Chocolate Box Girls: Bittersweet (8 page)
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Authors: Cathy Cassidy
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #General
Rocking Rocky Road Recipe – with Marshmallows!
You will need:
2 medium-sized bars of milk chocolate
A couple of handfuls of mini marshmallows
6 digestive biscuits (broken into largish chunks)
A handful of raisins (optional)
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water
Once the chocolate has melted, leave it to cool slightly then add the rest of the ingredients and mix well (but make sure that you don’t break up the biscuits too much)
Pour the mix into a baking tray, which has been lined with baking parchment, level out and put in the fridge for a few hours
Once the mix has set, tip it out of the tin and cut into squares, make yourself a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy!
Summer Fruit Skewers
For a refreshing healthy snack on those hot summer days, try making your own garden of fruit skewers.
You will need:
Your fave fruits (the best ones include kiwis, strawberries, grapes, oranges, and watermelon and pineapple slices)
10 or more wooden skewers
Heart, flower or butterfly cookie cutters
A shoe box (this will be your garden display)
What to do:
Using a chopping board carefully cut your chosen fruit into round shapes.
One at a time, lay your slices of fruit on the board and cut into flower, butterfly and heart shapes using the cookie cutters.
Carefully insert the skewers into the fruit to create a beautiful flower display.
Making a Flower:
• Cut a slice of pineapple into a flower shape and add to the skewer so it’s horizontal. Then add a small strawberry to the very top to make the centre of the flower. Add a couple of grapes to the ‘stem’ of the flower to look like leaves. Try other methods and designs too!
Top Tip!
For an extra-refreshing taste, serve with a yoghurt or cream-cheese dip!
Assemble your Flower Garden:
• Decorate your shoe box to make it look like a garden, using green paint, tissue paper, flower stickers, etc.
• Cut small holes into the top of the shoe box.
• Insert your flower skewers into the holes to create a flower border!
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