Why not brighten your day with a cupcake?

Not just because it's Monday, but because every once and a while you need to treat yourself. I'm a firm believer that it's important to remind yourself that you are special and deserve a naughty indulgence, you've worked hard so why not? Right?

Maybe your indulgence is going to the movies, getting a ultimately relaxing full body massage, or a glass of expensive vino and cheese. Whatever it is, I bet it makes you feel like you're on cloud nine, or ten or whatever. Well, my most recent indulgence was a disgustingly delicious cupcake from none other than BTS Cafe - Better than Sex. Yep, this stunningly gorgeous cupcake shop (pictures of the store itself to come) is so sure of itself that it claims to smash sex out of the water terms of the 'inducing enjoyment' factor. Quite a claim, eh? Well, they do not disappoint, that's for sure.

A lovely friend of mine, Jenny, agreed that it was time for a yarn so of course I sent her a simple but effective message: 'J - Babes, BTS, lunch break now x'

Pictured below are the glorious cupcakes we purchased on arrival.

Meet Carrie:

Named after our beloved Carrie Bradshaw, the Carrie cupcake is a delicious mix of butter-cake with a lemon curd centre and meringue atop. It's sophistication with a bit of zing - just like our favourite NYC sex columnist.

Meet Elvis:

This banana choc chip cupcake with crispy chocolate bottom and creamy vanilla frosting atop leaves a taste in your mouth that makes you want to belt out a tune like our old mate Elvis. Jenny says "it's a party in your mouth like no other."

Are you impressed, feeling hungry or drooling? Did I ask if you are impressed? Well, if their cute celebrityesque names haven't won you over then I don't know what will.

One day I'll be awesome enough to have a cupcake especially designed and named after me. Hmm I wonder what it would taste like...

Do you know of any amazing cupcake stores?

Favourite flavour?

What's your indulgence?

Look Book Gift Bag - Want Proof?

A further update on the Look Book instores Gift Bag. Just in case you didn't believe us about how huge it was. Here's proof:

This is the pile of stuff we were given... for free (minus a few bits and pieces that I'm already using and some that I so kindly gave to a few special friends to try!) And a happy snap of myself with my two favourite items:
Oh.my.goodness these two items rock my socks. I've already talked about the Kora Body Lotion but on the other side we have HissyFits Protect.Renew.Perfect range - it includes a great tinted moisturiser (no kidding... it's so wonderful that I don't need foundation), a lip balm with SPF 30+ and a hand cream with sunscreen. It's so important that we protect our skin and this fab new range is the perfect answer. yay!

Oh and in relation to Tash's Valentines Cupcakes... If I have anything to do with it she will have them mastered waaaay before next Feb. In fact I think I'll call her now and get her on to it.

Adelaide Life - A Week in Review

I would like to add to Roxy's post to say that the Primped Look Book session was amazing, thanks o Roxy I went along although. Unfortunately we went on different days and so there I was looking like an absolute goof dressed up ready for a pub crawl surrounded by these lovely looking ladies and of course the gorgeous Zoe! I felt a little out of place to say the least. I'm also a bit jealous of Roxy rifling through her goodie bag, because I'm yet to see mine as I had to leave it with a friend who works at David Jones before heading out on the annual engineering pub crawl. I'm very much looking forward to going through it after uni tomorrow.

In other news I'm currently feeling very inadequate. These cupcakes appeared in my tumblr today at I am yet to work out how to make them.

They call them Valentine's Day Cupcakes, so watch this space. I'm determined to have perfected them by next Valentine's Day. 

I've also been enjoying a little bit of the French Film Festival. Not nearly half as much as I would have liked. I did manage to see two films that were absolutely delightful. They were Nueilly Sa Mère! and Micmacs à Tire-Larigot. Both were funny but also sweet, Micmacs is made by the same guy who directed Amélie so it has that same sort of peculiar aspect while also having quite a charming story behind it. Nueilly Sa Mère (Nueilly Yo Mama in English) was hilarious and it was pretty funny hearing jokes about the Jonas Brothers, iPhones and Sarkozy all in one film. I would recommend both of them, and I'll definitely be sourcing them when they come out on DVD along with a long list of Wong Kar Wai I'm attempting to get my hands on. 

It's been a fun week in little old Adelaide. 

Baking - Rainbow Cupcakes

Today was the Adelaide Cup public holiday, and I was so thankful for it. Usually I don't really care about public holidays. My mondays at uni are usually pretty short and the only thing public holidays mean is that I can't go to the shops. Today was different. I got to sleep in, get up to date in Gossip Girl, Work on some uni assignments, laugh as my housemate was reeled into talking to some mormons, and I got to bake.

I've been meaning to make some of these rainbow cupcakes ever since I stumbled across the pretty foods tumblr. Kirby (my housemate for all future references) beat me to it a few weeks ago but graciously bought me a packet of cupcake mix so that I could finally get my chance. I just used Green's vanilla cupcake mix, because I was very lazy, my wonderful Wilton's food colouring and I made some cream cheese icing which I piped on and decorated with mini hearts. Now that I've finally got around to making some I'll have to start experimenting with using cakes made from scratch rather than packet mix. This has really just made me realise that I need to buy a new camera!