White Chocolate and Blackberry muffins

 

White Chocolate & Blackberry muffins

 

 

 

 

 

I found this recipe on www.taste.com.au. I often use this site to find good recipes and this if definately a favourite. They couldn't be easier to make.

 

 

Ingredients:

 

2 cups of Plain flour

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1/2 cup caster sugar

125g white chocolate bits

2 eggs lightly beaten

1 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

100g melted butter

150g punnet blackberries

 

Method:

 

• Preheat oven to 180C. Lightly grease a 12x1/2 cup capacity muffin pan. Sift flour and baking powder into a large bowl. Add sugar and chocolate bits. Stir until well combined.
 
• Whisk eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and butter together in a separate bowl.
 
• Using a large metal spoon, stir butter mixture into flour mixture until just combined. Gently swirl through berries.
 
• Spoon mixture into muffins holes. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in a pan for 5 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack. Serve.



April Challenge

My Stamp Choice

 

 

 

This month it was my choice of stamps and I chose a set from Fiskers.

I made 5 different cards using a variety of the stamps although there were still quite a few that i didn't get to use this time round. I love the Fiskers acrylic stamps as they are relatively cheap and reproduce well onto paper.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 Lining up the punch and the stamped image ended up being alot harder than i had imagined. Next time I think I would use a circle or square.

 

 

 

 

 

 





I used scalloped circle punch to replicate the bite marks from out of the ice lolly.

 

 

I also used a Strawberry die that i had to make this little can of Jelly beans. I din't use any stamps, but i loved it so much i included it in my challenge.

 

 



 



You Deserve Chocolate!

 

 

Don't we all?

 

 

I decided I wouldn't keep these, but it was mighty tempting.... instead they went to school to some hard working teachers!

 

 

 

 



Stampin Up! - Monthly Paper Pumpkin Kits

 

First Monthly Kit arrives

 

Stampin Up! have brought out these simple little monthly kits, which have a range of different projects for you to complete.

 

I think they must be aimed with someone with not a lot of paper crafting experience. However everything you need is in the kit, so it's a good gift for someone else, or an easy 20 minutes making something you haven't had to design, prepare etc.

 

 

 

This kit contained 4 cards to make and yes, the ink spots are part of the design...

 

This kit contained a glass stamp block, ink pad, 2 unmounted stamps and the cards, envelopes etc.

 

Looking forward to the next one already.

New toy!

 

 

 

Martha Stewart Doily Punches

 

 

Here is my new toy! The new range of Martha Stewart Doily punches.

 

You can make doilies from 6-12 inches and there are lots of different styles of punches available.

 

I love them!

 

 

Works on magnets and really very easy to use. You have to have the starter kit (which comes with the punch shown) and then you can buy the other punches seperately.

 The kit is $34.99 and the extra punches are $19.99.

Of course you never pay full price when you have a coupon!!

 

 

 

 

Did I mention I can take orders?

 

 



Sympathies

A card for friends

 

 

I had to make a simple card yesterday to send back to Australia.

Good friends of ours have lost a grand parent so I made this.

Simple but from the heart.

 

 

 

 

Easter 2013

 

 

Easter Crafting

 

 

It's been a very busy week getting everything ready for the long weekend.

 

I have brought far too many eggs and now i have to make lots of goody bags for them to put them in.

 

Lots of fun though!

 

 

M & M Easter tubes

 

 

I used the Stampin Up! goody bags and filled them with the Easter M & M's.

 

The stamp was a "cheapy" from the bargain bins at Michaels.



 

 

 

 

 

Bunny Jelly Bean bags

 

 

I made my own template and cut out two heads from paper, sewing them on my machine. Add a few jelly beans and voila! Something for little kids (or big ones) and perfect if you don't want to overdose on chocolate!!

 

 

 

 

Waffle Cone Carrots

 

Use some cone shaped cello bags and a waffle cone. Fill with a mixture of eggs and jelly beans, add top with green shredded paper and finish with ribbon.

 

Looks a bit like a carrot and a neat gift for Easter.

 

We made these for the teachers at school.

 

 

 

 

 

Strawberry carrots.

 

 

 

Talk about easy. Melt some orange candy buttons and dip in the strawberries. pipe some more orange candy over them and you have some little carrots!

 

 

 

Cupcakes for the Easter Party

 

 

Baked 2 dozen little cupcakes and one dozen large ones. Used my special Wilton piping nozzle and some chicks and bunnies I found at Walmart. The kids loved them and I have a few left over for tomorrow to take on our picnic.

 

 

 

 

Eggs for my table

 

I found the wooden eggs at Joanns and painted them. Used my Martha Stewart score board to make the rosettes. Wooden cotton reels and lolly pop sticks with a bit of help for my glue gun and now I have some eggy tu-tu's for my table.

 

 

 

 



Happy Easter!