Food for thought...

Earlier this month my brother celebrated his 60th birthday. I had asked my sister in law what she would like me to bring as a contribution to the meal. Eventually she suggested I bring a dessert or 'something sweet to have with coffee'. 

We rarely eat such food but I thought I'd buy in some provisions and make something like brownies or caramel slice; cooking from scratch...just like I used to do. But I've got to a stage in my life where I don't hesitate to 'cut corners' on the odd occasion...especially if it gives me more time for crafting! Lol. 

With this in mind, I bought a Betty Crocker Brownies mix, some tiny vanilla slices from the freezer at Coles and visited Aldi and checked out their 'sweet stuff'. I also bought some coconut and a tin of condensed milk. With the latter I made a big batch of rum balls from some packets of sweet biscuits that had been languishing in the pantry. 

And I also found this tin of cream wafers ( chocolate) and they were put in the food processor too with the other biscuits...

So technically I only made the brownies ( albeit from a packet) and the rum balls...the rest I only opened packets...

And this was the 'finished product' all ready to take to the party...

And...the family ate all the Aldi 'stuff' and the Coles' mini vanilla slices...my 'baking' was hardly touched. But my neighbours had a wonderful morning tea over at my place the next day so all was not lost! 😉