valentine

 I don't always make Valentine's Day biscuits... 

but when I do, they have Darth Vader on them.

 

Recipe:

    150g butter, at room temperature
    75g caster sugar
    225g plain flour
    Icing sugar and cocoa powder
    Coloured icing and shape cutters

1. Preheat the oven to 170C

2. Dump butter, flour and sugar into the ball and add a wee pinch of salt. Rub it all together until you have a big dough ball.

3. Dust your work surface with flour and turn out the dough. Roll to about ½ cm thick. Cut out heart shapes with a biscuit cutter and gently lay out onto a lined baking sheet. Bake for 15-25 minutes, until golden. Leave to cool on a rack.

4. Now dust your work surface with icing sugar, and roll out your coloured icing. Cut out the shapes (I used awesome Star Wars ones from ebay, and little stars) and lay them out on a baking tray until you need them.

5. When cooled completely, mix together few tablespoons of icing sugar with cocoa powder and enough water to make a paste. Spread the over the biscuits with a knife. You can then use this as glue to attach your icing shapes.

Our cards

 

This was Bee's Valentine's gift

cooking with Vader

rejoining civilisation

We're not sick anymore!!! Wahoooo!!!

Our first Lego Club meet happened on Sunday, and it was pretty epic. Lots of people came, there was a ton of geeky enthusiasm flying around, and a number of VERY excited children full of chocolate Lego pieces (I made them with novelty ice cube trays). I already can't wait for the next one!

And afterwards one of our friends, who is seven, taught me how to make paper water lillies. They just about rocked my world. Watch this video to see what I mean.

I also FINALLY managed to track down a Brian! Little things like this make me very, very happy.

  

So, OK: I'm ready for life again.Official.