Bit late with the pictures of Christmas goodies!
Hi
Ive been so lazy this year getting my pictures of some of the Christmas edible goodies up! Paul made 730 hand made filled chocolates this year, so many that we couldnt fit all of them on the table I use to take photos on! We still have a little tub left over too.
Here they are filling the table
and some pretty close ups
Made some new packaging for them this year too, Bandit Chef rides again!
The “this year with love” part of the text drew much hilarity as to what the emotion would be for next year or for previous years, “spleen” got a lot of votes…..well it got mine, its such a good word.
and finally our traditional iced Christmas cake, last year I branched out a bit from the usual Christmas stuff and went with “where the wild things are”, so I thought I might do that again and decided we would have a Totoro Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you all and have a Happy New Year as well.
bye
Christina
December 31st, 2010 at 11:49 am
i salute you. that is amazing. i cant stop staring at all that chocolate. i love chocolate. brilliant! p.s your ceramic work of recent times are equally fabulous.
December 31st, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Oh thanks : ) Its been a particularly sweet Christmas this year, we are going savoury for New Years though with a boned stuffed duck in pastry with roast garlic and rosemary kiplar potatoes, there will be dessert for afters though *L*
January 1st, 2011 at 10:02 am
WOW!!!!!!!! I am amazed at you both! Amazing and I cant even begin to imagine how much time and effort went into so many chocolates! Props to you both
January 7th, 2011 at 6:17 am
happy new year christina! hooray for the calendar:) thanks for stopping by my blog. your work is super cute!
January 8th, 2011 at 9:22 am
Too much eye candy in 1 hit!! paul is totally amazing with his delectible choccies!
January 8th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Awesome is a word that has lost its meaning. But seriously. Awe. Some.
March 17th, 2011 at 1:06 am
I was just going through some bookmarks and re-found your blog. This Totoro cake is wonderful! How did you do it? What did you use to make the little figures? Fondant? I have a poster on my wall here at work that my daughter painted of Totoro, so this cake would be very special for us to make together!
Thanks – Penny
March 17th, 2011 at 4:52 am
I am trying to think what its called, moulding paste? Something like that, its sort of the step beyond fondant and sets completely rock hard. They use it to make all those lovely icing flowers you see and most cake decorating stores have it. The icing for the cake is fondant, you knead it for ten minutes then roll it out and place it over the cake in a sheet. The recipe for that is from the Dehlia Smith Christmas cookbook. Have fun together.