Happy Birthday Penguin

Alice AKA penguin is 23 today!!

 It goes a little bit like this...I call Alice Penguin, Peng or Pengy and she calls me Pig or Piggy. A little odd, but to be fair all nicknames are odd!

Pengy has an extreme sweet tooth (like myself) so I was ecstatic to get in the kitchen and whip up a Bruce Bogtrotter! A giant cupcake sprung to my mind, so I whipped out my moulds...

I poured my sponge mixture into the moulds, allowing space for the cakes to rise. The good thing about giant cupcakes is that you need to slice off the top of your sponge so that the top can sit nicely on top. You know what this means right? Cake scraps to munch on!

With a dollop of chocolate fudge icing I throughly enjoyed the scraps. They were NOT going to waste!

With a belly weighed down with calories I was ready to make Bogtrotter gag proud...

The end result...

I would have preferred to write 'Happy Birthday' however you've probably guessed that I ran out of letters! I therefore had to make do with 'HB' - a little blunt but it means the same thing!

 The shape does look slightly odd - I must work on this for my next one!

I then needed to make something Pig and Penguin related so I also made cupcakes.

Penguin cupcakes...

This little Piggy went to market...

 Excuse the pig cupcake...I'm not an animal lover therefore I am not aware of what features a Pig has! Ooops!

Anyway I carefully drove to Peng's house. I was praying the giant cupcake wouldn't fly off the passenger seat whilst I got a little lost in Rihanna's album!

Armed with presents (and Rose) the cake and I arrived safely...

I put on my leather and fur (oh and obviously my eyelashes) and we headed out for some drinks...

Happy Birthday to my beautiful Penguin...

We woke up to balloons and Peng's mum singing Happy birthday...

We then headed downstairs for a pain au chocolat breakfast with the family and Peng's cute grandparents popped over with more presents - which may I add were wrapped beautifully!

I loved celebrating Penguin's 23rd Birthday with her and more importantly I love the fact that we are growing old together. 

HB from your one and only Piggy xx

Enjoy your Sunday roast everyone!

K.L

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Christmas day treats...

Ok, so I think it's clear to say my 15 year old brother won the brat award this Christmas! He received the shiny new Iphone 5! In all honesty I think it's time he passes it over to me...what ever happened to hand me downs!! Surely he'd be happy with my 4GS?

Like that wasn't enough he also got a ticket to see Rihanna at Twickenham in June, dollars for his trip to New York next year, the list goes on! I can't believe he gets to experience New York before me, what am I doing so wrong?!

OH and more presents...

Ralph treats


BUT, I'll let him off, he is a cutie so he deserves to smell and look like a little Ralph Lauren model! Also it pays off having a fashionable bro...I forgot to purchase a Christmas Jumper so I've borrowed one of his cosy Fair Isle knits for the day (looks christmasy enough to me).

Fair Isle knit

Anyway, who am I to complain...look what I had waiting for me from SANTA! I obviously won him over last night with my festive brownies!!
 

A beautiful Burberry Gift! 

Burberry's gift wrapping is just too adorable. I therefore snapped away like I was some sort of paparazzi...


Thanks Mum & Dad x



My wrist is going to look so so pretty.



I'm in LOVE with my new bracelet.


My Sister did pretty well too, she now owns a beautiful pair of REGENT HUNTERS! The only thing missing is a dog! She has tried persuading Father by showing him Blake Lively's teddy dog...but unfortunately for her, he looked very unconvinced!  



If only I was a size 4!

I treated my sister to a christmas fishtail plait...



Fishtail plait


We've also got matching UGG slippers...my toes will never feel cold again!


Toasty toes...


And some very intellectual books...


My Babe Miranda...


In walks Nan with a cake box...my face lights up!



What is inside?!

For a second I thought I had a Boyfriend - 'To Kirst and Dan' the label read! I was then quick to remember I am still bofriendless and in actual fact the cake was for myself and my Sister's boyfriend. You might be thinking this is a little odd? All I was thinking was 'I know this is a scrumptious fruit cake'. My sister loathes fruit cake you see, so her loss really...



Christmas fruit cake!


Nan and John (my Grandad) understand my Dad's LOVE for fruit cake yet his weird dislike to marzipan and icing. Therefore they made him an icing free fruit cake...



When it comes to cake...my Nan can always cater for fussy eaters!


I instantly knew the cakes were overloaded with alcohol when my Grandad advised me to not eat and drive!!


Anyway... I need to get stuck into my Miranda Book and see how much more scrumptious food I can fit into this belly of mine! I think a post turkey dinner nap is also going to take place!

I wish you all a very MERRY Christmas and remember do NOT eat and drive after your Christmas fruit cakes...

K.L
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Christmas Eve baking...

Hmmmmmmmmm what can I make with these cute candy canes I thought to myself...

Christmas CANDY...

Chocolate brownies sprung to my mind! I haven't indulged in a nice soggy brownie in a long time so BROWNIES IT WAS! You might be thinking why on earth would I need candy canes for brownies...well you just wait and see my friend!

To whip up my brownies I used the RECIPE from BBC Good Food titled 'Best-ever brownies' (they bloomin' well better be I said to myself). Like I mentioned before in a previous post, I believe baking is all about adding your own special twist - the 'norm' is just a tad boring for my liking!

With the Christmas tunes playing, the baking could commence...

A little bit of stirring...


And a little bit of adding...


And BOOM...as Jamie Oliver would say my bloomin' brilliant brownies were ready to remove from the oven! Excitement!

The recipe stated 'Cut into quarters, then cut each quarter into four squares and finally into triangles'. 
SO triangles it was...



Soggy brownie I craved...soggy brownie I got!

But NOT just any triangles!


CHRISTMAS TREE TRIANGLES...


Christmas tree brownies


Do not panic, I certainly didn't just make the one brownie! I kindly made plenty to go round...

Festive looking brownies

In walked my sister suggesting I should also make brownie presents...what a marvellous idea! After all, it is Christmas and we all love a good old present, don't we?

So I whacked out the bows and glitter and had great fun producing tasty little presents...

From me to you...a brownie gift!

Once again, I made plenty of the presents to go round, however at this point I was gagging for a chocie brownie and therefore missed out on the Kodak moment - many apologies!

If we deserve to eat tasty Christmas trees and presents, then so does Santa...



Ho Ho Ho

I hope Santa is a lover of brownies and presents just like myself!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

K.L
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