Cookie Dough

Everyone loves Pizza Huts cookie dough. If you don't, you're an alien spy and we're going to find you out! If you haven't tried it then you've obviously been stuck in a hole for the last 2 years or so.. Seriously though. Its amazing. They even have 2 new flavours which I haven't tried yet as I just cant get over the chocolate chip one :)

       So I decided to try out making this heavenly food item. With no chance of doing it justice, but wanting to try anyway. Unsurprisingly, I still prefer Pizza Huts, but mine wasn't bad! May have cooked it for a bit long but it was still tasty chocolate chip cookie goodness.

And there it is. Definitely going to be on my top list of homemade comfort food. 

Anyway, this was only a little post.

Until next time,

Somnium x

Happy Easter :)

Its Easter which means chocolates, chocolate eggs, chocolate bunnies, chocolate cakes... lots and lots of chocolate! but whats this? I haven't done a chocolate cake!? No. I've done a good old fruit cake. A lovely lovely fruit cake covered in marzipan and icing. So nice half of its gone since last night!

       Unfortunately I couldn't be bothered making a proper fruit cake as it has to be stored for months before being eaten and it has to be fed. So instead I've made a welsh tea bread, except I used orange juice instead of tea which in my mind equals a quick and tasty fruit cake (better than the proper fruit cake in my opinion)

      However my lack of planning soon became evident. The cake was made about to be marzipaned. I check the cupboard and I have no icing! At least I can drive now, so I popped down to the store to buy some. Now, the cake is made, marzipaned, iced and crimped but i dont know what to put as the center piece! So I stopped decorating and thought for a while and came up with my final idea and put it into action. And this is what I achieved. 

Sorted :)

My Easter cake done and dusted for another year. 

Hope you enjoyed it, too bad I have to eat all your shares ;)

Till Later,

Somnium x

Lemon Cake

Its been a while since my last post, sorry about that, been busy with college. I'm on holiday now for two weeks so decided to celebrate by... making cake! what else?

      So this is just a little cake I made to use up some eggs and to try out a cake pan I've not used yet. I used my mums normal cake recipe of (flour, butter, sugar):(eggs) in 2:1 and in ounces, wouldn't really work otherwise. so yeah, I also added an extra egg yolk (cause I wanted to use those suckers up) and some lemon juice from pancake day and a tad of orange juice to lessen the tang. Poured it into my well greased tin and baked :D

      30-40 minutes later and ta-da! cake! I let it cool and cut off the bottom to make it flat then drizzled lemon glace icing over the top. Lets just say, it didn't last to see tomorrow ;)

The only thing I would change is adding some lemon rind to it as well but seeing as I was using lemon juice from a squirty plastic lemon.. that wasnt gonna happen.

Ill be posting soon,

ta ta for now,

Somnium x