Swimming was first order of the day (they LOVE swimming. I HATE swimming. Well no, I like actual swimming, I do NOT like being half blind in a pool surrounded by boistrous screaming splashing children...) which they adore and which was quite funny in a terrifying way.
We then popped to town to get the ingredients for a chinese banquet the husband was planning, and while we were there grabbed the bits and pieces required to make cake pops.
Not any cake pops, these were the ludicrously easy ones that Lorraine Pascal made by crushing up oreos on her programme the other day. I love Lorraine, but she sometimes takes the "simple" thing a little too far - who can forget her dessert of swiss roll and ice cream...
You will need:
about two packs of oreos
enough nutella to glue them together
white chocolate
sprinkles and nuts
lollipop sticks
add your oreos to a blender (we have such a pathetic blender it took several goes...)
Mix it up with nutella and then roll into 8 - 10 balls, place on a baking sheet and put in the fridge for fifteen minutes
break up and melt some white chocolate. Lorraine says cheaper is better. My stomach and tastebuds made me annoyed I'd believed her
Using some of the melted white chocolate as glue, stick lollipop stick (chopsticks in our house...) into the balls
put them back in the fridge for about 10 minutes for the white chocolate to set
prepare your decorations! (I love these ramikins, they came free with some ultra posh sticky toffee puddings and bread and butter puddings I got in waitrose)
decorate and then leave to set. Again! So much leaving to set, can't believe how patient the boys were!
CHOW DOWN
They were nice, in a "oh god I may vomit if I try and eat any more of this" kind of way. But they were fun, and easy, and we don't have an oven at the moment so it meant we could still do some baking without staring at the Halogen until our eyes bled...
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