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Pancake day was a fatty fat fat day. Stacks of pancakes loaded with bacon and maple syrup. Hell yes. YumSugar provided the recipe on this one which you can find here. It really is the only pancake recipe you’ll ever need.
Love was in the air. Well over a month ago. Maybe it still is, if you and your beau are super smooshys. Sandwiched with love? Eating your heart out? Perhaps you’re laying it on thick..(I just had to get those in there). You can still make these for next year, or any other day you feel it’s appropriate to give heart cookies. Birthday..anniversary…successful bypass surgery celebration.. or maybe you just did something bad and need to redeem yourself.
Good Morning Campers!
Fancy a sticky toffee bun with that cup of coffee? Yeah you do. It’s Monday. Officially the worst day of the week. Your weekend fun is turning into a distant blurry memory so grab yourself a sweet ass, totally naughty pick me up. Yup I just described a sticky bun as ‘sweet ass’. Pun totally intended.
This is all Ina’s fault really. Please stop (don’t you dare) showing me how to create stuff that has me working out double time in order to justify what I’m putting in my mouth.
These really are easy. You don’t even have to make pastry but lets be honest they look an absolute mess. But who cares when they taste so darn good. Flaky soft pastry. Check. Sweet toasted Pecans. Check. Melt in your mouth buttery brown sugar goop. Check check.
So go, make these Sunday night, shovel as many as it takes to make you feel better come Monday morning. Just don’t forget that double workout.
Ridiculously cold, snowy Sunday. What to do, what to dooo…
Well first off you should be wearing something kitchen appropriate if you’re entertaining the idea of baking.
This is not it.
Secondly. Tea and Scones that’s what. oh yeah what could be better than that? Sweet raisin & cranberry scones smeared with big globs of Cornish clotted cream and topped off with a sweet strawberry jam. All washed down with a good cup of tea. Early Grey or builders. Up to you.
Who can contain themselves to just one of these? Also who can refrain from suddenly developing a bad case of potty mouth between bites due to the sheer yumminess of these? You might want to cover your ears.
Sooo my first night back in London had me sitting outside my front door waiting for a locksmith while keeping an eye out for weirdos who might to try to steal my case full of presents. Total FAIL. Prior to this I had a blissful lazy time in Bournemouth with family, friends and plenty of fluffy faces!
Here’s a quick recap of the last few weeks’ baking fun!
Here’s me spending FOUR HOURS. Yes FOUR hours decorating about 100 sugar cookies that I’d baked as gifts. Oh why. Why did I not think this through? I’m pretty sure I started to lose it when I started demanding that Dario play me “festive Christmassy songs to make this more fun” cos what could be more fun than spending an entire evening sitting like the hunchback of Notre Dame covered in icing?
Note to self: Packaging 100 sugar cookies also takes about half the time to decorate them. Lesson learned.
This was followed by a mini meltdown when I realised I’d forgotten to bake a bunch of Red Velvet Cupcakes. I’m really amazed these came out at all considering the slapdash manner in which I put them together. If that cream cheese frosting looks a little goopy to you it’s cos it was a little goopy. It was my first time with the cheese. Any tips on that are oh so welcome.
My mum made an awesome trifle. Look how god damn pretty that is! Like a princess trifle.
Dario tormented me after Xmas with photos of him chowing down on our favourite food from our favourite restaurant in Rome. UGH. That right there is the BEST Carbonara EVER.
I made a Lemon Meringue Pie in my Mum’s super big, nice oven kitchen which you think would make things sooooo much easier. Somehow it didn’t. There was a fair bit of swearing involved. Guess I’m just too used to my cramped, can barely turn around, throw shit in the sink kind of kitchen. It came out lovely anyway thanks to my Mum who I constantly asked to check the pastry – check the pastry – check the pastry. It was all gooood – that there is an awesome pie.
Something amazing happened before I went away – okay not amazing as in like, I won the lotto BUT YumSugar featured not one but TWO of my photos from my Instagram feed for their Holiday Baked Goods challenge. Thanks YumSugar!
Okay last thing! To even out all the food I’ve scoffed Tone It Up have just released their new years challenge. The LoveYourBody series is underway. Six weeks of workouts, healthy eating and 100 miles by Valentines day. Erm… I’ve only done 10 so far so looks like I’m going running tomorrow as an add-on to my usual sweatfest. That sounds kinda gross. Anyway if you don’t know these girl they are AMAZING. Their workouts are awesome and fun. Yup FUN. If you’re struggling to commit to any exercise then these two gals are the way to go. I’ve managed to rack up a six pack (not in a scary madonna kind of way) despite eating the occasional naughty treat, quit smoking and actually LOVE working out through these two. Check them out!
So that’s it for now and in my next post I’ll be attempting to bake something worthy to display on my new super pretty cake stand. I’m guessing it’s gonna be a cake. 