Summer Cakes

Normal sponge cake with raspberries in it and Melted white chocolate. I decided to put chocolate in it and hope for the best. It came out lovely and made it soo moist!



My small collection of cook books!

Back Baking!

So I'm off for summer now so this means I have time to bake. yayy.
I am going to fill you in with all my recent culinary encounters!

The first things I made were Banana cake cupcakes

Will be making again!

Yesterday I was going to Rachel's bday party all the way in Nass. I offered to make her a bday cake and to make her lots of cupcakes as her present.
She wanted me to make her a double layered brownie cake. With icing in top and in the middle. I had originally attempted to write Happy Birthday with m&ms, but that failed so I just covered it in m&ms. I had to use normal sugar to make this opposed to a finer caster sugar. So it made it extremely chewy and lovely because the sugar like crystallizes and shit.


I also made Raspberry cupcakes with raspberry icing and White choc chips on top and some with just blue icing.
The icing failed and didn't stay all thick so that sucked. I need to prefect icing making.
I did however get these sweet cupcake boxes in Kitchen compliments in town. Only 2 euro each!






This took me 4 hours, how I don't know. What's up diabetes? The amount of sugar used in the making of all this. I had to carry this all around town for an hour. My arms were like jelly. I wish I bumped into someone I know so I could feed them cupcakes.

what else.
Pizza hut wannabe italian pizza. Don't get it, it's shit and goes cold straight away cause its so thin.

Do however get this. A whopper cookie. Nommm. Also from Pizza Hut.
The counter, Dundrum. Eaten here a couple of times the past few weeks as an alternative to Nandos. Bit Meh. The vegi burger I am not that into but I love the restaurants ethics and structure. You are given a sheet and you tick off all the topping, sauces, cheese you want. I got the vegi burger in a form of a salad though. They do sweet potato chips which are amazing. And the best chocolate milkshake!
All their meat is sourced locally and is certified to be raised and killed humanly as well as being anti biotic and hormone free. I liked that a lot. If it is true, I don't know. Oh all their eggs are free range too.

Just a typical toastie.
I tried to make a curry the other night. No matter how hard I try to make a nice one that has loads of taste, I fail at it. I have now given up. I CAN'T MAKE CURRIES.

Toast with Chocolate spread and Marshmellow fluff. Oh so goood.


I have been loving corn on the cob so much recently. Homemade stuffing too. I love stuffing soooo much. Beast of a dinner I had one night.



I started a vegetable garden a few weeks back and it's going so well.

Time time time

May 2nd was the last time I baked. That sucks. I have not had much time to do stuff like that. Well I guess I do at times but If I was to start baking I'd feel guilty and be getting Fat in the process. Sorry blog, this time next week we will be back in action. I promiseeee.

I am in the middle of my exams at the moment. The motivation and stress to study that was upon me last week has gone out the window. I just do not care anymore. I came into the library today and I've done absolutly fuck all. I'm studying for Hertiage and Culture Tourism. The notes are a load of shit, so It's hard.
I've been on the internet on my iphone(btw got a iphone, 20 euro bargin, tx rog), in the computer room and photocopying recipes from good food magazines to pass time.
I am Leaving to meet Jesse in around an hour. Gonna pick us up some milkshakes on the way.

In other news, my laptop broke.
All my shit is downstairs in the library and I am in a great mood. I can't wait to walk up to Grafton Street. I love it in the evening time so much for some reason.
caoiiii :)

Bank Holiday Mondays

Today was a good good day. If I of had to gone to college, it would of been the shitest. Although If I had gone, I would've done some study.
It's when I'm trying to avoid study I preoccupy myself with so much stuff.
My exams start on the 17th and I've yet to start studying. Tomorrow! Well I say that now..

Anyway, I'm telling you about my great day.
I woke up and went up the Hill with Bella. Lola wouldn't come cause she is sooo lazy these days. It was so sunny and warm this morning, I could've done with some shorts.
Instead of strolling around the hill and taking the easy ways, I power walked/joged up all the hills. I'm trying to get fit and healthy. Well I say this now, By tomorrow I will have eaten my weight in biscuits. I tried to keep my heart beat going fast for the whole hour. So I would start running every now and then.

Yesterday my Mum agreed to go to The Happy Pear, in Greystones.'The Happy Pear is a natural food market in Greystones, Co. Wicklow with an organic and non-organic produce section, a café and restaurant, a world-class juice & smoothie bar, and a dried goods section.'
Most Importantly a Vegetarian Restaurant :).
I don't know how I've never been before. It's like I've never been to cornucopia. Everytime I go, there's zero seats.

The Happy Pear has outside seating, but there was none.There was loads sitting out the front, You can tell the place is loved by the locals and is very popular in general. So we sat upstairs. It's so lovely and cozy up there. Bay windows and bright colors. It's a pretty old building too so it has lots of Character.



