Happy Easter and Happy Birthday

Happy first birthday to Little Musings! So it was about this time last year that I started this blog and it’s been a wonderful little outlet for me (when I have the time to use said outlet) and it’s led me to look at some other really great blogging sites. I’m pretty sure one of the first posts I did was about my white chocolate Easter cake last year and so this post is going to seem like a little bit of a déjà vu, but with a little bit of a better twist. Yay to cake success!

I hope everyone has enjoyed their Easters, I certainly got far too many white chocolate orientated treats, as you can see! People know me far too well… (not that you see me complaining!) This long weekend business has completely fuzzled up my brain and I don’t know whether I’m coming or going, whether it’s Friday or Sunday! But it’s been fun! This year, I had another crack at the BBC Good Food’s white chocolate Easter cake but put my own twist on it. Since the white chocolate sponge was so hit and miss as to whether it went well or not (plus it was very heavy last year which resulted in a lot of sicky feeling), I decided to go for a plain sponge but mixed it up but stirring in crushed white chocolate. The sponge itself came out perfectly, in fact I think it’s my most lightest, fluffiest to date. And although there weren’t little bit of melted white chocolate as I had envisaged throughout, it had all sunk to the bottom in a nice, crunchy block. I covered with an amazing (seriously, like totally the best thing a white chocolate lover could ever discover) white chocolate buttercream which I found on this lovely site: http://www.4thsensecooking.com/2012/11/strawberry-cake-with-white-chocolate.html The consistency was perfect! Stiff peaks but also spreadable and then I topped with the classic Easter favourites, Mini Eggs. It was definitely one of my best ever cakes. Success!

White chocolate Easter cake- a success!

My second ‘baking’ attempts were cornflake cakes! Taking me back to my childhood, I cooked these treats up in no time. After putting more of the chocolate, butter, syrup mixture in that it originally said, I halved the mixture and stirred a melted mars bar through one which was one of my best brainwaves yet! I feel like I must have heard it somewhere before but it made them so gooey and chocolatey. A traditional favourite made all the more fattening… Sounds perfect to me!!

Somebody knows me too well...

My family deviated from the traditional Sunday Easter dinner this year, since the weekend before I had returned from university and we had the biggest roast dinner known to man… Seriously. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten so much… Anyway, so because we decided we probably couldn’t manage another huge one, we opted for a tapas themed buffet! I was actually really good, with different breads and dipping oils, olives, loads of chorizo because that’s my fave, stuffed peppers, cheeses, the lot. And some mini sausage rolls for my fussy brother, many of which I may have scoffed for myself too. I’m sure there’s no need for me to tell you that my keeping-the-weight-off-diet isn’t exactly going to plan, but I just lurrve food.