Oreo Balls Recipe

My first recipe post! These are really easy to make (especially if you have no gas and can't use an oven...like me.) But onto the recipe for these tasty tasty balls. ;D This is gonna be an extremely picture heavy post...

What I spend my wages on.

Ingredients
You will need:
- 2 packs of Oreos.
- A load of chocolate of your choosing, I used more than half of that massive bar.
- Either cream cheese (Philadelphia will do) or a little tub of icing. (we went all out and used Betty Crocker chocolate fudge)
- Toothpicks/Cocktail sticks.
- Icing to decorate, if you want.

nomnom.

Smash it up as fine as possible. 

This stuff smells amazing.

Add it to your mess!

Keep mixing until it reaches a nice fudgey consistency. 

Make your bawlls. (Laura sacrificed her clean hands for this.)

Yummy balls. 

Melt your chocolate! (I did mine in the microwave, stopping every minute or so to make sure it's not burnt.)

Dip your bawlls in the chocolate. 

Took a lot longer than expected. 

Pop them in the fridge to set.

Take this opportunity to clean your hands :P

When they're set, take them out and cover them in silly patterns.

I was so proud :I

I TRIED to make a rosebud. Not sure why it's blue though.

Laura went crazy on the decorating. 

This beast.

So yeah! That's how you make oreo balls. Ours are still setting in the fridge and I'm slightly reluctant to eat them, it's like eating my love-children D: 

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Cybercandy Mystery Box

Cybercandy offers a great range of worldwide sweets and drinks, and I'd been debating buying some stuff off there for a while but every time I pick some stuff out it usually goes way over £20 for a few sweets. So, when I saw their mystery parcel section it tipped me over the edge and I had to order one. My mystery parcel was the "Cybercandy Bargain Mystery Parcel worth over £25" with £25 worth of sweets for £14.99. I also threw in some Tootsie Pop Drops and a York Peppermint Pattie which I'd tried before. 


My parcel arrived pretty quickly and I rushed home after work to tear it open in excitement. LO AND BEHOLD! 

I got a lot of AWESOME stuff. It was mostly American and I think I only had one thing that was Japanese but for £15 it's an impressive haul. I got: 
- 1x KitKat Chunky Cookies and Cream. (Absolutely amazing, really creamy with bits of Oreos inside.)
- 1x PB Twix (I couldn't eat this because of my nut allergy :c )
- 1x Dipdab (The same as the ones we get in the UK.)
- 1x Junior Mints. (Awesome. Like Mint Poppets but creamier and nicer.)
- 1x Strawberry Turkish Taff. (Not what I expected but really nice, soft and tasted like strawberry sweets.)
- 1x Liquorice Car. (I didn't eat it because I hate liquorice.)
- 1x Toffee Apple lollipop. (Very very sweet apple candy lollipop with toffee covering it.)
- 1x Apple Air Heads (Scarily green with a very strong apple flavouring.)
- 1x Goo Goo Cluster (Couldn't eat this but it was peanuts mixed up with chocolate and marshmellows, looked nice.)
- 4x Tootsie Pops. (Very sweet. Kinda hurts your teeth after a while but that tootsie center is delish.)
- 1x Tootsie Pop Drops (As above, but smaller and without the stick.)
- 1x box of Orange Airheads. (Not my kinda sweets, small orange flavour waxy balls.)
- 1x Cherry Ripe (LOVED IT. Like a Bounty bar but with cherry flavouring.)


Here's a few pics.

My lovely Cherry Ripe in its shiny packaging.

And after I'd taken a huge nom. It's literally like a thin Bounty with cherries. I need to get more of these. <3

Strange Hello Kitty sweets I left off the list because I don't know what they are. They're grape flavour tiny tiny balls, you bite into them and there's a strange popping sensation. It gets weirder because they taste more like white chocolate than grape. 

Eerily green Air Heads. 

Epic haul of sweets that lasted me a few days :D Go buy some! 


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CHANGES!

So, you may have noticed my blog is changing a bit. This is due to the fact that I've decided to not only blog about food, but all sorts of fun stuff. :D I've been reading a lot of beauty blogs lately and decided it looked like fun, it'll still mostly be food but I'll throw in a few beauty blogs too.


Wish me luck.


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Lockstone Pub Lunch

Lockstone, 22 Market Place, Nottingham NG10 1LT, 0115 946 9950.

On a surprisingly sunny day, (for Britain) me and my buddy Laura decided to have a bite to eat at Lockstone, seeing as it looked like a semi decent place to eat in Long Eaton. We wandered in and had a snoop around and it all looked pretty good, nice lighting and seating and OHYES Costa Coffee! I was sold and ushered her to a booth to have a look at the menu. 

Pretty good pub lunch stuff, the usual burgers and fish and chips, jacket potatoes and salads. But me and my carnivore friend were set on steak. So I wandered up to the bar to order food and get us some drinks, of course I get ID'd, what with looking 15 and having pink hair (And being about 5ft...). But I'm overjoyed as they have one of my favourite drinks ever. 

Brothers Toffee Apple Cider. 

I bloody love this stuff. I can't stand normal apple cider but this stuff is great, it actually tastes like toffee apples! Nice and sweet and really refreshing with ice in a glass. I got Laura a Kopparberg Pear cider which is equally as lovely, but I find it a little sickly after half a bottle. 

But back to the food. We settle ourselves down and after a short while the waiter brings our food over, but there's a problem. 

"I don't know which is the rare one and which is the medium one..." Uh, okay. So I say it's no problem, we'll figure it out when we start eating. Then he hands us our cutlery and they only have one steak knife. 

One steak knife. Really? 

Well, it looked pretty good. And it tasted good too, though BOTH steaks were medium in the end. The onion rings were the best part of the meal though, nice and crunchy :D We both tossed aside the tomato and tucked in and we enjoyed it. Laura finished hers first (because she's a hungry beast) and the waiter pounced on us. When he asked if we were finished and Laura said yes, when I say "No, I'm still eating" it's not a cue to take both our plates and leave me mid chew with a knife and fork in my hand,  staring at you blankly as you steal my food. 

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