When I’m not developing recipes for others, writing blogs or cooking for the lovely Mr G, this is wha

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My name is Lee, welcome to my pages. I hope we can have fun together?

When I’m not developing recipes for others, writing guest blogs, writing my own blog, or even trying to learn how to paint, I’m usually spending time with the amazing Mr G (my husband) or with my lovely daughter or my lovely son (very proud mum).

What is this all about? Great question. This site is about real cooking and baking, real recipes and real mistakes.

No filters here, (although i’d love to find a filter that can take ten years worth of laugh lines away. Just me, whats happening, and whatever cameras or phone i have to hand .

There are many things that get under my bonnet and wiggle around, one of those is food waste. If i buy ingredients specifically for a recipe, and i only need a small amount of the ingredients, i want to be able to use the rest up and not have to throw them away. My mum used to say , “Waste not Want not” is that still a saying ?

For me, waste is not just about using up all the ingredients. What about leftover food? If i’m able , i hope to give ideas as to how to use up any leftovers too.

Be Brave

Cooking isn’t hard , neither is baking, its all about being brave and being ok with making mistakes

Chocolate Oat Cookie Bars By Rose Hart

Chocolate Oat Cookie Bars By Rose Hart

Lee Majhen-Todd

I love baking almost as much as I love eating, but I love sharing my bakes even more!

I love to bake and develop recipes. Enhancing one of my existing recipes with a new ingredient or building a new recipe around a favourite flavour or ingredient.

At the moment I am doing a lot of baking with my girls, baking with children is amazing. They have such creative imaginations and are not afraid to try something new or experiment.

This recipe is based on my oat cookies, we decided to make oat cookie bars and cover them in a thick layer of chocolate for an extra treat.

I hope you like it as much as we do! is my latest recipe .

These are based on my Oat Cookie recipe, they are so very quick and easy to make and always go down well!

I am finding plain flour difficult to get hold of at the moment, these cookie bars take a combination of self raising flour and oats.

If you are finding it difficult to get hold of golden syrup, then you can substitute honey or maple syrup.

This recipe will make about 10 cookie bars depending on the size cookie you like!

By Rose Hart

You will need:

  • 130g Butter

  •  130g Soft Brown Sugar

  • 100g Golden Syrup

  •  170g Self Raising Flour

  • 200g Rolled Oats

  •  2 generous tbsp Nutella or Chocolate Spread

  • 150g Dark Cooking Chocolate Chips or Chunks

She took a bite, had to try it

She took a bite, had to try it

 

Method:

  • Line and grease a 20cm square tin and preheat the oven to 170degrees.

  •   In a medium pan melt together the butter, sugar and golden syrup over a low - medium heat and stir together well.

  •  Then turn the heat off 

  • Add the flour, and give it a good stir.

  •  Add the rolled oats and mix in well until all the flour and oats are well incorporated, making sure you get right round the bottom edges of the pan. 

  • The mixture should be soft, but not too sticky.

  •  This cookie mix should now be cool enough to handle, with your hands press half the mixture over the bottom of the prepared tin and smooth with the back of a spoon.

  • Spoon the Nutella or chocolate spread over this layer and level it keeping the chocolate spread about 1-2cm away from the edges.

  • Carefully spread and press the remaining cookie dough over the chocolate spread and smooth with the back of a spoon. Don’t worry if a little of the chocolate spread oozes out, it’s all going to be covered in chocolate.

  •  Bake for about 10mins or until slightly golden. (The longer you cook this the harder the cookies will be. I like mine soft, 10mins is perfect for me.)

  •  Remove from the oven allow to cool in the tin while you melt the dark chocolate.

  • Melt the dark chocolate in a bain marie (heat proof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water)

  •  Once completely melted pour over the oat cookie slab (I keep the cookie in the tin to keep the chocolate under control)

  • Allow to set, cool completely, remove from the tin then slice into bars and enjoy!!

They look irresistible.

They look irresistible.



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