A bunch of Cadbury’s Chocolate was delivered to my door the other day. Some family blocks, a few smaller bars and some packets of the new buttons.
Some days it is good to be a blogger.
The Father Figure and I chomped our way through a family block. He took the bars to work for a snack. I took a family block to a friends place to share. And I sent a packet of the buttons to a friend stuck in hospital with a sick child.
I still had a packet of buttons left. Then I realised that I hadn’t shared any with my kids, not that they usually get to eat chocolate, but it seemed mean that I shared it with everyone else, eaten way more than my fair share but hadn’t let the kids have any.
So one night, right in the middle of cooking dinner, I decided I’d make cookies… you know, because I am insane.
I failed to calculate the amount of trays I owned verses the amount of trays that were already full of vegetables roasting in my oven, let alone the amount of oven space. So what should have been a quick round of cookie baking turned into a crazy juggling act of oven racks, trays, zucchinis and chocolate buttons.
Eventually I got dinner on the table, and served up some giant over the top chocolate button cookies for dessert… and I only burned my hand twice!
Over The Top Chocolate Button Cookie Recipe.
185 grams of softened butter
3/4 of a cup of brown sugar
1 egg
2 cups of self raising flour
2 tsp corn flour
2 tbsp coco
chocolate buttons
Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees, and make sure you actually have enough trays and some non-stick baking paper.
Cream the butter and sugar, then add the egg and mix well. Fold in the flour, corn flour and coco. You should probably sift these three ingredients together, but I am too lazy for that!
Place big round balls of dough on the trays and squish a big Cadbury button down into the top of each ball. Cook for 7-10 minutes, no longer!
They will still be very soft when you take them out of the oven, let them cool on the tray (another reason to make sure you have lots of trays) before putting them in an air tight container to store… oh who am I kidding, eat them while still warm and gooey!
Cadbury Give Away
This competition is now closed. Thanks for all the fabulous poems, you really made me laugh! Congratulations to Lara, Kristen, Diana, Kerry and Michelle.
If you want to make your own Over the Top Chocolate Button Cookies or if you’d just like to win one of five Cadbury packs with a 200g block, 175g buttons and 50g bar, then leave a comment on this post telling me, in verse, why you like chocolate. Yep… write a poem, a limerick, or just a silly rhyme. The five that make me laugh the most will win!
To enter you must be an Australian resident and provide a valid email address. Entries are limited to one per household.
Entries close 6pm AEST Monday April 2nd 2012, the winner will be contacted by email and announced on this post. The winner must contact me within 5 days or the prize will be re-drawn. The winner’s contact details will be passed on to Royce PR who mail prizes directly to the winners.
You also have till the end of the week to enter the Cadbury Catch-Up competition to win a trip to the Olympics. More details here.
{Disclosure: I received a pack of Cadbury chocolate to share with my family and friends. I was not compensated in any other way for this post. Opinions and ideas expressed in this post are purely my own.}
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Chocolate makes me feel better, heartaches all soothed.
Cadbury , oh Cadbury it’s so hard to choose.
No matter which one you pick, you just can’t lose.
But I’m all out of chocolate – I’ve had an attack
Chocolate gives me a comfort pat on the back
*Sob* so with boring chocolate chips, here I sit
Drooling now over the need to resist !
The marathon man,
Eats chocolate,
he can.
I eat chocolate too,
and look great..
Not true!
We love it, we two.
Only Cadbury’s will do.
So I want it,
but I want to be fit,
Hmm… shall I?
Yes, you cry.
chomp, chomp, chomp.
I like chocolate, yes I do!
Even though it is brown like poo.
Chocolate makes the sun shine bright,
not like stinky vegemite.
(poem written by 4 year old son)
Chocolate can drown out those maddening, deafening screams
It can turn your worst nightmares into the sweetest of sweet dreams
If there’s a darkened tunnel,it’s the bright light at the end
It comforts and cheers you up more than a best friend!
It stops childish tantrums, and band-aids can’t compare
To fix any ache or pain, you just need chocolate to be there.
