Yay For Holidays!

My social suicide of a semester offcially ended last Saturday at 10am (I hate 8am exams yet two of my three took place during that time slot ugh.) but I needed a couple of days to recouperate and laze around the house doing absolutely nothing :) Most of my Christmas shopping is done and my tiny litle Christmas tree is absolutely SMOTHERED with presents you can hardly see the poor tree beneath all the bows and ribbons of wrapped presents.





Holidays call for holiday baking ~ Today I will attempt to mix up a batch of Egg Nog cupcake but whether or not they will turn out well is really a toss of a coin, I have such miserable luck when it comes with baking at home I seriously think I'm cursed.

Which explains my first attempt ever at making my own macarons, I refuse to travel all the way to Nectars to pay 12 dollars for 6 macarons (but after the catastrophe on Monday, the option is practically begging me) I do love my macarons and after much googling, youtubing and blog-obsessing I thought I had mustered enough confidence and tips on making these delicious treats to carry me through. Okay, so they didn't turn out THAT bad, I had optd for pink macarons with white chocolate fillings and I may have somehow..ahem..made a mistake measuring the almond four...since I didn't have any I had to make my own from blanched, sliced almonds. I will try you again one day macarons, probably sometime next week.

I really wish my piping bags will turn up somewhere around the house...

Anyway I hope my cupcakes turn out :)