#making sweets

[urimichiru]

さくさくパンみみラスク(シナモンをかけるともっとおいしい)

[anxiouslyfred]

Peppermints

@loveceit for today’s prompt lets revisit my childhood. also sort of referenced cannibalism, because Remus and child Roman mishearing something

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Looking after twins was never easy, especially with as energetic as Dee’s boys could be, but at least it occasionally made Christmas gifts for the family easier to sort out.

“Logan said that we can’t eat raw egg because it might have Sam and Ella in it and we can’t eat people.” Roman was insisting as he waited for Dee to pass the bowl over to him.

Remus had already been given his bowl of egg whites and peppermint flavouring and was generally getting the icing sugar intended to be mixed with them everywhere except the bowl. “Isn’t that all the more reason to do so? I wanna know how people taste!”

“That’s why I’ve got safety approved eggs, no Sam’s or Ella’s included.” Dee chuckled, putting the last separated yoke into the small bowl to be made into scrambled eggs for tea before measuring out the peppermint flavouring for Roman’s bowl. “Besides most of these have to go to your Uncle and Aunts next weekend so you will definitely be safe from that.”

“I thought we were making snowmen and frozen poo?” Remus piped up again, now covered in the goo peppermint creams became when first mixing the icing sugar in and looking up from the bowl. “Can you put more icing sugar in, Dad?”

Dee did as asked, happily noticing that Roman was starting off using a spoon to mix the icing sugar in instead of copying his brother. “Whatever shapes you want to make once the dough is finished is what we’ll give them. I’m sure Aunty Paula will love to have a box of frozen poo if you made it.”

“I can’t stir it anymore, Dad. Have I done something wrong?” Dee looked into Roman’s bowl to see the mixture just needed a little more icing before it would be the perfect consistency to make models from. 

“No, you’re doing perfectly. I think you can get your hands in there to finish mixing in this last lot of sugar.” Dee instructed, moving to try and dust the area around Remus off a little now he could see both peppermint cream batches reaching the right consistency.

While their relatives might not like the shapes the peppermint creams would end up being, they’d all fawn over how clever the boys were for their homemade sweets and it was far cheaper than Dee getting stupid toiletry sets to appease them too.

[natachafood]

cheesecake#cheese #cheesecake #cheese #japanesefood #trending #making sweets #Osaka cake #cake#short

[opera-illust]

2020 stay home

[cargochip]

2 things of crushed up Oreos, 2 things of cream cheese, bunch of melted chocolate wafers, you get Oreo balls Besides the snow, this is what I love about winter, making sweets everyone will enjoy Happy holidays everyone

[firelise]

me as a contestant on one of those kids cooking shows

Judges: We have to say your vanilla bean orange cupcakes topped with coffee buttercream really did look delicious

Me: uhuh...

Judges: Yet, there is nothing on our plates. Why is that?

Me, with crumbs on my face: ...I ated it

[rythyn]

I am, Totally making chocolate mousse today. Time to pull out the old baking recipes and my outfit from my course!

[usbornepublishing]

Exclusive recipe reveal - chocolate orange truffles!

To celebrate our book Making Sweets we asked our Twitter followers to vote between two exclusive truffle flavours - chocolate orange and strawberry and white chocolate. We can now reveal that the winner of truffle wars is... the Chocolate Orange Truffles!

Abigail Wheatley, author of Making Sweets wrote this recipe exclusively for this blog, so you won't find the recipe anywhere else. Here are some that Abi knocked up over the weekend; the recipe plus step-by-step instructions are below:

Chocolate Orange Truffles

100g (4oz) plain chocolate

100g (4oz) milk chocolate

1 orange

5 tablespoons double cream

For the coating:

Cocoa powder or sugar strands or sprinkles – or all of these. Orange sprinkles and strands look especially good.

You will also need a heatproof bowl that fits snugly into a saucepan, so the bottom of the bowl doesn’t touch the bottom of the pan.

Method: 

1. Break up the chocolate and put it in the heatproof bowl. Fill the saucepan a quarter full of water. Put the pan over a medium heat, until the water starts to bubble. Then, take the pan off the heat.

2. Wearing oven gloves, carefully lower the bowl into the pan. Leave for 5 minutes, then pour in the cream stir until the chocolate has all melted. Wearing oven gloves, carefully lift the bowl out of the pan. 

3. Grate the zest from the outside of the orange, using the small holes on a grater. Just grate off the orange part – the white layer underneath tastes bitter. Then, add the zest to the melted chocolate and stir it in.

4. Leave the mixture to cool for 10 minutes, then put it in the fridge. Stir it every now and then. After around 1 hour, the mixture should be like soft butter. Take it out of the fridge. Spread each different type of coating on a small plate.

  5. Use a teaspoon to scoop up a teaspoonful of the chocolate mixture. Use your hands to roll it quickly into a ball, before it melts too much. Then, roll it in one of the coatings.

TIP: Abi used some special, edible glitter for her truffles!

6. Put the truffle on a clean plate. Make more in the same way, until all the chocolate mixture is used up. Put them in the fridge until you are ready to eat them - if you can wait that long!

Here are the two authors of Making Sweets, Abigail Wheatley and James Maclaine, 'taste-testing' the truffles. It's a hard life...

We hope you'll enjoy trying out this recipe yourself! If you do, please share photos of your finished truffles with us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram - we'd love to see how they turn out!

There are lots more brilliant ideas for sweets that you can make at home yourself in Making Sweets - you don't need special equipment and all the recipes are completely safe to do with children (no boiling sugar required).

See inside Making Sweets:

  For this and lots more recipes books from Usborne, visit www.usborne.com/cookery.