Sunday Baking - Gooey Chocolate Brownies

Its getting a lot closer to Christmas and that is when I do most of my baking, due to the fact of time and being cosy.

So today I decided to bake chocolate brownies, since my boyfriend has been away in Germany for work I've been needing to find something to do on the weekends, so baking brownies was the perfect idea.

You'll Need:

• 115g of Plain Chocolate
• 3 medium eggs
• 55g of unsalted butter
• 225g of castor sugar
• 40g of plain flour
• 25g of cocoa powder
• 1tsp of baking powder
• 1tsp of vanilla extract

So here's how we make the brownies

1. First Melt the butter and chocolate over a pan of boiling hot water or the microwave
2. whisk together the sugar, eggs and vanilla extract until light and creamy
3. Sieve the the cocoa powder, plain flour and baking powder and add to the sugar and eggs mixture
4. Add the melted chocolate mixture 
5. For an xtra add some chopped up white chocolate 
6. pour the mixture into a 9icnh square baking tin
7. Put in a pre-heated oven at 170c, 160c fan oven or gas mark 4 for 40 - 45 minutes
8. leave to cool
9. enjoy :)

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Lauren 

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Making the Most of Autumn

I've decided to make the most of Autumn with the leaves starting to become crisp and old and the air becoming colder and colder. Today we went on a lovely walk around a place called Rivelin, with a gorgeous river going through woodland it was the perfect romantic stroll I took with my boyfriend and some brilliant photo opportunities. 

I just love the open fresh air and exploring hidden treasures we found this beautiful old wheel that was dripping with water was beautiful. Isn't there something about the trees and bushes making you feel away from all the stresses of the world.

The woodland was full of just dropped orange crisp leaves, wonderful mushrooms growing on the logs and beautiful animals (unfortunately the birds were too quick for me to capture so here's a picture of a feather instead)

I've been trying out different techniques with my photography and also testing out the manual mode im starting out so i know there not perfect.

I had such an amazing day exploring woodland and the outdoors, i honestly think we need to get outside more and see these beautiful treasures we have so close to home

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Lauren

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A day at the Pumpkin Fields

Ever since I was young I've always wanted to go and pick my own pumpkin but I always thought it was something that was only big in  America, I honestly never knew we had pumpkin fields in the UK and definitely did not think you could go and pick your own pumpkins. When I mentioned to my boyfriend I've always wanted to go pumpkin picking and since hes away for work for 2 weeks at Halloween, he said have a google and we'll go somewhere. I found this Farm which wasn't to far from where we live so off we went to Farmer Copley's and found some amazing pumpkins and had an amazing day Here are some pictures I took. 

If you would like to check out Farmer Copleys  the link is below:

http://www.farmercopleys.co.uk/

This is what the fields look like, they have 3 big fields of pumpkins but only two was open to the public today (I'm guessing they've saving some for the busier times) I have never seen so many pumpkins and a wide variety of pumpkins, they are so many different types of pumpkin.

I found the perfect little pumpkin to decorate my room (The one I'm holding in the picture). When you arrive at Farmer Copleys you can take a wheel borrow and go searching for the perfect pumpkins. We ended up with 5 pumpkins 1 large 2 small a red pumpkin and  a baby pumpkin.

Look at the variety of Pumpkins was I being naive for only thinking there is only one type of pumpkin? They also have some white pumpkins and they are the ones that grow really big the worker told me she had just weighed one what was 26KG!

Our Pumpkins <3

Once you have picked your Pumpkins you can go and look round the massive farm shop that's on site. We bought pumpkin loaf, pumpkin cake, pumpkin sausages and some more variety of sausages. They also have Cafe called Moo cafe which sell all homegrown food which is delicious!

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Lauren

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autumn wish list :)

so its coming up to autumn and i'll be starting my second year of college in less than 2 weeks, so i thought i'd do a clothing wish list as i want some new clothes and shoes for it :) its gonna go from top left to right then bottom left to right

1: side studded leggings: topshop £28.00
2.Farisle hat: topshop £14.00
3.khaki cross print tank top: new look £14.00
4.coolway leather hiking boots:: new look £39.99
5.khaki see no evil skull vest: new look £9.99
6.coolway black malvina knitted panel leather boots: new look £39.99

so thats my wish list unfortunatly i dont have enough money yet to buy all these :'( but hopefull will be purchasing some in a few weeks (fingers crossed)

tell me what you think :)