All dressed up but no where to go ......Lipsy dress

Hi
Just tried this Lipsy brand dress on as i need to decide if i am going to  keep it........ I already have the perfect rose gold shoes and bag which i think go really well with it . Alternatively i have some silver shoes and bag that would look equally good too.
As you know i am a big fan of the pleated skirts and love the uneven hem look too ...this dress ticks both of them !!!!!!  I ordered it from the Next sale which recently opened online, it is half price .

Shoes from New Look and bag is by SkinnyDip

slimming world dessert - baseless fruit cheesecake

Hi
If you are following Slimming world plan or just watching your weight the below dessert is worth making as hits the sweet spot without loads of calories or sins !!!!! With all the fruit is must be healthy too. I like to serve it with squirty light cream   





Ingredients    10 sins for whole thing

500g fat free vanilla yogurt ( i used Yeo valley one)
250g quark
50g Fat free plain greek yogurt
6 sheets leaf gelatine
1tsp vanilla essence
2 tbs sweetener
about 250g of berries or other fruit
1 sachet  11.5g sugar free blackcurrant jelly powder (you can use any
flavour if you want)
1 tin 9x9 inch lined with cling film





Method

Soak the gelatine sheets in cold water for 10 minutes
Put the quark , yogurt , vanilla essence and sweetener.
 in a food processor and mix well . If no food processor could mix or  whisk  in a large bowl.
Squeeze the water out of the gelatine sheets and add to a jug of 100ml hot water . Mix until melted.
Pour this into the yogurt mixture and stir /whisk for few minutes
Pour into your tin lined with cling film and place in fridge for 2-3 hours to set..
Put the jelly powder into a jug of 250ml hot water and stir till dissolved. Leave to cool but not set.
Decorate your chilled cheesecake with your chosen fruit and then gently pour over the cooled jelly.
Return to fridge till jelly is set .
To serve cut into squares , i normally make 6 generous  servings which works out at under 2 sins per serving without the cream
Will keep in fridge covered for about 4 days

Chocolate bannana bread ......Amazing

Was not sure why everyone has been raving about cooking banana bread but now i have made some i understand why .....its lush.
I came across the below recipe on social media and just in time as had some over ripe bananas in my fruit bowl that were starting to go black and squishy. Not nice to eat like that . I had already used 2 of them to make my slimming world banana and blueberry pancakes and still had some left in the fruit bowl. I hate throwing anything away.

Ingredients

2 large ripe bananas

200g plain flour

100ml vegetable or sunflower oil

1tsp vanilla extract

2tbsp cocoa powder

1 egg

1tsp baking powder

pinch of salt 5

50g brown sugar

100g chocolate chips 

Method 

grease and line a loaf tin with baking paper 

Preheat oven to 180 degrees

Mash up the bananas and mix with all the wet ingredients in a large bowl. I used a food processor as easier than having to stir 

Then add all the dry ingredients and mix well . If mixture seems too thick add a splash of milk

Pour into prepared tin and bake in over for approx 45-50 minutes . 

Test with wooden skewer which should come out clean and cake should shrink away from sides of tin. 

Leave to cool in tin 

I had a slice whilst still warm and spread with Nutella it was lush .

Pink Russian cocktail

Saturday nights cocktail was called pink Russian and very nice indeed. So nice I had two. Now I need to decide on next Saturday cocktail to make......?? Any suggestions?

25ml kaula
25ml vodka
25ml tequila rose
35ml cold milk
Ice cubes
Cocktail shaker

Put all above into shaker and shake vigorously until the ice melts and no longer rattles about. Pour into glass and top with whole strawberry on side of glass.....ENJOY

Biscoff cheescake

OMG ......this tastes amazing and super easy to make. My whole family loved it so want to make again once we can have friends over.

I got the recipe online from Janes Patisserie website, click link for recipe

Homemade chocolate truffles - Golden Oreo

There has been lots of new recipes on social media since lock down and this is one of them i  decided to try . Only 3 ingredients like the fudge recipes and super easy to make.

Makes about 12                           
10 Golden Oreo biscuits
60g cream cheese
120g milk chocolate


Put biscuits into a food processor and blitz until fine crumbs then mix in the cream cheese . If you do not have a food processor put in a clean seal-able bag and bash with rolling pin. Keep a few crumbs to sprinkle over once coated in chocolate

Roll into bit size balls and put in freezer for 30 minutes.

Melt the chocolate in small bowl and dip the balls in and remove with spoon or fork and place on baking paper. Sprinkle over the saved crumbs

Put in fridge to set the chocolate.
Best keep in fridge if they last that long

You can change it up by using chocolate Oreo and then white chocolate to coat.

My two new H&M summer dresses

Just received these over the weekend and will be keeping both of them however i do prefer the blue one . Just in case you are thinking of ordering they come up small. I am high street size 12 and had to get the blue one in size 16 and the pink/red one in size 14 !!!!!!!
 The silver mules are by Priciples from Debenhams . I was lucky as i got them for half price few weeks ago . They are super comfortable and still worth the full price of £15