Chewy Cookie Update!

A couple of weeks ago I posted a recipe for some super yummy chewy cookies! If you missed out on that post you can view the recipe here! Anyhoo, I tried a different flavour this week and it was AMAZING!! So I thought I would share it with you guys, I followed the recipe exactly, but while the dough was chilling in the fridge I took 100g of grated coconut and toasted it until it was golden brown, and instead of the milk chocolate I used white chocolate chunks. After the dough had been chilled I mixed these ingredients in and baked them up and the result was way too good to keep from you guys!! 

And I must just take a moment to ask ...how adorable is my sleepy fox plate?! What flavours will you try?

Thanks for reading! Yasmin x

Chewy Cookie Recipe

I've always said that one of the things I miss most about England is the food, don't get me wrong, the food here is amazing and we certainly eat a lot healthier but when you get a craving for a donut or something you can pretty much get it 24/7, in Switzerland however, you either have to get that craving within store opening times or make it yourself! 
One thing that I LOVE that I have seen here are 'american style' chewy cookies, I'm not much of a baker (I'm all about the savoury carbs) but I decided to give these a go! 

This recipe makes a whole load of cookies, I forgot to count but I would say approx 25 depending on your portion sizes! 

Ingredients:
170g Butter (Softened) 
150g Brown Sugar
50g Regular Granulated Sugar
1 Egg
1 Sachet Vanilla Sugar (Dr Oetker)
250g  All Purpose Flour
2 Tsp Maizena (Cornflour)
1 Tsp Bicarbonate of Soda 
1/2 Tsp Salt
100g Milk Chocolate (I used a bar and cut into chunks)

Method:

1. Start by beating the Butter until creamy, you can use a mixer but I just used a wooden spoon (burning off some calories before gorging on cookies!)
Then, add the Brown and the White Sugar and beat them together, the desired texture is 'fluffy'.

2. Then, mix the egg in, it'll be a lot easier to mix with the moisture from the Egg, when fully mixed, add the sachet of Vanilla Sugar and keep on stirring!

3. In a separate bowl, mix together the Flour, Bicarbonate of Soda, Maizena and salt, then you can slowly add this mixture to the 'wet mixture', I suggest adding a small amount and mixing it in then repeating, as this cookie dough will become very thick and you can everything to be throughly mixed together. 

4. Now, you need to put some foil over the dough and pop it in the fridge for about an hour, this is very important! Whilst you wait for the dough to chill, you can clean up the existing mess and also chop the chocolate into chunks!

5. After an hour, preheat the oven to 180 Celsius. Line a baking tray with some greaseproof paper (Note: the tray always has to be room temperature, the cookies will not be nice and chewy if you place them on a hot tray!)

6. Mix the chocolate into the cookie dough, the dough should be quite hard at this point. 

7. When the dough is ready, rough the doll into individual balls, about the size of a 5franc piece! Place the balls on the tray (they will flatten down in the oven) and Cook for about 9-11 minutes until they are ever so slightly golden around the edges.

8. Allow to cool down and enjoy! 

These cookies will keep for a couple of days in an airtight container but, they are always better fresh! Half the ingredients if you want a smaller batch you could even split the dough and freeze half of it/keep it in the fridge!

I hope you enjoy making this recipe! Let me know if you tried any other fun flavours!

Thanks for reading! Yasmin x

Posh(ish) Cheese on toast!

I am having a serious case of 'The Mondays' - tripping over, poking myself in the eye with mascara, dropping a glass and just generally making a mess of everything I do, therefore I decided to give myself a little treat, and hope that I don'd end up dropping it! 
This recipe is perfect for a light lunch, whether you're curled up on the sofa or entertaining friends and can be poshified (oh yeah I just made that a word) with a green salad and balsamic dressing to make it a perfect starter for a dinner party! 
Anyhoo, lets get started,  I know I don't always post recipes because cooking isn't really something that excites me that much, but I do love a quick, yummy recipe and this brie and honey melt is definitely one of those!  

So my weapon of choice is a small, square Ciabatta roll, you can use any bread for this recipe but I find the Ciabatta absorbs the honey really well!

So, drizzle honey all over the bread! 

Next, slice up some brie and cover the bread, feel free to do it slightly neater than me!  

Drizzle more honey over the top of the brie and place under the grill for 5ish minutes until slightly browned.

And Serve! Its crazy delicious and I guarantee it will become your new favourite!

Thanks for reading! Yasmin x

CousCous - my new favourite recipe!

