I actually think I enjoy Easter more than Christmas. It’s a lot less stressful, there are still copious amounts of chocolate about and the sun generally tends to shine.

For me it represents the start of happier times: longer days, more time spent outside and as simple as it sounds; having the back door open filling the house full of fresh air with the smell of freshly mown grass drifting through.

Another bonus of Easter is mini eggs! I adore them and it’s far too easy to demolish a bag in one sitting. I am convinced though that there is a gremlin in the bag as they seem to disappear a lot more quickly than I am eating them!

When I spotted some mini mini eggs in Tesco I knew they would be ideal for making some Easter Rocky Road. I brought these along to a friend’s house party which went down very well indeed! It’s just one of those bakes (can you even call it a bake?) that takes very little prep, pop it in the fridge for a few hours and voila – a yummy treat with minimal effort. It’s also a great thing to make if you have some mini helpers wanting to lend a hand in the kitchen.

I’ve adapted this recipe of mine but it’s so flexible you can easily chop and change some ingredients around to suit your palette.

Easter Rocky Road

125g soft unsalted butter

150g milk chocolate

150g dark chocolate

3 tbsp golden syrup

100g ginger nuts

1 x bag mini eggs

100g mini marshmallows

1 x bag mini crème eggs

200g white chocolate

1 x bag mini mini eggs

Hello you lovely lot!

So notice anything new round here? Hint hint! Yup, I’ve had my wee corner of the internet redesigned.

I’ve been thinking of changing my blog design for quite some time but I was worried about how I would do it, who would do it and how much it would cost. Now, I have a design background but I’m pretty clueless when it comes to coding and all that malarkey. I did the original design for the blog back when I set it up 2 years ago (how I have been blogging for 2 years??) and fumbled my way through blogger to get it going. Now that I want to push it further I knew I needed to call in the services of someone who knew what they were doing.

Oh twitter and your hashtags how I love you! I put a call out on there and within a few hours a lovely girl called Aly got in contact with me. Fast forward 2 weeks and numerous emails later and voila – here is my lovely new blog layout.

Now I need to figure out moving the domain name so its .co.uk. I tried yesterday and made a major stuff up so I think I'll just stick with the blogger domain for now.

If anyone want's a blog redesigning get in touch with Aly! She is so lovely and patient and talented and put up with my panicked emails yesterday when I did something wrong with the domain stuff.

I’m so pleased with it. Pink, purple, bunting and cakes – all my favourite things! I’m feeling so inspired too; I can’t wait to get back in the kitchen!

Hope you all like it, regular recipe posting will resume soon.

I’ve suddenly reached that age. Meals out with friends are becoming rarer, babysitters are hard to find and instead we have started going to each other’s houses for tea. Now I don’t have kids yet but each year another one of my friend’s announces they are pregnant and the dynamic of our social get-togethers changes.

A prime example of this was a few weeks ago. Myself and Mr T were supposed to go out with some good friends of ours but at the last minute they couldn’t get a babysitter so they invited us round to theirs for tea instead. I offered to make some pulled pork while they provided the chips, nachos, dips and other bits and pieces. As always a request was put in for me to provide dessert. People don’t beat about the bush any more, they come straight out and ask me to bring dessert which I am always pleased to do.

I was undecided on what to make then I remembered the Crème Brulee kit that Sainsburys had sent me out to review. It serves 4 and I had been debating when to make it knowing myself and Mr T would end up scoffing two portions each if we didn’t have someone to share it with.

As always I wanted to add a bit more flavour to it so decided to jazz it up a bit with some orange zest and a side of chocolate sauce, cos let’s face it – who doesn’t like proper chocolate sauce? I’m not talking about that squeezy stuff in the tube, I mean the mixing of chocolate and cream to create something you just want to stick your face in!

Anyway – crème brulee! This kit is ace! Just like the marshmallow and panna cotta kits that I have reviewed in the past this is a great little set up for those of us who want to create a dessert that impresses but involves very little effort. The addition of orange zest gave it a lovely kick and everyone said it was really good considering it came from a box kit. All four bowls were empty so I’m taking it as a good sign!

Orange Crème Brulee with Chocolate Sauce

1 x box Sainsbury’s Crème Brulee Kit

250ml milk

250ml double cream

Zest of 2 oranges

100ml double cream

50g milk chocolate

50g dark chocolate

Enjoy! 

Thanks again Sainsburys for sending me out another fab kit. They are ace!

***Products sent for review, all thoughts are my own.***

Here we go again!

Did you all have a good weekend? I had a 2lb loss at Slimming World so only 1lb more to get my half stone woop!

This weekend involved an early morning spin class and over indulgence at cake club. Fingers crossed the scales are good to me next Thursday!

So meal plan!

Monday – Salt and Pepper Pork. We didn’t make it last week so going to make it this week.

Tuesday – Meat and potato pie (using mash instead of pastry to be healthy)

Wednesday – Prawn Curry as there are loads of prawns in the freezer that need using up.

Thursday – Burgers (a naughty treat after weigh-in)

Friday – Sweet Potato curry. I’ve been planning on making this for ages but we always end up using the sweet potato for something else. Fingers crossed we actually make it this week haha!

Saturday – babysitting the nephews so we will probably make pizzas with them

Sunday – a good old roast of some sort…

As usual I am linking up over at Mrs M’s. Have a good week!