So this is the cake i made for my mum’s birthday. I couldn’t decide what kind of cake to make so the bottom layer is brownie and the top is mocha, which sounds nice. Unfortunately I forgot to put baking paper in the tin with the brownie and so i sort of crumbled it to pieces trying to get it out. Also I didn’t put enough coffee in the mocha. Oh yeah, and then there is the whole incident with me trying to make a chocolate hazelnut layer:  i didn’t realise there weren’t enough eggs until after i had ground up the chocolate, hazelnut, flour mixture;  I tried to think of something useful to do with a useless mixture; I melted it with even more chocolate; I placed it on a sheet of baking paper to set in the fridge; I finally acknowledged that the chocolate-to-hazelnut ratio was way out of whack, and thus it wasn’t going to set; and was left with a peculiar, useless piece of half solid… stuff (for lack of a better word). 

 

Before you ask, no, mock en bouche is not a real thing. Did that stop me from making it? Of course not!

You may or may not remember me saying that it was my life long dream to make the perfect croche en bouche (see ‘my caramel fiasco’). Well yesterday, along with the help of my wonderful su chef, mum, i did a practice run. It wasn’t a real croche en bouche because we didn’t have a mold so the pyramid was well wonky, and anyway i was just messing around with the putting it together bit because we weren’t sure what to do with the caramel after (rather miraculously) we had made it.

 Below are some pictures of the rise and fall of my mock en bouche.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Check out how cool the caramel looks on top!

 

 

Before I write anything else, I would like to apologise for the title. I know its a terrible pun (and you’ll see why in just a moment), but i really couldn’t think of anything else.

The picture pictured bellow is one of something i made over the summer holidays (I know, it was ages ago!). I’m not really sure what you would describe it as but I’m very proud of it and wanted you to see it. (It seems strange writing ‘you’ as if I’m actually talking to someone because from where I’m sitting its like I’m talking to a computer, but supposedly there is someone at the other end – yes, i am talking to you, man with the mustache [if i keep naming random people, eventually it will work]). So anyway here it is:

 I hope to post again soon but until then feel free to leave a comment and have splendiferous fun doing whatever it is you do in those disparaging hours you spend without my blog. (Nothing illegal I hope).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So there you have it, my fimo creations. There were others but they were presents for people so i have no photographic evidence of their existence.

I end this blog with another thought,  while making these, i used my hairdryer to dry the paint. Considering I’m a teenage girl, is that strange?

 

 

 

 

 

If three is a lucky number then this post must be super lucky since, it’s my third post, today is the 13th (well it was when i started writing, who knows when I’ll post it) and I started writing this at 13 minutes past 5.

So anyway, I drew the picture above to represent my blog. I’m not sure how this young lady came to find herself stuck in a teapot. I am also unsure of how she became small enough to fit in there anyway (she probably drunk from a bottle labeled ‘drink me’ which made her begin shrinking uncontrollably). But however irresponsible she must have been to get into such a predicament, at least she had the sense  to write some notes from inside her teapot. And she must have been quite clever because now she has gained the honor of being my profile picture. Maybe she got stuck in the teapot as a clever publicity stunt?

This post is titled ‘my sketchbook’ because i have selected some of my favourite pictures from my sketchbook and scanned them onto my computer so that the few people who read my blog can see what my everyday artwork is like. These are the pictures:

So au revoir my little chummies, I hope you enjoyed this post. Now I’m off to watch some rubbish TV, (yeah I know i should do something more arty but everyone needs a break and anyway my latest creation is still drying so i can’t add anymore to it currently.)

Oh, before i publish this I will just say that I finished writing this at 33 minutes past 5, how’s that for lucky?

Yesterday I was busy making this beauty of a cake. It’s primarily a chocolate sponge cake but it’s soooooo much better because it also has heaps of mint matchmaker sticks and nutella. Now, if you are any kind of chocolate fan, and who isn’t, you will know just how delicious those two things are.

I spent hours slaving away in the kitchen (not really, i actually enjoyed it) but let me tell you, it was worth it! (But like really worth it not in the fake kinda way l’oreal means it) The cake was so moist and yet it had crunch from the matchmakers. The chocolate was rich but the mint lightened the flavor. (And I hope you know I’m just saying this to make you drule and wish you had the cake, because that’s the kind of evil girl I am. Alright I’ll stop.)

There was only one thing wrong with the whole thing and that was that, whist heating some nutella to drizzle on top, I accidentally caramelized it.

The result was something which had the texture halve, complete with crunchy bits where the sugar had hardened completely. Surprisingly it actually tasted quite nice! It tasted almost exactly like the roasted hazelnuts you can by in a paper cup in the west end at Christmas time, although I’m guessing that eating caramelized nutella out of a saucepan is probably a lot worse for you!