31 Dec 2016

Uncork the New Year and Serve on Ice!

Can you believe how fast the year's gone? Or am I just being melodramatic? Years are catching up and yet it is impossible to catch up with them in their relentless travel. Meanwhile we can still catch up with things we would like accomplished and package them up into the sacro-sanct New Year's Resolutions so they don't merely sit on our mind like co-opted ideas - cue the Palm Beach post I had intended for Mirabelle but stalled on halfway through! The flipside about resolutions is their propensity to turn into resolutions of the unresolute variety: they end up diluted or deleted.

This shall be different in 2017. I'll see you on the other side of the New Year with my Palm Beach regalia! Until then, Cheers to NYE, My Lovelies!



Sources: (1) Twinkle, twinkle little star! Photography by Mirabelle. (2) Glam up the Champers with a dash of ice: Pomegranate Champagne Sorbet by The Cookie Rookie. (3) Lash out the cream: Chocolate Mini Cakes with Hazelnut Buttercream by The Vanilla Bean Blog. (4) Feel fruity for the New Year: A Fresh & Fancy Girlfriends Brunch by Coco Kelley.

6 Dec 2016

Chocolate Chip Cookies the Mason Jar Way

Easy as 1-2-3, you got it right here! With the holiday season a sprinkling of snowflakes away, here is one nifty instant cookie present fit for a sweet-tooth relative or friend! You've heard of cakes that pop out of a packet, Betty Crocker way. How about cakes that elegantly swish out of a Mason jar and that are entirely personable, i.e. as health-conscious, organic and luxurious as you want them to be? And pretty and thoughtful enough to become presents, without your breaking the bank or a nail?

The Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe infographic brought to me by the guys at Fix is a nifty edible present that is 100% customisable and assembled together in less than 5 minutes. The present requires a little involvement for the recipient, namely mixing the ingredients together with egg, butter and vanilla - and have an oven at the ready. Talk about hassle-free baking, when virtually all of the ingredients have been selected, weighed and handed over to you in a jar with a tag and a ribbon. Yes we could do the baking for you, but then we would have to scoff all the cookies!



Source: Mason jars have the power to be repurposed in all sorts of creative ways and the Mason Jar Madness article by Dinah Wulf goes under the hood (sorry, lid!) of the jar to dig out domestic uses for the home and garden. You will find a host of nifty ideas, tips and advice from the Fix blog!
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