This week I'm grateful for... Monday night drinking


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So, where was I? That's right...

I can’t remember the last time I went out drinking on a Monday night… maybe I’ve never done it? Monday drinking just seems so… committed. And foolhardy. That’s certainly how I felt when I woke up on Tuesday and realised that I’d somehow come down with a terrible virus overnight. Isn’t it funny how that happens? And then the realisation: oh my freakin’ god, it’s only Tuesday.

Of course it was the crazy, social world of blogging that had me out on a school night. For the first time ever I mixed my URL with my IRL* and met a whole bunch of bloggers at the Kidspot Top 50 Bloggers** launch party.  Highlight was definitely knocking back a couple of contraband ciggies in a back laneway, in the rain with Woogsy, BabyMac and Lori. Hardcore. Felt like I was eighteen again. There were so many fabulous bloggers there that I can’t mention them all, but a quick shout out to Chantelle, Kirrily, Fox in Flats, Kellie  Kerri, Farmer’s Wifey, Clare, Caitlyn and, of course, that gorgeous gal PPMJ.

So, this week I’m grateful for…

124. Monday night drinking – ‘cos it’s just so great to invest in shaking things up and doing new stuff, even if you have to pay for it the next day. I actually think the majority of my hangover was mainly due to the 227 cigarette I smoked (I haven’t been a ‘smoker’ in about eight years!) and the 1768 shelled peanuts I ate at the laneway bar we washed up in. Couldn't have been those,oh, 3 wines I drank... right?

125. IRL – I’m so glad I now know some of our lovely bloggers IRL.

126. URL – But I’m equally as glad that I still love them (and so many, many more) in URL.



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Happy weekend to you!

* This rather magical term was coined by MultipleMum at the AMB. Love your work, Aunty Coo.
** You can vote for me here. Don’t be shy








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Gluten-free banoffee cupcakes

Banoffee Easter Cupcake

Gluten-free banoffee cupcakes (makes 24 cupcake size cakes)

Ingredients
  • (4.5 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 teaspoon (1/6 ounces) natural vanilla extract
  • 250g (2/3 cup) caster sugar (superfine sugar)
  • 2 eggs
  • 250g (1 cup) self-raising flour
  • 4 fresh bananas, mashed
  • 130g extra small fudge chunks


Cooking instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 160-180 deg C (325-350 deg F)
  2. Line muffin tray with paper cases or baking tray with silicone cases
  3. Beat butter, eggs, vanilla extract and sugar with an electric mixer until the mixture turns a pale colour
  4. Stir in flour, mashed banana and fudge chunks
  5. Divide mixture among cases
  6. Bake for 25-30 minutes
  7. Place cakes on a wire rack to cool


To Decorate (24 cupcake size cakes)

What you will need


Instructions
  1. Spoon green buttercream into a piping bag or bottle fitted with a nozzle attached
  2. On top of the cakes, starting at outside edge and working in circles, pipe buttercream by squeezing a small amount on to cake at 90 degree angle, pulling up and away when icing strand is long enough (about 3 cm) stop squeezing and pull tip away at various angles (see pics for how-to)
  3. Push fondant flowers lightly into iced grass


Easter cupcake stands

Have a sweet day!
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