Marbled Cheesecake Brownies...

...a little square of chocolatey cheesecake heaven...Now all us here at Sew Appetising love a brownie of three!! But we also quite like a decent bit of cheesecake too...so what could be more perfect than a sneaky combo combining both?

The Best Ever Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies...

...or at least that's what my two Smallish People call them!! Although I think I may just have to agree with them!!

Rocky Road Chocolate Brownie Bites...

...in our house we are suckers for chocolate goodies...especially most variations of brownies...so as we are visiting friends this weekend, I thought some brownies would be a nice gift to take along...but I wanted to up the stakes slightly, I wanted a smaller bite-sized brownie...and possibly one with a topping (or two!!) I remembered a "hot brownie muffin" recipe form one of Small Ones cookbooks, but it was more of a hot pudding, but I was confident that I could 'tweak' away at it until it was what I wanted...

Chocolate Sables...

...via Edd (The Boy Who Bakes) Kimber...Wow! that is all I can say...they are delicious...if you like chocolatey things...as they are indeed very chocolatey...in fact, they should probably be renamed too, as there is a hidden ingredient in them that really comes to play once baked and tasted...

The Best Brownies...

...that I have made in a while...and I make quite a few!!!

Weekly Bake Off Challenge #3...

...Mary Berry's Ultimate Chocolate Roulade...

But some things just do go right...

...like these amazing Triple Chocolate Crackle Cookies...

Easter Eats...and Treats...

So what did you and yours enjoy this past Easter Week?

We had a great selection of meals, treats and puds...check these out...

The spicy, rice'y' Gumbo...

...'Sunny' Spanish Paella...

...a lovely 'Fishy Dishy'

...my first 'Proper' Quiche...

Spicy Pork with Jewelled Couscous...

...'Tear n' Share' Hot Cross Buns...

Yummy Carroty Cake Muffins...

...Delicious Chocolate Whirls...

 ...The Classic, Easter Nests...

 ...My Marbled Easter Bundt...

...Rhubarb Creams with Orange Shortbreads...

I feel I should end with "...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree..."!! But maybe "...and an Easter Egg after my Tea!!" would be more apt!!

I hope you all had a great holiday, I know we did, busy as it was with cooking, guests, DIY'ing'...and the smallish people to entertain...

Easter Treats #4....

...An Easter Bundt...after all, isn't there a Bundt for pretty much all seasons, celebrations or days of the week!?!?

Easter Treats #3...Kids in the Kitchen...

...this is the easiest of all Easter treats...the ubiquitous Easter Nests...and just look how great those guys look in their stripy little cases!!!


...We did mix it up a bit though...you know what we're like in the Sew Appetising House!!!

Easter Treats #2...

...Chocolate Whirls...this is another recipe taken from my 500 Cookies Book...This one was my choice...the smallish people have chosen a different recipe to make later this week for their Easter Treat...

Chocolate Almond Torte...

...Pudding for the weekend was the Chocolate and Almond Torte with homemade Mascarpone Ice-Cream...both of which came from my Mother's Day pressie cookbook..Lisa Faulkner's 'Recipes from my Mother for my Daughter' 

These are the second and third recipes I've tried from this book in the last week...(which is pretty good considering I only got it last weekend!!)

The pudding was originally planned for the Friday night, following the Veggie Indian Feast...here, here, here, here and here (will add the last two links when I post them!!)...but after that lot we were pretty full!! So the Torte got pushed to Saturday after the tasty Mushroom, Artichoke and Olive Bake...

'Dinner In' with Friends...

...a big thanks to Jules and family for being the hosts with the most...


...last night was a great night...the 4 of us went to friends for 'dinner in'...it's a great way to get together, no restaurant to book, no children to keep amused (they do it themselves when doing 'dinner in'), and a nice relaxed atmosphere...But best of all, we share the cooking!! The hosts do mains, the guests the puds...and as we were the guests, I got to make the puds...which last night were...

Mondays...with a bit of baking thrown in for good luck...

Mondays in our house tend to take a similar path each week...School run (always), supermarket (most Mondays), washing (does it ever end!), tidying (again...does it ever end??!!), catch up with emails, blog etc (if I have time)..dinner prep (definitely), a bit of baking (maybe), some sewing (if I'm lucky!)...school run (essential), dinner (goes without saying), cubs and guides (most Mondays), bedtime routines, grown-up time...and then we hit Tuesday...for the next 5 weeks or so, I am gong to be working Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so blogging will have to come either side...


But right now, let's concentrate on today...

Lunch Box Bakes...#2

Here we are the weekend already, and I need to think about what is going into lunch boxes for the week ahead...so...following on from the Gooey Brownie Traybake, the other favourite for the lunch box snack is home-made cookies.