Big-time Breakfast

I am a fan of breakfast.
I think one like this is more something you would have for brunch or lunch or all three in one.

Weekend breakfast.
Sweet, salty, spicy, creamy, sharp, smoky, toasty, buttery breakfast.
Naughty Breakfast.





Scrambled Eggs Mel's Way

with Grilled Tomatoes and Brown Sugar Bacon



Temporary Internet Files

Get it? Pahahaha

Anyway here's some cookies / biscuits.
But calling them biscuits ruins the internet file joke.

Chocolate Chip Half Dipped Thins

• 1/2 cup butter/margarine
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup light or dark soft brown sugar (i used 1/4 cup of each but it's no biggy)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• pinch of salt (salt matters)
• 1/2-3/4 cup plain flour (i guesstimated)
• 3/4-1 cup chocolate chips (i improvised and used smashed up minstrels) probably not a whole cup either
• Bit of chocolate to melt for dippin'

Jeez! Spell checker didn't even correct the word 'guesstimate'. Welcome to the 21st century folks...

Line and lightly grease cookie sheets (baking trays) with parchment and.. erm.. grease.
Preheat to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl. Recipe calls for a large bowl, not me. I won't judge you on the size of your equipment...
Beat in the egg.
Then stir in vanilla, flour and salt.
Add chocolate chips or minstrels or m&ms or nuts or whatever you want.*

*Not lego.

Drop onto parchment, about 2 tsp per cookie. Leave some space between each one to avoid any funny business; we all know that cookies love each other and will try to unite.

Cook for 10 ish minutes until the edges are golden and the middles are set. 

Leave to cool, cookies will be soft when hot but will crisp up when cool. When they are cool, you can half dip them in melted chocolate and leave to set but they are still yummy just as they are. 

I made some mocha-choca-something thingies too. Will post recipe when I find my notes :) 

XXX

Bananana nananana....cupcakes!

Banana Cupcakes

with vanilla bean buttercream

Cupcakes

2 Large Eggs

4oz Self raising flour

4oz Caster sugar

1oz Soft brown sugar

4oz Butter/margarine

2tbsp Sunflower Oil

1/2 tsp baking powder

2 mashed bananas 

• Weigh out all your ingredients so they are ready to go
• Mash up your bananas. I do it while they're still in the skin, that way you only have to cut one end off and squeeze the mush out. Plus no dirty extras... I'm on about washing up
• Cream butter and sugar together until light in colour, creamy and kinda fluffy
• add your little eggies
• Whisk like your life depends on it
• Sift in the flour and baking powder 
• Fold together until just combined
• Add your mushed up bananas
• Spoon into paper cases.
• Bake in a pre-heated oven at gas mark 7, 220 degrees Celsius for about 22 mins. Sorry I didn't tell you to pre-heat earlier... awkward.
• They will go fairly golden because of all the sugar. I made them in two sizes and the smaller ones seemed to dome slighty as you can see in the picture. Ah well. Boverrrrd.
• Allow to cool then buttercream those puppies up!

For the vanilla bean buttercream...

I use this recipe from browneyedbaker replacing the cream with milk..as I had no cream.

This frosting can be used for preeeetty much every cake ever, its a good staple and you can colour it with gel or liquid colouring too. Bingo.