Halloween/autumn treats

HALLOWEEN\ Fall Treats 

I decided to do autumn/fall halloweenish treats, something a little different to give to trick or theaters and was fun to do with roman, well i was so wrong it was a major disaster nothing was going right, the caramel was just sliding off the apples and so did the chocolate! just goes to show im just human and a mummy! it was a lot of fun to do with roman and the tasted lush!

 Because it was such and epic fail i had loads of left over caramel and chocolate so i made slabs of caramel and chocolate with different topping which can easily  be broken up and shared out. Roman loved doing that and decorating the chocolate>

so this is how i made these yummy treats:

what you will need 

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Chocolate Apples

• 10 apples (5 caramel, 5 chocolate) washed ,dried and cold!!!! 
• lollipop sticks 
• chocolate (white and milk but use whatever you prefer)
• topping of your choice (i used marshmallows, oreos and gold balls) 

Caramel sauce 

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups brown sugar 
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1/2tsp salt (add more if you want to make salted caramel)  
• 1 can condensed milk

topping

• chocolate peanuts 

To make the caramel sauce

• In a heavy saucepan melt the butter 
• then add the sugar syurp and salt
• cook over a medium heat for 10-12 mins 
• stir in the condensed milk and cook until your candy thermometer reaches 248 degrees(firm-ball stage)
• remove from the heat 
• line a baking tray with grease proof paper
• start to coat your apples   
•  if able to coat in crushed peanuts!!
• leave cool for 30mins -1hr( or place in the fridge)
• Enjoy

to make the chocolate apples

• place chocolate in a microwaveable bowl
• heat for 30 secs at a time (took me 1min 30 secs)
• line a baking tray with grease proof paper 
• coat each apple with a generous amount of chocolate and use whatever topping you would like and place on the tray! 
• leave cool for 30min-1hr (if you can leave them that long!!!)
• Enjoy

with the left over  caramel and chocolate:

• line a baking tray or a flat surface (for he chocolate not the caramel)with grease proof paper 
•  pour the caramel in tray and add toppings( I used chocolate covered peanuts)  
• Spread the chocolate on a flat surface 
• Add topping 
• And drizzle over chocolate (I did a milk base with white chocolate drizzle and vice versa)

  So the whole experience of making these was not amazing but for my 1st mummy and kiddie vid I wasn't expecting anything amazing!!! But the finished result did look ok but tasted amazing! And came up with some pretty cool extra pieces that I didn't think I was going to! 

Defo a good autumn/fall treat and a good alternative to give out to any little trick or treaters that come knocking at ur door! 

Happy Halloween everyone 

Xxxx

Annabelle/ Halloween 2014

So with Halloween just a few days away i thought id write about my Annabelle video on youtube(Msleesha1) I absolutely loved making this video, it was my first Halloween video and i am super proud of it. took me a wile to film and edit but i love it. Had help from ross with filming and taking the amazing pictures we did. I scared myself so much filming and editing this video it is really scary!!! I am not a professional MUA i just have a massive passion for it but would one day love to have it as a job, it is something i enjoy doing and am very passionate about!

I had so much planed to do and film for this Halloween but time has just got away from me, but in the next year hopefully my blog and youtube channel will of kicked off and will be in bit more of a routine for making and uploading videos! but from now till next year i will be practicing to bring you some amazing Halloween videos
go check out the video link below
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUznQ64QRI

XXXX MsLeesha1 XXXX

So where have i been :(

Sorry i have been MIA again on my blog alot has happened, Ross has got a new job and the past month has been so hard for me/us. But i've had unbelievable support Instagram and youtube and id just like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart!
I m feeling 100% better and back in a good space, I found it hard not having much money because we've one from being payed weekly to being payed monthly, so doing slimming world has been so hard, it is an expensive way of life if you want to do it to its full potential and have good losses all the time(which at the beginning i did) but i have started to just try my hardest to do it with the little finances we have. I went back to weigh in after 3 weeks and had a loss which in the circumstance we were in i was so surprised and over the moon. It was just what i needed to get back into the slimming world way of life.
 Ross is enjoying his new job. This has defo been his calling and everyone is saying that to him and that he was made for this job and can take it so far and i really think this is what hes going to do, take this as far as he can. He is in such a happy place at the moment and im so happy for him. We have gone through alot as a couple and well all i can do is see this taking us to a good place.
  We have decided as a family that we are going to do a lot more vlogging so we have set up our own vlog channel on youtube, both Ross and I have a really good feeling about our youtube path as well.I have my channel :MsLeesha1 our family channel :Msleeshas life and ross's channel :ross davis (go check them out!!mwah)
 This blog will be for my life my weight loss and my make up,fashion and hair!!
I will now try and i mean try to blog all videos i put up (hair makeup fashion and family related tags/hauls)
 I know not many people read my blog but i really want to get better at this so that my youtube and this blog are linked
 thank for reading and stay peeled for my next blog video

