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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Hello! For the eagle eyed of you out there, I have been a little slooow with the blog posts of late. I actually have a backlog of travel posts that I have been meaning to put up for some time, although that time just never seems to come about (although, you are very welcome to check out my Instagram over here!! -----> unless you are viewing this on your phone, in which case, I have no idea where you would find it, nor would you really care, I'm guessing *nervous laugh*).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So this weekend I decided to bake something. Yay! So off I wandered, to the local Co-op (no, they did not sponsor this post) for ingredients. I found their baking magazine, I found eggs, and I found their coconut and raspberry loaf cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, you may have noticed that for a lack of better baking display stands, I used a chopping board to display said cake. This board, however, seems to have its sole purpose literally etched on to it, and I had to carefully crop it out of the photos. Still, you might be able to see that is says 'vegetable' on the board in some of these photos...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Full cake recipe can be found <a href="http://www.dinner4tonight.com/coconut-and-raspberry-loaf-cake.html" target="_blank">here on the Co-op site</a>. I added extra raspberries on top (although you could also put them inside the cake whilst baking). Besides, if you eat real fruit along with cake it cancels out the calories. So yeah, no guilt here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cake, itself, is delicious...if I must say so myself. Wooo congratulation meeeee!! (if you don't know what I'm talking about, watch this video, it's hilarious </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://youtu.be/PAGFOIHsZ60" target="_blank">Naoyuki Oi - Hilarious Post-Match Interview</a></i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello blog, I am back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After, wow, 7 months, I decided that I still needed my creative outlet. So here I am, hello :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been travelling a lot and despite staying in Airbnb's most of the time, the closest I've gotten to an oven is one time when I was trying to make baked camembert, and baked it to its slow cheesy death. So I stayed away after that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I'm back with some oaty nutella cookies, because a good friend of mine gave me my very own personalised jar of nutella for a housewarming present (see the photo? That's my name! You know when you were on a school trip and everyone bought a key ring or a pencil with their name on it? Well, that was me, like, never). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I didn't want to open it the jar for longest time but in the end, my sugar cravings got the better of me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'd like to say that I shared the cookies around the office...but, you know what, somehow it just didn't make it that far :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Mushy Smushy Chocolatey Goodness Cookies</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Your Dentist Has A Field Day Cookies</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- You Know You Want To Give Me That Promotion Cookies*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>*may not actually help you with that promotion. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here below are some step by step instructions. I actually think I baked it for too long, it would probably be better if you bake it for a little less because if you bake it too long the nutella goes hard. And then you have to smear more nutella on it when it's come out of the oven (not necessarily a Bad Thing). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Firstly, I started with cookie dough mixture, which was my favourite one with oats in it (gives a really great texture). It's quite a generic one which you can get online, but I've pasted it below. It's really good on its own too, or with raisins, or chocolate chips. The list is endless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next, add a dollop of nutella or your favourite chocolate spread. I also looveeee the salted caramel and pecan chocolate spread from Hotel Chocolat (and I'm not even being sponsored to say this! It's just amazing).</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">100 grams/ 4oz / ½ cup self-raising
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">100 grams/ 4oz/ ½ cup
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">100 grams/ 4oz / 1
stick butter (or margarine)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy new year! Did you all have a nice break over the holidays?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know, I know, how did it finish so quickly? Why are we back? What is even happening???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All very good questions. Unfortunately never answerable, but still.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, last December I had the privilege of doing a baking photo shoot with Josephine from <a href="https://courageanddash.