London - Winter Wonderland & more!

Hi!

So at the weekend I went down to London. We went to the Winter

 Wonderland at Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, The London Eye, Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament, Leicester Square, Harrods  and Westminster Abbey.

Winter Wonderland is a massive Christmas market (the theme is traditional Germany) with an even bigger fairground. There are all sorts of stalls selling mulled wine, hot chocolate, candyfloss, Christmas decorations, sweets, gifts and so much more. The fairground is home to some of the scariest rides I've ever seen! It's all brightly lit and there are several bands playing and campfires dotted around, so the atmosphere is amazing. Also, the whole place smells of pretzels and chocolate!

The London Eye was also amazing, the view was great. I've been on before (a couple of years ago) and since then they've added a couple of new features, one of which is two tablets per pod/car/thing. The tablets have a program on which shows an image of the view as you see it from the top of the eye, and you can click on a building to find out lots of information about it (e.g. its name, how tall it is, when it was built etc.) Also, we were all looking for the Gherkin (which is a building if you didn't already know), and a little girl who was obviously from a different country started saying, "Where's the pickled cucumber?" It was so funny!

I'm not going to go into detail about the other things, but we had the best time. I also want to mention that there might not be another blog post until next year. I'll try and get one up, but if I don't, have an amazing Christmas and a happy new year! I do have a lot of posts planned though, so there won't be a lack of posts when I come back anyway.

See you soon,

Lucy x

Jumper- New Look

Jeans- New Look

Coat- New Look

 Hat- Primark

Shoes- Adidas

SNOW & Christmas comes early!

Hi!

So at the weekend I travelled up to the Peak District to go to a place called Flash. I went with a lot of friends who live all across the country and had an amazing time. It also snowed (a lot!) so we went for a walk around the hills, which was so cute, but it was freezing! I'll link some of my friend's social medias at the bottom, including Evie's YouTube channel, which is amazing and we filmed and vlogged, so keep an eye on that for the next couple of weeks to see some of the other ridiculous stuff we got up to! We had an early Christmas and decorated a tree, did a secret santa and had a turkey dinner, it was so fun!

Links (please check them out and let me know if any of them don't work!)

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucyisaabel/
Izzy C's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveizzyxo
Anna's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aanna.smith/
Izzy S's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/izzy.smithx/
Evie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveviex/
Evie's main channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbUVsql711RCkUmxNcaudMQ
Evie's vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyx228qbzJeaBKZ1s3DvTxw
Matt's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matttsmith_/
Henry's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/henryhumphwba/

Daim Bar Cookies

 

 

So today I made these delicious Daim bar cookies and I thought I'd share them (well, share the recipe)with you! As you can see, I literally made a mountain of these(45 in total) because I'm taking them with me for a big kind of Christmas party weekend on Friday. I'm freezing mine, I've done it before and it really works! They come out of the freezer just as gooey and amazing as when they go in.

To make 45, you'll need:


400g butter
600g caster sugar
2 eggs
650g self raising flour
300g chocolate(I used 200g milk chocolate and 100g white chocolate, but you can mix it up as you like)
100g Daim bar pieces(again, you could use more or less but I recommend using roughly 400g of chocolate altogether)
Wooden spoon
6-8 baking trays
Greaseproof paper
Fish slice thing(for getting them off the baking paper-know what I mean? No? K haha :P)
Mixing bowl

Ok, so before you start there's a few things you need to do. First, wash your hands(duh). Then preheat the oven to 200 degrees celsius/180 degrees for fan ovens. Line your baking trays by spreading a tiny bit of butter on the corners to stick the greaseproof paper down.

To make the dough, you need to cream together the butter and sugar. Do this by pushing the butter into the sugar using the back of the wooden spoon. WARNING: Learn from my mistake and do not use your fingers!!! The butter gets all over you and it doesn't come off, even if you re-wash your hands! It does wipe off, but it wastes the dough. Also, don't worry if the mixture's quite grainy at this point, it's supposed to be and it wears off when you add the other ingredients :).

Then add your eggs and mix together. If the mixture curdles(splits and won't mix properly), add a little bit of flour. Make sure you know how much flour you've added, then take that off how much more flour you put in. I think that last sentence only made sense in my head!

Next, add the rest of your flour. Do it gradually (about 150g at a time) until it's all mixed in and you have a dough. If it's too dry, add a tiny bit of milk to make it less crumbly.

Now add your chocolate. I recommend chopping everything up really small(or even grating it!) because otherwise you can't get all three types of chocolate into each cookie without them expanding to the size of the tray(I learned this the hard way).

Mould the dough into small round balls and place on a tray. You'll probably fit 4 onto a smaller tray and 9 on a bigger tray. Bake in the oven for 15-25 minutes depending on how gooey or crispy you want them. Leave them to cool before you eat them(that caramel gets hot!) and enjoy!