FOOD 3

Okay guys! So this post is long over-due but it's my homemade (notice how it is NOT "hon-mei") chocolate. Or in this case... peanut butter cups, crappy looking Ferrero Rochers and yeah! So I used about a box and a half of Baker's Semi-Sweet Chocolate. You have to chop it up so that it will melt easier.

As some of you have probably seen, the proper way to melt chocolate is by using a double-broiler type contraption. Basically, you have a big pot filled with water and another pot or metal bowl (as long as it conducts heat well) on top. Then, you place the chocolate in the secondary bowl in the water and stir it as the water is being heated up. Some people say that you should NOT let the water in the pot boil because it makes the chocolate taste weird. I don't know about that but to be on the safe side, I didn't let it boil. I added some milk in it just so it's creamier and not so chocolate-y.

So for the peanut butter cups, I took at a muffin tray and placed the muffin paper cup thingies in them. Then, I spread a layer of chocolate on the bottom and on the sides to form the case. You can't really tell but that is flat and only on the outsides. There's no bulk on the inside and also, you have to bring the sides of the cup up a bit more so there's space for enough peanut butter and the "lid" ^_^ As soon as you're done, place it in the fridge to cool and harden!

 After 15 minutes, take it out and lay on the peanut butter! Make sure not to go over the sides of the cup so there's space for the chocolate lid. Then, cover the peanut butter with more melted chocolate to complete the peanut butter cup like so. It'll be a very messy step but fun! Try to flatten the peanut butter as much as you can for the lid. You can sprinkle some sprinkles on small candies or candied/dried fruits on top while the chocolate is still melted for decoration at this step.

Finally, let them cool in the refrigerator for another 15minutes! Take them out and feel free to decorate with icing or whatnot. =) Be creative!

My fridge is messy =P





And finally, end result! TA-DA! I wrote the initials down of the people whom I was going to give these to using red gel icing.

Some of them *coughWTLFcough* never made it because they got eaten LOL. One will NEVER *coughKTcough* make it just because and the rest were good. ^_^ These are very yummy btw and CL and AM said that they were better than Reese x) They even named it the "Geizz" or whatever. A play on pronunciation on "Reese" and "Izzy/Izz" and "Jizz" -___-;;


In any case, I made these too:

To the right is just some chocolate that I rolled into balls and rolled in chopped walnuts with a teeny drizzle of the red gel icing. To the left is just some canel-shaped chocolate with farm animal sprinkle decorations on top xD (they were the only Valentine's colour themed ones).

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Yes yes indeed ladies and gentlemen. For a short time only, Pandizmeister15 is coming to a blog near you! (meaning this one). =) She's all about fun, hugs and of course, panda-ness! Hug her while she's still nice because in a few weeks, she'll turn rabid. Just kidding of course but you know what I mean.


So I've had many different hands-on projects for the past few weeks. I have an incomplete summer dress in the works, a thingy majigg involving sewing and stuff (kinda like plushies I guess but in a more smaller scale) and silk screening a shirt. Well, tonight, I'm proud to announce that I've just finished the latter of the list! Over the course of Thursday night until Sunday night (tonight), I was busy stippling, drawing, cutting and using glue for this activity. Here's some pictures ^_^ The end result is pretty cute. teehee.

The mess I made on my bedroom floor

The image that I put on the front of my shirt.
(for those of you who don't recognize/know this character, it's my Ragnarok Frontier High Priestess' head chibi-fied my way. It's how I always draw her =) )

So I traced her on some organza fabric and started doing a kind of stencil using Mod Podge.
(I also added in twin ribbons. She's always wearing that and was given to her by her partner in crime and my next silk-screening project)

I forgot to take a picture in between but basically, I layered the organza over the t-shirt and placed a a cardboard box between the two layers of the t-shirt. Then, using a brush, I stippled away along the stencil and that was the end result on the organza fabric.

Unfortunately, it didn't turn out quite as nicely as I hoped it would on the shirt...

...so I went over the lines xD

Then I coloured her in! Ta-da! It's kinda messy but for a first time, I think it's good.

The same thing with her name. x)

Finished product! *name-wise*

Now some on-person pictures!

The shirt was an "Adult Small". I could have bought the fitted Adult Small but then they had a sale. 2/$7!

From the back. See, it's very long.

Peace! ^_^ Don't mind the writing on the mirror. They're my 2010 goals lol. Also, please pardon the messy room.

And yeah. That's what I've been doing this weekend. Besides that, I've also been a MW2 freak. I finished Campaign on Regular all in one sitting yesterday and I played a good 3-4 hours of Multiplayer today. @_@; Addicteddd.

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We had our first basketball game yesterday and it was against the last team we played against. Pretty fun x) 71-15 for us and I fouled 3 times (I think). 2/3 fouls involved heavy physical contact. The first one, I was defending against a girl and I kinda tripped on my own feet and fell and that was a foul on me apparently @_@; The second one is more entertaining. I was guarding this girl who was gonna have a breakaway but I wouldn't let her at all and I ended up tackling her. Then, instead of rolling AWAY from her, for some reason, I rolled ON her. LOL =X But yeah. Once again, I didn't get any points (I'm too shy T.T;;) and any other positive stats but it's okay.


Attempted to play MW2 on my youth family friend's XBOX 360 tonight. It was hard cause I'm used to my PS3 controller and the shoot/aim down/grenades buttons are switched up *sigh* It's okay. Next time!


In other news, I finally reached my goal of saving up to $300! Unfortunately, as soon as I did, I went to Michael's (the arts and crafts store) to buy stuff for my silk screening attempt and spent around $50 =_=;; But it's worth it! I hope.


In relation to the previous paragraph, attempting my first "silk-screening" project over the weekend. I started last night for the stencil making but it didn't work as well as I did in terms of actually using the stencil on the shirt. I had to go over the lines anyway -__-; I guess it's okay since at least I had a guide. Looking forward to tomorrow when I finish this =) I'll post up pics when I'm done.


Also, I received my term 2 report cards today. I went up in everything except for Bible and Math. Bible, to be expected since my worship wasn't that great. Math, also to be expected just cause our teacher sucks balls. My average went up though by 1%! 92%-->93% Probs because my Drama grade went up to 100%, my English grade went up to 99%, my Chemistry grade went up to 94% and my Biology grade went up to 89%. I know it sounds like I'm bragging but I'm just really happy. Please bear with me :P