Delicious Chocolate Muffins

Ingredients

110 g (4oz) softened margarine or butter

110 g (4oz) caster sugar

3 eggs

5 tablespoons milk

175 g (6oz) self-raising flour

2 tablespoon cocoa powder

6 square’s milk or dark chocolate

Oven Temperature 190°C/375°F/Gas mark 5

Method

Firstly wash your hands and put on your apron and chef’s hat.

Get and adult to turn the oven on to the correct temperature

1. Put the soft margarine and sugar together into the bowl, beat really well until it is light and fluffy.

2. In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs and milk.   Sift the flour and cocoa into another bowl.

3. Now add a little of the egg mixture and a little of the flour mixture to the margarine and sugar, mix well, keep adding a little of each until all the flour and egg is used up.

4. Spoon the mixture into the bun moulds, (there is no need to use paper cases or to grease the moulds)

5. Break the chocolate into 6 squares and add one square to each bun, pushing it down into the centre.

6. Stand moulds on flat baking tray for support.

7. (This must be supervised by an adult) Bake the muffins in the oven for 15-18 minutes until well risen.

Cool completely before removing from the mould.

If you fancy them as a dessert, heat in microwave for about 25 seconds, add a scoop of ice-cream and finish off with a strawberry.Yummy not too many calories!!

Mi Mi`s Midday Treats

Ingredients

1 x 397g can of condensed milk

250g rolled oats

75g desicated coconut

105g dried cranberries

130g mixed seeds(sesame seeds,sunflower etc)

Turn your oven on to preheat 130C/gas mark 1 (get an adult to do this for you)

Method

Firstly wash your hands and put on your chef`s apron and hat.

1.Warm your condensed milk in a pan, make sure it`s a large one

2. Get a mixing bowl and put all of the other ingredients into it and stir it all up. Now carefully add the warmed condensed

milk stirring it all around until its all soaked in.

3.You can put it into the heart or round shape silicone trays, no need to grease. If you do not have one it will be fine

in a baking tray . Push it down nice and hard using the back of a spoon or your hands.

4.Get an adult to put it in the oven and bake for about 1 hour(have a little peek after 45 mins)

5. Let them cool completely and then just pop each one out and have a munch! If you used a baking tray wait until about 15minutes until you cut it into pieces.

Happy munching

Yummy Coconut Macaroons

Ingredients

1 Egg white

1 tsp Corn-flour

100g Caster sugar

125g Dessicated coconut

Rice paper or baking parchment (you can not use greaseproof paper as they will stick)!

A few blanched almonds or glace cherries to top with.

Oven Temperature Gas4/350F/175C

Method

Firstly wash your hands and put on your chef’s apron and hat.

Get an adult to turn the oven on to the correct temperature.

1. Whisk the egg white (not the yolk) until frothy but not stiff.
2. Add the corn flour, caster sugar and coconut, stir until all ingredients are mixed.
3. Place small spoonfuls of the mixture onto the rice paper or baking parchment, leaving plenty of room between each one for spreading.
4. If you are using almonds for the top, you can place one in the middle of each macaroon now before cooking.  If using cherries wait until the macaroons are cooked and then add half a cherry to each
5. (This must be supervised by an adult)  Bake the macaroons in the oven for about 20 mins or until lightly browned.
6. Cool and remove from parchment, or if using rice paper just pull off the excess paper, the rest which is still on the bottom of the macaroon is edible