It’s reunited lovers, it gives low days a lift
It’s the only hope you’ve got if you need an “I’m sorry” gift
Its your companion as you cry through The Notebook yet again
It’s knows just how to please you (unlike many men!)
Dark, milk or smooth creamy white,
pop the whole lot in or just a little bite,
melt it down and stir it through,
mix it up is what I will do,
hide it from the kids and their gobs,
sneakily eat it while they do their jobs.
When there’s none I get a scare,
whinge complain that it’s not fair,
down to the shops to buy some more,
It’s on special…what a score!
Chocolate eggs everywhere we look
But why oh why do they make me sook?
Dora, Cars, Barbie, glitz
Nothing at all to do with the real Easter bits!
Make your own my friends decreed
So Cadbury buttons are what I need!
My hubby is a choccy FREAK!
He eats 27 blocks a week
I woke on night
With such a fright
To see he’d eaten a block in his SLEEP!
There was a young woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do
So she used choccies as a bribe
To keep her sanity alive
Come one Kate, I’m sure you would too!
Oh chocolate your so sweet,
I love every moment we get to meet.
The more I see you,
The more I need you
Chocolate chocolate you are so sweet
Chocolate is brown,
Chocolate is yummy,
I need it right now,
Down deep in my tummy!
(short but sweet, yes?)
It’s chocolate !
It’s chocolate !
I eat it all the time
And when I am not eating it,
It’s always on my mind.
So early in the morning,
I motivate my feet
And grab myself some chocolate
And give myself a treat !
I’ve always loved my chocolate
Even as a little girl
My Nan would give me half a piece
For doing a ballerina twirl
My Pop would give me even more
If I didn’t tell my Mum
Of course I didn’t blab to her
I was young, but not so dumb.
These days chocolate takes me back
To childhood free and fun
If I feel sad I reach for the pack
And eat another one!
Chocolate, oh chocolate I love you to pieces,
Chocolate, oh chocolate your joy never ceases.
In my mouth, in my tum, on my hips, on my bum.
Chocolate, oh chocolate I love you to pieces.
Chocoolate heaven i would be in
If this great pack of chocolate i could win
I eat it with everything and even for tea
(Im pregnant with number four you see)
I think i deserve a little treat
to handle the little ones at me feet
A chocolate house on a chocolate street,
Beneath a chocolate sky,
A chocolate postman delivering mail,
As chocolate birdies fly…
Chocolate children playing,
With little chocolate doggies,
Rivers filled with liquid chocolate,
The croak of chocolate froggies…
And then the sunshine peeks through,
Golden tentacles splay…
A small problem for this chocolate world,
That begins to melt away…
Well, chocolate wasn’t meant to last…!
Chocolate appeals to me,
It is the ultimate indulgent luxury,
Perfectly safe non judgemental and friendly,
It never makes me cry or feel guilty,
Sharing is easy,
As chocolate ever get refused by friends and family,
But most of all I love Chocolate’s loyalty,
Always there in times of need and sympathy.
Whether ’tis Dark, Milk, or White,
chocolate’s smooth, creamy, delicious bite:
fulfils my sweet tooth from morning ’til night;
and welcomes me with a comforting respite.
(Disclaimer: My Mum reckons she made this up, but I think its a poem she learnt at school back in the 1960s and changed it to suit the bunny who lives inside and um err drops packages, but I promise I get to them before my kids do!)
______
My Kids and their Bunny Rabbit
What are you doing little girl?
Eating Chocolate, my head’s in a whirl,
Where did you get it gorgeous brown pearl?
Bunny dropped it, kinda a huge hurl,
Where’s bunny now?
He’s at the door…
What’s he doing?
MAKING MORE!!
_____
Seriously I love easter, bunnies and chocolate and certainly I am a self confessed Cadbury a holic xoxoox
Amanda from Amanda’s Mummy Jeans
xoxoxo
I eat chocolate day and night
It help keeps my life so bright
Chocolate, chocolate everywhere
chocolate fudge do I dare?
Could eat it till the cows come home
What’s that there? A chocolate cone!
Chocolate makes the world go round,
it brings joy every day.
