Carnation tin Chocolate Fudge recipe.

I was going through my cupboard looking for something to eat and I saw a recipe on the side of a tin of Carnation Condensed Milk.  Obviously it seemed like a brilliant idea to make some Chocolate Fudge and not at all like procrastination from my novel....

...suffice to say it was very tasty.  (The baby was annoyed with me for baking mind.)

If you would also like to make this fudge the recipe can be found here. 

You can also you make this recipe using supermarket own brand condensed milk if you wish to boycott Nestle or save a few pennies on your budget. (I made a second batch with ASDA chocolate and condensed milk which also tasted good.) I ended up giving most of this fudge away for Christmas, the bits that didn't disappear down my gullet that is. Heh heh heh!

Compliments. Blog Everyday in May.

I'm one of those people who struggle to accept compliments, they're very nice to receive but there's a rubbish part of my brain that doesn't think I deserve them. Sometimes another part of my brain warps things further and turns them into backhanded compliments.  Why this happens is a mystery to me!

Yet somehow this goes out the window when people compliment something I've made or an idea I've had! If someone compliments my sweet making,baking or writing I'm over the moon. I probably wouldn't hear if someone said you've made a delicious cake shame you look like you've been pulled through a hedge backwards... all I'd hear would be the cake bit. My favourite compliments have been when people say they like my novel idea and want to read the finished article or when someone compliments my writing when I've had an article or a recipe published.

So if you want to get into my good books now you know exactly what to say!

52 Recipe Challenge - Week 30 recipe 2.

Last week I decided to try a couple of recipes.  This was partly because I was enjoying trying new recipes but also because I was getting more job interviews and increasing in confidence, so I thought I'd transfer the confidence this was giving me to the kitchen. (Well at least a little bit of it!)

The recipe I decided to make this time was one I had seen on another foodie's blog Missie Cindz, this was around Christmas time but it stuck in my head... so I decided to get my ingredients and give it ago.

The original recipe can be found on Missie Cindz blog.  I would suggest if you'd like to try this to get the recipe from her blog!

When making this recipe I changed it slightly from the original one by only making white chocolate fudge and not using any cranberries or fruit in it.

To make it I used:

400g White Chocolate
1 Tin of Condensed Milk
A drizzle of Vanilla Essence

To start with I broke up the white chocolate and put it in a pan.

Then I opened the condensed milk and poured it on the white chocolate.

After that I turned the hob on and stirred the mixture to melt the white chocolate.

When the white chocolate had completely melted with the condensed milk I took it off the hob, added the vanilla essence and poured it into my waiting baking tray.

Job well done I thought, then I looked at Missie Cindz recipe again and realised I had forgotten something vital... the baking paper on the tray to help remove it!  It was too late for it at that point so I just put it in the fridge and hoped for the best.

The fudge set well! The only problem was getting it out of the baking tray...

In the end I just ripped the baking tray appart and was thankful I didn't make it in something sturdier!  The fudge itself turned out quite well, I'm pleased to say!

Now I just need to work out what to do with it!