Nick Knight

 So I went to Chapters the other day and found this enormous book on the works of Nick Knight who I think is amazing. Since it costs about $97, I decided to instead seek out his photographs online and share some on here. Let me tell you it was hard to narrow it down to only these. He works with a lot of famous celebrities and much of his work is dedicated to them but he also does many high fashion creative shoots.

Check him out here: http://www.nickknight.com/

    

  

Linzer Cookies

                                                   

So, I know I said I'd share many different topics with you but I couldn't resist posting my new baking experiment, Austrian Linzer Cookies. This is my second trial and I think they turned out pretty good, they are delicious just a bit messy looking but if you had seen the first these will look golden. The previous try the dough was really crumbly and I couldn't roll it out to make shapes. So I clumped whatever chunks I could and made these little balls of cookie dough which tasted more like scones and looked nothing like these. I learned my lesson and used a new recipe but also tons of butter this time so the dough was nice and soft and rolled out easily. I used wildberry jam for the inside. As you can see my brother and I had quite a bit of fun making these cookies. They take a while to make but  are so worth it.That's my post for tonight. I promise the next post will not involve food. Man, looking at these pictures is making me hungry all over again. Have a nice evening.

Lemon Frosted Lemon Cake

Hello,

So I'll be the first to admit that I've gone a little bake-crazy. Since my friend and I had a bake/cook hangout party at her place I've had nothing but food on my mind. Today I finally checked out some cookbooks my parents bought one of which was the Martha Stewart: Recipes of the Home Cook, or something along those lines, but the instructions and ingredients were so long and complex I lost some of my courage (I've never been good at cooking, wait correction I've never been good at getting myself to cook, once I have the recipe I'm great). Then I discovered this cute little website www.joyofbaking.com which had the most amazing and tasty treats you can think of and they are all pretty easy to make with ingredients you know and can easily find around the kitchen. Above is what I baked and my family loved it. The only problem is after, the entire kitchen smelled deliciously like lemon so everyone was constantly hungry. I baked the cake about 2 hours ago and already less than have is left. And I got tons of compliments on my culinary skills. Bonus!!!

Till next time.