Tuesday 3 May 2011

Welcoming the merry month of May

As a UK person working in a standard office job I must say I'm rather getting on board with this 3/4 day weeks business and will be most disappointed next week when I'm in all 5 days! Unfortunately it's also throwing me completely off balance and I'm rather losing track of what day it actually is. I knew what day it was today though as I woke up to a little pile of cards waiting to be opened.

I had a lovely weekend. We did not watch the Royal Wedding, I'm not particularly interested in the Royals or in weddings I'm not invited to/where I don't know the people getting married so I was never going to get into the wedding fever that seemed to hit so many people. I'm not complaining about the wedding though, I would never complain about an extra bank holiday!

Instead I caught up with a lot of housework and did some serious spring cleaning then went to a 60th birthday party on Sunday. It was a good weekend really and the good weather meant I could dry all my washing outdoors, I do love that line dried smell.

Yesterday was a day of baking, I spent almost all day in the kitchen making buns to bring to work today.

Chocolatey buns


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The chocolatey buns were topped with chocolate ganache made from dark chocolate (85% cocoa solids...yummy) and double cream, not good for the waistline but very tasty!




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Vanilla buns with buttercream (which is supposed to be lilac but looks a bit grey in the photos) and hundreds and thousands.


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And "Passion cake" buns which are banana, carrot, sultana and coconut, they're supposed to have nuts in but one of my colleagues is allergic so I left the nuts out.


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These buns are topped with cream cheese frosting...mmmmm




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Naughty but totally worth it! Also banana, carrot and sultanas...got to be one of your five a day right?!


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Worry bot though, I managed to fit in some knitting time and am making good progress on my new project, a lovely cotton and silk blend for spring/summer knitting.




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Summer is definitely on the way, I was awoken this morning by the sun blazing through our window, I panicked that the alarm hadn't gone off or I'd slept through it only to look and find it was actually 5am. I think we need darker curtains!

5 comments:

  1. That's a lot of baking! And I am jealous because your chocolate buns look soooo tasty ;)

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  2. your buns look delicious!

    I've had too much good food this last 11 days though. in addition to the gloom of a return to the daily grind I'm also facing a cake-free month.

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  3. Pile of cards? Is it your birthday? If so, Happy Birthday. Those buns look delicious, I wouldn't be able to choose just one, I'd have to have one of each.

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  4. Wow, those all look so delicious!! Love the color of the yarn for your project!

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  5. You have been having a baking frenzy! The passion cake ones sound really yummy!

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