Viennese Whirls

Hi Guys!

So today I thought I would do a baking post for you. I first tried doing these last weekend and they turned out really well even though I didn't have the right flour. However it would be the one weekend I didn't take my camera home so I couldn't take any blog photos. Therefore I thought I would make them again this week using the correct flour. These look way harder than they actually are and will really impress people! Also it will help to improve your piping skills having to pipe both the biscuits and the icing, so get your piping bags at the ready!

This recipe is actually from the hairy bikers of all people and can be found here.

Ingredients

For the biscuits:

250g/9oz butter

50g/2oz icing sugar (and a bit to decorate if you fancy)

250g/9oz Plain Flour

50g/2oz cornflour (the first time I did this I didn't have cornflour and ran out plain flour half way through so did half plain flour and half self raising and they turned out pretty well)

½ tsp vanilla extract

For the icing:

100g/3½oz soft butter

200g/7oz icing sugar, plus ½ tsp for dusting

½ tsp pure vanilla extract

You can also use some jam in the middle, but personally I prefer them without.

Steps for Biscuits:

Step 1 

Preheat your oven to 190C/170C (fan)/Gas 5 and line 3 baking trays with greaseproof paper.

Step 2

Put all of your ingredients for the biscuits into a food processor. I personally used by KitchenAid with the paddle attachment which seemed to work fine.

Step 3

Pipe your biscuits onto the greaseproof paper using a star nozzle. Don't worry if you are not very good at piping and quality control as they will look fine once they have baked.

Step 4

Bake for 13-15 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack to cool down whilst you make the icing.

Step 5 

To make the icing, put all the ingredients into a bowl and beat until light and smooth.

Step 6

Put your icing into a piping bag and pipe onto the biscuits using a star nozzle (I lost mine so used a round nozzle instead, but it seemed to work pretty well). Then place another biscuit on top. Sieve a small amount of icing sugar on top before serving.

Hope you enjoy making them as much as I did! I should have another baking blogpost coming along soon.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Southwold Pictures 2015!

Hi Guys!

So I promised this blogpost in my update and here it is! Every year for the last four years and several times during my childhood we have been to Southwold for our family holiday. It is a lovely seaside town in Suffolk and is small enough to walk everywhere, but big enough to have things going on. Hopefully we will go in 2016 and I will hopefully get some better shots next year (I will get better at photography!)

Any without further ado.

This is a lovely photo of the beach from the pathway which runs above it. You can even see the pier in the distance!

Not quite sure when I took this, but have a random picture of a boat!

I love this photo! Southwold has some lovely beach huts and it is lovely to stroll along the sea and see all the great names that people have picked and the designs and colours they have used.

This is a picture that I took from a little cafe place at Gun Hill. They do the most amazing ham baguette and they are fairly reasonably priced. Also it is little right next to the beach, so it's great for if you have kids. Also saw Tanya Burr's parents here on the last day! (nearest thing I have to a claim to fame)!

Another picture when strolling down the pathway next to the sea. It is so lovely to take the dog and walk down hearing the calming sound of the sea.

Some lovely flowers by the sea.

Closer view of the pier and an action shot of Poppy, my dog!

Lovely view of the beach huts from the pier.

This is the coolest clock EVER! It goes off every half an hour and has a mechanism making the people in the bath move. I remember as a child waiting with anticipation for it to go off, it was great! And it still is!

Cool shot of a seagull that I took from the pier. Love the pebbly background!

Lovely shot of Poppy at Aldeburgh. We went and sat by the sea and ate a lovely picnic.

This is a lovely shell sculpture on Aldeburgh beach, which about 7 million school children came to visit just after I took this photo! (I may have exaggerated).

One more photo of Aldeburgh as we were walking down the seafront.

I hope you enjoyed this blogpost and it cheered you up as much as it did for me when writing it.

Thanks for stopping by! :)