It's great when there's a festivity where you can bake themed food. This month, October, Halloween is one of the main events. I baked Chocolate brownies with 'RIP' tombstones and Chocolate chip cookie, marshmallow mouths.
This is a very crafty bake, ready to shock the socks off your trick-or-treaters. You need precision and patience for these but the end result is (mmm) delicious. It's all edible, don't be scared by the black.
- I baked a chocolate cake in a shallow rectangular tin (25cm-20cm) using regular ingredients and measurements. Once it was baked it was left to cool for a long while.
- I made coco butter cream with the juice of one large orange; I also left that to settle, it helped bring out the orange and give the chocolate a darker colour.
- The tombstones are just plain biscuits that were baked for 12 minute and left to cool. I baked 10.
- The butter cream was put onto the cake and placed in the fridge to set a little.
- After the biscuits cooled I made black icing and piped RIP onto them using a piping bag and a '2' nozzle.
- I carefully dusted black icing powder onto the stones to give them a worn look.
- Then I cut the cake into 10 pieces and propped up the tombstones using extra butter cream and cocktail sticks. The cocktail sticks can be removed after about 1/2 and hour or so.
These were a lot easier to make and very funny. You can choose to add anything to these. Instead of marshmallows, you can use 'teeth' from a packet of 'lips & teeth'.
- I made an extra batch of the tombstone biscuit recipe and added chocolate chips to them, they went into the oven for 20 minutes, I baked 18, 9 pairs.
- Then left them to cool after they were baked.
- I made a red icing and piped it onto the same side of each pair.
- Afterwards, I placed medium white marshmallows onto the red icing, making them all odd.
- Then, with patience, I fitted them together so that the teeth were in the gum of the other biscuit.
BaByliss Wave Envy
These are my BaByliss wavers that I've had for over a year. They were £45.00 from Boots, and they've been so worth their money. When I use my wavers I tend to get a result that's very big hair. So I tend to wave my hair later in the day then sleep on it, I then have a more natural look the next day.
Like this:
It does take me (with very long hair) about half an hour, or more, to complete my whole hair because it has to be sectioned 3/4 times. I would recommend these to any one who wants to add a little bit more to their hair than the normal, everyday straightening. The only things I don't like about these are the weight and the fact that, unlike most straighteners, there isn't an alert sound to tell you that they're ready and at full temperature. Otherwise these are so great and lately becoming so popular.
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