...baking Cadbury's creme egg brownies and cookie slabs

It could be this breast feeding lark is making me hungrier but mamahood is turning me into a bit of a baker... 

Creme Egg Brownies
For Easter, I baked these decadent creme egg brownies with a recipe found on Precious Little Worlds blog.

Recipe:

185g unsalted butter 

185g best dark chocolate 
85g plain flour 
40g cocoa powder 3 large eggs
275g golden caster sugar
6 Cadbury’s Crème eggs cut in half

Preheat the oven to 160C and grease a 20 cm square baking tin.
Melt the butter and dark chocolate together either in the microwave or in a bowl over boiling water.
Break 3 large eggs into a large bowl and tip in 275g golden caster sugar. With an electric mixer on maximum speed, whisk the eggs and sugar until they look thick and creamy, like a milk shake. This can take 3-8 minutes. You will know it's ready when the mixture becomes really pale and about double its original volume.
Pour the cooled chocolate mixture over the eggy mousse, and then gently fold together.
Hold a sieve over the bowl of eggy chocolate mixture and sift the cocoa and flour mixture, shaking the sieve from side to side, to cover the top evenly. 

Gently fold in to the mixture.
Pour into the baking tin and cook for 15 minutes then take out of the over and gently press the cadburys crème egg halves into the mix, spacing them apart evenly. 

Put back in the oven for another 10 minutes.

Leave to cool before removing from tin and cutting into squares.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Slab

I love this Chocolate Chip Cookie Slab recipe because it is so simple to make and so addictive.

Recipe

220g (7 3/4oz) butter, softened

200 (7oz) brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

300g (10 ½oz) plain flour

200g(7oz) plain or milk chocolate chopped into chunks

Preheat the oven to 180 °C/ 350 °F /gas mark 4.

Lightly grease a 38x25 in (15 x 10 in) baking tin.

Beat the butter and sugar together using an electric mixer until light and fluffy, (no less than five minutes!). 

Beat in the vanilla extract. 

Stir in the flour and chocolate chunks.

Pat the dough into the prepared tray.

Put in the oven and bake for 28 minutes. You know its ready when the edges go slightly crispy.

Cool and then cut into slabs.

Another incentive to bake more is that the sound of the electric mixer stops Jesse crying...

Chilling while I'm mixing