I love watching favourites videos on YouTube and as I'm trying to be a little more active over there, I thought I'd film one myself. If you fancy having a look at the products and things I've been enjoying this month, check out my January Favourites featuring Garnier, Marc Jacobs, my new found love for doughnuts and plenty of stationery. If you liked the video, please make sure to give me a ...
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Little Loves 2/2017 – Donuts, Snow & Reality TV
This week has been insanely busy. I've got heaps of translation and copywriting work going on on top of all my other work commitments. And that means I'm a day late with this week's Little Loves. I wanted to make sure I get it up, though, instead of just dropping the post altogether - something I would have probably done last year. I have made the resolution of sharing more about myself on the ...
Panettone – the one thing on every Italian’s Christmas table
What makes a great Christmas meal? Is it the selection of meat that goes all the way to being the centrepiece item, is it the sides or is it something more? Over the festive period, we all know how easy it is to indulge to then come to the big day expecting the main meal to astound us all; in most cases, it truly does. But how do the Italians, the nation which treats food as highly as religion go ...
Salted Caramel Popcorn Cake
We've recently been challenged by Butterkist to come up with a cake that features one of their many popcorn flavours. As we love baking and we're always up for a challenge, we were instantly on board. A couple of days later, we received a massive box of Butterkist popcorn and baking goodies. Amy was in seventh heaven and I instantly got my thinking cap on, the result: this indulgent salted caramel ...
My chocolate and cherry birthday cake
My Mum knows my obsession with chocolate and cherries, so for my birthday this year, she made me the most delicious chocolate and cherry birthday cake. I know, that I'm old enough to bake my own cake but it tastes so much nice when someone else bakes it for you. Don't you agree? My poor starved child ate a whopping three pieces of it, despite the cake being super rich. But I guess, she just ...
Traditional Tarte Tatin recipe
The apple tree in our garden is full of delicious apples this time of the year, so when my Nan gave me an amazing Tarte Tatin dish, I knew that I had to make the traditional French upside-down pastry as a delicious weekend treat. The dish originates in Hotel Tatin in Lamotte-Beuvron, France, about 100 miles south of Paris and was invented by the famous Tatin in 1880. Legend says, the sisters who ...