I made the

Birthday Cake (from How to Eat by Nigella Lawson)

which is a sweet chocolate cake (it has condensed milk inside). I bought the book as a treat for myself after I submitted my final year project paper. I've read it, but the recipes are all over the place, so I don't know what to try next.

Grace came over and helped me make the cake! Stirring everything up. In between waiting for it to cool we planned our overseas escapades.

Mini-disaster struck while we were trying to ice the cake- too many reasons- made it look a bit horrible (Grace at one point said the icing looked like liver), but after cutting it up the cake up all the pieces looked eminently eatable and it was eaten over Friday and Saturday night, and Sunday morning (last piece to Zhou I think).

This is how it looked like before it was cut up. The ganache was too runny. But it still got consumed, so I'm satisfied. It probably wouldn't have been so successful if I hadn't used my atas chocolate, which made it so chocolately it had to taste good.

But there was another chocolate cake on Saturday night, the chocolate of my childhood and beyond, much lighter and much fudgier and just a reminder of the important things:

And this is long overdue but here is a picture of the chocolate chip cookies mostly Joel made for the random party at ys's, the same day we made alien jelly.

I think the recipe is from NYT and it features rock salt sprinkled on top. They are very nice and round too! There were many cookies to start with but they were decimated quite quickly.  

I've been buying blueberries wanting to make some kind of blueberry slice but I keep on eating the blueberries for breakfast which usually consists of maple pecan granola+fruit yoghurt+raisins+blueberries! Doesn't that sound healthy! It isn't.

Like how they say eating at home is healthier. Here's a random dinner I had at home: hotdogs.

Not healthy. Toasted buns and swathed with copious amounts of mustard and barbeque sauce (not chocolate sauce, Grace!)