Curiously Charis

I've seen loads of these stunning drip cakes all over Pinterest  and I've been dying to give one a try! I decided to run a chocolate hazelnut one as a competition to raise some money for my Great North Run , but I both needed to practise first... and have one to show people who might like to enter the raffle that I could come up with the goods! I gathered some ideas on Pinterest and researched some recipes and tips before getting going. I have a basic chocolate cake recipe of my own I like to use, so I decided to times that by two and make the sponges. I am entirely unscientific... I would normally do six eggs for four layers of sponge, but the mixture looked good with five so I left it at that haha! But the basic premise is: 9oz self raising flour 3oz cocoa powder 1 tbs baking powder 12oz butter 12oz caster sugar 6 medium free range eggs 50ml milk With a hand mixer (stand mixer is definitely recommended though!) I blitzed the sugar and butter together unt...

At the start of each new year I write a list of 30 things I’d like to do that year. They are a mixture of big, medium, small and sometimes absolutely miniscule things that I’d like to achieve, and to be honest this is my third year and I’ve yet to achieve all 30! I write these lists to basically make sure I don’t just spend the whole year on Facebook/Netflix/Instagram and actually do some stuff! But half the time I end up being a bit too scared to set out to do what I hoped I would. I was probably a bit optimistic with my 'green wave' expected time...    This year I’m trying hard to battle the urge to just do nothing with my time. I think the biggest challenge I have set myself is to run the Great North Run. It’s really not gone smoothly so far though! It’s been one set back after another. I’ve been injured since four weeks into training in May time. Now add a knee injury to the long list!  Before I set out training I had such grand plan...