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Courage & Dash</a> (which you just <i>have to </i>check out), who has the most amazing photography skills. We thought it would be great to team up and photograph some baking! And so, off I went, to see what I could make that would be pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That resulted in a pecan cheesecake, mulled wine cupcakes, baileys cupcakes and cranberry & white chocolate cookies. The butterscotch topping on the pecan pie started melting down the sides of the cheesecake (as you can see), but we decided that this just made it look...er, rustic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had intended to post this before Christmas (hence the baubles), but I got distracted (probably by something shiny). So I will make it a glittery new year post :) I promise to post the recipes up soon but in the meantime I recommend you recreating the taste of the Baileys cupcakes by....drinking some Baileys. What better way to spend today's lazy Sunday afternoon? :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All photography by the very talented Josephine, all baking by me. I hope you like the photos and, of course, all the best for 2016!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright Pudding Pie Lane 2011 at puddingpielane.blogspot.com</div>Xinmei @ Pudding Pie Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10303133999621311452noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831680771747267162.post-55208860621536369142015-10-29T19:44:00.001+00:002015-10-29T19:49:53.541+00:00Halloween: Of Ghosts and Pumpkins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I'm back (finally!) with a Halloween themed bake that I made for our department charity bake sale this week. The theme was to bake something scary for Halloween, and I was thinking "well... do you mean scary as in boo! scary or scary as in....scary..ly bad?" Because, you know, I can do the latter pretty well.</span><br />
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I just don't put it on my blog... :)</span><br />
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So my cake isn't even a 'boo' kind of scary because I think that this ghost is pretty cute! I tried to make it more Casper than something out of the Poltergeist because, well why would you on a cake?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here Casper is in all of his aerial view glory. Actually, from this angle looks more like an octopus, no?</span></div>
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And I took ages piping this icing so I took a photo of it. It doesn't even look that neat. But it hides all manners of cake sins when the edges of the orange bit just look awful.</span><br />
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So what are you dressing up as for Christmas? I am, I'm afraid, completely and utterly boring as have gone as a black cat for the last 5 years. I have got the whiskers down to an art. So this year, I decided that I must do better and be more creative and go as a....leopard. </span><br />
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But! I am a champion (champion), and you're gonna hear me roar! (oh oh oh oh oh oh).</span><br />
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And below are some step by step instructions for the decorations. The cake inside is pretty simple as I decided to just do a victoria sponge with jam and buttercream icing, but the outside takes a bit more time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1x cake mix with filling of choice</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1x marzipan ready to roll, lots (and lots) of orange food colouring (I used the gel one by Dr Oetker, three tubes of it nonetheless) and green food colouring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A black icing pen to draw the ghosts eyes. Melted chocolate will also do :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And some marmalade to stick the top icing to the marzipan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) This bit is optional but I find it makes the cake smoother on the outside. Start with the marzipan and roll it out so it will cover the cake. Drape over the cake and cut down the excess. Warm up the marmalade and brush over the marzipan (this will help the icing stick better).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) Then you move on to the ready to roll icing.. Keep about 1/10th of it to colour green and 1/10th for the ghost which you keep white. Colour the rest orange (you'll need more than you think of orange food colouring to make it look very orange). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) For orange icing, keep about 1/8th of that for the pumpkins you will make later. Roll the rest out into a circle on a floured surface. Then drape this over the marzipan on the cake, trimming down the excess. And ta da! You should have one very orange-y cake!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5) Draw some eyes on the ghost. My black icing tube exploded when I first tried so I got a very large droopy eye but the great thing is you can just wipe it off and try again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) For the pumpkin, shape some orange icing into a ball, and use a toothpick to shape the groves into it. Stick a bit of green icing on the top of the vine bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5) Okay so to make sure the decorations didn't fall off I stuck all of them on a toothpick first and then stuck that into the cake. Just make sure to tell anyone eating the cake that there are toothpicks in it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7) Feel free to add more green bits to your pumpkin patch or some leaves if you want. I added a few more pumpkins of different sizes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8) Last I made up some buttercream and piped it around the edges to hide the messy edges that I cut off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you liked it. Have a spooky Halloween!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty excited about the Ledbury. And this isn't really a review, because who needs a blogger review when you're ranked no. 20 on the top 50 restaurants only in the entire WORLD?? (And number 10 last year, hurray).