Waffles with Strawberries, Banana and Cream

On a Monday you need dessert. End of story. But dessert doesn't always have to consist of ice cream straight from the tub or indulgent chocolate puddings or decadent cheesecakes, dessert can consist of fruit and still be satisfying and delicious....don't believe me....check these waffles out and tell me I'm wrong. 

This recipe makes 2 of the waffles shown in the picture. 

.6 cup of plain flour
.6 tspn baking powder
1 tbspn caster sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
30g butter, melted
1/2 cup strawberries sliced
2 small bananas sliced
whipped cream

Pre-heat your waffle maker.

Combine the flour, baking powder and sugar in a mixing bowl.

Stir through the egg, milk and melted butter.

Pour half of the mixture into your waffle maker, close the lid and cook for 4-5 mins or until golden.

Repeat with remaining mixture.

Serve topped with strawberries, banana and whipped cream.

I just adore banana and whipped cream and with the addition of strawberries and a freshly cooked golden waffle, it is the perfect dessert. I also love that it's a lovely light way to end a meal, plus it looks really specky so it makes you feel like you are indulging in a decadent dessert without leaving you with that heavy 'oh i've over eaten' feeling!

Enjoy!

Mrs B xx

Toffee Waffle Ice Cream Cake

Tuesday is not a nice day, the weekend just gone is still fresh in your mind, the weekend to come is so far away and sprawled out in front of you is the remainder of the week, tauting you with it's work and routine and general nastiness...

I think Tuesday is a good day for an ice cream cake....

Ice cream fixes everything....

Except for an ice cream headache.....

Let me tell you about this particular ice cream cake....

It has layers of english toffee ice cream and waffles drizzled in a rich toffee sauce....see you're feeling better just thinking about it aren't you?


And the best thing is, it's so easy to put together!!

All you need is:

2L english toffee ice cream
1L vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup of condensed milk
1 tbspn brown sugar
2 tbspn cream
200g frozen waffles

Let the ice cream soften on the bench while you make the sauce.

Combine the condensed milk, brown sugar and cream in a microwave safe dish and cook in 30 second bursts until it is thick and golden in colour.

Now in a large bowl mix the two ice creams together. Don't let it completely melt though or it will re-freeze all icy...

Now line a tin (roughly 9cm deep and 20cm square) with cling wrap.

Spoon roughly 1/2 of the ice cream into the tin and flatten out.

Top with 1/4 of the toffee sauce and a layer of waffles and 1/3 of the remaining toffee sauce.

Repeat.

Now place in the freezer overnight (or if you really can't wait like Mr B, about 4 hours should do). Remove from the tin and spoil yourself, enjoy it with a dollop of whipped cream and a sprinkle of chocolate!



Mrs B x

Berry Wonderful Delights!

Ok so what do you do when you buy a 1kg box of frozen berries purely because they are only $3 I hear you ask? You make some wonderful goodies with them!

Firsty, my fave brekkie over the holidays has involved chucking a handful of berries in the microwave till they are all syrupy, pouring them over a bowl of no fat yoghurt, and drizzling with maple syrup, totally delicious and filling!

But then, as previous mentioned, I got to thinking about OH and his no pudding eating dilema....seeing as he ate all the ice cream I made, could I really sit there and let him watch me eat dessert all week? Probably not...well I could, but it would definetly lower my enjoyment of the whole thing, so I decided to make a new twist on one of his favourite desserts. I covered the base of a baking dish with the frozen berries, drizzled them with maple syrup (yes I am going through a maple syrup phase...) and poured over a prepared butter cake mix. Chucked it in the oven for about 40 mins and there you have it, Berry and Maple Pudding...oh it smelt and looked delicious!


And this morning, seeing as tomorrow is our last day of holidays, we thought we should get our act together and try our brand spanking new waffle maker (thanks Mum and Dad!!). So I sent OH out to pick some raspberries from behind our shed (I know - who knew we had raspberry canes!!) and I made the waffle batter. The batters in the instruction book were all about seperating this and beating that and blah blah blah, who wants to do that on a Sunday morning? Instead I made this recipe which makes 4 large waffles.

1 1/3 cups self raising flour
2 tspns baking powder
2 tbspns sugar
2 eggs
1 tspn vanilla
1/2 cup milk

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl. Combine egg, vanilla and milk and add to mix. It will make a fairly thick mixture so don't be alarmed like I was at first!

Then you just pre heat your waffle maker and spoon it in, as it's a thick mixture, I just put a big blob in the middle and try and spread it out as best as possible, but remember it will spread out on its own.


So this morning we had them with fresh raspberries, maple syrup (I really must see someone about this....) and a dollop of light cream (I never knew they had light dollop cream either, I'm so behind!) and they were delicious! It's going to be very hard to go back to frozen raspberries and store brought ones because the fresh ones are just heaven!

Just a few quick and easy ways to make some berry-licious treats!!

Em x