Oat Cookies

Happy New Year My Dear Readers,

I hope the start of the New Year has been everything you could have imagined and it continues down that track for the following 12 months. No doubt this year will fly just as fast as the past year, so I hope if you have a New Years resolution you have started it now. I never really have a New Years resolution, as I don’t like to have a set time frame to do things within. However in saying that this year I am going to try to post more recipes to the blog, because last year I feel I was a little too slack. I really need to set aside a day a week to post something, does anyone else out there have a blog and a set day or how do you work it?

Did you all celebrate your New Years Eve in style? I can’t say mine was in syle it was in a tent, with some very doff, doff music {I don’t sound like I’m getting old at all} Not my cup of tea but the guys, and gals that went to the festival really enjoyed it.

I was there with Miss Daisy and crew, serving up some coffee to the very hung over bodes at a 4 day Music Festival. It was in Phillip Island, which is a very beautiful part of Victoria. I had never been, and didn’t get to see a whole lot, but I can see why people from Melbourne escape their for the holidays.

 Did I also tell you I made my first wedding Cake????????? No……. well I did. It was for a friends daughter who was getting married a day before the music festival started so needless to say I had a lot of sleepless nights, just worrying about everything I could possibly worry about.

Well, the cake went well, it was a three layered cake with Red Velvet as the top, Tia Maria cake as the middle and a Raspberry White Chocolate Mud as the bottom layer. It was then covered in a butter icing, with a rustic finish to it. The day of the wedding I was told was going to be a scorcher, so I planned with the bride to get the cake in to the reception early, I was worried about the whole thing melting. However no need to worry the day was pretty mild in the end. I add some fresh flowers, that I had been given to the cake once I got to the reception hall. And then it was done and dusted, my first ever wedding cake. I am not sure how people do these for a living, I think it may be my last, to much worry is involved.

 This next recipe was a bit of a concoction, I started to make it as I felt like some cookies, but soon realised I had know eggs or butter, so in order to work with what I had and not run to the shops at ridiculous o’clock. I used oil and golden syrup to bind them, so in essence these little babes are vegan, well are before I added the chocolate to the middles of them.

Happy Baking, and Happy New Year

xxxxx Sophia