Sunday Sweet: Chocolate Orange Hearts

A variation on another theme!



Heart shaped truffles!

Ingredients:
200g chopped dark chocolate
30g butter
60ml single cream
1tsp orange essence






-Place the chopped chocolate into a heat proof bowl
-Melt the butter into the cream, in a saucepan over a hob, and heat until *just* boiling
-Add the orange essence to the hot mix and stir
-Pour the hot cream mix over the chocolate
-Let the cream begin to melt the chocolate before stirring thoroughly until nice and glossy
-Pour the mix into chocolate moulds (or a pretty looking ice cube tray)

-Level the mix with a pallet knife  


-Leave to set in the fridge
-Turn out from the mould and put in pretty little cases!


 

Stalk-Eye for a Saturday!

Ok, so normal service hasn't been resumed, I'm far too lazy!

So here's yet more Jeremy.

And if I ever gret round to it, this week there will be more cookies, chocolate cake, truffles and fudge!

Stalk-Eye for a Saturday!

Normal service has been resumed now I'm back from my holiday...

And of course normal is stalking Jeremy Renner. Who is quite, quite, lovely. Even if he does love the shiny trousers...

from go fug yourself.

Sunday's Sweets - Jazzies

I've been working through my sprinkles collection. I seem to be hoarding them somewhat...

So today I decided to make some jazzies. These are ever so simple, and really cheap to make (if you use cheap chocolate, obviously!)

• 100g bar value chocolate
• 20g (more or less) of sprinkles

Well that was a long list...

Break up the chocolate and place in dish on top of a bowl of boiled water. Leave the chocolate to melt for about 8-10 minutes.

Stir the chocolate well to make sure it's smooth and runny.

Take half teaspoons of the melted chocolate and drizzle onto a baking tray lined with parchment.

Using the back of a metal spoon gently smooth out the chocolate into a circle about the size of  a pound coin

Scatter the sprinkles over the chocolate

Refrigerate for 15 minutes

Easy-peasy!

This made about 30 sweets of this size.

Make them bigger and thicker, and put a lolly stick on them while they're still melted and make chocolate lolly pops.
 Melt chocolate into a shaped mould and sprinkle them for fancy looking sweets.
And if you're a purist, and want proper jazzies, uses hundreds and thousands (they're easier to sprinkle as well!)

Stalk-Eye for a Saturday!

Mwhahahah!

I fear Jeremy may be taking over this blog...

Katy's Patented One Sentence Film Reviews: The Bourne Legacy

Or as I shall refer to it - The Aaron Cross Examination:

"At least Jeremy Renner went topless quite regularly..."

Stalk-Eye for a Saturday!

Ooops, no baking this week!

Never mind. Double Jeremy to make up for it...

Ah, Jeremy... What are you up to?

 

(skip to about 55seconds)

Oh. That...

And this week I shall be mostly watching the Bourne Legacy. Oh yes. Lots of Stalk-Eye to be had!