Frisky Friday - Punk Rock is not dead

Today I had a sudden realisation. You may recall that my Mac died a few weeks ago and I lost everything (promise this is the last time I will harp on about the bloody mac!). Well, today I realised that I'd lost all my music from years past, music that I firmly believe helped shape me into the person that I am today.

Music has always been a big part of my life. In high school I was a total punk rock kid, listening to Blink 182, New Found Glory, The Starting Line, etc. I'm also a contemporary and classically trained singer/teacher. Fo realz. My brother is a bad ass drummer who also plays guitar, bass, violin and probably many other instruments I am not aware of. And my father taught me everything I know about rock and roll.

I also realised today that no one has ever made me a cake. I've made a bucket load for my friends and families, but have never had a big pretty, fondant covered monstrosity to call my own. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about this fact. If you're going to give someone a cake, I believe it needs to be a work of art and truly represent that person to a T!

Which again, got me thinking (big effin day for KayB!). If I ever got a special cake, what would it be? What would best represent me? Well, I found it. I WANT THIS BABY!!!

(photo by emptysound on Flickr)

Seriously, I am obsessed with The Beatles. Beyond the music and movies, I have numerous books and artworks devoted to the legendary four. They revolutionised rock and roll for the entire industry, and I don't think I've ever heard any artist say 'nah, I wasn't influenced by The Beatles'. I always have music playing while baking and I promise you, I've made some of my best cakes listening to The Beatles.

So, if you could have any type of cake, what would it be?

Just to get you in the mood, here are the rocking and rolling bips and bops;

This is one bad-ass 6 year old birthday cake.. rock on little dude!
Nothing says old school rock like a jukebox cake. Oh how I'd love a jukebox to call my own!
You can't deny that Gene Simmons' face on a cake is kind sexy.. what, just me? I love KISS!
Seriously, this 5 year old either has some wicked advanced design skills or the coolest parents ever. What kind of child gets a three tier, topsy turvy, punk rock, skull encrusted cake?

Frisky Friday - Kiss me, I'm Irish!

But seriously, show me some lovin'! St Patrick's Day is just around the corner and every year I celebrate at the local Irish pub near my work, eating Guinness Pie with mash and drinking several pints of Guinness. Oh and also avoiding all serious work by devoting myself to making countless origami clovers. Good day! My Mother's ancestors came out from Ireland some many years ago, but if you need any more proof of my Irish blood then check this out..

AHHH IT'S MY LITTLE BRO AND HE HAS RED HAIR! (Oh, hay there JayB! You're on my blog! It's cause you're attractive, like me). 

"Tee Har Tee Har Tee Har, Don't touch me lucky charms!" That's the sound a leprechaun makes, right? Ok. Enough with the red hair/leprechaun racism. 

So, do you celebrate St Pat's Day by eating and drinking yourself stupid? Or do you have another holiday that is all consuming of your energy (and Christmas doesn't count, cause I'm pretty sure it's actually law in most states now to eat heaps of food on Chrissy!). 

You've probably figured out by now that this week's Frisky Friday is going to comprise solely of Irish treats. And you would be correct. Congratulations. Please have this pot of gold as a prize. And by pot of gold I actually mean awesome links to rad food. Enjoy!

Rainbow cookies on a stick  = #WINNING

Pretty sure we need to make more pies, especially the variety with booze in them. Like this Irish Cream Pie

I HEART WHOOPIE PIES, particularly pretty coloured ones. 

Again, booze in baked treats. Guinness in cupcakes. I'm sold.

Ahhh more leprechaun jokes. And gold cake balls. Told you there'd be a prize pot full of gold!

The perfect St Pat's Day milkshake. It's also on the healthy side of the spectrum. You're gonna need that after all of the above!

Green Pancakes! But no more artificial colouring cause my head is actually about to explode. These have spinach, instead! Nom nom nom nom.

Happy St Patrick's day, y'all! x 

Frisky Friday - The McGriddle is coming!!

