface and knead the dough for about 5 minutes. Then put back in a bowl and cover with cling film or a damp towel, and place somewhere warm until it doubles in size.
4) Once doubled in size (shouldn't take more than 20-30 minutes) take out of the bowl and knead again for a couple of minutes.

5) Split the dough into portions and then roll out into any shape until about 1/2 cm thick. Pop onto a pizza tray and pre-cook for about 12 minutes to make sure the dough cooks thoroughly when the yummy toppings are added!

For the Sauce:
1) In a saucepan fry the chopped Onion and Garlic until soft. Then add the chopped sundried tomatoes (or puree), and then the Plum tomatoes. Add a splash of tomato ketchup and reduce and cook for about 5 minutes.

2) Puree the sauce if you want a smooth sauce or leave chunky for a little bit more texture.


Once the base is partially cooked and quite hard to the touch, add the sauce and then the fun bit- your chosen toppings!
 Pop into the oven for another 10- 15 minutes until the toppings are melted and cooked, and the base is starting to crisp and brown.


Take out of the oven and enjoy!


xoxox

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The Best Ever Chocolate Icing

So you have baked your Quick and Easy Chocolate Sponge and now want to ice it! Well guess what? we have the most delicious dairy free chocolate icing waiting for you to slather all over your sponge! This icing is also great for cupcakes, tray bakes, fillings and even as ice cream sauce!
You will need:
-20g of dark chocolate-
-180g icing sugar-
-50g dairy free butter (Vitalite or Pure)-
-20g cocoa powder-

1) Melt the chocolate in a heat-resistant bowl, either over a saucepan of water or in a microwave (blast for 10-20 seconds, then stir to prevent the chocolate from burning) and leave to cool slightly.
2) Beat the butter, the cocoa powder and the icing together in a bowl, being gentle at first so that the sugar does not go everywhere!

3) Once the butter and icing sugar are combined, gently pour in the (slightly cooled) melted chocolate and stir until well combined.
4) Spread on the inside and outside of all of your chocolate baked goodies!


Top tip- put the icing in the fridge to set for a little bit. This makes it thicker and fudgier!

We hope you enjoy this perfect cake icing as much as we loved licking the bowl afterwards!

xoxox


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