Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

What a great day Easter is, and not only because its the one calender day that you are allowed to eat ectreme amounts of chocolate without any negative thoughts or comments. I would usually spend the day munching on endless amounts of chocolate including my favourite, creme eggs. I am suprised with myself that I haven't even had one this year! In Australia we also have a fantastic creation, the chocolate hot cross bun! Glorious and soft, chocolately naughtiness. I remember the first time we tried these when we were here on holiday before we moved to Australia at my grandads. We had them toasted and they were as fantastic as pain aux chocolat! and I love pain aux chocolat! these were doughy with warm mouth explosions of soft, liquid chocolate, perfect. This year I have been very good and only had 2 chocolate hot cross buns and 2 regular hot cross buns.

But to say that was it would be to tell a lie. We celebrated Easter Sunday on Saturday this year with the family and for pudding I made a hot cross bun pudding, or what my sister liked to call "bunning"! What I did was cut 8 of the left over homemade, chocolate and regular hot cross buns into small cubes and just soaked these in 8 eggs with a cup of milk. I pressed the gooey mixture into a tall cake tin and baked on 160 degrees centigrade for 45 mins, until the outside was crispy. It came out like a crispy christmas cake and smelt gorgeous! I served this with marscapone with a good shot of Amarula cream. Amarula is quite like Baileys yet it originates from an African fruit which is then mixed with alchol and cream. It is gorgeous and add a fruitiness to the marscapone which was so beautiful, you just wanted more and more! It went down a treat and defiantly was a naughty treat for me!

Tonight I will bake a traditional roast chicken with crispy potatoes, I have some left over cheese selection from the cheese board last night to make a delicouse cauliflower cheese. I will also do some sauteed cabbage with peas and onions, delicous!

Happy Easter, a time to reflect on all the good things in life. Eat and enjoy being grateful for everything good in the world which we have been given!