It’s the only thing to unlock doors
when teens yell “GO AWAY”.
It’s yummy in the morning,
delightful after tea.
But nothing’s more delicious
than a chocolate won for free!
“You picked chocolate over me?”
My hubbies eyes seemed to say
and because I felt Guilty
I put it another way..
“Love you gorgeous man-really I do!
It’s just..if I don’t eat this now?
Not responsible for ANYTHING I do!”
Yes I love to feel my mans ‘muscle’ flex,
but I like chocolate better than sex!
Gooey, sweet and the mess stays in my mouth,
not dribbling everywhere, way down south!
All I have to do is get it down from the shelf,
and instant pleasure, all by myself :)
hahahahah soooooo true!!! Love it, thanks for the giggle :)
Hormonal, low or feeling sad,
Chocolate makes me not feel so bad.
It gives me a flutter, an instant lift,
And that grey cloud soon does shift.
One bite, two bites, three bites, four,
Give me chocolate, more more more!
I love chocolate, it tastes great,
eaten alone or with a mate.
Dark, milk, centre’s filled or white,
a mere crumb is my delight.
Prickle Bums have a hunger for CHOCOLATE,
Chocolate has a hunger for little tums.
We all need to reconise the passion for some,
but please remember that too much will give you
the real…..Prickle bum.
A CRUNCHIE HERE A CRUNCHIE THERE
HIDING THEM IN THE CUPBOARD, EVERYWHERE
MAKING MY MOUTH SALIVATE,
AND HELPING ME PUT ON WEIGHT!!!!!!
THE SMELL, THE TASTE, IS SO DIVINE
I WANT IT ALL TO BE MINE.
EASTER IS COMING AND I CANT WAIT
ALL THE CADBURY COMING BY TRUCK FREIGHT ??
I love chocolate, for breakfast lunch and dinner
And when I eat too much, I feel like a complete sinner.
But i really don’t care,
because without chocolate, my life is bare.
THERE ARE TWO FOOD GROUPS: CHOCOLATE AND FRUIT. AND IF IT IS FRUIT, IT SHOULD BE DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE.
My love of chocolate is almost absurd,
But somehow today, I’m just lost for words!
Without choccy, my brain’s gone away,
PLEASE CHOCCY GODS, help ressurect my day!
C-adbury creme eggs
A-ppetizing
D-elicious
B-reakfast, lunch and tea
U-seful for any occasion
R-ich and velvety
Y-ummo!
Hubby and I share chocolate in bed
TV’s boring, books are unread
Our waists are expanding, it’s OK
We’ll do the same tomorrow …. chocolate makes our day!
Cadbury chocolate’s great,
We think it’s yummy,
My tastebuds, fingers,
Thighs & tummy.
There once was a man called rod
Who once had a magnificent bod,
But with too many choccies,
Namely Cadburys Milk Blockies,
He’s wider, but still my greek god
There once was a cave man who was sad,
Feeling left out and so mad,
Chocolate not round,
Years till its found,
A Time Machine would make him so glad!!!
As a wife; chocolate’s my whole life.
As a mother of three; chocolate’s for my sanity.
As a sister for two; chocolate gets me through.
As an only daughter I eat it like I ought to.
As you can see I’m a chocolate lover through and through.
My name is Lara and I have a confession;
I have too much chocolate in my possession;
Stashed in secret caches all about the place;
Until I get the opportunity to stuff my face;
I guess I’m addicted…rehab’s the next phase;
I’m not looking forward to those chocolate-free days!
I have to admit
I have done the easter shopping
but I have to do it again
because the eating is not stopping!!
I LOVE CHOCOLATE THAT IS TRUE
WITHOUT IT.. LOOK OUT FOR THE PMT BLUES
SOFT AND CREAMY
OH SOOOO DREAMY
MY FAMILY LOVES IT, AND I BET YOU SO DO YOU!!!!!!
Chocolate is yummy, chocolate is sweet, It is, by far, the ultimate treat. A taste of it, can go a long way, to making me smile, or completing the day. Wouldn’t it be nice, to have some to share – but if I have too much I’ll have nothing to wear!
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