They had several options. Salads, Pitta with Roasted peppers and rocket and hummous, Veg lasagna, some pasta thing and 2 soups.




I got the lasagna along with 2 salad choices, Chickpeas and Baby Potatoes. My sister went for the Lasagna with no salad.

It was good! It has leeks, courgette, peppers, sun dried tomatos, onions. I can't remember what else! The paste sheets were lovely and fresh. I could tell they were made there in the shop.

And the mother went for the 'Spring Greens' soup. Thinking back now, I never tried some.
#

Desert time! They has loads of options.


My sister and I went for the Brownie, I needed chocolate bad. Maybe should of been more adventurous! And my mum got Banana and walnut cake.






We got it all plus drink for around 30 euro, not bad!
www.thehappypear.ie :)

Yesterday I got one of those raised flower beds for around 20 euro, So good. Most are so expensive. I've been wanting to properly grow vegetables for years. So today I finally did it. I put together the bed, filled it up with soil, planted the plants and bulbs and voila! I also had some potatos still growing from last year!
I hope to god it works out and doesn't fail. Too much rain and snails are my biggest barrier.


Planted Letteuce, Rocket, parsley, rosemary and onions so far.

Also, I found vegetarian Haribo! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.



Think I'm going to walk to Dunloire to meet Jesse and Alisha for the cinema!

Cupcake Crazy, Cupcake Mad

I've become slightly obsessed with cupcakes now. Constantly thinking of different icings to make and flavor cupcakes.

Yesterday I spend the afternoon baking. I was in my element!
I had bought a proper proper piping icing bag a few days previous. This one compared to the last one I got, which broke, is a lot better. The nossels on it are thicker so gives a better effect.

I made 3 Different types.

• Chocolate with Chocolate Icing.
• Plain with Marshmallow Fluff Icing with sprinkles and a blob of chocolate icing on top.
• Raspberry with Raspberry icing.

Bear in mind this is my first time using an icing bag, I aim to get so class at it!
The Raspberry. I love how pink they are. And how it all natural colouring. I make them pink by adding like 2 raspberries. Does the job! They are Jesse's Favorite.

Butternut squash Cannelloni

I've been wanting to make this for a while now. I saw it in the Cornicopia cookbook. When I made it last night I didn't use the recipe though. I rarely use recipes, to much to follow and you never have half the ingredients.

Anyhow I started off by roasting some Butternut squash chunks, some red pepper and carrot. I roasted them with oil and honey.
Meanwhile I made the tomato sauce.


When all the veg was roasted I mashed it all up with ricotta cheese to make it all moist and creamy.


Out of the oven and topped with chesse!






Making cupcakes with brownie mixture inside them has been on my mind for a while. I've been dying to make them for ages, so I made them on Thrusday night. They were a bit of a dissapointment and just didn't work out as well as I would of liked. :(
Haha I had also gotten a piping bag that day for icing. I now know that I am not good at it what so ever. So excuse the terrible terrible icing job. I had also broken the bag haha.

Brownie on bottom and cupcake on top!




I just made loads of brownie cupcakes with the left over mixture! Some got a little burnt though.




I REALLLLLYYY want to make cupcakes now.

Lazy blog

I've been so tired and busy with college I haven't had the time or energy to be bothered to write a blog. Plus I've been adding up food pieces for just the one post. I was about to write this last night but was asleep the minute I got into bed.

Ok, pizzza. I love dominoes like most people. When I get it I love to savour it and eat it slow instead of wolfing it down. I love it with a salad and salad cream!

Dominoes cookies are always worth a mention. Seriously get them.


Home made really quick pizza. Sliced tomato, Cheese and basil under the grill!


Itsa bagel. Best bagels. If you think the bagel factory is delish, this is even more delish. There's just at the back of arnotts and one in Dunloire as far as I'm aware. I always get 'The kind veggie'. It has avocado, humous, roasted red pepper, lettuce, onion, tomato, salad dressing. It's so nice.
This picture really doesn't do it justice though.

Lovely carry out bags!



Falafel pitta. I had this last night for dinner. It was very good. I used different falafels. My mom got some from the Lebanese falafel stand in Dunloire market earlier that day. They're amazing. All crispy on the outside.
Here is everything I put into the pitta. The best part being chili. Burn the mouth of ye.




I baked last night to avoid college work. I made berry cupcakes. We have a load of frozen berries in the freezer. I used them in the mixture and to make icing. The icing didn't turn out to well. I used way to many berries. I really just needed a small bit to colour the icing. I wasn't mad into them, I guess cause I don't really like berries. I didn't care thought because they looked so class and pink! Jesse loved them though and so did people in college.




I love how pink they are!

I had the Belgian waffles today from Hagen Dazz(?) in Temple bar. Im so not arsed looking at how you even spell that.
They were 2.50 euro and sooo worth it. It was so nice and warm and fresh and just delish.