Bah

So i've decided that i think i'munna break my month long streak (excluding sundays) of only waking up after 12:00 in the after noon... By going running again in the mornings.... Let's hope i don't die or something right?! haha

i think i will go buy some new running shoes tomorrow afternoon! SORTED!

Chocolate Ganache and Caramel cream cake.

So i decided to try a cake Using a Ganache as Frosting, just for the sake of learning something new.
True to myself and my hate for recipes i didn't follow everything completely...but that's why it's fun right?


Ingredients.
CARAMEL CREAM


1 1/2 cups of heavy whipping cream
half a tin of coronation caramel

GANACHE FILLING AND FROSTING

• 1 1/2 pounds bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 3 cups heavy whipping cream
• I also added about 1/4 a cup of caramel but that was just me.

CAKE

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup whole milk
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup hot water
• 1 tablespoon instant espresso powder or instant coffee (instead of that i just added a heap of caramel to the hot water)
• 1 1/4 cups almonds, toasted, coarsely chopped  (i used walnuts instead)

Preparation


Ganache
First of all... i made the mistake of not looking at the prep instructions before deciding on the recipe... so the ganache is actually supposed to be done WEL in advance... preferably the night before!!!


But the preparation is pretty easy....


1. Break up the chocolate into a large bowl
2. Bring the cream to a simmer in a pot
3. Pour the cream over the chocolate and let it start to soften for about a minute.
4. after the minute stir the chocolate and cream together... (this is where he i added the extra caramel)


Caramel cream


1.Whip up the cream until almost stiff (add sugar if needed)
2. whip in the caramel... to taste... so add more until it tastes good and caramelly
   A tip... don't eat pure caramel before you taste the caramel cream... cuz then you gotta get someone to taste it for you cuz it tastes real bland after the pure caramel :)




 Cake
 (i'munna just copy it down from the recipe i got it from)

Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F (gas mark 4 ). Butter two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides. Line bottom of each with parchment paper; butter paper and dust pan with flour.

Sift sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into large bowl. Add milk, eggs, and melted butter. Using electric mixer, beat at low speed until blended. Increase speed and beat 2 minutes. Stir 1 cup hot water and espresso powder in small bowl to dissolve. Add to batter; beat until blended (batter will be thin). Divide batter between pans (about 3 cups each).

Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 32 minutes (it took me like 45 minutes so keep checking). Cool cakes in pans on racks 10 minutes. Cut around cakes; turn out onto racks. Peel off parchment and cool completely. (i'd leave it longer than 10 minutes to cool cuz otherwise the cutting is a bit of a shambles!)

Using long serrated knife, cut each cake horizontally in half. Place 1 layer on platter; spread with 1/2 cup room-temperature ganache. Spoon 3/4 cup ganache into pastry bag fitted with 1/4-inch plain round tip. Pipe ring of ganache around edge of layer. Top with second cake layer, ganache, ganache ring, caramel filling, and almonds. Repeat with third cake layer. Top with fourth cake layer, cut side down. Spread remaining ganache over top and sides of cake. Press remaining almonds onto sides. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 days ahead. Cover with cake dome and chill. Let cake stand at room temperature 1 hour

  it's pretty Ugly but it did taste good hahaha

I decorated it a little different but whatevs!

Starting this thing.

ok because i'm a loser like this.. i've decided to have a Cooking blog! so i can put donw all the new things and recipes that i try... because i wanna bake more.... I already cook alot...  Lets see how well this works out eh?

Don’t forget the Lyrics.

 

isn’t it funny how Lyrics stick in your head?

I don’t mean that in a “oh wow.. Powerful words” kinda way…

just that i’ve noticed lately that even songs that you haven’t heard in ages, as soon as you hear them again the lyrics just pop into your head… or mine anyway….

or a simple word can spring up a whole song that you haven’t heard in forever….Random…. anyhoo;….  this song just reminded me cuz i hadn’t listened to it in like a few years and when my Little brother played it in the car the words just popped into my head again… 

Also… This song is awesome… I do Love Mr Eminem…

the most Productive 2 hours.

So i woke up today at 13:00... I know right... i have no idea how i sleep so much!!!
Anyhoo... sat around for like 30 mins and then went to was me hair cuz it was full of hair spray and i
was hoping to get it cut today... so i washed it, Tied it up in a bun and headed out... went to the petshop for like 10 mins then down to the hair dressers to see if they could fit me in... they could!  
so i sat for like 20 minutes and then got my hair cut... i was kinda like.. uuugh about cutting it ...  cuz it was like 44 euro... anyway  i untied my hair.. it was still soaking wet... Score! so she didn't wash it and got straight to the cutting!  just got it layered and my fringe done again.. not much lenght take off at all..
so as i was about to pay... they don't take card... so i run across the road to draw some cash... i get back to pay and because it was already wet and didn't have it blow dried... instead of 44 euro i paid... FIFTEEN... yup! :) SCORE..
so then i walked home... and waited for my parents to get home cuz i didn't bring my keys...
by 14:59 i was already chillaxing in the house...  
Like i said.. productive eh?

the world IS ending in 2012

... so i have come to the comclusion that the world really is ending in 2012... because i had decided that the world would end when we ran outta new musical note combinations.... and since that seems to have happened...  Good bye world..

Ok.. so i might be being a Teeeeny bit over dramatic... but SERIOUSLY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dj1pGlIzCA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTnuGkZgaMc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uvAcWWlrkk&feature=related



you see how this next one starts... all creepy and stuff?!   well that's how i feeel.. haha  i'm such a loser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25O-bLjreaA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XEUjvEDvro&feature=related

Ok... Just one more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIH0_O02otY&feature=related

so what i'm trying to say is...   the world is ending...(or mine is at least)

to, too, then, than!

Although i have Probably failed Miserably at it, Whenever i write large paragraphs of whatever... i like to think i do it with some kind of grammatical finesse... if that's even something people say?!

Anyway... i hate reading things that are like the rednecks of the grammar society... I die a little inside when someone Uses then and than wrong... and although i know what they meant.. i just can't force my mind to read it they way they meant... i have to look away from the screen and repeat the sentence in my head the way it's supposed to sound...

or people using to and too wrong... it makes me go crazy... i mean i don't mind the odd little grammatical error.... but if you really really can't grasp this whole english thing... well... maybe you should limit your writing to txtn ur 4rends hu dnt mnd readin ur crap?!  right?

another thing that drives me over the bend is... people writing "could / should/ would (etc) of" instead of could have....  Hello.... Does the phrase "could of" even make sense to you?

haha  i'm just having me a little rant.. what's new right?! 
I guess for all i know people read my blog and think the exact same about mine ( if anyone even reads it  haha)

But at least mine are silly little rants and so on... i'm not trying to stir up any emotions or educate the world...
i just think that something intended for the purposes of information... should not sound like it was written by an uneducated teenager being paid to write their older siblings book report... 


Whatever i  guess haha

Christi