On a roll..

I feel like I'm on such a roll this morning. I can't stop posting:) Now these were messy but lots of fun to make. My brother had his 17th birthday in February. In celebration I made a lego themed food. Its a bit childish for a 17 year old but hey! it was more for my entertainment then his:P 

I made two (I think) chocolate cakes, which I then cut into 'lego blocks'. The covering part was pretty easy, though I'm always afraid of not having enough buttercream to finish. I used marshmallows, which I cut in half as the tops of the lego blocks. Covering the marshmallows was the messy part. 

Lego Cakes

I also made little lego cupcakes. They didn't go over very well with the kids. I made the mistake of deciding to do something different. Instead of using tried and true buttercream, I made a white chocolate buttercream mix. It didn't taste very good.  

Lego Cupcake

The labels turned out pretty good though. Even if they didn't taste as good, the colours make me smile:)

Harry Potter Desert Table

To celebrate the last Harry Potter movie, my friends and I threw a Harry Potter themed party. (This post is just a bit late, I know:) This was my first attempt at setting up a desert table. Its not a grand as the professional ones but hopeful my upcoming Christmas table with be better.   

I made chocolate cauldron cakes. You can find the recipe here. Bakingdom's picture are far and a way better:) I don't think I used the correct sized tins but they did taste amazing.

I also made macarons (red and gold of course!) and Harry Potter decorated cookies. My friends made a savoury dish of pumpkin pasties, which tasted so good. We also attempted to make butterbeer. Given that there are countless recipes for butterbeer it was hard to choose one. I can't remember the one we used but it had a lot of ingredients. Actually didn't end up tasting too bad, though it was very sweet.

Harry Potter Cookies

 Harry Potter night was amazing. It was so sad to see the end of what was such a huge part of my childhood and adolescent years. I started the series when I was 9 and now I'm 19. A whole decade of Potter madness and fun!

Macaron Madness

Macarons have to be one of my favourite things to make. I admit I caught the macaron bug after seeing them on masterchef. They're just too cute. The first couple of time I made them were total disasters but after playing around with the recipe I think I have it pretty right. 

These were chocolate and rosewater macarons, a fantastic combination. I made them for a friends 18th birthday. I made a little box to pop them in, no pictures of that though.  They made a great presents.  

The ones below were...lets face it, not that nice. I use a different recipe which made the shells very tough. They look nice and flat but no one like eating them. For the inside I thought I'd try something different and use champagne favouring but it tasted more like bubble gum. Big no to champagne favourings. Though these might be great for a little kids party, they were after all, super sweet!

 The last three were all great successes thank goodness. I can't quite remember what the light green ones were though. The brown macarons were lamington inspired. I just added coconut to the chocolate ganache and dipped the shells in coconut. The yellow ones are one of my favourites. Lemon tart inspired with lemon curd filling with a dollop of cream in the middle. So delicious.