Chocolate cornflake crunch

This is ever so quick and easy to do but tastes super yummy.

Ingredients

225g chocolate (milk or plain)

3 tbsp golden syrup

50g butter

125g cornflakes

Step 1: melt the butter, chocolate and goldn syrup in a pan over a medium heat.

Step 2: once melted take off the heat and add the cornflakes.

Step 3: stir well then pout into a tray/cake tin.

Step 4: put in the fridge for 2 hours to set.

Collage pen pot

This would be a lovely Mother's Day gift as mums love neat stationary. You can make it in her favourite colours or to suit her office/workspace.

Step 1: get some magazines or pretty papers.

Step 2: rip out some colours/patterns you want to use.

Step 3: cut a Pringles tube to about 12cm

Step 4: glue your pretty papers onto the Pringles tube with PVA glue and cover the whole way round.

Step 5: cover the whole pencil pot with PVA glue to seal it all in and give a shine.

Choc chunk flapjacks

Here is a recipe for yummy, gooey flapjacks with a gorgeous chocolatey flavour :)

175g soft brown sugar

175g butter

2 tbsp golden syrup

1 tbsp plain flour

225g porridge oats

120g chocolate/chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 160 degrees.

Step 1: melt the butter with the sugar and golden syrup.

Step 2: once melted take off heat and add oats and choc chips.

Step 3: stir well.

Step 4: pour into a baking tin and press the flapjack down with a spoon

Step 5: bake for 20 mins.

Beaded friendship bracelet

These look really effective and are quite simple to make, the hardest bit is finding pretty beads that will fit on your embroidery silk.

Step 1: measure 30cm of embroidery silk and cut it. Measure 120cm of the same colour and cut it.

Step 2: fold the long piece in half and tie a knot capturing the short piece also and leaving a loop.

Step 3: do two square knots.

Step 4: slide a bead onto the middle piece of silk.

Step 5 continue steps 3-4 until the bracelet is the desired length.

Step 6: tie a knot and cut off the excess making sure you leave enough to tie it on your wrist.

Under £20 make up look

Here is a make up look for considerably less than £20. Nowadays you can get so many great but affordable products.

Foundation- rimmel stay matte in ivory. This was the most expensive product as it is about £6 from most drugstores.

Concealer- collection 2000 lasting concealer. I purchased this for £2.09 from wilkinsons but usually it is £4 from most drugstores.

Eyeshadow- beauty uk eye shadow palette 7-naked. There are lots of shades of browns in this palette which are perfect for creating a nice smokey eye or a neutral daytime look. I purchased this for £2.50 from a makeup shop called zest.

Mascara- w7 show stopper. The brush for this is really good and it gives your lashes a good definition. I purchased this for just under £2 from boyes.

Lip gloss- I love...raspberry and blackberry glossy lip balm. This gives lips an attractive pink colour and leaves them feeling nice and soft. I purchased this for £1 from superdrug.

How to decoupage a box

You can use a variety of things for decoupage, decoupage paper works well but is quite expensive. Magazines and comic books work well and are much more affordable. You can even use napkins as you can get them in a huge variety of colours and patterns.

Step 1: rip up the paper you are using

Step 2: mix half PVA glue with half water

Step 3: cover the box in the glue mixture

Step 4: cover the box with your paper

Step 5: wait for it to dry

Step 6: cover it in PVA glue to add a seal and a shiny finish

Super quick and easy chocolate cheesecake recipe

This is so tasty and perfect for when you have friends over, theyll think you're really talented and have spent ages when really it's super quick and easy.

Ingredients

100g butter

25g cocoa powder

150g digestives

200g chocolate cream cheese

100ml double cream

30g caster sugar

Chocolate buttons to decorate

Step 1: melt the butter and cocoa powder in a pan over a medium heat.

Step 2: take off the heat and add the digestives

Step 3: stir well then pour into a well greased cake tin.

Step 4: put your base in the fridge.

Step 5: whisk your double cream until it forms soft peaks.

Step 6: add the chocolate cream cheese and the sugar and stir well.

Step 7: spread the chocolate cream cheese mixture over your base.

Step 8: decorate your cheesecake with the chocolate buttons.

Step 9: cover in cling film and leave in the fridge to set for 2 hours.

Heart salt dough decorations

You may have done these when you were little and think this is just a little kids craft but it can be done at any age and you make far better quality items when you're older!

You need:

1 cup flour

1/2 cup salt

1/2 cup water

Cutters

Paints/pens

Step 1: make your salt dough by mixing the flour and salt with the water until it forms a dough

Step 2: dust your surface in flour and roll your dough out using a rolling pin

Step 3: use your cutters to cut out shapes from your dough and use a needle to make a hole (big enough to thread ribbon through) in each shape 

Step 4: put the shapes on a baking tray

Step 5: bake for 20mins at 200 degrees

Step 6: take them out and wait for them to cool

Step 7: decorate them using felt pens or paints

Step 8: wait for your design to dry and then thread a ribbon through the hole