Peanut Butter Cups.

My lovely cousin is getting married in a few weeks time.
Luckily for me, she is as mad about Peanut Butter as I am.
As I am doing her a dessert table, and she has requested some yummy Peanut Butter cups.
I am also making her Wedding cake and cupcakes. She wants a whole tier of the cake to be peanut butter flavour, this girl has taste I tell you.

So today I thought I would share my recipe for home made Peanut butter cups.
This recipe was featured on the fabulous Rock N Roll Bride, thanks Kat for being a huge star.

So here it is, enjoy.


What you need.

♥ Cup Measures
♥ Moulds or mini baking cases
♥ Couple of bowls
♥ Spoon
♥ Microwave

Ingredients:

♥ 1 Cup of Peanut Butter. smooth or crunchy depending on your personal taste

♥ 1/2 cup Icing sugar

♥ 1 Teaspoon of Salt

♥ 400 grams of chocolate. Milk, Dark or White, again your preference. i use a mixture of White and milk, its yummy.

♥ sprinkles/decorations

Step 1.  Measure out all your ingredients, sampling some chocolate if you desire.

Step 2. In a bowl mix 1/2 a cup of peanut butter with the icing sugar and salt until well combined.

Step 3: In the other bowl, place your white chocolate and remaining peanut butter. Then microwave until melted. Keep checking every 30 seconds or so as you do not want it to burn.

Step 4: Add the milk chocolate, stir and microwave again, until all chocolate has melted.

Step 5: Take your moulds/mini cupcake cases and fill the bottoms with a covering of your mixture. Set to one side

Step 6: Using a teaspoon measure, scoop up a ball of your peanut butter cup filling. Roll this into a ball and drop into the chocolate mixture, aiming for the centre. If you can refrain from eating the mixture at this point you are doing much better than I am.

Step 7: Spoon over more of your Chocolate mixture, until your little peanut butter centres are smothered in deliciousness.

Step 8: (Optional) If you want to glam up your cups, now is the time. Whilst the chocolate is still wet on the top, sprinkle, shake and decorate your cups to your hearts desire.

Step 9: Pop into the fridge until set. 30-60 minutes.

Step 10: Gobble all peanut butter cups up, and start again……no sorry don’t do that. Do, wrap in individual clear bags tied with ribbon or twine to match your theme.

Yummy Yummy Peanut butter cups at a fraction of the price.

Love Natty xxx

What to do with a Pineapple?!

My hubby and I are both bargain hunters.
The majority of the furniture in my home comes from second hand or charity shops.
I work a little magic on them and I end up with a unique one off piece which I just love.
However sometimes my hubby brings home bargains from the food shops which we just won't use.
This is how we ended up with today's recipe.

He found a reduced pineapple for 23p, bargain yes, useful no.
The first thing that came into my head was "Pineapple Upside down cake", one of my mum's old school recipes.
She often made this cake for us back in the 80's and so I thought, why not.

Here is what you will need.

A Pineapple (a reduced price one is even better because then you make bargain cake)
6oz Butter/marge
6oz Soft Brown Sugar
6oz Self raising flower
3 eggs
1 teaspoon of either Vanilla Extract or Rum flavouring (personal preference)

I large spring form cake tin

Pre heat oven to Gas Mark 4 (180C) (350F)

Place your butter and Sugar into the bowl and mix.
I use an electric Hand mixer to get a nice fluffy texture.

Add the Eggs and Vanilla to the bowl and beat again.

Sift the flower in a little at a time and fold carefully into the mixture.

Take your sliced Pineapple and cut out  the center with a cookie cutter. Use any shape you like as long as you remove the core.

Place your Pineapple rings in a pre greased tin.

Take any remaining Pineapple and chop into small pieces and add to your cake batter.

Spread the batter on to the top of your Pineapple rings and bake in the oven for anywhere between 20-35 minutes.
Cooking time depends on how much juice is in your pineapple and how accurate your ovens temperature is.
Mine baked for 32 minutes.

Enjoy with lashings of cream or my personal favorite Hot Custard.

It was good, but not as good as my mum's 

Enjoy!
Natty xxx