Taste at the cloud... a tasty experience!

To promote Auckland's food at the Rugby World Cup, Auckland chefs have teamed together to give the visitors a taste of New Zealand! My family and I decided to go and check it out! It was pricey... $54 will give you the choice of 8 dishes and drinks to go with it. All the dishes are entrée sized so that you can try more! Just how I like it!

The cloud is the new building built for the RWC in Auckland

Gooey, Fudgy, low cal brownies!

Looking for a great brownie recipe? I have the perfect one! I made a batch of these and they were all gone within two days! I had wayyy to many pieces of these so be warned! If you make them you may want to share with friends otherwise you will find they somehow make their way into your stomach! An added bonus is that they are only about 90 cals a piece so if you do over indulge you don't have to feel too guilty!

The super-moist brownies, cut up!

Soft and delicious milo cookies!

I had leftover milo that I need to use up so I decided to bake some milo biscuits! They are sooo nice and soft, their texture reminded me of a ginger kiss! I think this is due to the fact that I halved the recipe but still used one egg. I also used baking spread instead of butter which may have effected it. Either way i'm glad they turned out like that instead of a harder biscuit! Check out the recipe here.

Look at all the milo!!

Dinner @ De Grand! Thai Food!!

A close family friend of ours was going away so we decided to take her out to dinner. My mum and I had heard great things about De Grand, which is a Thai restaurant near our house. I loved their curries! If you come here I definitely recommend you try at least one curry! Their website is http://www.degrand.co.nz/

The table set out

Red Velvet Cream Cheese brownies!!

If you love cream cheese and brownies then look no further! I have the ultimate recipe for you!!!! These are sweet and creamy and taste AMAZING! Trust me! The recipe is from here.

The brownie with the icing before it had been baked!

Dinner @ WAGAMAMA, Sylvia Park

For Father's day my family and I went to Wagamama for dinner! It is like a casual restaurant and while the prices are more like a restaurant, it's soo worth it because the portions are quite substantial and the food is great! (Of course it also helped that I had a $45 voucher so it definitely made the food worth it!)

My mum ordered the ebi goyza - deep fried prawn dumplings. I'm not to keen on seafood so I gave these a miss!

I ordered the chilli ramen with chicken to share with my mum. I loved the hot soup as it was spicy but not too spicy! I also loved the soft and slippery noodles!

My brother had the yaki udon - udon noodles with prawns, chicken and veges. It was all gone before I could have some so I think he liked it!

My dad had the teriyaki steak soba. I got to try some of this and the steak was cooked perfectly! I also loved the sweet sauce it was cooked in.

THIS WAS MY FAVOURITE DISH! I ordered the white chocolate and ginger cheesecake for dessert! It was soo rich, creamy and sweet!!!!!!!! This was probably the best cheesecake I've ever eaten! 

My dad ordered the banana katsu - crispy banana with blueberry ice-cream. I had some and it wasn't sweet enough for me, but I do have a real sweet tooth! 

I really want to come back to the restaurant and try their other dishes! Their website is here

Food processor lemon coconut cake and lemon butter-cream frosting!

For my friend, Sulin's birthday I made her a lemon coconut cake and iced it with lemon butter-cream. The cake was so easy to make because you just put all the ingredients in a food processor and whiz it! This cake has a strong coconut flavour from the shredded coconut and I think it goes great with the lemon. I got the cake recipe from the Epsom Girls Grammar School cookbook, called Blend. The icing recipe is from here.

The iced cake before I put decoration on the top!

My cupcake weekend!!

This past weekend I have been very busy baking for charity! I baked 33 chocolate chip cupcakes! I decorated all of them with black fondant. These cupcakes were all for charity so unfortunately I don't know what they tasted like!

Storing them overnight.