CocoaMoi

I love making things and my obsession for all things chocolate tends to spill over into other areas of my creative life.  Totally inspired by the vintage images that are everywhere right now I made these cute little earrings. Tutorial: 1. First punch two holes into each of your bottle caps.  The hol

Savoury Chocolate Recipe What’s the first thing that jumps to mind when you hear the word chocolate?  For my children it means they are in store for a treat, for me it means a sit down with my feet up a hot cup of coffee and five minutes peace? When my children were small it [...]

I’m not a huge fan of suet dumplings I find it leaves a funny film in my mouth so the clootie dumpling recipe I use is suet free. It was given to me by my mother in-law, and is a real winner in the Young household.  Not only is it suet free but only take [...]

My daughter Morgan loves cooking and having a slight intolerance to gluten I had some of these cookies mixes ready in the cupboard.  I’m not sure if you have tried it yet but instagram is my new fave friend and have found any excuse to snap away.  What a great excuse than get Morgan cooking [...]

White Russian Truffles I am a bit of a party freak and love themed events, any excuse to dressed up and relive my youth I’m there.  Recently a friend asked for some ideas on a “Big Lebowski” themed party, obviously being the party queen she came to the right place.  Now if you haven’t seen [...]

  As people all over the world reflect on the last year and the beginnings of the new, I found a great little quote to hopefully inspire everyone. "Live a life full of new Beginnings" Fill your life with new beginnings, learn a new skill, volunteer your services to help someone in need, try a [...]

As we welcome in the new year talk around our party table turns to our new year resolutions. I wanted to be different this year and deviate from the typical lose weight, go to the gym more scenario and turned my thoughts to something I could actually achieve.  My news years resolution for 2012 is [.

Christmas is a great time of year for my family, it is a time to get crafting together, bake crimbo goodies and generally just spend time together doing a heap of fun things. It isn’t a religious affair but more of a celebration of family and friends and “I LOVE IT”. I love looking on [...]

My preperations have begun, and the hunt for some unusual Halloween party food is well underway. My first find is a treat for kids and grownups alike, a gelatine earthworm recipe I found on http://www.divinedinnerparty.com/halloween-party-food.html . This is a really great site and has loads of reci

I love Halloween it’s a great time to get in the kitchen with the nippers and get making all kinds of goodies.  Chocolate is of course a Halloween favourite and you can buy some really great, themed chocolate moulds perfect for making your own Halloween chocolates to adorn your party table. When mak