Dark Chocolate & Summer Fruits Muffins

  YOU WILL NEED:

• 175g self-raising flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• 175g softened butter
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• Few drops of vanilla essence
• Pinch of Cinamon
• 100g Dark Chocolate
• 100g Mixed Blackberries, Raspberries, Redcurrants & Blackcurrants

[★] Heat oven to 180 C and line a muffin tray with cases. Melt the Dark chocolate in a bowl over a boiling pan of water.
[★] Cream the Sugar & Butter together, and mix all of the Ingredients together in a Bowl. Stir in the Melted Chocolate.
[★] Divide between the cases - I managed 20 with this Recipe!
[★] Bake for 25 mins, inserting a skewer to check they are cooked thoroughly. Cool on a rack.
[★] To decorate, melt a further 100g of Dark Chocolate over the pan and put 1tsp over each Muffin. Adorn with either a Raspberry or a Blackberry.
 Enjoy :)

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Life is Sweet!

I was lucky enough to be able to make another Dog-themed Birthday cake this year after making [ Sue's Yorkie Cake back in March ] :D

Our friends have two adorable Miniature Jack Russel/Teacup Chihuahua crosses (One of them sporting the hetero-chromatic eyes that I really dig!) and it was great fun to bake up a surprise cake featuring the two. It's Devils food cake base with two handfuls of crushed walnuts thrown in the mix (With the usual cinnamon & vanilla extract) , chocolate fudge buttercream coating and filling, lashings of whipped cream covered in smarties and finished off with grated chocolate.

The dogs themselves were a bit of a challenge - I wanted to get the tinier head, longer body and large bat ears right, as the bunnies and Yorkies I made before were more rounder and chubbier. It took a few goes to get the ears and the backs of the heads sloping down at the back! I painted the markings on with melted chocolate, which stayed in place better than the coloured icing paste I used last time, and pushed a few chocolate drops in for the eyes :)

I also made them a ball, a bone & a favourite ice cream-shaped chew toy!

Heroes Cookies from a Funsized bag of Heroes:

There's Fudge, Chomp, Crunchie & in there. (The Crunchie ones didn't like the oven very much and melted into little pools which them solidified but still tasted yummy!)

Just thought I'd pop a few pictures of my Living Room in the Flat up here to fit in with the Sweetie Theme ;)

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Stuff!

It's been just over a month now since returning from Cuba and my tan shows no sign of fading! I miss the Country and the lessons it's taught me - mostly never waste an ounce of your potential with the opportunities and freedoms I have, and also to be extremely *EXTREMELY* grateful for everything I've got.
I did enjoy the trip more when I came home, and had time and peace to reflect on things because there wasn't so many new things to experience once I was back in the normal routines.It's made me realise just how far I've came on my own, how many times I've fallen and how many times I've brushed off my bleeding knees and kept going and figuring things out on my own. Everything I've built - my Flat, my Job & The Wrestling Gear/Fashion design - I owe no-one for.

The best bit though, was reading my Sister's two-week-old copy of Kerrang! #1525 on the Plane home and my eyes suddenly snagging on the feature of the Sonisphere Festival:

I recognise that Singlet ;)

 

Digging out my [ Smarties Cookie Recipe ], I did three batches - each with a different sweetie - and Cookie-bombed a few mates who were in need of cheering up! My favourite was the Snickers Cookies :D

Smarties Cookies:

Mini-Snickers Cookies (With two handfuls of chopped nuts & 50g Melted Dairy Milk Chocolate):

Rolo Cookies (With 50g Melted Dairy Milk Chocolate) :

Have splashed out on a proper Sewing machine to finally make the step of proper Fashion Design, as well as Printing/Tie Dyeing Blanks. as well as helping out with the Wrestling Gear >^.^< Poor Sue will have her work cut out for her teaching me! We've already bought fabric for my first project - a reversable bag in cupcake print & Halloween Trick or Treat print - but haven't had the time to begin it yet with work and our immense Gear load at the moment :(

Kimmies got a Boyfriend! ♥

This is Matt. We've been seeing each other for two months now ^.^
Massive Wrestling fan, Art Lover, Guitar player, Bacon Enthusiast, Master of Cuddles & a Sweet Heart.

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Wrestling Gear #3

Obligatory recent show-off's post as well as a few Oldies past the Battenbur Tights for good measure ;)

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All-over Lips-print black and red Singlet with matching Kneepad covers:

Tights in red with white waistband, contrast outlined front, rear and side prints with matching double-panelled Kickpad covers:

Set in Burgundy with shiny gold trims, initial prints in gold on rear as well as matching Elbowpad & Kneepad covers:

Rainbow Tiger-print Mask with split-contrast PVC eye panels & mesh detail:

Grey Trunks with Black trims & rear Jackal print:

Tag Gear with Hot Pink & Yellow contrasting legs. Pink heart outlined in yellow with overlaying rear prints. Front legs with contrasting heart prints:

Black Singlet with purple trims, contrast disjointed patch front motiff using a variety of fabric including newsprint, purple tie-dye , black and white. Star newsprint thigh-patches and another on the back. This was our first 'complicated' outfit as the individual bits of fabric had to be sewn onto the front and I was in love with it once it was inished :D

Black Singlet with red trims, front print & flames around legs with matching kneepad covers:

Blue Singlet with black trims with front and side outlined prints:

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Cuba - July 2014

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