x MsLeesha1 x

Weigh in Wednesday: week 22

This week has been a bad week for me! It's been start of star week so my emotions were all over the place, so feeling super sad and super stressed. Slimming world really is the last thing I really need to be worrying about at the moment but it is!

Husband(ross) had just started his new job and it's so good and I'm so happy for him we are so looking forward to what is to come! He has set his sights really high and he's going to do it and I'm super proud of him! But we had to go from being payed weekly to monthly which is a massive change for us, but in a month or to will be sorted, but I really can't justify spending so much money on sw friendly food when there is other stuff needing paying for 😞 we've just hit a bump in the road, but I'm sure it'll all level lout soon! 

 As for that and not being on plan 100% because well yeah I've been comfort eating!!! I lost 1 1/2lbs this week so happy with that. 

 One of the main reasons I think I've been getting so stress is I don't want to give up on slimming world I have come so far and can finally see a light this time after doing it sooo many times before,things like this happend before and that's why I have up but this time I'm not going to I'm sure in a month or to out situation will be sorted and I'll be back to normal. It's just something that happens in life and just have to deal with it when it happens and not let it get to you and not to beat yourself up too much! I think I'm being too hard on myself! It's a long journey and it's gonna have ups and downs but I just have to ride it out! 

           X MsLeesha1 X

Weigh in Wednesday: week 21

Came back from our lovely weekend away and just could not get back into the swing of slimming world! i have not uploaded any slimming world videos on my YouTube channel because i have not had the time to film and as you ma notice my weigh in Wednesdays r going up when ever i can do them! life is just a little hectic at the mo, with coming back from holiday and Ross starting a new job it just mad! 
But i found the time to go to weigh in and just get weighted!!! i put on 2lbs but im fine completely happy with that. I knew I would put on a bit of weight with the indulgent weekend we had but was so worth it.
 Just a short blog this week will be back on it soon and wit lots more interesting stuff as well as my slimming world journey 

X MsLeesha1 X   

https://www.youtube.com/user/MsLeesha1

Weigh in Wednesday: week 20

So didnt go and get weighed this week as was sooooo busy getting ready for our 1st family holiday as the 4 of us! But i had been really good the week before and to my scales had lost a good couple of pounds and got my unofficial 2stone so i was happy to be going away and not worry about what i ate and drank i just wanted to have a good holiday.
Well i new i was gonna be bad and started as i meant to go on, Ross's family were staying at ours to look after the house while we where away, so when Ross went and got them they picked up KFC!!! 
OMG have not had any fast food since starting slimming world and i have not missed it, the grease i could feel in my mouth and it just made me feel ill all night! but i knew i had to eat something and there was nothing else in the house!!
But do u know what? I still have to live my life and do normal things like this even if i am on a slimming world journey, i know Im not going to get skinny over night and no longer do i want to be skinny i just want a smaller heather figure, since losing the weight i have i already feel 100% more confident and just know its going to get better the more weight i lose.
 i have a family and still have to enjoy my life with them. 

X Msleesha1 X

Weigh in Wednesday:week 19

Week 19 was a good week, ate good all week apart from a family party on the Saturday where I had a few glasses of wine, too much Brie and cakes but enjoyed it, then when we came home me and hubby couldn't be bothered to cook so another 2bottles of wine and a Chinese later!!! But do u know what I enjoyed it. This is a life style change but these things are gonna happen I still have to enjoy myself and times with my family and not beet myself up if I have a bad day, as long as I enjoyed it that's the mane thing! Just get up the next day with a positive outlook dust yourself off and start a fresh day!!! 

So because of that I lost 1/2 lb but that's fine, I also did a transformation picture as so far in my journey I'll add it in at the end but omg I can so se a massive diffarance just after 19 weeks god knows what I will look like after another 19 weeks.

This give me the MASSIVE kick up the bum I needed. I can finally see I'm getting somewhere, and I'm so happy about it and can finally see a light,it not all about a number on a scales but how you feel and I've new realised I can do this and I will do this!!!