A Must Make Dessert | Delicious Fruit Crumble

A Must Make Dessert | Delicious Fruit Crumble

Another recipe for you to try is my Delicious Fruit Crumble recipe. This recipe is perfect to make for big meals and serves as many people as it can. It is especially good to serve in the colder months because this is a warm dessert and can be served with Custard, Double or Whipped cream. However you can serev this dessert whenever you want. It's your choice. I made this recipe in school and I have modified it to serve my own liking.

Just follow these steps and you will have the perfect dessert; the Delicious Fruit Crumble. This recipe can be modified to contain different ingredients such as the fruits included in it, if that suits you better or is all you currently have to add to the crumble.

Delicious Fruit Crumble

Ingredients and Equipment:

• 450g of fruit-Cooking Apples & Sultanas/ Cooking Apples/ Cooking Apples & Pears/ Rhubarb/ Mixed Berries (i.e. Strawberries, Blackberries, Blueberries) etc. (you can opt for many varieties of fruits as you like)
• 175g Plain Flour
• 75g Margarine/ Butter
• 125g Caster Sugar
• Large Oven-Proof Cooking dish- Glass/ China (must be oven-proof)
• Large Mixing Bowl
• Wooden Spoon
• Chopping board
• Knife
• Peeler

 Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 190 Degrees Celsius or gas mark 5.
2. To make the crumble, place Margarine/Butter into mixing bowl and add the flour. Rub the flour and margarine/butter between fingertips until the ingredients come together to resemble breadcrumbs (small lumps). If these lumps are very large, shake the bowl back and fourth on the surface to bring all the heavy lumps to the surface and crumble them until they are small. Add half the sugar and stir gently with wooden spoon so as to not break up the lumps. Be sure sugar is mixed in and not gathered on the surface to ensure all the mixture is correctly flavoured. 
3. Wash fruit (if needed) and peel Fruit and slice. If the Fruit is large slice into small squares about a thumbs width wide. If the Fruit is unevenly cut, the fruit will not cook evenly leaving some pieces raw and other extremely soft.  
4. Once fruit is chopped, place evenly into baking dish being sure that all Fruit is even and not clustered. Take the remaining Sugar and sprinkle over the Fruit.
5. Sprinkle the crumble over the fruit in the dish until all fruit is covered. Place into oven for 35-40 minutes until the crumble looked golden brown. Be sure not to over cook the crumble as the sugar inside the crumble mixture will caramelise and burn, which is especially hard to correct as the sugar is melted and mixed into the crumble. Using oven gloves, remove cooked crumble and serve.
6. If you would like to add custard make up the custard whilst the crumble is cooking.
7. Once crumble is served you can add the topping and enjoy your Delicious Fruit Crumble.

A simple, detailed recipe for you to use. Fruit crumble is a perfect family or group dessert due to its large serving numbers and how filling it can be. If you would like to go for a healthier alternative for a topping that's is sugar free, why not try a good quality brand of Natural Yogurt added on top.

Enjoy the recipe for now :) More recipes will be on the way and if there are any requests for recipes, that can be solved easily :) You can check out my other recipes on the main page like my previously posted Rock Buns recipe- A Must Know Recipe You'll Love: Rock Buns .

Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoyed this recipe and found it useful!

Yours truly,

x Chatty Blonde x

A Must Know Recipe You'll Love | Rock Buns

A Must Know Recipe You'll Love | Rock Buns  

Hello! It has been some time since I have posted here however looks like I am again :) Life can be hectic can't it? I know that's true for me, especially with the way my education at college had been this past year just hectic! 

That is why I am posting this lovely recipe of mine acquired from the years of GCSE Food Technology I participated in in Secondary School. In my previous post I mentioned which can be seen here :Did I Ever Tell You I Took Food Technology? No? that I would be posting these recipes up for you which are modified by me to the way I like to cook them; now being shared with you!

Let's get started!

Rock Buns

(Serves 8)

Ingredients and equipment:

• 200g Self-Raising Flour
• Pinch of salt (optional)
• 100g Caster Sugar
• 50g Currants/ Raisins/ Mixed fruit/ Chocolate chips (anything you want basically :) )
• 1 Medium Egg
• 1/4 Medium Cup of Milk
• 50g Margarine/ Butter
• Baking Paper
• Scissors
• Large Mixing Bowl and Mixing Spoon
• Jug and Sieve
• Baking Tray

Method:

Delicious Rock Buns
 -(http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/pictures/28038/what
-to-bake-for-a-school-fete/16)

1. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius or Gas mark 7. Cut baking paper to fit baking try and  line with baking paper. If you want take a small amount of cooking oil and place to surface of the baking try to allow the baking paper to stick in place.
2. Sieve flour and salt into mixing bowl and rub Margarine/Butter into the flour using your fingertips until the mixture resembles bread crumbs (small lumps). If these lumps are very large, shake the bowl back and fourth on the surface to bring all the heavy lumps to the surface and crumble them until they are small.
3. Once crumbles and mixed, gentle but thoroughly stir in sugar and currants using mixing spoon. Be sure all currants and sugar are thoroughly mixed in to ensure each Rock Bun has the correct amount of currants and flavour when cooked.
4. Beat the egg in the jug using a folk. When the egg is correctly beaten, it will have many bubbles on the surface Once beaten, add the egg to the mixture in the mixing bowl and mix thoroughly until the mixture resembles a thick paste. If mixture becomes too thick and cannot be moved, add milk a little at a time, stirring it in between intervals.
5. Using a table spoon, scoop up a heaped spoonful of the mixture and place each spoonful onto baking tray. Be sure to leave a thumb sized space between each bun. Even out the heaps until all the mixture is used up. Place into oven at 220 degrees/gas mark 7 and cook for 15 minutes until golden brown. Once you think the Rock buns are cooked, remove from oven and test the centre to see if they're cooked using a knife. Gently and slowly push the knife through the bun, remove and if the knife is clean with no mixture on it  your Rock buns are cooked and ready to eat!
6. Remove buns from tray and leave to cool. Once cool enjoy! If you like, add a sprinkle of caster sugar to the tops of the buns for extra flavour.

There you have it, a simple, detailed Rock Bun recipe. More recipes will be posted up soon but for now thank you for visiting and enjoy creating these delicious buns! Comments and images about the result of this recipe would be appreciated below so I can see how everyone is doing with the recipe :)

Yours truly,
Caris

A Few of My Favorites | Nail Art Designs and Nail Polishes to Use

 A Few of My Favourite Nail Art Designs and Nail Polishes to Use 

Hi!!! Hope you are well :) Soo, I here I am, typing this up at the moment trying to decipher which of my own nail designs I should share for all to try out of the many I have done. Here I am going to share with you just a few of my favorite nails designs that I once created, and recreated again and again including which nail polishes I used and me modelling the designs after I created them.  Hope you like them :)

Nail polishes and bits-and-bobs are great. You get to decorate your body, like you do with your face makeup, only this is more, permanent you could say and yikes I would NOT want to get nail polish on my face! You create a piece of art work on your nails and there are hundreds, in fact thousands, no millions of different nails designs you could do and heck you get to do whatever you want, whatever you feel like doing. If you want to do hearts on each nail you can do exactly that or if you want to do different emojis on each of your ten nails like I have before, which btw looks so cute, you can do that! Here are just a few of my favourite nail art designs that I did on my nails and the images of these designs after I had completed them on my hand :)


Polka-Dot Nails:

Here are my pink and white polka dot nails
which are great for a everyday look
especially in warmer weather  

This is one of my favourite nail designs and you can use what ever colours look best together to do it. (Apologies for the junk behind my hand, however at the time I never knew I would be using this picture ;) ) All you need is a nail polish for the base, here it was the hot pink and a nail at pen for the polka dots, which in this case was a light silver nail pen as part of a nail set that I purchased cheap years ago. This design is simple and easy to do, however patience is a must as the dots do take their time to dry and using a glossy nail polish will make the nails look even brighter. Here's how to do this design:

1. Apply to base colour to your nails, be sure to spread evenly across the nail, ensuring no lumps are present and that the nail polish doesn't gather.  If using a fairly thin nail polish, apply more coats once the first coat is dried to completely cover the nail.
2. After the base colour has dried properly, start placing the polka dots in small amounts evenly spaced across the nail, as you can see in the image above. Try not to apply too much polish for each polka dot, as this will mean it'll take longer to dry. Ensure that each polka dot has enough spacing between them, as they can run into each other and this will spoil the look.
3. Once all nails are dry, including the polka dots, cover nails with a coat of clear nail polish to give the nails a shine and make the polish last for longer. 

Crackle effect:

Crackle Nails

This look is easy to do and many do this design with so many variations, all with the use of a normal nail polish and crackle effect nail polish. This is one of my favorite designs just because it looks so cool and its simple to do. All you need is your favourite nail polish in your chosen colour for the base nail polish and a crack effect nail polish to place on top, which can be purchased in many shops or magazines, mine of which was in white and from a AVON catalog and I love it. Plus I love watching the crackle nail polish separate as it reacts with the nail polish underneath. Here's how to do this design:

1. Start with applying your base nail polish evenly to each nail, allowing to dry before another coat if needed.
2. Apply crackle polish to nails and watch as the polish separate when it comes in contact with the base nail polish. Don't worry about clumping the crackle polish, this design is meant to look messy so it wont matter. 

The great thing about this design is if the polish chips, just apply to crackle again and don't worry about it looking messy. Also, if your crackle nail polish is a matte one, then there's no need to apply clear nail polish as that would ruin the matte effect. 

3D Glitter Nails:

This nail design is a type of 3D nail art and is great for parties, nights out or Christmas. I recently did it on my nails i this style for a New Years Party using a set that was given to me for my Birthday a few years ago. The set consists of white nail polish for the base and white glitter to cover the nails that is placed into a plastic tray that also comes with the pack that you dip your nail into while the polish is still damp. Be sure to leave plenty of time to compete this design if you choose to do it, taken me at least an hour before! Here's how to do this design: 

Glitter nails (yep, I did send this
 to a friend because its
a great design to do)

1. Apply base polish to each nail, be sure to start with just one hand so that the base polish doesn't dry, as this is meant to be wt to make the glitter stick to it. Be sure not to apply too much polish as this could increase the drying time.
2. Dip each nail into the glitter or apply glitter to nail-depending on how you can d this such as what type of 3D Nail Art Set you have. By dipping the wet nail into the glitter, this allows more coverage making the nails look even better and takes less time to cover the nail with the glitter. Remove any excess glitter by tapping your fingers with the glitter-covered-nails which will shake off any excess glitter. 
3. Once all nails have been covered with glitter and have dried, apply a coat of clear nail polish to cover the glitter and stop the rough edges of the glitter from catching onto things such as fabrics and chipping off, making the design last longer. This will also make the nails look even prettier. 

My design reminds me of the snow and so I did this design for a New Years Party as it's so pretty and creative. 

So there you go, hope you liked these designs, they are just some of my favoutire designs that I did and then took a picture of, so yes these are my own pictures  :) 

Hope you liked these and enjoyed my bad photography of my hand styling the designs on my nails. Hope to post more nail designs soon! :) Thanks!

Yours truly,
Caris