Valentine's Day

It has been a long time since my last blog and many things have been happening. Firstly we had Valentine's Day. We had a big morning tea at work which had a lovely red/heart theme going on. It was a really great morning tea even if I do say so myself. I made a cherry ripe slice which is to die for. The recipe is:

1 cup of self raising flour
1 Tbs of Cocoa (or Milo if you don't have Cocoa)
1/3 cup sugar
100g butter
100g crushed biscuits (use Marie or any other plain biscuit)
1 1/2 cups of desicated coconut
1 tin of light condensed milk (reduces the fat content. Once you start eating this you want to be able to reduce the guilt as much as possible)
1 packet of chopped glace cherries
30g copha

Method

Melt the buter and combine with the sugar, sifted flour and cocoa (milo), and crushed biscuits in a bowl.

Spread a greased and lined tray (ie: lamington tray) with the mixture and bake in a moderate oven for about 15 minutes. Take from the oven and place to one side to cool slightly.

For the filling, mix together the coconut, condensed milk and chopped glace cherries. You can add red food colouring if you like but it will turn a pale pink colour on its own so it is not essential. Spread this evenly onto the base.

Cook for a further 15 minutes in a moderate oven. Take it from the oven and allow it to cool.

Melt the cooking chocolate and copha together and spread evenly over the cooled slice. Cut into squares once the chocolate is set.

You may want to cut off the sides to make it all look neater for presentation purposes - these are great for nibbling and testing your creation to make sure it tastes fabulous.

I also received some beautiful flowers from Rob. He is such a great husband. They were yellow roses (my equal favourite with orange roses and Roses chocolates!) and a red heart toy - very appropriate given all the stuffed toys I have been making lately.

I made my husband his own special plushie. I had made a turtle from a pattern from the book Bean Bag Buddies by Nicki Wheeler. The turtle had been a bit of a flop but them I had the brilliant idea that I could make the perfect present for Rob from the same pattern.

From this:

To this:

Yep, it is a boob. I made my husband his own portable boob. It has pride of place on our bed usually and I have woken up in the middle of the night to find it has worked it's way around the bed to end up under my head.

Valentines Day rocks!