tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59091292012-01-11T11:44:08.223ZThings I make and doElimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-49515376512685051702012-01-10T15:43:00.000Z2012-01-10T15:43:01.911Z

yeah, yeah, only 3 months later. But I actually found some pics of the finished Red Velvet cupcakes I made for halloween. Here they are in all their finished gory (glory)

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-75708621004042020422012-01-08T15:37:00.000Z2012-01-08T15:37:26.053Z

'Hey' I texted my sister on Monday. 'Do you want me to bake the kids birthday cakes? Let me know!' I didn't catch the reply until Monday evening. 'Yeah, that would be great, C wants a princess cake, I'm having a tea party for her on Wednesday' !!!!!! Which left me one day to bake and design an appropriately pink and pretty princess cake. yoiks! Tuesday morning found me up an early down at

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Yes I used an exclamation mark in the title, because if you can't get excited about home-made marshmallows then you have no soul. This is another recipe I spotted on Pinterest which piqued my interest. It is not a beginners recipe as at one point there are 2 bowls and one pan of sugar syrup on the go at the same time but I'm proud to say I managed to get everything to come together properly.

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-88340816564524760332011-12-19T16:29:00.000Z2011-12-19T16:29:00.724Z

Just a quick one today - these were my Christmas cards for this year. Everything seems to have started a bit late this year as regards getting ready for Christmas, so I threw these together out of the bits and pieces I had in my crafty boxes.

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-14832948189851222232011-12-18T16:19:00.000Z2011-12-18T16:19:00.841Z

Where do I start with these things? They should be easier than candy because there isn't any special temperatures or fiddly syrups that can burn. However, whether I was just doing too much I don't know, but I managed to miss the part of the recipe that said to grease a 9x9 pan and instead I threw everything into a round pizza pan. This resulted in the 'lemon bars' (because that is what they

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-9605194000819589352011-12-16T16:07:00.000Z2011-12-16T16:07:01.342Z

I found this recipe a while ago on Pinterest and it appealed to me as it was egg free because I'm always wary of raw eggs in a recipe. This one was dead simple, flour, butter and brown sugar creamed into a thickish batter \ dough. I threw in a couple handfuls of chocolate chips to give the 'batter' some texture and then chill it for a while (I left if overnight in the fridge) shape it into balls

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-27723285766035583782011-12-15T15:33:00.000Z2011-12-15T16:09:11.560Z

This was my first attempt at making caramels and I messed it up. The recipe said to keep the sugar syrup on medium high heat, but the candy thermometer wasn't going anywhere near the required temperature. After some thought a bit of googling (all while the syrup was bubbling away) I crossed my fingers and whacked the heat up to high. Finally the thermometer started to creep up to the proper

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-8872559581828672472011-11-18T20:22:00.000Z2011-11-18T20:22:00.429Z

A couple of years ago around Christmas time I got terribly creative and decided that instead of buying a box of manufactured Christmas cards I would make my own. I'm a half decent photographer and I'd decorated the house up a bit with christmas stuff, so a couple of cute pictures of Christmas gnomes and lights on a card would be much more personal than a packet of cards from Tesco right? Well

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-45158520674317945242011-11-15T15:59:00.000Z2011-11-15T15:59:11.632Z

I got bored a couple of weeks ago, there was no one around and nothing to do and it was a crappy horrible rainy day out so I decided to do some baking. Nothing too exciting after all it was only me going to be eating whatever I produced and unless I want to turn into a telly tubby I didn't want to be eating a dozen buttercream topped cakes all by myself. So I went for these simple little cuties

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-74264246147345167782011-11-13T21:43:00.000Z2011-11-13T21:43:00.248Z

The sister offered to make dinner for the halloween\bank holiday \ it's not your birthday weekend. I wasn't planning on making any cakes because you know, birthday girl bringing her own cake smacks of patheticness. But once again I got bored and I had some spare fondant in the cupboard AND I'd been messing around on Pinterest and saw a couple of people had pinned wee little halloween models

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-5082669837621958972011-11-11T19:45:00.000Z2011-11-11T19:45:00.854Z

Ahh chocolate how I love you. But first to make some fondant. I looked up recipes online and they all seemed pretty simple, water, sugar and corn syrup brought to a rolling boil of about 125 degrees. But when I looked at comments under these 'simple' recipes it seemed to be all doom and gloom. 'I ruined my pot' said one. 'The sugar syrup destroyed my pans' cried another. So when I did it I

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-23850231833529097472011-11-10T21:04:00.000Z2011-11-10T21:04:00.159Z

Back in September I helped out at HandmAidCraft day - well ok I say 'helped out' but in reality I wandered around with my camera taking pictures of all the really creative stuff and people that showed up on the day. Because seriously there are some very talented knitters and crafters in Dublin these days. Anyone who knows me knows my wojus attempts at crocheting and knitting, I'm really good at

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-48250531234532939082011-11-09T19:22:00.000Z2011-11-09T21:51:09.285Z

My friends and I all love cake - it's like crack to us. So when I and D announced they were having a welcome party for their new baby it was a perfect opportunity for some baking and messing around with buttercreams. I didn't have time to get down to the shops so really the only food colour I had in the house was a couple of bottles of Squires Kitchen, one navy and one yellow. Which was handy

Elimarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01333094589383850834noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909129.post-11896481011770443362011-10-12T10:37:00.001+01:002011-11-09T21:51:41.912Z

It was my mothers birthday this week and as it fell on a weekday we gathered on the weekend to wish her a happy birthday. I made some gluten-free cupcakes - twice. The first batch I baked on Saturday night turned out like rubber, the tops burnt black and the bottom was overcooked rubber eggs. It was the second time I'd tried this recipe and the first time the cakes were fantastic, I don't know

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