FreedomCafe.

This morning I went to a birthday brunch at Freedom Cafe. We snacked on crumpets and sipped on lemonade under the trees and bunting and, as per usual, memories of the morning were captured by many a photograph.  And so without further ado...

Holiday Adventures- Hartford House.

Next on our trip we went to Hartford House to visit my mom's cousin and have tea.  It's in a super pretty area and the tea and scones were delicious.

Rainbow cupcakes.

Today Jade came over and we made rainbow cupcakes.  We used a normal cupcake recipe and before baking we divided the batter into four bowls and added food colouring to each one.  We then layered the four types of batter into cupcake cases, baked them and finished them off with butter icing.

Jade taught me how to ice with piping bags.

The inside of the cupcakes.

Then we drank tea and ate them!

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Indeed.

Study ingredients.

I feel as though I've spent the last month holed up in my room studying, however it's only been a week and so far I've only written three exams- only nine more to go I guess:( Anyway, I'm not a very fussy person when it comes to studying- my only rules are that there has to be snacks and music.  I know that some people can find both of these things distracting when learning but I find they help me to not be distracted by other thing. Ahem, internet.  So while I take a study break I thought I'd share one of the playlists, found on 8tracks, that I've been listening to for past hour while trying absorb information on how to measure the area of blahblahblah.  Let's just say if you ever build a pyramid in your garden and need to know it's volume, you can call me.  

Nights That We Knew from zephu on 8tracks Radio.

Now it's time for me to go back to the land of quadrilaterals and endless cups of tea.  Meh, that sounds lame but to be perfectly honest I don't really have the motivation to do anything about it.

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Moustaches and tea.

Last weekend I had a bunch of people over for what was supposed to be a tea party in the garden for my birthday, but thanks to the rain it ended up being an indoor picnic.  We ate a ton of food, drank tea and took pictures with mustaches.  Here are a few pictures from a lovely afternoon...

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Brownies get in my stomach.

These are honestly some of the best things I've ever tasted.  It's like a chewy, chocolate explosion of yum in your mouth.

Ingredients:
180g milk chocolate
150g unsalted butter
125g plain flour
300g brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
15g cocoa powder
¹/₂  tsp of baking powder
1 pinch of salt

 Directions: 

1.     Preheat oven to 180^o C.
2.     Melt 90g of the chocolate and the butter over a saucepan on the stove.

3.     Sieve the four, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.

 4.     In another bowl, beat the eggs, and then add the sugar and vanilla extract.

5.     Fold the melted chocolate mixture into the beaten eggs mixture, and then fold in the flour mixture and the other 90g of broken chocolate.

6.     Pour the mixture into a greased tin and bake for 30 minutes.

Now eat them.

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