Piñata!

Piñata cookies.

The best thing that I never knew even existed before the internet. 

Food Porn!

If you're not hungry now then you cannot be my friend.

I'm baking these today. Cream cheese plus chocolate, my kind of heart attack. 

P.S. Check out the link for other recipes, Smittenkitten is tried and trusted by me, a baker with no scale, no mixer and scant idea of the difference between Fahrenheit and degrees celcius...

Marie Claire and Cookies!

I was tickled to see the letter I wrote to Marie Claire in the latest issue.

Although I had already painstakingly prepared my surprised voice for when I won the prize for the winning letter, it was still fun to see my letter there for all to see.

The last time I wrote to a publication I was 11 years old writing to the Sunday Times Magazine kids section to inform them of my varied hobbies. Naturally I lied, so my exotic hobbies ranged from ice-skating to horse riding and soccer. My real hobbies as an 11 year old were far more sedentary and I was in fact petrified of horses. Nonetheless, my letter of lies was published and kept for weeks on end to show family and friends my literary talent.

Fast-foward to this week, reading the latest issue of MC was made even better by the fact that I had made vanilla cookies to scoff while looking at famished models and celebs.

The recipe for the cookies is from Joy the Baker and they're definitely worth making for the sweet smell of freshly baked cookies alone.