CHOCOLATE CORNFLAKE CAKES

Hola! As it's Easter, I decided to make some Chocolate Cornflake Cakes, they're SO nice and tasty, and SO simple to make! This recipe makes 50 cakes!

You will need:

50 Cake Cases,
450g of Cornflakes,
3 tubes of Smarties,
1 Tablespoon of Oil,
450g of Chocolate,
1 Tablespoon of Golden Syrup.

I realise that I've pictured 500g of Chocolate there, but I ate some as I was going along, my bad. Break up the Chocolate and put it in a glass bowl over boiling water, not touching! Add the oil whilst it's melting!

The oil makes it thinner, and easier to mix up with the Chocolate. Make sure you don't burn the Chocolate, it's ever so simple to burn it! In order to prevent this turn the heat off and remove the bowl once it's melted, no later! 

Once the chocolate has fully melted, add the Cornflakes! It's a lot easier to add them bit by bit, and i soon learned it's a lot easier to add half of the chocolate and then the rest later on when you add some more cornflakes.

                             

Mix it all together, if you like the mess, you can use you hands for this, I did that but it was so stressful, so the second batch I made, I used a wooden spoon thingy. If you're using your hands beware, it's a lot of hassle, and make sure you have your cases pre-set out.

Now you need to put them into your cake cases. I found that the easiest way to do this was using two teaspoons, but I did use my hand for a batch, but it looked really messy. 

This isn't the best picture as it's rather messy, but I think I got the point across. They were SO yummy and SO simple to make! I did run out of Smarties though, so I ended up putting one or two on each, so stock up on Smarties for more!

If you're going to do this at home, which I advise you do, tell us in the comments and leave a picture, or a link to a picture! I have made a recipe for this on MyFitnessPal for those of you with food diaries with that company. It's named Amy's Chocolate Cornflake Cakes and each cake is around 85 calories!

ENJOY!

Amy

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MARCH NAILS!

Hola, so I know last month didn't have one of these post and that is because I spent most of the month bare-nailed, so their sakes. The quality of my nails right now are shocking and I can't come to terms with why? I do everything in my nature to take care of them? So if any of you know about different nail strengthening ideas PLEASE tell me in the comments! Let's get on with this post then shall we?

All used with Sally Hansen Miracle Growth Base Coat and Maybelline 40 second top coat.

Primark Gold & Black with dotters

Ted Baker Black

I can't find the right shade, but it's a Tara's Talons polish.

Revlon Chroma Chameleon.

Collection Hot Looks Electric Dreams, OPI I just can't cope, George Sunset Orange, George Lavender Fantasy, Revlon Sweet Tart.

So, there you go! My nails from throughout March, though, I'm pretty sure I had more than that? Ah well! If there's any nail-related questions etc you want answering, comment below and I'll try my best to answer them!

Amy

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FEBRUARY FAVOURITES!

Aloha, we just want to start this off with a little 'Sorry Note'. Sorry that we haven't posted is so long, and we're a little crap at posting regularly... One reason is that we have no inspiration at the moment, and another is that we wrote a really long 'January Favourites' post and then deleted it by accident, and that put us into really bad moods... So, we're sorry! Right, lets go with this post then! This is only going to me my (Amy) favourites as Megan can't think of any... It's a stretch to think of some for myself... haha!

GOSSIP GIRL! Oh my, this show rules my life, I live to watch this show, yeah, that's another reason we haven't posted in a while too... If you watch it I'm sure you'll let us off... For those of you who haven't watched it, here's a quick synopsis: Set on the upper east side (New York). There's a blog going around called Gossip Girl and it just follows a popular group of people in a school, nobody knows who the Gossip Girl is, and people can also send in anonymous secrets, it reveals many scandals. Okay, so that wasn't really a synopsis, just the first series... haha, I'm coming to the end of series three so far, and my favourite character is Chuck, hands down... Ed Westwick is just perfection, and Chuck is just an even better version!

Hartley's 10 Calorie Jelly - Jelly is just so good, and I never really think of it when I think of puddings though... Megan introduced this to me, as she has it at her house. The Strawberry and Kiwi version is only 4 calories and is still really flavoursome! I can't wait to go out for my friends birthday, as we're going to an All You Can Eat restaurant and they have jelly, I think I'm going to eat loads of it! YAY!

Instagram - I realise this is a bit of a weird favourite to have, but I have a Blackberry and can't use/ upload to it, so I tend to use Megan's Phone/ iPad to post, not as frequent as I would like though... I get really addicted to it and then when I leave her house I get withdrawal symptoms. I think you all should follow me on there, I've started using it more in the last half of February, my name is @amykxy I'm on private but I accept anyone that isn't from my school or family... haha. Also whilst we're on the 'social media' topic, I've just made a new Twitter: @amykxy you all should follow me on there too! Thanks!

MUSIC - Throughout February I managed to gain a whole other music taste, I seem to be becoming more and more into more 'edgier' groups like: Sleeping With Sirens, All Time Low, The Pretty Reckless, Pierce The Veil, Panic At The Disco!, You Me At Six, Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Falling In Reverse. I mean, I don't like these groups as much as One Direction in some aspects, I don't obsess over their members, well, apart from Taylor Momsen, but she is just utter perfection. I don't even know the members of half of these groups, I just really enjoy their music!

So they are all of my favourites of February, they're not really like the last few months but hey ho!

Amy

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JAM TARTS RECIPE!

Aloha Beautiful people, we're going to try and do a 'baking post' every month! Is that a good idea? We LOVE baking, lets just say a lot... Haha. So today, we're going to show you our Jam Tart Recipe. This is really simple, especially when you're novices like us... and it only takes around half an hour all in all. You will need:

Jam (approximately one teaspoon per tartlet)
50g of sugar
255g of plain four
140g of marg or butter
6 tablespoons of water

This is for 12 tartlets (no tops). We doubled this recipe, and made extra pastry for toppers.

You then basically just do this:




Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 5
Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl and rub in the marg until it resembles fine breadcrumbs
add the water tablespoon by table spoon until it is a moist dough
Grease a cupcake tray and cut the pastry.
Put the jam into the pastry and add the toppers if you wish
Bake for 12-15 mins

Here are pictures!

So there's our Jam Tart recipe, let us know in the comments if you are going to have a go for yourselves, and if they were better than ours, they probably will be as we aren't too great... and very messy... haha. Also tell us what other things in future you want us to do, we'll try pretty much anything! 

Amy & Megan

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