Eat your heart out // VALENTINES

 February the 14th is a date that you either love or hate... whether you were celebrating the day with loved ones, or ignoring it completely I hope you all enjoyed it!! As for me, Chris was working for most of the day- so whilst he was out, I had a baking session with my mum and decided to share it with you all!!

  

We decided to stick to a basic chocolate cupcake recipe, but before baking our little cakes we mixed both melted and chunks of Flake chocolate through the mixture to make them extra chocolatey!

After piping chocolate butter icing onto our cupcakes we let our creative juices flow and went a bit crazyyyy with the decorations! 

The finished product!! Look how prettyyyyyyyy they are. They tasted pretty good too! And Daisy-Mae my little labradoodle pup was sniffing around for one.

Anyway I hope you all had a lovely day whether or not you were celebrating Valentines - and who needs an excuse to stuff your face on cupcakes?! XO Chloe

PS: Sorry for the bad quality photos - taken from my blackberry 

December Catch Up

So- it's time to apologise again. I've been slacking on the blogging front... but I promise to try a lot harder this year and keep myself motivated! I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year- I've been snowwed under with uni deadlines so far this January (excuses for my lack of blogging) but here is what I've been up to before, during and after Christmas.

December catch-up in pictures!

Photos 1,2 and 3 were all taken at my fave restaurant: Gusto. Over Christmas I spent way too much  time at both the Knutsford and Alderley Edge restaurants feasting on Chicken Primavera and their insane Nutella Calzone - so if you have a Gusto near you you have to go.

1) Nutella Calzone - possibly the best desert ever.

2) Me, in Gusto Knutsford before Christmas

3) My girlies Alex and Frankie.

Photos 4 and 5 are of my pretty mama. She had an operation in December, and despite complications is finally on the road to recovery! yayy XX

4) Harry visiting mama on Christmas Eve

5) Some beautiful 'Get Well Soon' flowers

6) My festive themed bed.... Okay so I still haven't taken down these fairylights but they just look too pretty- Decided to keep them up all year round instead!!

Photos 7 & 8 were taken before Christmas at the One Direction tour in Wolverhampton. Luckily, I was able to go with Gemma and Harry's family meaning best seats & backstage haha. It was a fab night though and the boys were great.

7) My bezzle, Gemma and I 

8) One Direction performing

9) Before my mum went into hospital she decided to buy a tonne of Selfridges cupcakes to fatten us all up over the Christmas season. These were just a few of the amazing cakes we ate

Photos 10 & 11 are of myself and girlfriend Lani as we went on a MASSIVE winter walk just before Christmas with one of her friends little dog Eddie - so frickin cute.

12) This was actually taken at the beginning of December (my bad) but, it was at Gemma's twenty-first and therefore a large event of the month! Me, my mama, Gem's mama: Anne, and Gemma. <3 xxx