Bake Me a Cake

Melting The Chocolate

The Icing

Chocolate on Top

All Finished

The Inside

Plated

300g Dark Chocolate Chopped

250g Butter

5 Eggs 

1/2 Cup Caster Sugar

1 1/4 teaspoons Baking Powder

3/4 almond meal 

Prehead the oven 150 % 

Moist Chocolate Cake:

1. Melt Butter & Chocolate in Saucepan over low heat and stir til melted and smooth. Set aside.

2. Beat eggs and sugar in the bowl with a mixer for 8-10 minutes until pale and thick. 

3. Sift flour and baking powder over egg and sugar mix and gently fold through with almond meal and chocolate mix. 

4. Line a 23cm tin round tin and bake for 50 mins until cooked. Test with a skewer, 

Butter Cream Frosting: 

250g Butter

1 cup Sifted Icing Suger

1 Teaspoon vanilla essence 

Beat butter until light and creamy. Add the sifted icing sugar and the vanilla essence and beat until well combined. Spread over completely cooled cake and refrigerate. 

Stripe melted chocolate over cake with a teaspoon (your bench will get covered). Approx 10 melted chocolate buttons. 

Cake will keep for about a week :) 

Enjoy your nomming! 

Miss Addict! 

Lust Have: Everything by Design Glut!

Reversible Sign Necklace: $60

I want to buy everything that Design Glut has in their store! 


Yesterday an email popped up in my inbox "Just the lil quirky type of thing I thought you'd like.." said my friend. Boy were they right. He had linked me to the necklace above. I clicked through to the rest of the store and squee'd in delight. Its a geeks jewelry delight! 


Below are a couple of pieces that are on my "to buy" list as soon as I get some extra cash! 

Circuit Heart Necklace: $60

Open Book Necklace: $60

World Links Necklace: $60

I love jewellery that is slightly different and quirky. Also available is a sausage dog necklace, old style headphone necklace, and a phone booth necklace to name just a few more! 


What are you lusting after at the moment?


Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Lust Have: Amber Adoration

Sun Gazing- Necklace- H... sabineajewelry $162.00	Multi amber Bird in fli... jeannie689 $36.00	Capturing the sun- Ring sabineajewelry $79.00
Raw Honey Drops-Wrapped... shipwreckdandy $18.00	Trudy the Triceratops N... crumpetcake $15.00	Beautiful Cognac Baltic... DiamondMDesign... $20.00
Amber and Sterling Silv... RockYourBelly $16.50	Amber Mermaid Ring, adj... nodeform $180.00	Amber Guitar Pin Alaqua $150.00
Petite Vintage Earrings... ParisienneGirl $15.00	Baltic Amber Ring with ... BeckhamDesigns $99.00	Heat of Summer - Amber ... ForbiddenGlade $17.00
Amber branches Amber Br... jeannie689 $42.00	Solitary Pear Ring in C... onegarnetgirl $128.00	Fall brown copper earri... RosieJo $12.75

I have an obsession with Amber. I love all shades of it and pretty much anything made of Amber ends up on my WANT list. The necklace I wear permanently is from my Mother and is a gorgeous piece of Amber. I consider amber to be signature stone these days and am currently on the hunt to add more pieces to add to my collection. 

I love the idea of tiny pieces of History embedded within the stone that I can carry around with me. The colour is also always gorgeous and plays into my love of all shades of orange, peach and warm golden tones. 

Do you have a signature stone? Colour? What are you lusting after this week?

Love and Obsessions,

Miss Addict. 

 

What I Wore: To Work

Top by Mink Pink

Shorts by Shilla

Click to Enbiggen my Goofy Face

I wore this to work on a day when it was 36 degrees and was soooo happy I did. Got a lot of compliments on the top. 

I am  looking forward to wearing this lace top with lots of different colours underneath. Its got a really lady like feel and I rather enjoyed pairing it with shorts to break that up a little. 

I love the tailored shorts. They are light cotton, super comfy and easy to dress up and down! Utterly my favourite buy of the summer.

What piece of clothing are you loving and wearing to death at the moment lovelies?

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Mini Lust Have: Wonder Women & Mac

Wonder Woman & Mac

Mac is releasing a Wonder Woman inspired collection. I drool over mac collections with startling regularity and this one is no exception. Bright colours with a twist of geek! Awesome! 

 Obey Me : Nail Polish

The Spirit of Truth : Nail Polish

It is marked for International Release in March and I am eyeing off the Nail Polishes and Lip Glasses the most. After all how can a girl resist a Lip Gloss called “Secret Identity” and “Athena’s Kiss” or a Nail Polish called “Obey Me” and “Spirit of Truth”.

Wonder Woman by Mac

What do we think lovelies? Excited or just another way to get geeky ladies to part with our hard earned cash! 


For more information on the collection check out Temptalia for prices, more pictures and a list of all the pieces included :) 


Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

35th Floor - Gorgeous Views!

Gold Coast by Miss Addict

I am currently sitting on the 35th floor of the most amazing hotel on the Gold Coast. Wind blowing in my hair feeling relaxed and utterly super stress free. I did not realize until I got here how badly I needed a holiday! But I did and I am here and its incredible!

The weather is amazing which considering that the a large part of this state is under water is bizarre and makes me feel extremely guilty for enjoying it!

If you follow me on twitter you’ll have seen some of the other photos I have been tweeting :)


What are you lovelies doing this week?

