Snawbaws! That's Glaswegian for "snowballs" by the way

Oozy Snawbaws, You know you wanna lick the ooze. Do it. I won't tell.

Hello one and all.
This here recipe is inspired by the frosty Kingdom of the North.
Yeah, that's right.! GLASGOW.

Be that as it may, it's actually really sunny right now. GASP!
I may get my yearly recommended dose of Vitamin D yet.

The little oozy balls (or baws as we say) above are made of chocolate cake covered in coconut with raspberry marshmallow filling.
Dang they were tasty.

Here's a fitting frosty video by Immortal to get you in the mood.
I  did not wear corpse paint while making the baws.
In hindsight, I wish I had.

Just for the record, when I first read the title for the video I thought it said "Grim and Frostbitten Kittens".
Now that would make a good video.





Snawbaws

Makes 12

Ingredients

1 jar raspberry marshmallow fluff
300g chocolate cake. You can make your own or buy it in if you can't be bothered.
250g buttercream. Again, you can make this yourself or buy it in.
200g desecrated (har har, I feel I have made this joke before?) coconut

First you want to put your marshmallow fluff in the freezer. Preferably overnight but a couple of hours will suffice.

Next, get your choc cake and break it up into a bowl and crumble with your fingers till you get fine crumbs.

Mix the buttercream with the chocolate crumbs till combined and mouldable. You can make rude shapes with it as this point for fun if you feel the need. Then divide into 12 equal balls.

Put your coconut onto a flat plate.

Get your marshmallow fluff out the freezer and using a teaspoon get 12 blobs. Roll the blobs in your hands till you get something resembling a ball. You can dust your hands with icing sugar to stop it from sticking to your hands.

Grab a ball of choc cake mix and flatten it in your hand. Place the marshmallow fluff ball in the middle and press the chocolate cake mix around it. If you don't cover it all they will get a bit oozy like the ones I made but they still taste great.

When covered, roll the balls in the coconut, place onto a plate or tray. When all the balls are made cover with cling film and put into the fridge for about an hour.

They are great with coffee. Even better with Long Island Ice Tea. Hee hee.

Apologies for the poor quality photo. I'd had a lot of Long island Iced Tea.

If Mills and Boon wrote recipe reviews.

I call this story " I Dream in Chocolate".

I walked into the room. The air was hot and filled with a sweet musk. 
There, lying on the counter......  The sight I held before me made my knees weaken.
I saw in an instant what I had been longing for. What my body needed.
My passions igniting. Anticipation sending shocks of electricity shooting through my whole body.
Unconsciously I moved forward. My hand reaching out to touch the soft, supple, glistening moistness.
Calling to me, beckoning me.
I let my fingers caress the surface. I slid my hand in between its moistness and a cold shock surged through me.
My heart started to race.
Before I knew it I was on my knees devouring it whole.
Oh, the exquisite ecstasy.
My body shook.
I gasped, flush with gorging.

Damn that was a good mint, choc, chip, chocolate sponge, ice cream sandwich.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Here's a little song to get you in the loving mood and make you come over all a quiver.

Bow down to me. I am the "Lemmyington"

Lamington : a sponge cake dipped in chocolate icing and coconut.



Lamington, Lemmy, Lemmyington. See what I did there?

Well, I can't take credit for this one.
I love food puns and this particular one was thought up by my buddy Pauline while we were lying on the couch, slightly hungover. Thanks Polly.x



If you guys wanna learn how to bake, I'm your gal.
Stick with me kids and I'll teach you all the dirty little secrets of a baker. 
And baking aint just for girls. Guy's, you can make "man cake" too.
I would recommend for anyone who wants to take baking seriously that you invest in an electric hand mixer. You can get cheapo ones for about £5.
Unless you think you can handle the burn of whisking by hand. Good luck to ya.

Lemmyntons

For the sponge

3 large eggs
100g caster sugar
100g self raising flour
half teaspoon vanilla extract
20g butter melted

raspberry jam

For the icing

250g icing sugar
50g good quality dark chocolate
50g good quality milk chocolate
15g butter
65ml milk
200g DESICRATED (desicated har har) coconut

To makey the cakey

Pre heat your oven to 180 degrees or equivalent
Grease a baking tin (about 20cm x 30cm) or what ever you have lying around in your kitchen and line with baking paper.
Put the eggs and sugar in a large mixing bowl and using your electric hand mixer whisk on high for about 5-6 minutes until light and very thick. Kinda like cream.
Sieve in your flour and fold in with a spatula or metal spoon. Be gentle as you don't want to knock out the air.
Pour in the vanilla and melted butter and fold in gently until incorporated.
Pour into your tin and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. The cake should be slightly springy on top. Check by inserting a knife, if it comes out with no mix stuck to it then the cake is ready.
Leave to cool for 5 minutes then take out of the tin and place onto a wire rack. Cool completely.

I like my Lemmyingtons with jam. So slice the sponge through the middle and spread with jam. Sandwich together then cut into 12 equal sized squares.

To make the icing bung all the ingredients EXCEPT the coconut into a heat proof bowl.
Put your coconut onto a large plate or tray. Put a saucepan filled with one third of water on to simmer. Place the bowl on top making sure the water does not touch the bottom of it. Mix until butter, chocolate and icing sugar has melted and the icing is smooth and runny. Take off the heat. Place one spongy square at a time into the icing to coat all over, shake the excess off and coat in the coconut. Place onto a piece of baking paper to dry.
The Lemmyingtons will keep for about 3 days in an airtight container but if you are anything like me (greedy) then they will be gone within 20 minutes.

All hail the "LEMMYINGTON"

So, while I was sitting waiting on my sponge cooling I was watching Kerrang and a 30 seconds to Mars video came on (No I shall not desecrate the pages of my blog with that Emo pap. Attractive as Mr Leto is, his band just does not cut the Heavy Metal mustard). I was wondering weather I thought Jared Leto looked hot with a Mohawk? Couldn't decide. I was also wondering that when a singer in a band has a stylist to make him "look" Rawk! is it time to give up???????
Thank God for bands like "Hellyeah".



P.S. I will start putting pictures up when I figure out how to use my camera. XXXXXX