Never mind diamonds, when it comes to impressing your girlfriend or wife. The time honored way is by giving her flowers and chocs.
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 topping20g of raisins20g of apricots20g of dates30g of Lindt 99% excellence chocolate bar1 teaspoon of baking powder150g of flour (self raising)30g of fine sugar1 tablespoon of syrup1 egg30g of butter150ml of hot waterThe chocolate topping50g butter50g sugar50g Lindt 99% excellence chocolate bar80ml of double creampre-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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