Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

 Apologies to anyone that's on a diet/healthy eating while reading this! I was doing so well eating well through the week, then it gets to the weekend and bam I struggle big time! 

Recipe

150g Butter

150 g Caster Sugar

3 Eggs

1tsp Vanilla

175g Self Raising Flour

25g Cocoa powder

To be fair, it is a pretty basic recipe to follow. So, cream the butter and the sugar together. Then add in the eggs and vanilla extract. Then add the flour and cocoa powder and mix together. And bob your uncle. It’s that simple. Then obviously fill your cupcakes cases- it should fill 12 cases. Then bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes (mine took 20 minutes).

Icing

So, this is the Hummingbird Chocolate icing- literally has been my all-time favourite icing ever! You can buy their recipe book here, which has lots of other amazing flavours of icing! I have always been an icing girl, weather its fondant or butter cream. So, topping these cupcakes with this icing made it a chocolate heaven!

Recipe

300g Icing Sugar

100g Butter

40g Cocoa Powder

40 ml Whole Milk ( I used semi skimmed and it still worked fine)

Beat the icing sugar, butter and cocoa Powder together until they all come together ( this takes a little bit of time but eventually is does come together). Slowly add the milk to the mixture. Once all the ingredients are together, turn the mixer on high until the frosting is light and fluffy.

And there you go, lovely chocolate cupcakes with the most amazing icing!

Do you like baking? What is yours favourite recipe?

Lots of love,

Nicole x 


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Blogging a year on

So I know it has been over a year, but last year I didn’t post anything for 3 months, so I don’t count that as my year. I just feel like it has only just been a year hence this post. I just cant believe how much my blog has changed. 

Investing money into my blog

I have changed my layout twice, and I am so happy with my layout now so I seriously recommend Kotryna Bass. She even helps with sorting everything for you, no task was too big for her! I bought my own domain, which made me take my blog a little more seriously as I had actually invested money into it. And I also invested in a camera to try make my blog photography a little better.   Also I have found what I love writing about, and what I feel passionately about, I love writing travel posts, which will never been too often as I can't afford to go often, but when I do its my favourite thing to write about. I also do still love writing beauty posts, but also adding Lifestyle content to the 

mix.

Setting up a Youtube Channel

I also set up a Youtube channel, which I will get back into eventually, you can see my channel here. 

Blogging Break

However this year hasn’t been all plain sailing, I recently had a blogging break which you can read the post here  I did that as I found blogging wasn’t ‘fun’ anymore as I was putting too much pressure on myself to try get a post up on time, however I have learnt a lot since then.

Social medias

I set up a new Instagram just for my blog, however I have stopped looking at how many followers I have, as I was always gaining one and losing two, and I’m much happier with my Instagram now. You can follow me here. My Instagram has no theme, which I kinda like, as I can just post whatever I want whether it suits it or not. 

Also with twitter, this is now my favourite social media to promote my blog. I try and take part in as many as twitter chats as I can, as there is so many lovely, genuine interesting bloggers out there, so I love chatting to them!

So I thought I would put some picture together to show how much my blog has come on, and looking back its made me realise how far I have come on my blog. So here is too another year. I have learnt so much through blogging, and it really is the best hobby!

Lots of love,
Nicole xx


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Loreal Colourista Review

So I don't know why, whenever I go to any festivals, I just love adding wacky colours to my hair. Like 4 years ago I went bright pink, and it took around 6 weeks to properly come out, which sadly isn't appropriate now I'm at work. Which when I saw Loreal range, and and how it washes out in 5-10 shampoos, I was like hell yeah. So I chose a light blue for a change so here is my thoughts.
Sadly in this picture, the packaging doesn't look great, as my bottle leaked and the packaging just went soggy. 

So I am writing this, as I currently have green hair and it won’t come out. All fun and games when you’re at a festival however being back at work now it really isn’t suitable.  Yeah, I tried out the Loreal Colourista in blue, and on the box it just looked incredible which is why I thought yeah let’s give it a go, as I have gone pink in the past and I loved it! 

Please excuse my Minnie Mouse dressing gown 

So I will now tell you exactly why this product did not work for me. So, I have blonde hair, and it said if it’s a darker blonde it won’t show. I only bought one box, however one box wasn’t enough so we did half a head to find out we have no more product left. No good. A heads up if you going to use this product and have long hair, you will need two boxes! I left it on for 15 minutes as it for a more of a subtle colour which is what I wanted. Followed all the instructions, and you can see from the picture that the top layer has a quite nice blue colour through it, and I’m sure if my full head was covered it would be nicer. 

However, after one more wash it started to turn green. And I must say, green is a much more noticeable colour than baby blue. The picture below, doesnt do the green justice. From the front it is very green! So, on my way home tonight, I am picking up some DIY products to try get this colour out. If my DIY products work, that can always be a separate post.

So please excuse my badly straighten hair, but you can see how my hair has turned green. 

I don't think personally this picture does it justice of how green my hair is, two days after the application, it was like grass green (the only way I could describe the colour of it). 
Update- The DIY products did managed to fade the product massively! And I have constantly been washing my hair, and now I feel like the product is starting to come out. 

Have you ever tried this product before? What were your thoughts?

Lots of love,

Nicole xx

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