Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 February 2015

Valentine's Day 2015

Or as my children say "Valentime's Day" lol. Sometimes it's a family affair rather than a romantic night out!

Heart Shaped Pancakes using Instant Pancake Mix and a ketchup bottle.


Delicious vegan milk chocolate hearts filled with vegan truffles. YUM!
Chocolate by Sjaak's, bought from Natural Candy Store.



The card I made for my husband, just stamps on the bottom and a water color heart on top with stamped lettering.


Handmade card my husband made for me...he knows I'm obsessed with the Fleur de Lis LOL


Inside the card...



Origami hearts that are so easy to make that the kids helped!




Friday, 14 February 2014

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentine's Day all! I bought my husband these awesome Sjaak's Organic Chocolates (that I'm hoping he will share with me) which are completely vegan from the Natural Candy Store. Love that place, I get all my vegan candy there!

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Valentine's Day

There are loads of DIY Valentine's Day ideas out there and I think they are more thoughtful option.

Here's an easy one from the vault!

Top-Deck Chocolate Hearts with Handmade Origami Card

 



Sunday, 25 December 2011

Handmade Chocolates

These aren't strictly handmade chocolates because it's just melting and pouring but by mixing different vegan chocolates together and setting them in molds you can really make them look and taste special (and more importantly show the non-vegans we can actually eat chocolate).



Handmade Chocolates

Ingredients

2 blocks vegan white chocolate (I used Sweet Williams)
2 blocks vegan milk chocolate (I used Sweet Williams)
2 blocks vegan dark chocolate (I used Kinnerton)
Chocolate molds of your choice


Method

Boil a small pot of water. Use a separate bowl for each chocolate type.
Place a heat proof bowl over the water.
Break the white chocolate up into pieces and place in bowl, stirring as it starts to melt (you may need oven mits to hold the bowl steady to avoid steam burns).
Once melted take bowl off pot and place to the side.
Repeat with other chocolates.
For marble chocolates swirl all chocolates together before spooning into molds.
For top deck chocolates place white chocolate in half the molds first, wait until set then add dark chocolate on top.
For separate chocolates add separate types to each mold.
Refrigerate till hard before removing from moulds (around 2 hours).
Once set push chocolates out of molds and refrigerate. Silicon molds work best.

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Top-Deck Chocolate Hearts with Handmade Origami Card

For a romantic occasion here is an idea for heart themed chocolates and card...



Top Deck Chocolate Hearts







Origami Heart Card

This gorgeous card idea I got from Eat Drink Chic blog. It was really easy to make, I only had one practice run.



The template for card and envelope are here. Instructions for the folding are here.

For the envelope I used an embossing paper used in card making which is thick and sheer and punched holes with a needle up the sides then threaded through a pink thread.

The card opens up so you can write a message. The ribbon I just attached by punching a hole on the back flap of the card.