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Nutella croissants

Nutella Croissants

Up until a week ago I had never in my life brought a jar of Nutella… we are now onto our second jar and I can feel a very dangerous obsession growing fast!

This is so ridiculously easy that I’m not sure that I can call it a recipe but anyway,  here we go…

You will need:
Nutella
Puff pastry
A little milk (to brush on top)

Cut puff pastry into tall triangles (you should be able to get 4 triangles from one sheet of pastry).

Put a tablespoon of Nutella onto the larger end of each triangle.

Wrap/fold up, close and curve the ends in.

Creating Nutella Croissants - the steps

Brush a little milk over the pastry.

Bake in oven at 180 degrees celsius for 15-20 minutes.

*SHA BAM* you now have yourself a super easy delicious dessert.

Goes quite well with ice cream… but doesn’t everything!

Photograhy project – many us’

On a recent rainy weekend my wonderfully creative partner Joel and I put our camera and t-shirt changing skills to the test and created a “many us’” photo.

We sat the camera on a tripod and pivoted it around our kitchen and lounge room, which luckily for us is a fairly open space, we also changed t-shirts a bajillion times. A little PhotoShopping later (by Joel)… and *sha-bam*… we have a “Many Us’” image. The image is quite long, 19 Joel’s, 15 Amie’s, 3 Lemmy’s and 1 Tomsk… can you find them all? Click on either of the preview images below to view the whole thing.

Many us' - preview 1

Many us' - preview 2

Inspired by a couple of “Many Joel” pictures that he did a while back, I also created a “Many Amie’s reading Dr. Suess” image at the start of this year…

Many Amie's

Chocolate cornflake slice

Super easy recipe with minimal ingredients including good ol’ cornflakes… so it’s almost practically healthy… umm corn is healthy right…

Goes great as an exciting lunchbox treat and comes highly recommended by my taste buds. Enjoy!

Chocolate conflake slice

Ingredients

1 cup corn flakes (slightly crushed)
1 cup coconut
1/2 cup SR flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tblsp cocoa
125 grams butter (melted)
2 cups icing sugar, extra tblsp cocoa, some water & sprinkles

Method

Mix dry ingredients in with melted butter.
Bake in slice tin for 15-20 mins at 180 degrees celsius.
Let cool.
Mix icing sugar with 1 tblsp cocoa and 2 tblsp water, mix and add a little more water if needed to make smooth, spread over slice, sprinkle sprinkles on top.

Singing cats illustration

A few moths back I saw some amazing ornamental ceramic cats own by my lovely friend Jess, they were so pretty they just stuck in my mind and popped up in my dreams, so I decided to do an illustration using their basic shape & style.

These kitties will be the basis of my next gocco print design, I would kind of like to spend more time on details and embellishments to make them better… but I would probably never get to a point that I would consider finished, so simple kitties they will stay.

Singing cats like to sing

Here is a photo of the ceramic cats mentioned above.

Inspiration - Jess' ceramic kitties