Tag: recycle

05Dec

Whisky and caramel cake bites

I will very rarely admit defeat when it comes to recipes. In the last few months I have developed a couple of cake recipes, baked them and failed them. Eventually I got the ingredients and methods rights but that meant a few flat, mushy attempts had to be foiled up and sent to the cake morgue, a.k.a. my bottom freezer drawer. The morgue was getting really packed and this was causing marital tensions. My husband is a minimalist when it comes to storage of any kind. So what’s a girl to do with all this cake? Cake pops, naturally.  Bad idea. I watched dozens of videos, researched what was the best brand of candy melts and was the biggest visitor to Bakerella’s site last month. And yet they were a complete failure. I wanted to make something special for my nephews birthday and it went catastrophically bad, to the point I was covered in yellow candy melt, ferociously throwing away all of the jelly tots cut out in the shape of pooh’s ears. And the question remained…what to do with all this cake? Cake pops’s closest (and low maintenance) relative, cake bites. And a grown up one at that.Maybe good
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28Nov

Recycle your old makeup – DIY lip balm

If you call me a hoarder, I won’t be offended. I am not the documentary worthy type of hoarder though, I don’t have piles of newspapers taking over my bed to the point I need to sleep on the sofa, but I’m definitely resistant about throwing certain things away. I have a big makeup carrier, full of little pull out compartments, and my biggest collection is of lipsticks. I love the idea of being glammed up with a nice lipstick, but as a nurse the opportunity to wear my dark berry lipstick don’t come too often. But this doesn’t stop me from impulse buying makeup. I have been accumulating blushers, lipsticks, eyeshadows and foundations since my university days. Some items are used on a daily basis whilst others are only for special occasions. And there is also the “regret” makeup category, cue my super pink L’Oréal blusher. So why not upcycle it into something I will wear everyday? The results are very close to Burt’s Bees balms. I added a little of bit of a pink lipstick to the mix as well, the blusher gives a lovely shimmer and the lipstick intensified the colour. But you can play with shimmery eyeshadows
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