Easter weekend - bunnies, drinks and chocolate!

Just a quick one!

Had a fantastic long easter weekend, fun was maximum, study was minimal :P I think we should always have at least a 4 day weekend each month!

It was a fantastic fun filled weekend of cooking and baking and laughs with some of the funniest people! (thanks to all of the hosts for their great hospitality!!!)

I baked Nigella Lawson's "Snow flaked brownies" which I hope was nice - and apparently was - I think her brownies must be one of the best recipes, perhaps to do with the fact that it is mainly made out of chocolate and mixed with white chocolate too!

I also made vietnamese rolls, and dipped in hoisin sauce is a great combination! I also made tom yum chicken, and these wonderfully bright pink and baby pink agar agar layered jelly! I really wish I had taken these photos now!!! Darn it! It worked out really well, despite my fears that the colours would mix and it would turn out to be more of a pink blob of agar!

You know how they say you learn something new everyday? Yes on Friday, I learnt (much to the horror of many!) that when people tap their fingers on the table at dim sum restaurants, it is infact NOT a signal to start and stop serving the tea, but infact goes back many years ago... back to those China days... let me know if you thought that it was a signal to start and stop serving tea - or perhaps I was the only one?!!!

Saturday was Bunny, duck, chick and egg day! I had inspiration a few weeks back to bake shortbread but in these shapes. I bought these nice cutters from Wheel & Barrow and after baking it, and knowing that a bunny, duck and chick almost looked the same without a face, decided to ice it - this actually proved a lot trickier than what I imagined it to be! So I didnt get to outline it beautifully like the shops do, instead they all just had an eye and a bit of a coloured pattern :) It still looked really cute - thank God! :)

Agar was clearly the popular taste for the weekend - on Sunday, I made pink and lilac agar layered jelly with a flower cut out in each square. Mind you, the pink actually gradually turned to be a light purple a few hours later!

How was your easter weekend? Hope you had a great one - I'm now hanging in for the Anzac Day break!!!

Love, Liz