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I guess this is more of a photo 'guide' than anything else :)</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Friday a few of us decided to take the day off or half way (because why not?) so we could go have the lunch menu at the Ledbury, which is actually pretty good value for a two Michelin star restaurant. £50 for a set menu of four courses - but, none of us actually went for that because since we were here why not go for the a la carte??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a la carte we did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I start with the amuse bouches, the Ledbury is in Notting Hill around this super nice 3 storey super luxurious townhouse-y part of town, with lots of yummy mummies pushing strollers around or going for a run. There was lots of people going for a run. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even I was running, except only from the tube station because I was late. I even almost almost thought I saw George Clooney on the Ledbury road (hey, it was a very well dressed silver fox in a navy blue suit and sunglasses) and did many double takes until I realised he was pushing a stroller. And also in England. Both of those things that George Clooney does not do (have a baby and live in England, that is).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the amuse bouches, the first one was some kind of green thing on seaweed. The second (just above) was a jelly thing on top of something that looked like a biscuit but wasn't really. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not selling this very well, but I took a picture of the menu so I'll remember the rest, I promise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay so this was another amuse bouche, and it was some shredded venison inside a puff pastry case with sprinkles of pistachio. I'm sure there was some fancy French name for it, but venison puff will do for simple ol' me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, I took a picture of my bag hook. I felt very inferior putting my non designer bag on this bag hook. This bag hook probably carried bags worth tens of thousands of pounds before. The bag hook was probably crying inside when it had to carry mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So on to the starters! We all went for different things, and this was one mine. "Hand Dived Scallops - Ceviche, Crystal Lemon Cucumber, Horseradish and Sorrell".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On my right T went for the "Candy Beetroot - Baked in Clay, English Caviar, Smoked and Dried Eel". I wasn't quite sure what the white stuff was but it turned out to be the beetroot, not the dried eel as I originally thought. Who knew beetroot could be white! I've always known it to be that annoying thing that stains absolutely everything when you touch it so you have to avoid it at all costs. But this was nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also the sauce, which I'm sure was made with love and with raw ingredients hand picked from the bottom of the sea that very morning by angels sent from heaven or whatever, but it just tasted like the oyster sauce from the Chinese supermarket I use (you know that bottled one with the panda on it?). Maybe I'm just being too common, but well, oyster sauce is oyster sauce, right? I still ate allll of it though, maybe because I was just being shellfish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T had the "Warm Bantam's Egg - Shaved Celeriac, Dried Ham, Arbois and Black Truffle". No I won't pretend to know what arbois is but I do now know a Bantam's Egg is ....just an egg. It was like that time I went to another michelin restaurant and went "oooooh I'll have the hen's egg please" only to realise that a hen's egg...is just an egg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My main was the "Belted Galloway Beef - Potato and Bay Leaf Butter, Smoked Bone Marrow and Wild Garlic Capers". Oh my god I loved that potato! I mean, it's pretty hard to do something nice and inventive with a boiled potato right? Not at the Ledbury. I'm pretty sure they sprinkled it with magic dust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, hehe, we used the bread to soak up the juices on the plate. Probably a fine dining no-no, but when a spoonful of juice left on your plate probably costs £5 then we are going straight for the bread dipping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And onto the finishing course, desserts. J had the "Pave of Chocolate - Cherry Jam and Sake", yes you heard that right, sake ice cream and chocolate! It was pretty strong. This was all in all quite a boozy dessert as the cherries I think were marinated in some kind of cherry liqueur. J also said the chocolate bits on top tasted just like Milo (instant hot chocolate drink). I mean, that's a lot going on in one plate! I don't think I'll be having sake and chocolate together everyday though....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Brown Sugar Tart - Stem Ginger Ice Cream". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Richmond Park Honey - Buffalo Milk, Mead and Thyme". Honey and Thyme was a great combo! I thought it was a really Chrismassy dessert (despite being in the middle of August) because I really wanted honey and thyme and mistletoe and wine, but maybe I"m just getting carried away with the Cliff Richard song (a Christmas favourite, by the way).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to rush off to catch a train at the end of the lunch (sob) but the others had coffees and petit fours (little chocolate truffles). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the all, I love the Ledbury. I mean, how can you not? The service was great (as you would expect) and food was better. Just a shame the lunch went by so quickly :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope to speak soon, I promise it won't be another 4 months until my next post!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until next time,</span></div>
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