Showing posts with label yum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yum. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

chocolate and coconut pie

I have a pie
It is a lovely chocolate and coconut pie and is delicious, but my family and I just Can't finish it.
And tomorrow I have to make ANOTHER one.
so we are going to have one and 3/4 pies!!!!!!

How are we going to eat it all?!?!?!?
We are going to have to get my uncle to to take some home with him.
I'll give you the recipe because it is delicious

For the Pastry:
100g plain flour
50g coconut flour
80 g butter room temp. cut into small cubes
1 egg yolk
1 or 2 TBSP cold water
For savoury fillings add a little salt and pepper to flour
For sweet filling add 50 g caster sugar to flour

For the filling:
50g caster sugar
2 egg yolks
120 g Dark chocolate
70g desiccated coconut
3 TBSP cornflour
100 ml water


Method:
Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas 6

  1. put the flour and sugar/ seasoning into a mixing bowl
  2. Add the butter and use fingertips to rub the flour and butter and sugar/seasoning together so that it look likes breadcrumbs.
  3. add the egg yolk to the flour mixture
  4. Using a knife, add enough water to make a stiff dough. wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 5-10 mins 
  5. press onto pie tin so that it is about 3/4 of a cm thick and thin on the side put greaseproof paper on top to weigh it down
  6. Bake for 10 mins with greaseproof paper on top then remove and bake 5 minutes more. The pastry should be PALE golden 

  1. Reduce oven heat to 180 C
  2. Place water, chocolate, sugar and cornflour in saucepan and stir over a low heat until mitre boils and thicken.s
  3. Remove from heat and cool slightly and egg yolks and coconut then pour into pastry once it has cooled
  4. Cook for 15 minutes 

this is delicious











Saturday, 13 September 2014

Autumn

Autumn Is COMinG..!!

And I now need to plan my AUTUMN/WINTER clothing wardrobe!!
I'm thinking my main style will be jeans with a baggy jumper but I can't decide what coat I want to get.
Maybe a trench coat, or a boyfriend coat.

Not too sure yet,
but what I do know is that I want to save up for a pair of mid heel ankle boots, because I think that will look really awesome and would love to get that.

Since the cold weather is coming , it means it will be hot chocolate time!!!!!
And I get to bake brownies and loads of chocolaty 'vaguely' unhealthy things, hahaha ( When I was in spain I realised people say haha as jaja!!!)

Will show you a final compilation of what I am going to buy for my wardrobe.

xx