Easter Rocky Road

Ingredients

200g unsalted butter, softened

100g dark chocolate
150g milk chocolate
broken into small pieces

4 tbsp golden syrup

2 tbsp cocoa powder

400g Mini Eggs

100g mini marshmallows

200g shortbread biscuits, broken into small pieces

One packet of pink wafers, cut into thirds.

Method

Line a 20cm square cake tin with baking parchment – or china dish, it really doesn’t matter!

VERY gently heat the butter, chocolate, syrup and cocoa powder in a pan on a low heat – but don’t overheat the chocolate, you’ll ruin it!

(you are supposed to place them in a small glass bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water, but it’s too fiddly for me!)

Stir with a wooden spoon until all the ingredients are melted and the chocolate mixture is smooth and glossy.

Leave to cool for 10 minutes.

Stir in the biscuits, pink wafers and marshmallows.

Pour the mixture into the tin, cover with mini eggs.

Leave to cool for 2 hrs.

Remove from the tin and cut into squares.

Easter Tree

For the last couple of years I have seen some lovely Easter displays in school - a compliment to the displays depicting story of Jesus' last week from Palm Sunday to Good Friday and an addition to the celebrations of Easter.
I thought if Christmas can have a tree, Easter should too.
Here's mine - apple tree prunings and eggs from Poundland and Lakeland. I should have decorated my own - but it's a start!

Easter Ideas Factory

The children's department of the Diocese of St Albans ran a workshop for leaders of childrens groups on Saturday 12th February at St John's Harpenden from 10am - 2.30pm. The day covered Inspiring Worship, Ideas for Storytelling, Food, Craft - creating an 'Easter Tree', Crosses, Music. It was a great day with loads of crafty ideas for workshops and teaching. Here are photos I took to remember the resources. Please contact me if you want to know more.

2011-02-12 Easter Ideas Factory