Last weekend I baked Vivianna’s absolutely delicious triple chocolate cookies. I have baked these cookies 3 or 4 times since I discovered the recipe earlier in the year as they are just too good. If you love Ben’s Cookies then this is the closest homemade version I have ever come across. The recipe is really easy to follow, no sifting is needed and they take less than an hour from start to finish. I’m drooling over their gooey triple chocolatey-ness just thinking about them.

Are you tempted?

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400g plain flour
175g caster sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
Finely grated zest of 1 orange (optional)
½ tsp salt
284ml buttermilk
2 eggs, beaten
85g butter, melted
250g mixed berries

Takes 30 minutes | Makes 12

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/ Gas 6/ fan oven 180°C. Line one muffin tin with muffin cases and set aside.
2. In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, zest and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together the buttermilk, eggs and butter.
3. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the buttermilk mixture. Stir until the ingredients are just combined and the mixture is quite stiff, but be careful not to over mix.
4. Lightly fold in the mixed berries (I used frozen), then spoon the mixture into the muffin cases filling generously.
5. Bake for 15-18 minutes until pale golden on top.
6. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

This recipe was taken from the BBC GoodFood 101 Cakes and Bakes – Blackberry Muffins Recipe.

I really enjoyed baking these muffins last Saturday and I’m very pleased with how they turned out – moist, fruity and not too sweet. I probably shouldn’t be eating them for breakfast but they do have fruit in so that must count as sort-of healthy, right? What have you been baking recently?

On a side note, is anyone else looking forward to the Great British Bake Off this evening as much as I am? I have been looking forward to it all week!

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Whilst on my weekly food shop, I decided that I wanted to buy the ingredients to make a fruit salad (pretty much a spur of the moment craving!). I love fruit but I don’t eat them nearly as often as I should, and when I fill up my fruit bowl I often forget to eat them before they go bad. But I find that if I go to the effort of making a fruit salad I will eat it for breakfast or as a snack.

I didn’t have any specific fruit in mind so I just picked what I fancied and I am really pleased with how it turned out. Sorry for the picture heavy post but I couldn’t resist sharing the photos of my fruit salad (from every angle) – it just looks so inviting! The flavours and textures compliment each other really nicely – the crunch of the apples and grapes, the soft bananas and smooth nectarines work well together. Whenever I have made fruit salads in the past that I have enjoyed I haven’t made a note of them, so I thought that by posting the ingredients here I can refer to the fruit used previously and make it again or mix up the ingredients a bit. Maybe it will also inspire you to make your own fruit salad too :)

I used:

• 2 apples
• 3 bananas
• 125g of blueberries
• 200g of grapes
• 2 pears
• 2 nectarines
• 1 litre of apple and mango juice (I like a juicy fruit salad!)

The ingredients listed filled 3 of my jars from Aldi perfectly. I store them in the fridge so the fruit keeps longer.

How do you like to eat your fruit? What combinations of fruit do you like to use when you make a fruit salad?

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