Chocolate puff pastry bites

• 1 sheet puff pastry dough, thawed
• 1/2 cup bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup sweetened flaked coconut
• Garnish: Powdered sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut puff pastry sheet into thirds, then cut each sheet into 6 rectangles.
2. Make a small pile of chocolate chips on one side of a puff pastry rectangle. Fold other side over chocolate chips and seal by pressing fork tines onto the edges. It should look like a little piece of ravioli. Place on a nonstick cookie sheet, or a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Repeat with remaining ingredients.
3. Brush the tops of the puffs with melted butter, and press a bit of flaked coconut onto each square.
4. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until coconut is browned and puff pastry squares are a pale golden color. Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes.

These are awesome! I've just made quiches for a morning tea tomorrow and had a sheet left over, and the pastry came in a bag that doesn't reseal so I can't refreeze it. I thought "hmm what can I make?" then I found this recipe! Some of them exploded because I got overexcited and put too much chocolate in, but they still look cute, but maybe I'll just eat those ones before I pack the rest up to take to work tomorrow..... 

Rolled oat choc peanut butter slice

1/2 c butter, room temperature
1/2c sugar
1/2c brown sugar
1tsp vanilla
1 egg
2c rolled oats

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Add egg and mix thoroughly. Stir in rolled oats. Pour into a baking tray and bake for 20 minutes until golden.

When partially cool, ice:

1c choc chips
1/2c peanut butter

Microwave in short bursts, stir after each burst until mix is creamy. Spread over the partially cooled base and refrigerate for several hours until firm. Eat chilled.

Well, it turns out that you can't substitute butter for margarine in this. Margarine doesn't chill to a solid state like butter does, so when we sliced this, the icing came away from the base, and although apparently it tasted good, I couldn't get past how ugly it was! So we won't be making it again.

Perky Nana Cookies

200g softened butter
1c firmly packed brown sugar
1tsp vanilla
1 egg
2 1/4c flour
1 1/2tsp baking powder
3 chopped perky nanas
A handful of white chocolate chips

- Preheat oven to 180deg C
- Cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Add egg and mix
- Mix in flour and baking powder
- Add chocolate
- Roll into balls and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
YUM YUM YUM! I forgot to squish them so they're little doughy balls of banana-y goodness! So easy to make, messy to roll, and delicious to eat!

Lemon, oat & blueberry muffins

1 1/2c + 1/4c rolled oats
2tbsp firmly packed brow sugar
1 c + 2tbsp flour
1/2c white sugar
1tbsp baking powder
1/4tsp salt
1c milk
2 egg whites
2tbsp vegetable oil
1tsp grated lemon peel
1tsp vanilla
1c blueberries

- Preheat oven to 180deg C
- For the topping, combine 1/4c rolled oats and brown sugar. Put aside.
- Combine the remaining 1 1/2c oats and all other dry ingredients in a bowl. Mix well
- In a separate bowl combine egg whites, milk, vanilla, lemon peel and oil
- Add to dry ingredients, stir to combine and add blueberries
- Fill muffin cups until almost full, and sprinkle with brown sugar/oat mixture.
- Bake for approx 24 minutes until golden brown

Oops! I only added a tsp of baking powder! I'm not sure if it's that, or the recipe in general, but these are the type of muffins that don't come out of the muffin cup very easily. They're tasty, but very sticky. Won't make them again I don't think.

Nutella brownie bites

1c nutella (I put the jar in the microwave for 30 seconds to soften it)
2 eggs
1/2c + 2tbsp flour

- Preheat oven to 180deg C
- Mix nutella and eggs until smooth
- Add flour, mix until smooth
- Pour into muffin cups in muffin tray - DO NOT OVERFILL. THESE ARE BITE SIZED!
- Sprinkle some chocolate chips on the top if you want
- Bake for 12 mins

So easy! OMG THESE ARE AMAZING! Light and fluffy, and best of all, tastes like Nutella! My new favourite! Will definitely make these again, shame it takes almost a whole jar of nutella, but it's probably still cheaper than buying sugar? Maybe?