Searching for Spiderman

Thank you for the wonderful comments and stopping by. I am a bit behind with all the wonderful blogs I follow, but I am planning on indulging myself after this.

As some of you know, I fell down the stairs and broke my back (literally... something snapped). It's been four weeks now, and things improving everyday, but still a good ways to go. Meanwhile, I am trying to plan the little guys birthday-bash, from bed and couch. The place is rented (not in shape to have them all at the house, thank you very much) and I am hoping to scoop up the energy to get the cakes and stuff in order. Fingers crossed. I think we landed on cupcakes, doughnuts and a big chocolate-main-cake. (thank goodness he changed his mind away from that main cake beeing StarWars-themed, as I drew a total blank on that one....)

And so... Now I find myself searching for Spiderman these days....
Spiderman plates and cups, and oh-yes--- the requested Spiderman Cake. :)

I like this one (Bonus: I could just dig out a cake-topper from the toy-box and spiders from Halloween decorations)


...but I think the little guy's hopes are set on something more like this..


Anybody have tips and ideas, give me a shout-out! I'd love to have some help here... :)

Whising you all a wonderful day!

Whising you all a wonderful day!

Whising you all a wonderful day!

Whising you all a wonderful day!

{ All dressed up brownies }

My sister used to have a very elegant touch to finishing off dinners at her house. Lovely little filled, gourmet chocolates on small plates down the center of the table, and good coffee.

We had that in mind when my mom was hosting a nice dinnerparty, and often come to me for advice on desserts. But time was short, and finances sparce, so look what we came up with! ...and they taste good too!

Presenting the dressed up brownie:


Bake your favourite brownie recipe from scratch, or mix, and let cool. Here's a yummy brownie recipe if you don't have one on hand. It's the one I used here, but I had really dark cocoa on hand, so mine is almost pitch black.

Once cool, slice in small (remember; we are going for an exclusive look) bite-size diamond slices. You can also go for little hearts or whatever you choose, using a cookiecutter, but I'll leave that up to you to decide.

I divided my diamonds into three groups.
Group one: decorated with white chocolate that I, simply melted over a double boiler and piped across. Make sure to go outside the top of the pieces and make the pipings evenly spaced. Chill.


Group two: decorated with melted dark chocolate and walnut pieces. Simply melt the dark chocolate over a double boiler (or in the microwave). Let it cool and thicken a little bit. Then dabble a small spoonfull on the center of each diamons. Place a pretty walnut pressed into the chocolate. Chill.

Group three: place a pretty and dry raspberry on top of your remaining diamonds. They need to be firma and dry, so soggy ones will have to be eaten instead, I'm a fraid. Too bad... Now go back to your white chocolate and pipe spirals from the top of the raspberry, down to the brownie. Chill.

Arrange on a pretty platter. I went for a crystal elevated plate, and placed them in a circular pattern. Decorating with excess walnuts, raspberries and chocolate lace to liven things up, and give it some heigt. Ta-da.........


Not close enough to tempt your tastebuds?....



There....Now go put the coffee on... ;)

Wishing you all a wonderful day!

Whising you all a wonderful day!

{ Packed Lunch Day }

I took these a while back, when daycare started after summerbreak, in response to PS Erin's post on packed lunches. Now, as I have a packed lunch myself each day, these photos came to mind.

I like to place a variety of food in the little guy's lunchbox. Yoghurt, cereal, sandwiches, fruits, veggies, dinner left-overs. Babuska from Tupperware is by far my favourite box, by the way (it bugs me a bit that they show it with candy inside).


Here are three lunches for our little guy and some pointers on what I've packed. Before you judge too harshly on the sugar; I have a really picky eater. In fact so picky that he will not eat, if it doesn't tempt his tastebuds, and he is very thin and very active. I therefore do this, knowing his luch will be eaten that day. I also like to include a little drawing or small photo or a lunchpaper-airplane.
Day 1

Contents: Appleslices (in an airtight box), sandwiches, fruit yoghurt, potato tortilla with butter,cinnamon and demerrara brown sugar, slice of brownie from this weekend. A small paper airplane is always a hit.

Day 2

Contents: fruit yoghurt (the small spoon ads to the fun of eating it), cheerios, sandwiches, banana, pasta in tomatoesause and lean turkey hotdogs.

Day 3

Contents: pasta in tomatoesauce, pitabread with ham and cheese (that he can also heat in the microwave), fruit yoghurt, cheerios, baby carotts, boiled eggwhites (not a big fan of yolks) and small tube of kaviar to go on top of eggs.

Wishing you all a wonderful monday, and I'd love to see what your packed lunches look like!