Enjoying reading everyone's Sunday Scribblings so much, I thought I would contribute my own.
Secrets. I think we have more secrets than we realise. More to the point, I think that we each believe that we are the only ones with secrets. Imagine though if we could hear the murmur of the secrets held in every heart and mind we passed on the street. I think it would feel like this...
Cupcakes of bliss
Based on a recipe from Epicurious.com but improvised in a kitchen-wrecking, imperial and metric jamming, use whatever you can find, but leave something out kinda stylee.
Peanut Butter Cupcakes (like Peanut Butter Cups, geddit?)
These are basically brownies with peanut butter fudge on top!
I cut a block of butter in half to improvise an American stick of butter, and then estimated 3/4s of that. Set my pyrex mixing bowl on top of a saucepan with an inch or two of water boiling in it. Put the butter in the mixing bowl with about two-thirds of a big bar of milk chocolate and a 75g bar of dark chocolate broken into squares. When that is melted and smooth, take it off the heat. Stir in 1/2 cup of whatever sort of sugar is in the cupboard, preferably brown. Add 1/3 cup of another sort of sugar. Stir in 2 eggs, one at a time. Add a tsp of vanilla and a pinch of salt. Stir. Stir in half a cup of flour and 1/3 cup of walnuts (after standing on the walnut bag to crush them, heh heh) and some chocolate chips or chocolate chunks if you remember. Half fill muffin cups and cook forever, (seriously 20, 30, 40 minutes, it's different every time!) in a gas mark 5 oven until a pointy thing comes out relatively clean. Think brownie-type levels of doneness. Frost with peanut butter buttercream, use your usual recipe but replace 2/3 of the butter with peanut butter. I added some vanilla too and some cream to smooth it out.
NOT FOR NUT ALLERGIC PEOPLE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THIS WORLD!
Bridal Fun
My friend and boss is getting married on the 16th. We planned a bridal shower for her at work. The thing is though, I ended up organising it. And I am not that girl. I don't know how to do it. I don't enjoy it. But actually, it was fun. It was on Monday and it went really well. Everyone else sorted out the food and drink. I brought sparkling wine and organised the games, prizes and pampering box.
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 Left: Prize - a glass decorated with Sharpie and glitter, filled with sweets. Above: The sweets! Chosen for their pretty colours and the fact that we are a bit obsessed with the sour ones, and I didn't pick any of the weird ones like teeth! |
 Above: You really need to click on this to see the bridal insanity. We did this for another shower recently. Everyone wraps a little something. Then you put it all together in a decorated basket and by virtue of abundance it becomes a real treat. |
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We played the games from this book: famous couples and If I were the one getting married. We were also going to play Animal Dating Game and Always/Never, but it got late.