Nutella Croissants

Here is another story for you, my friendly internet stalker. This is about my other grandma. This one is quite spry and nimble, having has spent her years on a farm, tending to her large property and her pet goat. 

Once she needed to have her gutters cleaned, so rather than ask a relative or hire a handy man, my 80+ year old grandma climber up on the roof herself to clean the gutters. The only problem was, as soon as she got up there, the ladder fell! Now she is stuck on the roof, so what did she do? Well, first she cleaned the gutters (well she was already up there), then she jumped from her roof to a tank that was about 1meter away from the house and about 1 meter drop. Then scaled down the side of the tank to the ground. How many grandmas can do that!?

Now to the recipe! We all know my fiance loves nutella, so any dessert that contains nutella is a winner according to him! This recipe is VERY easy, and VERY fast.

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cooking Time: 5 minutes

What you need:

– Puff pastry (no measurements, because it simply depends on how many you want to make!)

– Nutella

– 1 egg

– 1tbs milk

What you do:

– Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. 

– Cut a sheet of pastry into triangles (size is entirely up to you, depends on how large you want the croissants to be).

– Spread each triangle with the desired amount of nutella.

– Starting from the fat end, roll the pastry towards the pointy end into the shape of a croissant.

– Lightly beat the egg and milk together to create an egg wash.

– Place on a lightly greased tray and brush with egg wash.

– Place in the oven for 5 minutes or until golden.

– Eat warm with some icecream! Delicious.

Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich Biscuit

If you are looking for an inexpensive way to celebrate Valentines Day but without cheeping out… Cook!

This rich and decadent biscuits are delicious, quick to make, and you would already have most of the ingredients in your cupboard!

My fiancé is a Nutella fiend, so I thought I would put a spin on the humble biscuit, and make it something he won’t forget. Needless to say, he loved it!

Now you don’t have to sandwich them, I just chose to… Why? Well I made a boo and fixed it! I’ll explain later.

This recipe yields 12 sandwiches, or 24 biscuits.

What you need:
– 2 cups plain flour
– 1 tsp baking soda
– 1/2 tsp salt
– 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
– 1 cup sugar
– 1/2 cup brown sugar
– 2 eggs
– 1 and 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
– 1/2 cup Nutella
– 1 and 1/2 cups chocolate chips

What you do:
– Preheat the oven to 180degrees Celsius. Prepare baking sheets with baking paper.
– In a bowl (not the mix master bowl), sieve together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
– In the bowl of the mixer, cream the butter and the two sugars. Add the eggs and the vanilla and beat until well combined.
– Gradually add the flour until the mixture is well combined. Add more flour if you feel your mixture is too wet.
– Now beat in the Nutella and the chocolate chips.
– Using dessert spoons (or an ice cream scoop) and drop spoonfuls on to baking sheets. These do spread out a bit.
– Bake for 9 to 12 minutes.
– Top with more Nutella once cooled.
Now this is where I made my mistake. I couldn’t figure out how to transport them to my fiancé valentine! So I sandwiched them together! Therefore producing a decadent, rich, Nutella cookie sandwich biscuit thing!!
Absolutely drool worthy!

Maltesers Cake

It is becoming increasingly popular to decorate cakes with well known confectionary. Think the Kit Kat and M ‘n’ M cake of last year.
This year I introduce you to the Maltesers Cake with a Nutella icing because my boyfriend cannot get enough of Nutella!

For the base of this cake I used my Devil’s Food Chocolate Cake recipe.
The rest seems pretty basic, make the icing, attach Maltesers! I do suggest starting for the bottom though, make the base strong.

Nutella Icing is very easy! Warm approximately 200g of Nutella, and gradually stir in icing sugar until you have a consistency you like! If it is too thick, add some milk, too thin, add more icing sugar! You will need to work quickly while making this though, cos you need the icing to still be wet when you apply the Maltesers. Something I found slightly difficult with my air conditioning a

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Basketball Cake

Hey guys! So I am still injured, so unfortunately no crazy awesome cooking stories. However, here is another one from my archives that I have chose to share with you.

I made this cake years ago for my basketball loving boyfriend. The photo’s do not do this cake justice, but the cake is actually spherical.

 

This cake could probably roll if the icing was hard. My first major suggestions for when you are making fancy looking cakes is to use cake mix. I know it is horrible stuff and homemade cake is so much nicer, but cake mix is consistent. Cake mix cooks evenly every time, the ingredients and measurements are definite.

You will need two packets of cake mix, and if you have them, two pudding bowls. So mix up your cake mixes, stick one in each pudding bowl and put in the oven.

The main problem you will have here is knowing how long it will take to cook because it is not a standard pan, so you will need to keep an eye on it and keep sticking a skewer in to check when it comes out clean.

My boyfriend LOVES Nutella (hazelnut/chocolate spread). So once both the halves of the ball were cooked, and cooled, I cut the top off to make them two even halves, and stuck them together with Nutella. You may need to get a knife and carefully carve the ball into a more spherical shape, if like me your pudding bowls aren’t perfect half circles. Do not stress too much with this part, because imperfections are easily covered with icing!

I made Royal Icing, made it orange with a yellow and red food dye mixture. And slapped it onto the ball!! As for the lines of the basketball, I used a piping bag and NUTELLA!

Obviously this cake doesn’t have to be a basketball. Depending on the recipient the cake can easily be turned into a soccer ball, netball, tennis ball, any round ball!