On Monday I made Izzy some cakes for her 18th. Needless to say they were fabulous and my favourite one was this chicken. 

Also, listen to these songs and these songs.

Today I made these coffee cakes, made with brown sugar and with walnuts and coconut in, and some kind of walnut praline thing we made ages ago on top. Can you tell I basically made these out of the random bits we had in the baking cupboard?

I’m sorry the photo is atrocious, the cakes look nicer in person, when will I ever learn not to make cakes when it’s dark because the lighting just isn’t good enough for photographing?

I went to Izzy’s to have a baking day today, and when I got there she’d already made cookie dough and some of the cake mixture, but I helped her make meringue and blowtorch them. :D

You know in my previous post I said I’d spend “every waking hour” doing photography? Well…I made some cakes.

I took this with my Nikon, through the viewfinder of my Zenit E when I’d only just got it and was marvelling at the beauty of its shallow depth of field and such.

Well I did everything I said I would today, which is a first.

My Ikea serviettes and blue tack and my photography book to keep them up worked quite well I reckon.

It’s lime time!

I made lime cakes with lime juice in the cake and icing. I love them, so do the parentals. I was planning on making a big lemon cake instead but we didn’t have any lemons which was quite an issue.

Did Halloween stuff today since mah sister’s going back to uni tomorrow so we wouldn’t get chance otherwise. She basically just danced round the kitchen to Halloween songs when we were making the cakes though.

And that’s my pumpkin, carved into Matthew Patel shape. The top part worked, but the bottom half…didn’t. So I won’t be sharing that with anyone any time soon. So yeah, the top bit isn’t too terrible when you look at it next to the particular drawing I was copying from the book. But unfortunately I can’t find it on t’internet and can’t be arsed to get it on ‘ere myself.

Hey ma homies.

Check out the cakes I made today.

I also went for a walk/photo session thing with Mr Anna which was nice because somehow I haven’t seen her for ages. Which is a crime really. I took hundreds of photos, every single one of which I will be putting on my tumblr. I kid.

Day 56 of 72. 20th August 2010.

I made mini cow cakes this time. Because I have no life.