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! 

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

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?

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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

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

What I Wore: On My Birthday

What I Wore: On My Birthday

Dress by: Dangerfield

Heels by: Wittner

I wore this to have dinner with my lovely friends at pancakes on the rocks. I had a lovely evening and was given more baking apparatus so expect more baking posts in the near future! 

The shoes while gorgeous were extremely painful! 

What did you do this weekend lovelies? 

Love and Obessions 

Miss Addict

What I Wore: To Dance in the Rain (Photo Dump)

What I am wearing: 

Shorts from Jeans West

Sheer Printed Tee from Jeans West

Turquoise nail Varnish 

I really loved the photos I took while dancing in the rain for my Little Joys post so rather than waste the rest of them I figured a photo dump/outfit post was in order.

Love and Obsessions 

Miss Addict

Little Joys

Miss Addict after dancing in the rain.

 I danced in the rain. I got soaking wet, took photos and looked like a total loonie. But I danced because it made me happy. 

Sometimes you have to take joy in the little things. So Go! Dance in the rain, get a slice of cake and really truly enjoy it without complaining about breaking your diet, hug your Mum, Dad, Sister, Brother and if all that fails go to a pet shop and hug a puppy! Do a good deed, paint your toe nails an eye popping colour!  Do something today that makes you happy!

Take joy where you find it, even if its fleeting! Now if you'll excuse me there is a cupcake with chocolate icing calling my name and a cat I need to pet!  

So lovelys please post the little things you find joy in below! 

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

New Specs!

I like wearing glasses, everyone in my family wears glasses and considering I work for an optometrist for a living I am well aware of how a new pair of specs can change a persons whole look and sometimes outlook! I got my old pair of glasses about a year ago (right after I started working at my job) and I get loads of compliments on them. 

Miss Addict wearing her old glasses and a top hat! 

Miss Addict in Old Glasses

I didn’t take excellent care of them and now they have a scratch on the lens and the colour is coming off a little (not that anyone but me would notice) so I decided I wanted a new pair. My first pair took me 6 weeks to choose. My new pair took me about 6 months. I wanted a really light colour as black frames just washed me out, I wanted them to be simple on the sides as I don’t like bling and I wanted them to match my face perfectly! 

A simple task it was not! I tried on at least a hundred pairs of frames, every time one of our brand reps would come in I would try on nearly everything that looked vaguely possible! 

Finally these babies came along! Lovely Dior Frames in a gorgeous champagne colour! Perfect. I ordered them on the spot! 

Miss Addict in Her New Dior Glasses

Actual colour of my new glasses

So far with my new pair I have received a lot of compliments as well which is nice.  

A couple of tips for picking glasses: 

• If the frames looks to big/small ask if it comes in a smaller/bigger size. Most optical frames come in multiple sizes (Sunglasses usually only come in one)

• Black washes a lot of people out!  If you like the style ask if it comes in a tortoise shell. Tortoise shell acts like a neutral, is more flattering on nearly everyone than black and is readily available in most designer frames! 

• Don’t be overly concerned about how the frame fits when trying it on. If its to loose or slides down your nose the practice will be able to adjust the fit on most frames for you. If your not sure ask if it can be adjusted to fit as some things can be adjusted and somethings can't! 

• Anti Reflective/Multi coatings are worth the extra cost! . They allow the light to pass through the lens which is what makes it way easier to see your eyes. It is more attractive and more comfortable to wear. If you look at my photos you can barely (if at all) see my lenses! 

• I am always honest with customers about whether I think a frame suits them, and I spend a lot of time everyday helping people pick frames. However not every Customer Service Rep is going to be as honest. If you think they are just trying to get you to buy the frame come back with a friend. 

• Try on anything that you like the look of, even if its super different to what you already have. You might look silly or it might look fantastic! You never know til you try them on!

• Please do not say “You are going to hate me” or “Im really fussy about my glasses” Everyone is! If I had a dollar for every customer who said this to me I would be rather well off! 

Finally I had a little old lady tell me that “Picking glasses is like picking a new nose!” By which she meant Glasses are like feature of your face just like your nose so you want to get something that suits you, looks good, is comfy and that you can live with seeing everyday! 

Love and Obsessions,

Miss Addict

Halloween Cupcakes

Halloween Cupcake with Chocolate Spiderweb

So I attempted baking again, this happens every 6 months or so with varying results. It is usually for an event of some sort like a birthday or a party. This time it was for a halloween party. I had so much fun making the spider webs for these! 

Chocolate Cupcakes with Orange Coloured vanilla icing and Chocolate Spider web decorations. 

The cupcakes are from packet mix, the icing is your standard Butter, Icing Mix and Milk affair. The spider webs however took some doing (but were no where near as hard as I thought!)

I used this template which I found via Amazing Moms Blog and followed her instructions. I did use dark chocolate rather than white and I piped my icing on using a star tip. There are a lot of amazing tutorials on youtube on how to pipe icing I discovered and its no where near as hard as it looks! 

