The BEST Marshmallow Brownies

The other day I made some of these delicious marshmallow brownies with my friend Hannah (make sure to have a look at her amazing blog) and for once our baking payed off, they actually tasted amazing! We found this recipe here on the BBC page, they are reasonably simple to make and are great to share around for Bonfire night or Christmas (and yes I am mentioning Christmas already).


Ingredients
- 240g (8oz) butter
-150g (5oz) dark chocolate
- 60g (2oz) cocoa
-150g (50z) plain flour
-500g (2oz) caster sugar
- 5 eggs, beaten
-150g (5oz) marshmallows, chopped

You will also need a baking tray or baking tins like we used to make individual brownies.

Instructions 
1. Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.
2. Line your baking tray or tins with baking paper.
3. Break up the chocolate into pieces and melt with the butter. (We did this in a bowl over a saucepan
that had boiling water in)
4. Mix the cocoa, flour and sugar together then off the heat add it to the melted chocolate and butter mixture.
5. Then mix in the eggs and fold in the marshmallows into the mixture.
6. Spoon the mixture into the tin/s to roughly about halfway and bake in the oven for 20 minutes until
the surface has set.
7. Allow to cool before eating.


I hope you can use this to make some of these brownies in the future, as you may or may not have seen I have completely changed the look of my blog, I am going to keep it up for now and see how I like it or if I will change it back to my old template. If you could please leave your opinions about the new look it would be much appreciated.

Tanya Burr | Triple Chocolate Cookies

Firstly I want to introduce you to what I am doing every Tuesday, I am going to be showing you a different recipe each Tuesday that I have made and loved. This week I am going to show you how to make some mouth-watering triple chocolate cookies! This recipe is from the Tanya Burr book and me and my friend Hannah (check out her amazing blog) attempted to make them on Saturday and the result was lovely!

To make 10 cookies you will need: 

200g butter

300g caster sugar 

1 large egg

275g self-raising flour

75g cocoa powder

A little bit of milk (optional)

A large bar of milk chocolate (Cadburys is what we used)

A large bar of white chocolate

A large bar of dark chocolate

Method:

Pre-heat your oven on to 200 degrees Celsius.

Cream together your butter and sugar until it is smooth.

Crack in the egg into your mixture.

Blend all of your ingredients together.

Add a little bit of milk if your mixture is looking to dry.

Break up all of your chocolate and put it into the mixture, using your hands to mix it into the dough

Line 2 trays with baking paper (add another baking tray if you feel the need to)

Pick up about 10 small handfuls of cookie dough and place them onto your trays (the cookies will spread a lot in the oven so don't put them to close together)

Put them in the oven for 11 minutes. When you get them out they will not look cooked but as they cool they will become harder - if you do leave them in the oven for to long once they have cooled they will be very hard.
Leave them to cool for roughly 30 minutes.

Now sit down and enjoy a delicious cookie!


These cookies taste absolutely amazing, I am definitely going to make more of these in the future. They are perfect for a birthday or treat for someone and they don't take much to make. If you need to you could easily make these gluten free by swapping the flour to gluten free flour.


What are your favourite things to bake?

Ella x



Banana And Nut Muffins

One thing I love to do every now and again is baking. I like to find really nice recipes and make them to my own liking. Today I am going to show you how to make my favourite banana and nut muffins, I also love this recipe because you can also make it gluten free and it still tastes lovely! You can also swap the nuts for any other topping you may like, I once put on little fudge pieces which were a lovely alternative. They are super easy to make and are really nice.


Ingredients (makes 10-12 ish)
- 100g (4oz) butter or margarine
- 100g (4oz) soft light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 bananas
- 100g (4oz) self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 100g (4oz) chopped nuts/any alternative

You will also need a muffin tray


Instructions
1. Turn on your oven to 190°C, 375°F, Gas mark 5.
2. Put the butter or the margarine into a mixing bowl then add sugar.
3. Use a wooden spoon to beat the butter or margarine and the sugar until they are smooth and creamy.
4. Carefully break the eggs into a small bowl. Beat them with a whisk or a fork until they are mixed well.
5. Add the beaten egg to the creamy mixture. Each time you add some egg, beat it into the mixture.
6. Peel the bananas. Cut them into chunks then put them in a bowl. Mash them well with the back of a fork.
7. Stir the mashed banana into the creamy mixture. Then put a sieve over the bowl and sift the flour and baking powder into it.
8. Using a metal spoon to stir the flour into the mixture. To do this turn the mixture over slowly with the spoon.
9. Spoon the mixture into each case just below the top of the case. Sprinkle the chopped nuts on top of each muffin and bake for about 25-30 minutes.
10. Once you take out the muffins check if they are baked properly by getting a tooth pick and putting it through the center of the muffin. If it comes out with mixture on it its not done but if its clean then its baked thoroughly.
11.  Leave it on a wire rack for about 20 minutes.


And your done! If you want to make this gluten free just swap the flour and the baking powder for gluten free alternatives (you can find these in any supermarkets). I hope you liked this post and if you try this recipe at home DM me a picture on instagram, my name is @sprinklesofella. Happy baking!

Ella x