white chocolate butterfly cakes

Made these for my boyfriends birthday today, they are pretty damn yummy! However dont try and substitute icing sugar with granulated for the butter icing, just doesnt work in any way...

Recipe:

Mix together

125g butter

125g castor sugar

150g self raising flour

2 eggs

25g white chocolate (melted)

Spoon into cake cases and bake for 15 mins at 180 degrees. Cut the top off each cake, slice in half and then press into butter icing on top of the cake, i added chocolate buttons for fun :)

 Butter icing:

100g butter

225g icing sugar

Blended together

chocolate

In the process of trying to finish my essay today i have managed to consume an entire bar of galaxy caramel chocolate! Googling images to accompany this post i found:

 

A chocolate baby wtf?? 

Ok apparently they arent chocolate but they are pretty creepy looking!

read here

320 words

Left to write of my essay... I am presuming this doesn't include referencing and footnotes as that will definitely up my word count by about 500...

Haven't looked at this since before i started my easter shifts at the service station. Wont be seeing that place until some point in the summer (whenever i run out of money!) Which, whilst the people are (mostly) nice and not unbelievably frustrating, i just cant handle getting up at 6am anymore, however much i want to pay off my overdraft! 

Was up in yorkshire for a couple of days in between my manic working hours. Tis pretty nice up there, especially the company. Also got to go to a nice Ye Olde sweet shop, reminds me of the many times me and my friend have gone to the one in bath and spent all of our random change on paper money, popping candy and lollies. We are such children! I recommend apple and custard mega lollies-amazing! :)

 

sleep

That was one of the best sleeps i have ever had in my life! I have been working the early shifts for the past 5 days which means getting up at 6 every day to work for 8 hours! It would be an understatement to say that yesterday i was absolutely knackered and sick of standing up on a till barely moving. 

Though i still have work later (last shift before i go up and see the boyfriend yayyy) it is at 3 which means today i could actually sleep in properly and wake up to the sun shining and being able to sit in it rather than seeing it through the windows behind the coffee shop and having everyone tell you how lovely it is outside! 

AWESOME!

 

Right, time to go top up my freckles :)

book

Doing random research and taking ages to do any kind of uni work today. Doesnt help much that our lecturer talks about images that seem to be unknown to google images or anywhere else on the internet.... Seriously how am i supposed to annotate anything when i cant find the images to stick in and annotate!!! 

 Rant over.. So i also found today that the editors of one of my favourite books "Illustration play-craving for the extraordinary" have brought out a second version here!

Now i am really excited and wish i had £20 going spare as the first version of this book was so beautiful! It is a nice weighty book with an embossed cover and different types of paper for each artists work. All the artists are completely different from one another and anyone who loves traditional, "make-y" art will love this! Its not that i don't think digital art is good i just find you have lost some of the fun when everything is done with a mac and a tablet! anyone else feel the same? Anyho here are some images from book 2!