LINSPIRATION AND LINDULGENCE

Here we are at Friday afternoon on a glorious day in Adelaide - spring is sure in the air and everything seems brighter.

I have two recipes to share with you today - they came through a Christmas Group I belong to - and sound delicious.

Subway Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup unsalted butter

1/2 cup light brown sugar - packed

1/2 cup dark brown sugar - packed

1 cup white sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla

1 egg

1 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon salt

2 1/2 cups flour

2 1/2 cups chocolate chips or coarse chopped, semi sweet chocolate chunks.

Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Cream the butter with the brown and white sugars until well blended. Stir in vanilla and egg.

Fold in flour, baking soda, salt and lastly, chocolate chips.

Chill dough one hour.

Form into rounds the size of a golf ball and place two inches apart, on baking sheet.

Bake in a preheated 180C/350F oven until just light brown around the edges (14-16 minutes). Too much baking will make cookies hard. Cool on racks. They may seem a little underdone, but will set up as they cool.

and another one:

White Chocolate & Craisin Fudge

3 x 375g packets of white chocolate melts

2 x Cans of condensed milk

3/4 cup of pure icing sugar, sifted

1 cup of craisins, chopped

1. Line 2 x 20 cm square cake tins with baking paper. Put the white chocolate melts and condensed milk in a heatproof basin and stir with a metal spoon over simmering water until the mixture is smooth. Remove from heat.

2. Add the icing sugar and craisin and stir to combine. Spoon mixture into prepared tins and smooth surface. Pit in the fridge for several hours or overnight until set, then turn out and use a cookie cutter to cut out fudge shapes like stars.

(****helpful hint**** - fudge will freeze)- although why would you bother freezing it when you could eat it instead?

I hope you find them interesting and they inspire you enough to try them out. The white chocolate fudge sounds wonderful to me. I saw the craisins when I was shopping this morning - but forgot to get them. Until recently I didn't know that dried cranberries were called "craisins" so there you - something new to learn each day.

It is a beautiful day - I sat outside and had lunch (well really the cat and I did) she decided to wander over and join me for lunch. The sun was warm, the birds were singing, a butterfly in my garden and my neighbour is cooking and Oh Boy does it smell delicious - almost invited myself over for lunch.

I had a sandwich and it was lovely sitting there after lunch reading.

Enjoy this last day of the working week and get ready to have a wonderful weekend.

Love and hugs,