Couple of things, it pipes better once is a bit cooler (e.i not burning your fingers hot and running out the end of the bag) Perfect spiderwebs are not a requirement in fact they look better once dry a little blobby as seem above! 

But once completed taste awesome! Baked anything cool/yummy/fun lately lovelies? 

Love and Obsessions 

Miss Addict

What I Wore: To Work Today

Taken Solely to show off my makeup! 

More photos below the cut :) 

What I Wore - To Drink Cocktails.

• Coloured Skirt from Portmans
• Over Sized Shirt from Sports Girl
• Flat Boots by Shoobiz 
• Accessories from Various places. 
• Leather Jacket from Melbourne 

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

What I Wore - For Kikis Birthday

All Images by Miss Addict

• Batwing Top - Tightrope (Finally figured out how to wear this to have it break!!!) 
• New Black Jeans - Jeans West 
• Sandals - Giovannaz
• DIY Necklace
• Copper Astro Girl Eye MakeUp - Napoleon

Last night was just what I needed after a long week! It was my 2 of my friends birthday, one of whom is a twitter friend as well as being a RL friend! If you follow me on twitter you probably see her name pop up fairly regularly in conjunction with the ridiculous things I tweet after a couple of drinks! @kiki_aus is a terrific human bean and you should all follow her on twitter!!! 

Hope you lovelies are having a terrific weekend

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

What I Wore - Valentines Day

Photos by Miss Addict

Valentines day is one of those holidays you either love hate or ignore. Personally I half celebrate it. Dress up and have some fun. So here is what I wore to go see a movie, have dinner and enjoy my day.

• Romantic Girl T-Shirt from Firefly
• Tulle Skirt by Anise
• Tights from Target
• Pyramid Detail Sandals by Giovanna
• Pandora Bracelet filled with Charms with lovely memories.
• Tiny Top Hat from Dangerfield attached to my headband.

What about you lovely? Do you love Valentines? Hate it? Or Ignore it?

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

What I Wore - To Get a Pedicure (and clean my house)

Click to Enbiggen!

Cardigan - Portmans
Shorts - Jay Jays (years ago)
Singlet Top - Kmart
Lip Stick - Peach Commander by Napoleon
Nail polish - Opi in "Thats all bright with me"

Loving the warm weather, shorts and bright colours. Look out for my Spring Essentials post this week and a review of my Vibrating Massage Cushion for my Office chair!

Photos as always by my lovely BF :)

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Bad Blogger & Puppies!

I have been a very bad blogger the last 2 weeks. Due to having to relearn work/life balancing. I am planning on writing all my blog posts ahead of time from now on (Mondays post is already written) so all I have to do on nights where I am exhausted is post them. Hopefully this goes to plan..

As a sorry gesture here are cute puppy photos! (with guest star by my lovely BF)


Check out that tongue people!




The Brown one is London. London is Half Chiwawa half Dachshund. The Brown and White one is Billie and he is a Jack Russell. They are both full of energy and love my BF more than they love me!


Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

What I Wore - To Go Shopping

I Am Really Really Obsessed with Colour right now. Bright colour specifically! I am loving the rainbow. So today I wore my brightest t-shirt and my favourite shoes + red lipstick and nail polish! After a week of boring work wear it was exactly what I needed!

Click to Enbiggen!

Shirt- Jay Jays
Belt - Jay Jays
Jeans - Jays Jays
Shoes - Gotta Flurt
Singlet Top - Cotton On

What are you wearing lovelys?

Love and Obsessions
Miss Addict

Cupcake Addiction

Images by Miss Addict

I baked Cup Cakes. I had this random impulse to bake.. this impulse happens every now and then usually when I am stressed. So I created some gorgeous chocolate laden treats to cheer me up and to share with my family. So I took some photos and thought I would share with you, along with the recipe.

Cupcake Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavour
• 125 grams of butter
• 1 1/3 cup of self raising flour
• 2/3 of a cup of castor sugar
• Two eggs
• Two tablespoons of cocoa powder
• 1/4 of a cup of milk

Method:

1. Place the butter, castor sugar and the vanilla in a mixing bowl. Mix the cupcake mixture together for three minutes, add eggs and then beat for a further three minutes.

2. Stir in the self raising flour, the cocoa powder and the milk and then mix until well combined.

3. Place teaspoons of chocolate cupcake mixture into patty pans and bake in oven at 180 degrees Celsius for twenty minutes.

4. Remove from oven let cool before

Icing Ingredients:

• 150g Butter - softened
• 250g Icing sugar
• 2 tbls cocoa powder
• 2 tsp very hot water

Method

1. Beat together the butter and sugar with an electric beater.

2. Once well combined, add the combined cocoa powder and water. Beat until smooth and creamy.

The Results

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