Anyway, thought you might like the recipe as it is so easy to do ………

150g Butter,  50g Caster Suger, 4 tbsp Golden Syrup, 275g Rolled Oats.

1.  Preheat the oven to 190°C  and grease & line a baking tray.

2.  Place butter, sugar & syrup into a pan over a low heat and stir until melted.  Pour in the oats and mix.  Press into the tin and bake for approx 20 minutes until golden brown at the edges.

This is what it should look like when it comes out of the oven, has cooled and been cut into squares!!  Whether my daughters turns out that good – who knows!  I will try and be brave later and let you know.

This is a great tasty treat! They can be eaten cold or straight from the oven and are definitely worth doing with the kids in the half term holiday!

Ingredients

100g/3½oz good dark chocolate
125g/4½oz unsalted butter
100g/3½oz granulated sugar
75g/2½oz soft brown sugar
1 free-range egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
150g/5¼oz plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt

Method

Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Line two baking sheets with baking parchment then chop the chocolate into little chunks and set aside.

Heat the butter in a small saucepan very gently until it has just melted. Meanwhile, put the two types of sugar into a mixing bowl. Pour the melted butter on top of the sugars and beat well with a wooden spoon, the add the egg and the vanilla and beat until well blended.

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the mixing bowl and stir them in, then add the chopped chocolate.

Dot heaped pudding spoonfuls of the mixture over the lined baking sheets, leaving plenty of space in between them, they spread out a lot while baking.

Place the baking sheets in the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes, until the cookies are just turning golden brown. (If you have a glass door on your oven, watch the extraordinary transformation as these cookies bake–one moment you’ve got lumpy brown dough, the next, you have pale golden cookies)

Leave the cookies on the baking sheets to harden for a couple of minutes, then carefully lift up the baking parchment and transfer them to a wire cooling rack.

Enjoy!  I know my lot will demolish them in minutes x

This is a great chicken recipe for the kids.  Have a go and let me know what you think!

18 Chicken Drumsticks, 2 tbsp Brown Sugar, 5 oz Dark Soy Sauce, 1 tsp Dijon Mustard, 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder

Mix all the marinade ingredients together and add the drumsticks and leave for at least 1 hour.  Tip drumsticks and marinade into a roasting dish and cook on 180 C for approx 1 hour or until marinade is all thick!

The kids will get in a mess but who cares!

Ok, so Christmas is just around the corner, Again…..

Dont know about you but hasnt it come round quick.  Or is it that the shops just bring it around alot quicker!

I’ve been looking at doing a lot of my christmas shopping online and spending some time trying to find the bargains.  I have a four year old little boy who is into everything from Ben 10 to Dinosaurs to Pirates so shopping for him is quite a challenge.  Finding value for money is also quite difficult!

I sometimes wonder whether prices seem to go up around this time of year or am I just being skeptical!

Anyway, have put together a bit of a shop if you are interest in seeing what I have found for my son and numerous nephews and nieces.

Feel free to have a browse and have a good Christmas! ]]> http://www.lovebeingawoman.net/2009/11/14/christmas-gift-ideas-for-kids/feed/ 0