Showing posts with label dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinner. Show all posts

Monday, February 7, 2011

Back to It!

When I started this blog I thought I'd be mainly blogging about makeup, however I've had a few 'what I'm doing' 'baking' etc posts as well, so basically Emma-Me is now my online diary to which my 8 (at current) followers are privy.

Yesterday I wore this out to Leederville.



I went to dinner at Jus Burgers, and then enjoyed a nice pint of Becks at The Garden.

My recent purchases include:


From thebookdepository.co.uk. Exciting. It's for uni. I wanted to order all of my books there but the other two I need were out of stock. Who knew HR books were so popular?

Happy Monday.


It's Been A While

Since I last blogged.

As promised here is my cake / ganache / fondant attempt. First ever.

Ganache:









I put it into the fridge to set, and then got started on the fondant. I made a marshmallow fondant because I've heard that most fondants aren't very tasty. Plus this one was easy (in fondant terms...)

Melted the white marshmallows with 1Tbs water for about 20 seconds, until they went all puffy:



Sifted in this until it formed a dough texture:





Then I did the same with the pink marshmallows, only I added a touch of food colouring to make it look even pinker:



I made this ghastly mess:


The fondant had to set, so I whipped up a lasagna for dinner:



Here is the cake ganache-d:



I did smooth it off much nicer than it looks here, I just didn't get around to taking a photo. The cake is actually two cakes, a white chocolate mud on the bottom, and a chocolate mud on the top. I just made White Wings cakes, because I didn't want to put in a lot of effort to just fail miserably (same with the Select chocolate you might have noticed that I used!).

Here is is fondant-ed:



Excuse the lumps and bumps. I tried my best!

I now have 7/8 of a fully ganached/fondanted mudcake in my freezer. It ended up weighing over 4kg all up.