coconut macaroons

Ingredients

• 4 egg whites
• 35g swetener
• 71g desiccated coconut

Method

1. Beat the egg whites until frothy (Make sure no yolk whatsoever has contaminated the egg whites, otherwise you could be whisking for ever!)
2. Add the sweetener and beat until stiff. 
3. Fold in the coconut, put mixture into a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe 30 macaroons onto a parchment covered baking sheet.
4. Bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven (170ºC/150ºC Fan/Gas Mark 3).
5. Remove from oven, and allow to cool for a few minutes before removing them from the baking sheet.

shortbread

Ingredients

• 125g/4oz butter
• 55g/2oz caster sugar, plus extra to finish
• 180g/6oz plain flour

Method

1. Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.
2. Beat the butter and the sugar together until smooth.
3. Stir in the flour to get a smooth paste. Turn on to a work surface and gently roll out until the paste is 1cm/½in thick.
4. Cut into rounds or fingers and place onto a baking tray. Sprinkle with caster sugar and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.
5. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until pale golden-brown. Set aside to cool on a wire rack.

I got 38 biscuits out of the dough as i cut them quite small.

bacon, tomato and pasta

This is really easy to make and syn free.

I used:

pasta,
tin of tomatoes
bacon
garlic
basil
chilli flakes
mushrooms
pepper
onion.


cook the pasta how you normally would.

Fry, onion, garlic, mushrooms, pepper and bacon together. once cooked, add the tin of tomatoes, basil and chilli flakes.

once all cooked add to pasta

a bit of fun for those people on the slimming world plan.

17 Experiences every SW member will have...
You only know if you've been there, man... so pour yourself a Mug Shot, put your feet up and read our fave Slimming World experiences. How many have happened to you?
1. You’ve never been that hot at maths but you can suddenly count the Syn value of any meal in your head like you’re Rain Man.
2. You’re as obsessed with your next stone ‘shinies’ as a little boy with a Panini World Cup sticker album. Sadly, swapsies aren’t allowed…
3. When you learn that there’s a recipe for Slimming World friendly Syn free chips you realise there is a God.
4. When you don’t plan ahead, you end up having weird meal combos to make sure you get your fruit and veg speed foods in. Slimming World fry up with a side of broccoli, anyone?
5. Your herb and spice rack is suddenly overflowing…
6. … and so is your Tupperware cupboard.
7. A stategically timed wee before a weigh in can really make the difference and help you lose that extra 0.5lb.
8. Your partner starts complaining about your dreaded ‘Slimming World farts’.
9. Your mind boggles at that one woman in group who moans she’s not losing weight with one breath then brags about her weekend binge with another…
10. …Apart from the week when that one woman is you.
11. This is how you feel when someone in your group reaches their target…
12. You know appoximately 300 recipes that include Quark.
13. A Friday night Fakeaway is better than a take away ever was, right.
14. You panic when the supermarket is out of Fry Light.
15. Between official weigh-ins your bathroom scales must be avoided at all costs. But you can’t resist tiptoeing onto them to check after an especially saintly weekend.
16. If something isn’t cooked in the Actifty, it’s done in the slow cooker.
17. After upping your water consumption, you spend much more time running to the loo. That counts as Body Magic, right?

a take on Ferrero Rocher

I love ferrero rochers and this cheat version is great.

I used 200g of milk chocolate and 10 ryvita.

It made 36 and works at of 2 syns each

chocolate orange cake

I have a taster night in group tomorrow so I've made the following case:

Ingredients

• 4 eggs, separated
• 50g caster sugar
• 5 tbsp artificial sweetener
• 150g self raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp finely grated orange zest
• Juice of 2 oranges
• 120g Kraft chocolate Philadelphia
• Tin of mandarin oranges (drained of syrup)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C Fan/Gas 5. Line a cake tin with non-stick baking parchment, approximately 24cm x 17cm.
2. Place the egg yolks, caster sugar, sweetener, self raising flour, baking powder, orange zest and juice in a bowl and whisk until thick and pale.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites until softly peaked then fold them into the egg yolk mixture. Spoon this mixture into the prepared cake tin and cook in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until the cake has risen and is firm to touch. Leave to cool.
4. Warm the chocolate Philadelphia in the microwave for a few seconds, then turn the cake upside down, remove the baking parchment and spread the chocolate Philadelphia over the top.
5. Cut into 24 pieces and place a mandarin orange segment on the top of each square.