Super easy recipe and if you are a fan of chocolate and cocunut you will love these 🙂 I made a batch on Thursday and they didnt last too long.
What you need
Mixing Bowl
Baking Tray
2 dessert spoons
Wire rack
Greaseproof paper
Ingredients
200g desiccated coconut
1 can condensed milk (397g)
200g milk chocolate
Heres how to make them
Place the coconut into the mixing bowl. Pour the condensed milk over the coconut and mix together.
Line your baking tray with greaseproof paper
Get your 2 dessert spoons and spoon some of the mixture to make little balls. I roll the mixture between the spoons to make the shape. (Dont spend too long doing this they don’t need to be perfect!!)
Line the mixture on your baking tray and put into the fridge to allow them to set. I left mine in the fridge for an hour.
Melt the milk chocolate (use the microwave or put the chocolate in a bowl and melt it over boiling water – TIP make sure the bowl does not touch the hot water)
Once your chocolate is melted take your coconut balls out of the fridge and move them to the wire rack. Put the baking tray underneath the wire rack. Spoon the melted chocolate over the top.
Once the chocolate is cooled put the coconut balls back in the fridge to set.
Once set enjoy, they taste yum with a nice hot cup of tea.
My brother came to visit recently so I did some baking so I could be sister of the year!!! 😛
I found the following recipe on the odlums website and had to give it a go – this is the easiest cookie recipe EVER!
Ingredients
150g/5oz Odlums Self Raising Flour
75g/3oz Odlums Porridge Oatflakes
125g/4oz Margarine (at room temperature)
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
125g/4oz Shamrock Light Brown Sugar
100g Packet Plain Chocolate Chips
100g packet White Chocolate Chips
Method
Preheat oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5. Lightly grease two baking trays.
Put the margarine and sugar into a bowl and beat until mixture is smooth.
Add the egg and the vanilla essence and beat again.
Finally stir in the flour, oatflakes and chocolate chips. Mixture will be very stiff.
Place teaspoons of mixture on the baking trays, leaving a space between each to allow for spreading.
Bake for about 15 minutes until beginning to turn golden brown. Cool for 2 or 3 minutes on the baking tray, then, transfer to a wire tray to cool completely.
No picture im afraid my brother and hubby did a great job sampling the cookies as soon as they were out of the oven! They didnt last long even when they cooled.
On the 1st August 2012 the ass fell out of my world when my dad passed away. In a way I can’t believe its been a year as its gone so quickly but in another way I have survived a whole year without my dad when for the first few days after he died I thought I wasn’t even going to make it through a day.
I’m not going to lie it was incredibly hard to get out of bed this morning I haven’t had that feeling in months but it hit me really hard today. I did get up though as there’s no point lieing in bed feeling sorry for myself – life is for living – that’s one big thing dads death has thought me. So many people have been in touch today already and its so nice to know im in so many people’s thoughts and they are really helping to lift me and get through this day.
I’ve been thinking of my dad a lot in the last couple of days (well I think of him everyday anyway) and I think some of the things I miss the most are
Hearing him whistling in the kitchen to the awful music on County Sound on a Sunday morning while he was flicking through the paper and cooking skinless sausages (and always managing to make them look wrinkly…. you’d need to see it to understand)
Having a fry up with him at the weekends when I was home and chipping in every so often to the conversations he would have with my (now) husband about sports
Hearing him making noise at stupid o clock in the morning when he was getting up to walk the dogs for the kennels up the road or going off to work. He would drive me mad banging doors and hearing his stupid alarm clock buzzing but id give anything to hear that now
Hearing his TV roaring and hearing him ROARING at the TV when any match was on especially when Cork or Man United were playing…. he was the most animated man I knew when it came to sport there was no point in telling him they couldn’t hear him!!
Listening to him winding my husband up about sport and Ciaran always rising to the occasion and getting thick….. oh to hear dad laugh at him just one more time would be amazing.
Going to matches with him – I would have given anything to be in Killarney with him a couple of weeks ago for the Cork V Kerry match (even though Kerry beat us) and trying to out shout him! (I managed it once)
Having him around for advice about my car and jobs around my house and at home for mom. My new husband is useless but my brother seems to have received the dad gene and is quite handy and even has all the colourful language needed to do a job!!
It would have been amazing to have him there the day of my wedding but I know he was beaming down on me and was with me all day and my mom did a great job dancing with me like dad would have.
So here’s to you dad – missing you today like i do every other day xxxx
I’ve been getting bits together for a while to have at our drinks reception following our wedding mass that give people a real sense of us. I love the idea of colour and fun so one of the little projects i’ve just completed is a fun way of displaying our initials.
Here’s the finished product!
What I used
Hard Card letters – C & Y- which i bought at the local Hickeys (Henry St.)
Old Newspaper – ill explain later what you need this for
Spray Paint – I used silver
Glue – that you can use on top of spray paint
Buttons/beads – I picked up a huge bag in the Art and Hobby shop last time we were in Kilkenny
Here’s how I did it
 Lay out the newspaper on an even surface – preferably outside in the air as using spray paint indoors can cause wheezing (if like me you are asthmatic!)Â
Lay down the letters with space between each one so you can spray around the edges and corners.
Now the fun bit – start spraying! If you are spraying outside it dries quite quickly. Once the letters are dry flip them over and spray the other side. Mine turned out like this –Â
I left my letters for a couple of days to be sure they were totally dry. Then it was time for the fun bit putting the buttons and beads on the letters. Put a little glue on the letters at a time and place the beads on top gradually the pattern will come together!
I cant wait to see peoples reaction now to my latest creation – H2B is quite impressed as am I
Welcome to my world 