Rum, Baileys and Kahlua Truffles...boozy balls!

Somehow I am now entering my last week at the house we made home in Nottingham, time goes stupidly fast! In fact I actually have 3 days left until I have to move out, prepared? Not in the slightest.

To say farewell to the house we had a little end of year party with a select few nearest and dearest. It was decided that we were going to host a cocktail party with a black tie dress code, any excuse to dress up a bit snazzy! I thought it might be nice to make a few sweet treats for people to snack on during the night, would feel like a bit of a let down if I didn't make anything! In the end I opted for the quick, easy and ever popular Oreo Cheesecake along with something new that I have always wanted to make, boozy truffles! 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles

  Hello all :) Sorry I am not posting quite as regularly as I would like, I have had lots of little bits n bobs going on now I have moved house (as well as a little bit of celebrating/chilling time too!) so it seems to take forever to just complete one post. Had a busyish couple of weeks, my graduation ball being one event which, despite the fact it was mainly a fairground outside in rather windy-rainy weather, was lovely! 

 I have made a couple of things since the rather gorgeous Oreo Cheesecake, but due to the camera dropping incident and the fact my phone camera struggles in the low-light conditions of late I didn't have anything decent I could show you. One of these bakes was a divine chocolate-coconut concoction which I can't wait to make again to show you, it was amazing!

The Hunt Begins for the Perfect Vanilla Fudge

Today is a momentous day, today was my first adventure into the crazy world of candy making :)

Well technically I will be posting this tomorrow once I get the chance to do a funky little photo shoot..so I suppose from your point of view, yesterday was a momentous day! This is messing with my mind a little though so I will carry on writing about it as today

I love candy. All candy. You know those old fashioned vintage style sweet shops with the walls covered in great big bell jars full of various brightly coloured sugary treats? well they are my heaven. There are a few characters in the candy world though that share a special little place in my heart (apologies to the others, you are lovely too in your own little way); sherbert lemons, flying saucers, bullseyes, apple 'n custard sweets, bon-bons, chocolate raisins, gobstoppers, sugared almonds...i could literally go on forever. But the one I reaaallllyyy idolise is fudge. Fuddgggeeee. mmmm. In particular sugary sweet creamy classic vanilla fudge