labne + cupcakes + cookies = mmm

right-e-o, so i am feeling inspired (mainly because my phone takes an okay picture and its much easier to use than the camera!).

so this weekend (i work PT and hence, have a 4 day weekend) I started making labne. Basically you need nice greek yoghurt, olive oil, garlic and rosemary. Oh and some glass or plastic containers of course! duh. I bought some yummy margaret river greek yoghurt and its currently sitting in the fridge - dripping. I just need to roll it into balls next and infuse in olive oil with garlic and rosemary for at least 24 hours. Am thinking these would go great in the hampers we are making up for christmas presents.

last night my sister had us over for a family BBQ. she is heading to bali for a couple of weeks for a pre-christmas break. she likes white chocolate so i recreated the white chocolate mud-cupcakes for her. but this time i zested a lemon and added it to the mixture. it was lovely. topped with some chocolate buttercream, they were intense. a definate sugar HIT. cupcake wrappers from IKEA!

i bought my cookie container from textile traders earlier this year. isn't she gorgeous?

even better when full of chocolate chip cookies (with walnuts + currants).

these are for afternoon tea tomorrow

yell if you want any recipes xx

baking baking baking

firstly let me apologise in the slackness of my posting. i recently got an iphone4 which takes great photos except i would love to blog from my phone and not have to connect it to the laptop if i want to do a post.

i'll get there.

anywho....a couple of weekends ago our local market had trays of peaches on sale for $5.99. not floury, hard peaches but the ones where your entire home smells like peaches all week long. they were amazing and there was no way that my tribe would get through the box so half were given to my parents to enjoy.

so with the peaches i made bill grangers peach and raspberry slice. it was divine, a tad sweet but divine nevertheless. smelt and tasted like SUMMER.

i have also been getting into making cupcakes. i have a great little womens weekly cupcake book where the base recipe is different in each cake. its great. so far i have tried chocolate raspberry (definately a repeat recipe!) and white chocolate mud cake with chocolate icing (below). these were demolished in an afternoon at my parent-in-law's home. don't they look pretty? am having bbq dinner at my sisters home tomorrow and am planning on recreating these for her. she is a white chocolate kinda gal.

for the first time EVER i made a christmas cake. this one has cherries prunes dates raisins sultanas and currants in it. she is sitting in my fridge, wrapped in foil. awaiting her fate....

so tell me, are you making anything fun this weekend? possibly making some christmas presents? little gifts?

i am making labne this weekend and planning on bottling it for gift giving. thats if it works. we are having a gingerbread making afternoon in two weekends time and i cannot WAIT. this and the screening of the polar express is sure to make christmas feel even more christmassy.