Chocolate and Ginger nut treats

I recently made these Chocolate and Ginger Nut Treats which I found somewhere on someones blog, but in true Liezl stylie, I now don't know where.

Anyway, I have been getting so many raves and nice compliments about them that I just had to share them with you. And the best thing of all is that they DON'T have to go in the oven.



** I just have to say that this is not the recipy I followed, as I can't find it again. But I do remember the ingredients, and the recipy below is everything that I put in ;-) **

Ingredients:

100 g unsalted butter
185 g chocolate
2 tablespoons golden syrup
225 g ginger nut biscuits (crushed)

Directions:

Lighty oil a 18cm/7inch sandwich tin.

In a saucepan heat the butter 100g/4oz of chocolate and golden syrup, stir until melted.

Remove from heat and stir in the biscuit crumbs.

Press warm mixture into tin.

Melt remaining chocolate, then spoon on top.

Chill at least an hour before serving.

Suggestion:

You could always use white chocolate for step 5 (like I did) and sprinkle over some crushed toasted nuts on top (I didn't).


But most of all, sit back and enjoy!!
(Both the treats and the praises from other people ;-) )

Bead Flowers for my Sister's wedding

As you might recall my sister Lara got married back in April and I made her this blanket as a wedding present.

She and Iwan decided to get married in Mauritius and unfortunately I couldn't attend the wedding, so I decided to send her a little something for the day itself.

When she was still planning to have the "Big Traditional Wedding" in Riversdale, she had her heart set on a blue theme, but that then got canned when Mauritius came along. This gave me a starting point for the colour of the flowers that I wanted to make for her.

Being a beach wedding I knew it wasn't going to be very formal and she would probably not do the whole "something old, something new" thing, but I wanted her to have something blue nonetheless.

I made 3 long stemmed blue bead flowers to get incorporated into Lara's bouquet, 2 blue hairclips for her beautiful hair. And for Iwan I made a little bunch of 4 flowers as a button hole thingie.

I sent it to my other sister, Melissa, because she and her partner was going to be the only other guests at the wedding and I wanted her to give it to Lara on the day.

As it happens, the package never made it before they flew out to the wedding, but at least I knew that the idea was there and she knows that I was thinking of her on her Big Day! (That the South African postal service for you :( )

Have a look and let me know what you think.