For a while now I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a Facebook Page for The Pink Cashmere. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to create another social media outlet that I had to keep updating, considering I’m not particularly amazing at keeping my Twitter up to date!
I created this page a while back, I think all the way in October, when I first started The Pink Cashmere, but it isn’t until recently that I actually posted anything on it, I mean I seriously don’t use my own Facebook that much, so trying to organise another account for The Pink Cashmere was a lot of effort……especially when I logged in and everything had changed on FB, I needed a dummies guide to Facebook!
Anyway, without further ado, I present to you The Pink Cashmere Facebook Page. Like it, share it, and I promise I will try to keep it up to date!
Finally getting back on top of my # posts. I have been so busy at the moment and am afraid I’ve neglected my blog a bit. :(
Have a wonderful weekend. x
~Lolly in my Ray-Ban sunnies~
~Scruff and Lolly surveying the land~
~The most incredible sunset behind my house~
~I often find my self sitting around trying mine and my mum’s heels on~
(Wearing J-Brand jeans and my mum’s Gina Heels no longer available online in black)
~Wonderfully decadent, Strawberries dipped in chocolate and champagne~
I love strawberries dipped in chocolate, it’s such a simple desert and is so easy to make. The fact that I can go down to my local farm shop and pic the strawberries, something my mum and I have done ever since I can remember, only adds to my overall love of the chocolatey treat. I think the thing that I am most enamoured with when it comes to strawberries dipped in chocolate, is the way the sweet fruity zest of the strawberry adds a lovely intense flavour to the chocolate. If you have a chocolate fountain lying around then there is nothing better than firing it up and allowing guests to dip the strawberries into fresh warm melted chocolate. If however you don’t have that luxury (like myself) then there is a simple and easy alternative.
(Recipe beneath pictures)
You Will Need:
Strawberries
Chocolate
Baking paper
A microwave safe bowl (or your alternative to melting chocolate)
Ingredients:
As many strawberries as you like
As many bars of chocolate you think will be needed (I buy extra bars, and then melt them when I need more chocolate)
Method:
1. Take a large enough cutting of baking paper and on a baking tray.
2. Wash and dry the strawberries (It is very important that the strawberries are as dry as possible, as the water in the melted chocolate can cause the chocolate to go all gloopy)
3. Melt the chocolate
4. Hold the strawberry by the stem and then dip it into the chocolate, twirl it so that the chocolate is evenly coating the strawberry.
5. Place the strawberry on the baking paper, and then do it all again. Make sure you leave a small gap between each strawberry as the chocolate can spread.
6. Once you’re done dipping the strawberries place them in the fridge for at least half and hour, or until you are ready to serve them. I’d recommend taking them out of the fridge for a few minuets before you want to serve them so they aren’t too cold and hard.
I always have to have something playing music on in the background, whether it be NRJ France, Kiss 100 (I love Ricky, Melvin and Charlie in the morning!) or just my humble iTunes playlist. Music is such an important part of my life and I really have no specific genre that I favour over another. I often find I get a bit obsessed with a different song each week, so I’ve been debating whether or not to do a weekly post, A Week In Song, so I can share with you, my lovely readers, the songs that I’ve been belting out for the past week.
This week I’ve been listening to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Can’t Hold Us (yes I’m aware its an old song)
The song starts at around 40/50 seconds into the video.
Disclosure: All videos on 'A Week In Song' have been pasted from Youtube from the official artists link.
The other week I went to the British Museum to see the Ice Age exhibition. I am fascinated by art and history so I was very excited to see what our ancestors created so many years ago! To see these tiny little sculptures created with such care and so detailed, that are thousands of years old is quite amazing. Until recently I thought that the Ice Age man was more of an “UGG UGH UHGG” sort of person, of course we’ve all seen the incredible cave paintings in France, but I was not expecting to see all these little pieces of art that was left behind so many years ago. For anyone interested in Art History I really would recommend this exhibition, and I can’t wait to see the Herculaneum and Pompeii exhibition.
I am in love with the beautiful range of jewellery that has been created by Tiffany & Co. for the upcoming movie The Great Gatsby.
The first hint I got that Tiffany’s were in partnership for the film, was when I got a beautiful copy of The Great Gatsby in a book store a few months back. When I logged onto the Tiffany website the other day I was blown away by the stunning collection, if only I had a spare £150 grand lying around for a tiara!
I love the story of The Great Gatsby and I am so excited to see how Baz Luhrmann has interpreted this classic story for the big screen!
If you want to see the video on the collaboration click here.
If you want to see the official trailer click here.
For anyone wondering what the song at the beginning of the trailer is, it is… No Church In The Wild :- Jay-z & Kanye West.
I have just realised that I never did a post about the incredible cake, that I ordered from Peggy Porschen for my birthday (which was all the way back in March!)
Well to rectify this problem and spread the good word about just how amazing this cake was, I’m going to post about it now. As we had guests over to celebrate mine and my mums birthday (our birthdays are the 19th & 20th,) we decided that we should have 1 big cake and about 20 cupcakes made, as you can never, ever have too much cake (or so I thought…). With Peggy Porschen being literaly round the corner from Victory Station on Ebury Street I jumped on the train with D and of we went to collect the cakes. But when I got home I discovered that I’d ended up with the large birthday cake and then 24 cupcakes for someone else’s party, which from the decoration I am guessing was an easter party. After working my self into a complete cake panic about the cakes, and the logistics of getting back up to town, and then be home to help out with preparing the house, I was totally prepared to jump back on the train (or by this point I was more likely going to drive back up to town) and get the right cakes. However after a quick phone call to Peggy Porschen about the issue of the wrong cakes, they quickly soothed all my worries as they delivered the cakes right to our front door and as a bonus they let us keep the wrong cupcakes I’d ended up with as well. We ended up with about 48 cupcakes in the end and were practically forcing them on our guests to take home at the end of the night! After years of getting my birthday cakes from all over the place in London I think I have found a winner in Peggy Porschen, not only did they sort out a cake crisis for us in next to time, but they made the most delicious cake I have ever had, and so with no further waffling from me I present to you my cakes….
The cake was vanilla with a yummy handmade jam filling and the icing was made with pink champagne, and the design was created using chocolate powder.
The cupcakes were plain vanilla but with the same pink champagne icing.
After we’d pulled the candles back out of the cake (hence the little holes)
For a while now I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a Facebook Page for The Pink Cashmere. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to create another social media outlet that I had to keep updating, considering I’m not particularly amazing at keeping my Twitter up to date!
Tiara
