Mini Cupcakes

The small Queen is arriving home from a week long school camp and her loyal subjects (her father and I ) have missed her.  Her favourite color is orange, so I spent some time today creating some mini cupcakes with orange frosting for her benefit.

Best ever bread and butter pudding

My husband loves Bread and butter pudding so when I saw this the other day I had to buy it for him for his birthday.  As soon as it arrived I handed it over and guess what we had for dinner last night?

We followed the recipe provided on the dish with a few substitutions.

The best ever bread and butter pudding recipe goes as follows:
Preheat oven to 180c, trim crusts from 6 slices of white bread, butter each slice and cut into 4 triangles.  Arrange overlapping slightly, butter side up in the base of this dish. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup sultanas. In a bowl, whisk together 3 eggs, 1/4 cup castor sugar, 2 1/2 cups of milk and                                                                teaspoon of vanilla essence. Pour over the bread. Sprinkle with     
                                                      nutmeg and bake for 50 minutes.

perfection

Instead of using full cream milk we used skim milk and we spread the bread with flora light proactive.  We will definately be making this again.

Emerald Bank Café and Chocolate Shop

A visit to Shepparton is not complete for us nowdays unless we call in to Emerald Bank Café (also known as the Windmill Café) right on the edge of town. It does business as a cafe but also has a chocolate shop attached to it with a delicious range of Chocolatier chocolates.

We wandered in one cold day a few months back for a hot chocolate.  As we watched our glass mugs being half filled with chocolate buttons then topped to full with hot frothed milk we knew we were in for a treat.

You are able to choose from white, dark or milk chocolate buttons that are the cafes own blend, so we were told.