Blogmas day 23: COOKIE FAIL!

HELLOO EVEERYONEEEE!

OH MY GOLLY GOOSEBERRIES ITS 2 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS WHAT!? WHAT?! WHAT?!?!?


So if you haven't guessed by the title this was supposed to be a cooking tutorial because I love to bake however they turned out rock solid :( I baked them for shorter than the recipe said and they came out hard as rock!! However im still going to tell you how I did it!

You will need:

150g- salted butter

80g- light brown muscovado sugar

2 tsp- vanilla extract

1- large egg

225g- plain flour

½ tsp- bicarbonate of soda

200g- Milk chocolate chips.

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Line two baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
3. Put the butter and sugar into a bowl and beat until creamy. Then mix in the vanilla extract and egg.
4.  Sieve the flour and bicarbonate of soda over the mixture and mix in with a wooden spoon.
5. Then add the chocolate chips and stir well.
6. Using a teaspoon, place small mounds of the mixture well apart on the baking trays. Bake in the oven for 10 mins until light brown.- I RECOMMEND 8 MINS!
7. Leave on the tray for a couple of minutes to firm up and then transfer to a cooling rack.

There is the recipe for the cookies! This is how mine turned out even though they are rock solid :(

 

MINE LOOK VERY WEIRD I KNOW!

 

 

 

 

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Blogmas day 17&18: Weird D.I.Y santa decoration!?

HELLO EVERYONE

ITS 7 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS YAYAYAY

 

I thought the other week that I would get my hands dirty and do some diy! So myself and my baby half-brother ( aged 4) Sat down for the whole of Saturday and Sunday and got a bit creative! I then thought, why not show some other people on the wide web and so I am!

 

1) First of all you will need to paper Mache a water bottle and the top of one balloon and the middle of another balloon ( However the balloons need to be fairly small!)

 

2) Once the paper Mache has dried I painted everything in red, except the bottom bit from the balloon which I painted white, with red around the very top like a hat!!

3) Then I Cut the middle of the balloon in half on one side and painted buttons along the middle. I then also added black boots and a black belt with a yellow buckle!? ( This is hard to get straight lines and hard with a four year old! Don't judge my bad painting skills!)

4) Then on the top balloon I painted a face and put pva glue all over and then stuck on cotton wool balls, for a fake beard effect! You can also add some around the hat and on the top for a fluffy affect!

5) Once this has dried glue on the belly and the head, you may need to stuff some cotton wool inside for extra support.

6) Now leave your santa out as a little decoration!( After I finished i then went back and added cotton wool arms, then painted them red, and black at the tips like gloves! I just forgot to take a photo and it is at my dads house and I'm at my mums!!)

Finished product:

 

 

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