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Feel Good..

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Lately have have not been happy normal self, I felt very useless and slightly depressed... I was in need of cheering up and do something that would make happy.  So these things are... Fun films, I recently watched Pitch Perfect It made me really happy. For more details about this fun filled film you can see on my joint blog with Owen  My Favorite Film .  Straight after I watched Easy A and House Bunny  with lovely Emma Stone and Anna Faris... I just couldn't stop smiling. But then I felt down again... So I baked and cooked And watch Sailor Moon... Oh how these girls make me happy! But it has to be subbed not dubbed.  These are the things that make me relax and happy again.

baking tradition

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Some how we have created the baking leaving tradition... Me and Choi made cakes when out housekeepers were leaving to better jobs. She did some cute cupcakes and I did something of the Wimbledon Cake.... but used the wrong flower so it was something a bit different... When Viera made decision to leave I made cupcakes! And here is the recipe: 100g Softened butter 150g Self-raising flour 150g Caster sugar 3tbsp Milk 2 Eggs 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract I made 2 bowls of mixture, one vanilla and one chocolate. Just put bit less flour and added 2 tbsp of coco powder. Pre-heat the oven at 180C put muffin cases into the muffin tin. I put spoon of every mixture in the case to have a marble effect. And bake them for 20-25min. I am ashamed to admit but the icing was bought, I run out of vanilla at that stage. So just pipe out the icing on the cupcake and in this case I used Maltesers to decorate. I can tell you that there was nothing left and everyone put on a...