Coffee, Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz!!

Peace, love and icecream.
Ben and Jerry's catchphrase.

After much sulking about missing the Ben and Jerry's competition over at NotQuiteNigella.com,
I finally visited Ben and Jerry's Scoop Shop on a 38 degrees summer's day.
As usual, I went for a chocolatey flavour and had a hard time choosing between Chocolate Therapy, New York Super Fudge Chunk, Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Phish Food.

I miss NYC. I miss the buzz, the food, the shopping, Central Park, Pret the whole lot. So I chose New York Super Fudge Chunk. It was grand. A great choice. Plus, Miss Jezza chose Chocolate Therapy and I loathe loathe loathe ordering the same thing as someone else I'm dining with.

However, the surprise of the day was the flavour chosen by my coffee loving friend Miss Shazza. I enjoyed it so much that I took home a pint. Coffee coffee buzz buzz buzz. Delicious! Very espresso with huge chunks of chocolate. Kudos to the teenager who packed it for me too. I think I got 2 pints squashed into a 1 pint tub. Thank you. Thank you indeed.


Oh yes. I also took home a pint of Vanilla for Mr. Hubby. Yes I know what you are all thinking ;p


And Miss Bella, I am dying to know which flavour you chose x

In search of pinkberry.

Whilst running through the rain in the Latin Quarter, bitterly disappointed that the best falafel place in Paris was closed I took shelter at pinkberry. And what a delightful find it was! Frozen yoghurt with choice of 5 toppings.
Needless to say, ever since I arrived home, I have searched in vain for an equivalent. That is, until now. I think I have finally found a match.
Welcome pinkguava.

Now it's opposite my favourite Coles supermarket and due to my favourite checkout chick working post 8pm on Saturday nights, I've only seen pinkguava with the lights out.

I chose a berry smoothie on my first pinkguava daytime experience and I was not disappointed. Firstly, they freshly squeeze Granny Smith apples for the apple juice base, not like the mass marketed juice bar that I have renamed POOST after a BAD experience.
Secondly, the frozen yoghurt is refridgerated or shall I say refreezerated properly.
Thirdly, they do not scrimp on the berries. I don't understand why juice bars, namely POOST scrimp on the berries. C'mon they're frozen people! It's not like they're paying 8 bucks for a little tiny punnet of fresh raspberries.
Anyways the finished product was berry heaven. Smooth, cold and wonderfully tart. I shall be going back for more.

It is $3.90 for a small cup of frozen yoghurt and 1 free topping. The toppings range from mixed berries, fresh mango, choc chip cookie, museli, strawberries, blueberries and more. For the frozen yoghurt you can choose plain, guava or the half half. I chose half half with the fresh mango topping. LURVED it!! So I took home a take home pack of half half frozen yoghurt for $6.90 and it lasted the 10 min walk home in 25+ degrees summer's day.

Spurred by my great experience of pinkguava, I tried noggi. Similar in concept, little different in experience and flavours. You can choose 3 flavours of frozen yoghurt, plain, green tea or pomegranate. However you can't choose half half. First let down. Second let down? The art of pulling the forzen yoghurt into the cup. Gaps everywhere. Definitely felt that I didn't get value for money. Third let down (as you can see I had high expectations!), the yoghurt (I chose pomegranate btw) felt a bit grainy. Didn't have the smoothness of pinkberry. PLUS it didn't taste like pomegrante. However you could choose 3 toppings which were all fresh.

hmmmm pinkguava all the way.

Folded like a pretzel.

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Cranberry+Pistachio Cookies

So I returned home from a fabulous overnight trip with a few girlfriends with the lasting taste of a cranberry and pistachio cookie that was served with my soy mocha.
I decided a recipe search was on the menu. On marthastewart.com of course!
I found a Cranberry Noel cookie and substituted the pecans for pistachios.
The end result? The ohhh so lovely pop of the tart cranberry and the sharp crunch of the pistachios speckled in between the crumbly buttery cookie that melts in your mouth. Very satisfying!



dried cranberries I brought back from U.S.A



ready for the oven



yummmm

Sausage rolls fiesta!

Cupcakes are my thing. Housewarming, birthdays, NYE, Christmas, you'll be sure to see me with a batch of homemade cupcakes. However for this recent partay, I thought different. Miss Cookiecutter and I decided to take a batch of homemade sausage rolls. To ensure that people at this so called fiesta ate more than 1, we made them very mini.

According to the fiesta's host, they were a massive hit.

Job well done :D x

Martha Stewart is my hero.

Why? you may be asking.
I don't really have a definite answer.
I love baking, love organising (although the state of my house says otherwise), love labeling, crafts and more!
I've always wanted my home to look like the ones you see in a magazine. With Martha's help maybe I can!
Anyways, checkout her website www.marthastewart.com and you'll understand :D x

Gingerboys!Gingergirls!

In the spirit of Christmas, my best friend and I decided to bake some gingerbread men. In reality it turned out to be a massive production line of gingerboys after gingerboys and gingergirls of course! Lots of rolling, cutting, rerolling, freezing, baking. It was cookies galore!

Here are some highlights:

a gingergirl

icing gone wrong using Wilton's Icing spray... little hard to do fine detail work...

check out the Borat!

Elvis!

Welcome to Walking Cake :D

I've been wanting to start a blog for a while so here I am writing in bed next to my Mr. who is deep in Evony land. Hmmm... a few things threw me off starting my blog. I wasn't sure what to write about. More importantly, would anyone read it? Well if you are here reading this, thanks! Anyways, join me on my everyday life adventures x