So it is week 3 of the Great British Bake Off which means it is the third week of our Great Bloggers Bake Off!!! I was completely taken aback by the entries to the second linky – 40 in total which is amazing and all the bakes were so fantastic too. I love how everyone is continuing to challenge themselves and produce some outstanding bakes *pats everyone on the back*
Our second Star Baker was Bluebird Sunshine for her basic breadsticks and crispbreads – well done to her 🙂
So tonight’s show was all about Trifles, Floating Islands and Petits Fours which means that these are the themes for week 3 of the Great Bloggers Bake Off too.
So on to my efforts……. I was torn between making a trifle and trying my hand at macaroons, for petits fours, as I have never made the latter before, but do make a good trifle. Therefore, I decided to make some blackberry and elderflower macaroons. Unfortunately, owing to me being in too much of a rush to get on and make them this morning, I did not have any parchment paper and as a result my lovely pastel purple macaroons would not budge from the baking trays and I was not able to do anything with them!
*sighs deep sigh*
So, searching through my cupboards mid morning to see what I could cobble together I invented some Oreo & Baileys Chocolate Petits Fours – my own take on the theme. As delicious as they look and indeed taste, I think both Paul and Mary would not consider my petit fours to be worthy of a place on the GBBO because they are a cheats version as I did not have cornflour to make an actual creme patisserie! Luckily for me I have this Great Bloggers Bake Off where I am Jenny Berry and I am letting my efforts in and I promise to try harder next time!! *ahem*
So here is my recipe for Oreo & Baileys Chocolate Petits Fours (although they are a little large really, but hey big is beautiful too!)
This recipe made approx 20
You will need
2 packets of Oreo cookies
1 tbsp unsalted butter
1 x 200g tub of low fat cream cheese (or full fat if you want the calories!)
200g chocolate spread
300ml double cream
50ml Baileys liquor
1 pack of tiny Oreo cookies
1 x mini cupcake baking tray
Method
Pre-heat your oven to 180oC / 160oc (fan)
Grease the mini cupcake baking tray
Bash your Oreo cookies with a rolling pin until they resemble fine breadcrumbs
Gently melt the butter and then stir in the Oreo crumbs and mix well
Divide the biscuit crumbs between your baking tray holes Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes
Then allow to cool fully before carefully removing from the baking tray
For the chocolate filling, simply mix together the cream cheese and chocolate spread until smooth and combined.
Fill a piping bag and fill each Oreo case with the chocolate sauce
Place in the fridge for about 30 minutes to firm up
Meanwhile pour the double cream and Baileys into a bowl and beat until the cream thickens – not too thick but thick enough that it will hold its shape
Pour into a piping bag and take your chocolate filled petit fours out of the fridge and pipe the Baileys cream onto each one
Decorate with a tiny Oreo or cut a normal sized Oreo into quarters and place a quarter on top of the cream instead
And that is it – very simple but very delicious and can be made in next to no time. My kind of cooking!
So now it is your turn again – please add your wonderful bakes to the linky below and for anyone who is new please see the rules for entering here and here is the badge.
Good luck
i think you should pack your petite fours in a box and post them all to me
done! x
Next time I’m going for the quick and easy rather than the day long effort!
yes but yours look betetr for it x
Bailey’s and Oreos? *Drools* So indulgent looking… I’m sorry to hear about your macarons though, mine didn’t work out either 🙁 So I think I’m going to play it safe with a trifle (although I’ve never made one before, so who knows how it will turn out!)
they taste indulgent too! I am glad to hear (in a nice way of course!) that someone else had problems making macaroons too – it was such a shame as I had my hopes pinned on it too! good luck with your next bake x
They look so pretty, Jenny. You’ve don an amazing job x
done 😉
thanks Carolin – they could have been a little more refined but i am pleased with them and they taste soooooo good x
omg, they look delicious and so easy! I would not have cooked the biscuit base, can I ask does it make a difference or can the method be simplified even further?
thank you. to be honest i think you could just chill the bases – i cooked them because i was trying to replicate pastry which needs baking and this is a bake off challenge! Next time i make them, i will just chill them as you say even easier then! x
As a working single Mom I like simple but also do the full cooking/baking thing when I have time. As no cook its something the kids can do (obviously without Baileys!)
i think it would work great as a no cook and as a cheesecake made larger of course! As you say plain cream for the children! x
They look fantastic! I love the way that you’ve made the base, and the combination of flavours must be delicious.
thank you they do taste yummy and i think made on a larger scale would make for a scrummy cheesecake! x
oh wow! Do you have any left? 😉
yes please take them i am getting fat! x
Oh wow, how beautiful are these! You are so talented! Thanks for linking up x
thank you x
These look great Jenny, bite-sized yummies! Want to do the floating islands but so many eggs!! Will have a go at petit fours too, hopefully! x
thank you – they were a bit yummy! ooooh i look forward to see what little tasty wonders you come up with x
They look amazing, and not something I could rustle up from cupboard ingredients! Yummo! Sorry your macaroons were a fail but at least you know where you went wrong and there’s hope that if you try them again they’ll work.
thank you – I kind of like the challenge of seeing what I can make from nothing! and i will try to make macarons another time!! x
I thought I’d commented on this but I must have got carried away just looking at them – they look delicious & so simple…a perfect mouthful!
x
thank you, they were simple compared to what everyone has made eeek x
Oh my… how did you not devour these within seconds of finishing them?! They wouldn’t of stayed around long enough for a photograph, if they’d been in my kitchen. Oreo and Baileys – heaven! x
thank you they did taste delicious even if i do say so myself ! x
Wowzers, I jut know I would never stop at just one of those petit fours and THAT’S where my downfall is, no will power and zero resistance.
Delicious Jenny
thank you Mari – i ate more than four!!! x
oh my, they look good. I was really tempted to taking part of the linky but am working hard to lose my toddler weight – not even baby anymore lol
oh i fear i have put weight on since i started this linky!! x
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ooooh Jenny, my kind of Petit Four 🙂
thank you :0
Those do look lovely. I have never really fancied Oreos but I can see this recipe changing my mind
i only tried an oreo for the 1st time last year – oh my they are yummy x
Wow they look awesome. I didn’t get any good pictures in the light today so will have to update the post tomorrow.
You are so inventive, they look delicious! And I certainly wouldn’t mind them being too big, as one normal size one wouldn’t satisfy me!
Nipping over from ‘Recipe Of The Week’.
Will you pin this to the Everything Coffee collaborative board please lovely? I can’t as we’re only supposed to pin our own recipes (damn me and my stupid rules!) http://pinterest.com/theboyandme/everything-coffee/
These are actually making my mouth water. They’re so pretty! Thanks for linking them up to #recipeoftheweek 🙂