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Bear bread roll recipe with step by step photos. You won’t want to eat these once you have made them because they are so cute! Ingredients: 1 packet of Wrights ‘makes one loaf’ strong white bread flour 1.5 tsp of Doves Farm quick yeast 1 tsp salt 320ml luke warm water a little marmite and a paint brush Method: All the instructions are on the back of the bag but here are step by step instructions on how i made them and how to bear-ify your rolls! First of all empty the bag of flour into a large bowl, and add 10g of yeast (about a tsp and a half), and 8g of salt (about a teaspoon.) Then add 320ml of luke warm water, and mix for 5 minutes to form a dough. Place dough onto a floured surface and leave to rest for 5 minutes. Knead and stretch for 2 minutes and then leave to rest for 5 more minutes. Your dough should be really smooth after the kneading. At this point you can just shape it into a loaf and leave it to rise in a loaf tin, or to make bear rolls..! Divide your lump of dough [...]

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! If you don’t have time for a proper breakfast in the morning then whip up a batch of these on a Sunday and you’ll have a healthy breakfast on the go for the week ahead! They are quick and easy to make, and healthy too. This recipe is great because its very flexible, if you don’t have sunflower seeds add pumpkin seeds, you can throw in different types of nuts, dried fruit, add some maple syrup, golden syrup or even some chocolate chips! These breakfast bars provide good sources of fibre, protein and healthy fats from the nuts and oats. Ingredients:  100g of butter, plus a little extra for greasing the tin 200g  porridge oats 50g sunflower seeds                                            50g sesame seeds 50g roughly chopped brazil nuts 3 tbsp of honey 100g light muscavado sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon 150g dried fruit, I used raisins and cranberries. Apricots, dates or prunes would also work well. Method: Heat your oven to 160C for fan ovens, or 140C/gas mark 3. Line a 1″ deep 18 x 25cm baking tray with grease proof paper [...]

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