Merry Christmas Guys!

Hey guys!

So first things first, Merry Christmas to you all, hope you've all been spoilt and have a lovely day! Its been a great morning so far, I woke up and went for a wander round the beach, went for a quick surf then came back to open my presents!

Im now sat in my pyjamas with my coffee and Christmas morning inspired muffins. These muffins are super quick and easy and taste delicious, so I thought I'd share the recipe with you all!

So first of all, you will need:
•250gramsplain flour
•2 ½teaspoonsbaking powder •½teaspoonbicarbonate of soda •100gramscaster sugar •1teaspoonground cinnamon •¼teaspoonground nutmeg
•2clementines
•approx.125mlfull fat milk
•75mlvegetable oil
•1large egg
•175gramsdried cranberries
•3teaspoonsdemerara sugar(for the topping)

Now to make the muffins, you will need to:
•Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6/400ºF.
•Line a 12-bun muffin tin with muffin papers.
•Measure the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, caster sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg into a large bowl; grate the zest of the clementine/satsuma over, and combine.

•Squeeze the juice of the clementines/satsumas into a measuring jug, and pour in the milk until it comes up to the 200ml mark / halfway between the ¾ cup and 1 cup marks.

•Add the oil (or slightly cooled, melted butter) and egg, and lightly beat until just combine

•Pour this liquid mixture into the bowl of dried ingredients and stir until everything is more or less combined, remembering that a well-beaten mixture makes for heavy muffins: in other words a lumpy batter is a good thing here.

•Fold in the cranberries, then spoon the batter into the muffin cases and sprinkle the demerara sugar on top. 
•Bake in the oven for 20 minutes until light and springy to touch and serve warm.

I hope you enjoy these and have a lovely Christmas!

See you nex week,

Love Maya♡

The most amazing brownies ever!!

Hey guys,

So as promised here is my recipe I use when I make my amazing brownies that all of my friends adore!

So the ingredients you'll need are;

165g (5 1/2 oz) of butter- plus Extra for greasing,

200g (7oz) of dark chocolate, grated or chopped,

3 whole eggs,

2 egg yolks,

Seeds of a vanilla pod or 2 tsp of vanilla extract,

165g (5 1/2 oz) of soft light brown sugar, 

A pinch of salt,

2 tbsp of plain flour

1 tbsp of cocoa powder,

154g pack of Oreos- or any biscuits, nuts, honeycomb etc

Icing sugar for dusting 

So you'll need to start with preheating your oven at 180 degrees, and grease you tin- I would recommend using a 20cm/8in square tin and if you have tinfoil tins you could always bake your brownies in this if your taking them out.

Melt your butter in a bowl either in the microwave or over a medium heat, then add your chopped chocolate and melt this as well. 

In a separate bowl whisk the eggs, egg yolk and the vanilla, then add the sugar in two additions and whisk between each adding, when it's all added pour the chocolate/butter mix into the bowl and whisk again- try not to knock the air out of it.

Add the flour, cocoa powder, salt and a third of the biscuits and stir until fully combined. 

Pour this into your tin and scatter the remaining biscuits, or nuts on top and then bake for 25-30 minutes.

I hope you'll enjoy these brownies, after you get it out of the oven you can cut it into however many you want but I recommend around 16.

Enjoy!!

Belle x