Visiting my family in pics 2/4

Following the post Visiting my family in pics - Part 1/4, here's the photos of the second day back home. It was Sunday, Easter day, so all family was together for lunch. Once again I'll be showing general pictures of the place I grew up, but not any pictures that include other people (just one with my younger sister doing her first cupcakes :) ).

Enjoy and leave your comment bellow! x

Sunday is Cake Day! #9

Mnhum mnham everyone!

This week I baked a very special cake as it was Habibi's 23rd birthday on the 22nd of April.
He didn't want to celebrate, but I forced convinced him to do so.

I baked this amazing chocolate cake (remember my first cake? Yap, the same recipe) and made the usual buttercream, with a tiny difference - I turned it completely white without losing the good flavour. The secret? Adding a tiny bit of purple food colouring to it as purple and yellow are complementary colours. The purple will cut the effect of the yellow, making it whiter. Don't expect pure white, expect the whiter you can get in this case.

As he said he liked grey, I tried to decorate it in a neutral way, adding some grey details to it.
Also I had only 2 days (3 hours per day, after work) to make this, so 1st day to bake and 2nd day for the decoration.

Follow with the pictures bellow and I'll see you next Sunday!

I'm giving up

My life since 1 year from now has been going so wrong I can't even believe it. I don't know if I have been making the wrong choices or something,  the truth is my life is going in a direction that I've never wanted. Somehow I feel unable to change it now.

Visiting my family in pics 1/4

Hey ya! 

So I had the opportunity to finally go back home and meet my family after more than 1 year that I moved to London in January 2014. 

I was so excited, so nervous! Specially because I was going to see my nephew for the first time. He was born in the same week I moved,  so I've only seen him through Skype. 

Well I can't really tell you everything that happened but I can definitely share with you these 2/3 days in pictures.

For obvious reasons I'll avoid pictures with other people, but I'm still gonna try to show a bit of everything. Enjoy! :)

Sunday is Cake Day! #8

Holarey!

This week I decided to go back to the basics and make a simple sponge with a delicious chocolate buttercream filling and chocolate ganache as frosting. Not only it came out visibly nice, but it came out completely delicious! In fact it was, in my opinion and Habibi's, probably the best cake I've ever baked.

New this week was the 2 tiers cake which I decided to try as I needed to make some extra cake after being threatened by my colleagues that I would receive several kinds of reprisals - ok, they just asked me for some cake around 2,000 times since I started baking.

The decoration was simple with white royal icing (which I still can't pipe properly!!!!) and some light beige roses and petals.

Everything said, let's go for the recipe followed by the pictures!

Remember: I'm not a professional baker or cake decorator; also I usually use approximated measures of the ingredients - I just adjust them as I go and it always comes good anyway.

Sunday is Cake Day! #7

Hey y'all!

Last week I went back to my country to visit my family. As it was Easter time, all family got together in my parents home on Sunday 5th.
For a long time I had the idea of making this lovely cupcakes. I wanted to do something cute for all the family but simple and easy at the same time as I wanted my younger sister to step in and share the moment with me.

The hard times of life

I recently read a post by Petals of Perfection about "Why it's ok not to be ok...".
It's a subject that often crosses my mind but I've never written about it. We all have these particular moments when we feel not so good and we - unfortunately - have the tendency of closing ourselves and hiding our feelings.

Me, I've always had a low self-esteem (responsible for my 10 years depression) and lack of auto confidence which made me close my doors to the world and the world's doors to myself. I've almost turned into a wild scary creature apart from society ,  but I was lucky enough to find a way out (I'll give depression subject a proper post later).
My point is I know how it feels like when you go down to the very bottom. I know the panic, the insecurity, the terror it gives you not being able to find the right path.

Sunday is Cake Day! #6

Hello little gypsies!

My most recent cake adventure is here.
This time I wanted to try three different things: strawberry flavour, red colour and royal icing.
So it seemed logical: red velvet sponge with strawberry flavour, with white buttercream filling and white royal icing frosting. The decoration was made with pink buttercream.

This was a delicious experiment! Sweet strawberry flavour was definitely the main feature. The red velvet colour turned it into a piece of luxury. The white royal icing gave it the perfect finish.

Let me show you in pictures.

Help yourself with a slice while waiting for next Sunday :)

Dear Instagram - March '15

So March was the month in which I decided to open an Instagram account (here). Wasn't really sure about how much I would like it, but now I completely love it!

I decided to follow the steps of a few people and include here a summary of my Instagram activity, as it is completely related. Good ideas are to be shared, I've always heard. Nothing wrong about it, and definitely no bad intentions!

If you're not following me through Instagram, join me here.

Here's my last month in pictures.