Easter treats, Astrid style!

We don't usually do much for Easter, but it was a good excuse to make a batch of hot cross buns.  They came out of the oven, just before Astrid got up from her nap. As a result she had to sit on the floor and eat some 'picnic style' for her afternoon tea. With lots of butter of course!

I think she enjoyed them........

While hot cross buns are pretty good, chocolate is even better!

Astrid had some chocolates sent in the post from Granny, but she had well and truly polished those off before Easter. A week or two ago we tempered some dark chocolate and made some fondant filled chocolates and some shaped chocolates using the molds we bought in Paris. We made Astrid a dark chocolate egg while we were at it. For Easter she got to eat her egg. Despite the fact that it was very rich, dark chocolate, with little sugar she devoured it. Takes after her parents in the chocolate stakes.......

 She was very excited by the 'Easter choc, daddy made'. There wasn't any left.....

Favourite photo Friday (late again) - 31/3/13

A four day weekend, filled with getting some gardening done and some other jobs around the house made me totally forget to post my Friday photo. Or maybe I just waited til today because Easter Sunday is an awesome time to post photos of delicious home made hot cross buns :)

Most Easters we make at least one batch of hot cross buns. Sometimes we eat them all and have to make more........

These pics are actually from a couple of years ago. We did make a lovely batch of hot cross buns last weekend but Anto declared them unworthy of photographing. Mostly because he gave one to Astrid to eat before I had a chance to grab the camera. They looked pretty good to me and they tasted even better.

From memory the buns that appear in the photos also tasted pretty good! Love the shiny sticky syrup on them.

D80 with Tamron 90mm f2.8
ISO 400, focal length 90mm
Exposure: 1/400 @ f/11

D80 with Tamron 90mm f2.8

 ISO 560, focal length 90mm

Exposure: 1/30 @ f/11