Laziest Ever Malteser Cupcakes

I love maltesers.  They are possibly my all-time favourite chocolate/lolly thing ever.  So I was VERY happy when I discovered that Sainsbury's sells a Malteser hot chocolate mix.  And then I had bought a really cheap home brand vanilla sponge cake mix for a pound and got to thinking...what would happen if I mixed them together? Would it make an ACTUAL malty, vanilla-ry, chocolatey, malteser cupcake??

Well the answer is yes, yes it does!  The result, as it turned out, tasted amazing!! Vanilla and malt and chocolate, and this is seriously the easiest, laziest, cheat's recipe for malteser cupcakes ever AND they are delicious!

I used a packet vanilla sponge cake and a ready-made canister of vanilla icing, but you could easily substitute these for your own actual recipes if you're not feeling lazy.

Malteser Cupcakes

Ingredients

1 packet vanilla sponge cake mix
2 eggs
About 1/4 cup milk (judge it by how runny the mix is)
1/4 cup malteser hot chocolate mix
1 canister vanilla icing
Maltesers and milo for decoration

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius and put cupcake cases in a muffin tray.

2. Mix together the cake mix, malteser hot chocolate, eggs and milk until a runny consistency.

3. Spoon the mixture into the cases.  I tried putting a malteser into the middle of each cupcake thinking they would go nice and smooshy, and some of them did, but some also ended up quite hard so I would leave this to your judgement.

4. Bake in the oven about 20 minutes each.

5. When cool use the canister to ice them, dust a little milo over the top and add a malteser!

They really are incredibly easy and the combination of vanilla, malt and chocolate is just divine!  Hope you enjoy them :)

Christmas edit: I made these again a while later, only I decorated them differently for Christmas! They are very versatile ;)

Banana Blueberry Bread

I felt like doing some baking, and I had bananas that were very ripe and needed to be used, so I found an easy low-fat recipe on an app, and adjusted it a bit, to make this delicious low-fat Banana Blueberry Bread!
The recipe is really easy, and it smells heavenly while cooking; my housemates kept asking me what I was making and saying how good it smelled (to remind me to share? I was planning to anyway!), and then that it was delicious when done.  Tastes amazing while still warm from the oven, and was also still moist and yummy the next day.

Would probably keep for longer, but it didn't last that long!

Enjoy :)

Banana Blueberry Bread

Ingredients

1/2 cup mashed overripe bananas
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup reduced-fat milk
1 tbs light olive or vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
3/4 cup fresh blueberries
cinnamon and nutmeg

Steps

1 - Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
2 - Combine the banana, sugar, milk, eggs and oil in a bowl.
3 - Sift over the flour and fold gently into the banana mixture until just combined. Add the blueberries and gently fold in as well.
4 - Pour mixture into a pan and sprinkle with a little caster sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg as desired.
5 - Bake in oven for one hour or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.

Voila!  I only waited a couple of minutes before digging in while it was still warm and gooey, delish!