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Flowers and chocolates are a girls best friend

You can not fail to please her, don’t give flowers when you have annoyed her or as a "please forgive me" this tactic usually fails.

Give her some nice roses and some good quality chocolates just for a change and she will melt in your arms.
The flowers do not have to be roses or expensive, infact if you pick your own and give them to her, she can not fail to be impressed.

Chocolate is also great, I recent fantastic chocolate that I have found out about is the Lindt 99% excellence bar, the only problem with this is its availability, exclusively through Lindt chocolate stores

So go on, Get down your local florist now and stop off at the nearest shop to get the chocs.

Also if you fancy really going to town why not try decorating your entry to your house and bathroom with rose petals as a surprise or how about cooking some chocolate treats or cakes

A fantastic recipe is detailed below, easy to make and fantastic to eat.

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Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate topping

20g of raisons
20g of apricots
20g of dates
30g of Lindt 99% excellence chocolate bar
1 teaspoon of baking powder
150g of flour (self raising)
30g of fine sugar
1 tablespoon of syrup
1 egg
30g of butter
150ml of hot water

The chocolate topping
50g butter
50g sugar
50g Lindt 99% excellence chocolate bar
80ml of double cream

pre-heat your oven to about 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 6

Place the raisons, apricots, dates, chocolate, baking powder and a pinch of the flour into your food processor (keeping adding the flour until the fruit stops sticking to the blades)
Once done place this mix into a bowl that contains the sugar, syrup, egg and melted butter. Stir this mix whilst adding the hot water and remaining flour. You now need to really give this mix a good whisk, either manually or with an electric whisker.
Now divide up into 12 cupcake papers and put onto your baking tray.

Bake for 15 mins

The chocolate topping is easy, add all the ingredients into a saucepan and simmer until the color goes darker, Remove and leave to cool add the topping to your cakes when they are done.

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