Good Morning! I wanted to share a recipe I made yesterday, as it was the first time I had made it and I didn't realise how simple and yummy it was going to be! 
We were invited for a BBQ and I wanted to make a nice side dish but something low maintenance that didn't require reheating etc
I have had some couscous in the cupboard since my Dad went into a Moroccan food shop to ask for directions and felt it was only polite to buy something, he came out with a kilo bag of couscous and a kilo bag of pepper, British people would rather buy something they don't need than risk offending somebody!

Ingredients:
250g couscous
300ml stock
Lemon juice (whole lemon or squeezey lemon)
Courgette
Onion
Red Pepper
Olive Oil
Thyme, Salt, Lemon Pepper, Chilli Flakes, Aromat

Firstly, chop up your vegetables and place them on a baking tray, drizzled with oil. Season the veg and drizzle a bit more oil on top before putting them in a preheated oven at 180 Celsius, let them roast for 15(ish) minutes, depending on how much veg you used.

Take your dry couscous and place in a pan or bowl that you have a lid for. Pour the 300ml of stock over, mix in some thyme and lemon pepper and put the lid on. Leave for 10 minutes. After 10-15 minutes, fluff the couscous up with a fork and add lemon juice to taste.

Mix the couscous and the vegetables in together and enjoy! This can be eaten straight away warm or can be put in the fridge and eaten cold.

I hope you enjoy this recipe! Thank you for reading, Yasmin x

Quick and Easy Teacup Apple Pie!

Today I'm going to show you how to do a super quick, super easy and super cute apple pie! This is perfect for dinner parties, Sunday lunches, or a brunchy/coffee morning situation! And serving something in a teacup automatically makes it amazing!
I've made this recipe using different ingredients such as strawberry jam or a liqueur but this recipe is really yummy and I have an obsession with putting cinnamon in foods and making them taste like Christmas!

Ingredients (for one portion):
1 apple
1/2 Tsp Cinnamon
2 Tsp Honey
2 Tsp Brown Sugar
Pastry (I used pre-made, but you can make it by combining flour and butter!)
A little bit of fresh milk

& a teacup and saucer!

Firstly I used the rim of my tea cup to cut around for my top pie crust!

Cut your apple into little cubes, and mix in a bowl with the honey, sugar and cinnamon. Dispense the mixture into your tea cup (make sure its oven safe, it will say on its bottom!)

Pop your pie crust on, I cut a little heart to place in the middle! Carefully brush the pastry with the milk.
Put it in a preheated oven at 180 celsius for 20 minutes! This time will be slightly longer if you are cooking more than one!

Place the cup on the saucer and serve with a little spoon!

I hope you enjoyed this recipe, what are your go-to favourites when you're entertaining?

Thanks for reading! Yasmin x

My Favourite Soup Recipe!

Happy Friday! 

I'm going to share with you today my favourite soup recipe ever! It's crazy yummy, very filling and also its green, so whats not to like!

We had this for dinner last night and as we were both extra hungry I made thin bacon sandwiches to go with it which tasted really good together! 

So, without further ado, here goes!

Ingredients:

3 Tbsp Butter

1 Shallot or half a regular onion

2 Leeks

1 Medium Potato

1 Head of Broccoli

1 Litre of stock (vegetable or chicken, last night I half and halfed it!)

140g Blue cheese (I like to use Roquefort)

Pepper and Aromat

Recipe:

1. Chop the onion finely and put in the saucepan with 2 Tbsp butter on medium heat, let it fry for a couple of minutes while you chop up the other vegetables.

2. Add the leeks (sliced), The potato (cubed) and also any bits of the chunky broccoli stalk that you have (chopped!) Add the remaining butter.

3. Put a lid on the vegetables and let them sweat for about 5-10 minutes.

4. Prepare your stock and roughly chop up the head of the broccoli, add both to the saucepan and let it boil for about 10 minutes more, theres no exact science with it, just keep checking on the vegetables. This is when I began to prepare my bacon sandwiches, I thinly sliced a fresh loaf of bread, buttered it and used about 2-3 slices of very thin, grilled bacon (what I like to call european bacon!)

5. When your vegetables are soft, blend it! You can blend for however long you want, depending on whether you want a texture or if you want it smooth. I used a hand blender and blended whilst the soup was still in the saucepan as you're going to want to put it back on the heat!

6. Put the blended soup back on the hob and crumble the cheese into it, keep stirring until its melted and add a little pepper and aromat. 

Ta-dah! And you're done! I like to serve the soup with a grinding of pepper on the top, you can also keep back some cheese and crumble it on top if you want to be extra fancy with your presentation!

I hope you liked my recipe, let me know in the comment box below if you liked it!

Thanks for reading! Yasmin x