Have you ever seen the movie ‘Super Size Me’ by Morgan Spurlock? It’s actually one of my favourite movies, I even used it for my HSC Drama studies. You may or may not remember Morgan discussing how “a pancake-wrapped creation..won my heart in Texas”. Well guess what. After much anticipation (and protesting by all of the 35 facebook fans who support ‘Bring the McGriddle to Australia') the McGriddle is coming late 2011!!! (according to Wikipedia).

Apologies if I’m way behind the times and you all knew that this was happening, but I only just found out today that McGriddle was on its way to our shores. And I’m excited. Let me paint you a picture. Image heading to McDonalds and not knowing what to get for breakfast. You’re torn between a Sausage and Egg McMuffin and the Hotcakes (perhaps you like your hot cakes decked out with ice cream and apple pies, I ain’t judging!). McMuffin, hotcakes, McMuffin, hotcakes. Now you can have them both, rolled into one!!!!! It’s frickin genius. Sausage, egg, cheese smooched together with two maple flavoured pancakes. Get ready, people. Get ready.

And now to bring myself down from this sugar/fat induced high, here are this week’s bips and bops;

• Blondes DO have more fun. I should know, last 12 months of my life have been blonde. Now I have Blonde Rocky Road to go with my super cute pixie blonde do.

• Last week I went to a music festival and I DIDN’T have a corndog. So now I’m making my own! Mwahahahaha deep fried goodness.

• Need some lunch time inspiration? Scanwich is my new fav site, dissecting the almighty sandwich from the inside out.

• Following on the Micky D’s theme, you gotta have the real thing French Fries.

Catch ya'll next week!

Frisky Friday - Our first ever! And the Angry Birds Playable Cake.

G’day Chooks.

As I have mentioned in my recent posts, I have been without a working camera for some time. I am (not so) secretly longing for an SLR to call my own, but as someone who knows nothing about giant, high powered cameras I am yet to delve in that deep (help please?).

Last week was my birthday. I turned 19.. again.. for the 5th time! ;) I got spoilt, most notably by my boyfriend, Michael with the gifting of a brand new digital cannon. Hip hip hurray! Finally, I can blog properly without feeling like I’m looking at photos through a haze or without my glasses on!

It’s also interesting to note that a mere 4 days after I received this teeny, tiny camera, my beloved one year old MacBook died. Her hard drive just stopped driving and decided to take the graphics card with it. I was absoultly gutted! The wonderful Sneh and Sugarpuffi sent hugs and support my way, but unfortunately a few personal things such as photos were not backed up and hence lost into the ether. I felt like Carrie Bradshaw but with less expensive and fashionable shoes.

All my sob stories aside, I am now back online and ready for action! To celebrate, I thought I would introduce a new weekly post. My personal mantra for this blog is to focus in on, and spread the love of pretty food (..because we all like to eat food that looks good!). And being included as part of the fabulous Sydney food blogging community, I’ve been readily exposed to the most amazing, gorgeous, fun, sexy, adventurous foods that you could ever imagine. Now I plan on spreading these amazing finds onto you all.

Without further adu, I welcome you all to ‘Frisky Friday!’ Where I will gather up all the beautiful, luxurious, sexy foodie finds I have come across during the week.To kick us off I present to you 'Angry Birds The Cake' - possibly the most addictive game out there? Besides paper toss, obviously. Well, may I present possibly the most addictive cake out there. I have so many things I want to say about this cake, but I think I should just leave you all to watch the video and enjoy. Ahhhh, to be six again...

 

And here is the rest of the fun stuff, the extras, the bips and bops of it all;


Flaming fruit on alcoholic drinks!

A cookie, stuffed with.. ANOTHER cookie.

World Nutella Day means you can eat nutella and bacon. Together. Seriously.


Now I'd like to wash down that nutella/bacon goodness with a cocktail. Lucky I got me a bottle of Bacon Bourbon handy.


Oh, Don Draper. I could just eat you up. Literally. Mad Men Cupcakes!!

Be still, my beating heart.. Cake batter pancakes.