#Easter

Ick. I feel so disgusting from all the sugar that I've consumed in the last six hours. M. and I had a pretty successful baking session - we made red velvet caramel brownies (which we were rather skeptical about because it involved blind baking a red velvet base, and then adding molten caramel - from melted caramels on top, before adding a final layer of red velvet which sort of melded in with the caramel), and of course because it's Easter - hot cross buns.

The brownie turned out well - but the only thing was the fact that recipe called for a box of red velvet cake mixture, which always is a bit average compared to making red velvet from scratch. The highlight was actually melting the caramels because we ended up with this molten golden goodness, which tasted amazing with frozen berries - a fondue of sorts, if you will. In fact, we probably ate more of the caramel than of the finished brownie product.

The hot cross buns were pretty good - a bit dense, but nothing a good blast from the microwave won't cure tomorrow morning. The recipe we used had major issues with liquid because the dough we ended up with was as dry as straw, so we ended up adding at least an extra half cup of milk. The dough still rose though - which was good, especially as the temperature outside was probably around 6 degrees celsius and I didn't have much faith in the heat pump warming up the ambient temperature inside the flat.
I had such a fun time with M. though and it was definitely worth the self discipline throughout the entire week.

On another note, I think it's still important to remember the reason why we get a day off on Good Friday.