DIY White chocolate truffles

A sweet medicine against winter blues ...

Chocolate is always good, right? But even better are these delicious babies, creamy, white and soooo easy to make! I've tested and tried the recipe for our magazine KidsLife, and since than, have made several batches as little giveaways for dear friends - or just my own kids who love them. Give it a try for a special note to brighten pre-christmas days!

You need:

25 g Butter

75 g whipping cream

225 g white chocolate

A swig of "eau de vie", i used "Kirsch" (if you like) 

Coconut-flakes

Melt butter in a little pot over low heat. Add cream and stir until almost cooking point, add chocolate and let t melt in the butter cream mixture. Add liquor to taste and fill the mix into a tray or low casserole. Let cool in the fridge for 2 hours. Form little balls (walnut size) with a spoon and the help of your hands. This is sticky, but fun! Roll the truffles in coconut-flakes and place them in the fridge again. Refrigerated they keep for 2 weeks. As a present, you can fill them in pretty boxes - the how to for these i'll post another time!

Photos: Martina Voigt-Schmid

Oh happy plates - food styling project

Tomatoe goes art

I had some fun in my studio lately, playing with my camera and gorgeous red tomatoes - one of my fave summer food.  With these pix, i'm participating in the "Oh hapy plates" food styling project by lovely Ald, from Al dente gourmet, to learn more about styling food and making it look even better in your photos. 

You see, i'm quite a foodie and love to combine my painting skills wiih my love for yummy treats. This also comes in handy when it comes to create recipe pages for my magazine, KidsLife.  I think, these cherry tomatoes doa great job in juicing up my art books, what do you think?

Have a super cool and easy weekend  lovelies!

Se more tomatoe pix here.

Photos: Martina Vouigt-Schmid

Sweet fairy tales

Equally sweet for the eyes and the tongue: the wonderful sugary fairy tales by amazing blogger and food stylist Aline from "My little fabric". I really can't get enough of looking at her creations and i love how she combines drawing and typograhy with these lovely and whimsical photos of yummy little treats - so simple and yet with a lot of Oh la la and phantasy! Have a fun start to your week an dare to do something crazy somewhere these days - any ideas yet?

Photos: My little fabric