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

100 & 1000's Cupcakes

100's and 1000's Cupcakes

This weekend I decided to try out my new mixing bowl, piping bag and measuring cups that I got for my birthday. I decided on cupcakes since my lot  the halloween cupcakes turned out amazingly... This time wasn't such a success sadly... 

Pink Cupcake Batter

I did actually colour both the cupcakes themselves and the icing pink and try and marble the cupcakes. The marbling was pretty much only visible when they came out of the oven...

Cupcake with Marble effect

The icing went way to runny to pipe so I have yet to try out all the fun tips on my piping bag. Still they taste delicious and with a bunch of 100's and 1000's on top they look like they belong at a kids party which suits me just fine :) but I think I may love pyrex a little more than is natural... 

How bout you lovely people? Baked anything delish lately?  

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

What I Wore: Plus Gratuitous Puppy Pic!

Dress by Shilla

Chain Detail Belt

Puppy Photo! Ignore my face she had just licked me!

Shoes (barely Visible) are Diana Ferrari Super Soft

Jacket from Melbourne <3

I wore this out and about running errands today. The Dress is one of those that looks awful on the rack but great on! A very comfy cool summery dress with a nice amount of stretch to it. Glad I let the Boutique girl make me try it on (I've learned to trust her judgment & she has yet to steer me wrong)

For Christmas I received a new tripod and a remote for my camera! Exciting! So no longer do I have to con my sister into taking my outfit photos! Its a bit of a learning curve so expect some less than awesome ones for a bit while I figure it out! 

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Inspire Me: Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway on Mad Men

Lately I have been bored with my regular make up style so I decided to tackle something completely different. I started looking for inspiration on blogs, youtube, celebrity sites and everywhere I went the woman that made me stop and look was Christina Hendricks. 

The first time I saw here was on Firefly as Saffron. I loved her then but as Joan Holloway on Mad Men she is phenomenal. I also love the fact she is a redhead because you don't see to many of those in hollywood or indeed many women at all who look Ms. Hendricks.

 Until two months ago I was rubbish at gel eyeliner but with lots of practice I have gotten better as you can see below. I really enjoyed trying something completely different in terms of my style. I'm wearing lipstick which is a HUGE change for me! Not that long ago I was discussing lipstick with Kim of the amazing Pop Couture (Seriously why are you still here go check her out!) and saying how I never wear them (and her telling me I so should) so I decided with this look to go with Lipstick over Gloss :) 

I wish the pictures showed just how different this is. The eyeliner pops so well and my eyelashes look amazing since I am (for once) wearing more than one coat! Non shiny lipstick is also super different and I rather love the extra colour its given me.

I am no Christina Hendricks that is for sure but I am in love with Gel Eyeliner and am certainly going to do this look again now I have gotten over my fear of eyeliner and lipstick.

What about you lovelies? Do you ever feel like stepping out of your comfy box? Who would you like to look like?

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Mini Lust Have: Sunglasses

Bvlgari Sunglasses: RRP: $480

Gucci Sunglasses: RPP:$475 

I am currently lusting after these glorious sunglasses. I only own one pair of sunnies despite working in a shop that sells the silly things. 


 They are sitting on the shelves at work and even with my discount I am umming and ahhhing over the price. They look lovely on and I try them on daily. I am so going to give in sometime soon and buy the darn things I bet. I am sick of squinting every time I leave work! 


I am leaning towards the Gucci pair which have limited pieces in Australia and have a very vintage look. What do you think lovelies? Are you currently lusting after things?


Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Perfumed Bliss

Salvatore Ferragamo - Bliss 

 

 For my Birthday my darling Mother bought me perfume, it is called Bliss by Salvatore Ferragamo and it comes in the gorgeous bottle pictured above. Now I know the bottle plays no part in the smell or the wearing but I do love a pretty bottle to display! I don't wear perfume very often but this one is delicious. I honestly could not tell you what it smells like other than "yummy" but here is what it all the websites say:

"A sparkling fruity floral fragrance. Sublime, brilliant, spirited & sensual. Top notes of yuzu, kumquat, apple. Middle notes of freesia, water lily, rose. Base notes of musk, sandalwood, cedarwood"

Personally I picked it because it wasn't incredibly fruity but I would definitely agree with the fresh and floral. Also not over powering or old lady like. I have worn it everyday since I got it and think it is well on its way to becoming my signature scent! 

So lovelies have you got a signature scent? or do you just wear perfume on special occasions?

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Exterminate! Exterminate! aka Best Birthday Ever!

Remote control Daleks

We are the superior beings!

Battle Daleks

Halt or You will be exterminated!

My sister bought me these kick arse remote controlled battle Daleks for my birthday. I was like a little kid at Christmas tearing open the box jamming the batteries in. My cats are not particularly happy about my newest toy. 

The Daleks are remote controlled and battle each other via Infrared sensors in the front of their bodies (like laser tag sensors), as well as spouting saying such as the classic "You must be exterminated" and getting rather upset if you happen to pick them up and yelling at you "We are the Supreme beings".

I would seriously suggest these toys to any Dr Who fanatic out there who would like to drive their own Dalek around. If you would like your very own 4 inch tall terrifying "Supreme being" head on down to an ABC shop. Not sure on the price to be honest since it was a present!

Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to chase a kitty! 

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict