Hello everyone! I thought I'd share a little recipe with you today. We had a lazy day at home in our pyjamas today, and I felt like making a sweet treat of some sort, so went through our almost-bare cupboards and came up with this recipe! I bought a jar of marshmallow fluff a while ago because I had never tried it before, but then didn't know what to do with it, so I finally used it today!These are so so simple but seriously yummy :)
For 5ish depending on the size of your cupcake cases, you will need:
2 cups of rice krispies
1 jar of raspberry marshmallow fluff (if you don't have any, you could just use some marshmallows)
a knob of butter
some sprinkles
a saucepan
some spoons
cupcake cases
Start by melting a knob of butter in your saucepan over a low heat. Once melted, you can add your marshmallow fluff. This stuff is so sticky, so I had to use two spoons and scrape the fluff into the saucepan as best I could! Leave for around 5 minutes until it is less of a big fluffy lump and more runny (so technical!).
Then you need to add your two cups of rice krispies. I literally measure mine with a teacup!
Give it all a good stir until the rice krispies are covered with Marshmallow fluff.
Then you can add your sprinkles and stir them all in. You could replace these for something else, maybe chocolate chips or smarties? I thought the sprinkles looked pretty and added a bit more texture :)
Then spoon the mixture into your cupcake cases and set aside for 10 minutes until they've set. You're done!
I made a cute little topper for mine out of some string, cocktail sticks and washi tape. Simple but effective! I think these would be perfect for birthday parties. Really quick and easy, but suprisingly delicious, they would go down a storm with friends and family! Mine were gone in seconds!
Hope your having lovely weekends and are enjoying the bank holiday if your here in the UK!
x ♥
I love food, I really do, and I eat a lot of it. Having an extremely sweet tooth, unfortunately, I eat a lot of the wrong kinds of foods too. I do love fruit and vegetables, but my biggest weakness is for sweet things. Over Christmas, as most people do, I may have over indulged slightly. Up until last Saturday, our cupboards were full of biscuits, selection boxes, brandy snaps, Thornton's, roses, quality street, cake & Wonka Bars (how amazing are they?! They were from Santa!). But this Saturday, David & I made our way through the very last box of chocolates, and that's it. No more sweet treats in the house. I don't plan on getting any more for a little while either, and when I do buy some, I will eat them sensibly, making the packets last, not scoffing them down in one day!
I am determined to get healthier this year. I don't particularly want to loose weight (although a little toning in a few areas wouldn't go amiss!) but I just want to feel healthier. I want to climb the stairs without getting out of breath, I want to shift my iron deficiency, I want a healthy glow to my skin instead of it looking tired and dull all the time. I want to feel satisfied and full of energy after a meal, rather than bloated and tired due to ridiculously large portions.
Fingers crossed, if our saving continues the way it is, David and I will be getting married by the end of 2013, and that will be my motivation for a healthier lifestyle. I don't want to diet, I don't want to start going to the gym, and I don't want to cut out any foods. I just want to take a little more thought over what I'm putting in my body, and I want to spend a little more time exercising.
I am starting the 30 day shred again, but instead of completing it in 30 days, I'm going to do it at least 3 times a week. When I did it before I saw amazing results and it really helped shift my baby weight, but as I said, I just want to feel fitter and look a little more toned. I want to walk more. I've started drinking 2 Litres of water a day, which is a massive step for me. I am guilty of regularly going to bed thinking 'oops! I forgot to drink anything today!'.
I received some lovely recipe books from family and friends for Christmas, to add to my growing collection, and I want to start using them more. I do try to cook healthy meals from scratch as much as I can, but I find it so easy to slip into the routine of cooking the same meals all the time. So I want to make something new at least once a week. I was thinking I could make it a weekly feature on my blog, what do you think? Would any of you be interested in that?
x ♥
