Okay. So I got slack, I admit it.
Having rage quit reading Kakavas for the nth time in the row (I swear this happens every time – I tell myself that mooting sounds fun and then want to kill myself for the next three weeks because the stress of only sleeping 3 hours a day is getting to me. Yo ho, yo ho, a student’s life for me.) I thought to myself… well, isn’t now a great time for procrastibaking?
Now, to explain I haven’t been doing much procrastibaking or any baking recently (rewatching game of thrones in anticipation for season 4 didn’t leave much time for much else) but what haven’t been doing, more importantly, is writing down my recipes. So what does that mean? Well, it means that I’m left with a folder full of cake photos and no recipes to go with (curse this goldfish memory of mine).
In any case, here is a summary of my most recent baking adventures (or failures… whatever).
#1. Summer Birthday cake.
All wrapped up already. Hah! I wish. It was just a lacklustre attempt to keep the tempered chocolate sides from collapsing on us (you can see the cracks already. What you see here is the first birthday cake lovechild of my baking god friend and I. A simple chocolate sponge cake with nutella buttercream and summer berries. Temper some dark chocolate to bring the whole look together.
NB: We put the cake in the fridge and the nutella buttercream managed to somehow take on the consistency of ice cream – surprisingly good.
#2. Death by chocolate.
Okay. So not the most beautiful cake ever (indeed, more things went wrong than you could possibly imagine) and probably the most abysmal photography skills since…. i don’t know. Introducing this 8-layered dark chocolate and hazelnut monstrosity. It features two layers of flourless chocolate cake (surprisingly moist), two types of mousse – nutella and baileys (two layers apiece), two layers of crushed hazelnut praline and a dark chocolate mirror glaze to smooth it all over on top. This cake packs so many calories you probably won’t need to eat for the next two days. Perfect.
#3. The fancy tart.
So one afternoon we had two hours in the afternoon before church and thought – hey, we haven’t done a tart in a while. So here is our almond-berry tart with chantilly cream filling and pistachio praline. I say almond because hidden deep under the layer of chantilly is an almost invisible layer of baked almond custard goodness.
#4. Sophisticated cravings??
Mmmmm scones.
#5. Chewy choc chip anzac biscuits
I call them anzac biscuits but all I did was throw some oats and dessicated coconut into the cookie dough – oh my fatty goodness.
And there follows some necessary failures but I’m sure we’ll get them figured out sooner or later.
#imout.
Milkky Way. 