Murder Mystery

For Rachael's birthday I've already mentioned we had a murder mystery party.. here are the characters;

Otto Von Pinklewurst

Monsieur Oily Carte

Cherie Boot

Piere Paysanki

Kirk Ransom III

Countess Bogov (the birthday girl herself)

Edith le Grandebutte

Huges Le Grandebutte

Nicole Le Grandebutte

Ingrid Pith

Seamus O'Hack

There was so much food; pary food, pizza, cheese board, chicken, couscous, eclairs, cheesecake etc and everyone got fat full and merry together.. I won't tell you who the murderer was just in case anyone googles the game and gets the same characters etc. 

Earlier in the day we had to go to the shop to buy some birthday foooood..

Would you believe Aly is the eldest??

When we got back wehad  afternoon tea and birthday cake

Three layers

Bit Crumbly

and then getting ready in the evening...

I curled everyone's hair and Alyna showed us how to do glory roll's! 

We missed Harriet this weekend :( So we made a cut out of her instead!

We also got to play with Otto's Monocle haha

Have you ever been to a murder mystery party?

Rachael's Birthday

It's my housemate Rachael's birthday today so Theana and I spent most of yesterday afternoon trying to make her a cake. It didn't go well.. but that's mainly because we couldn't decide which kinda cake we wanted to make so it kept changing! We knew we wanted it to have white chocolate and raspberry in it.. but that was about it. The logistics did not work out ha, Theana - 'yeah we'll melt the chocolate and flavour the cream with it' me - 'is that really going to work? Will it stay melted or just have hard bits in the chocolate?' Theana - 'no it'll be fine..'

It wasn't fine ha. We made 3 different layers - 2 chocolate one plain sponge. in between the layers we made a white chocolate and butter ganache type thing, with sweetened whipped double cream and raspberrys, and for the top we did that again but also had chunks of white chocolate. we also covered the rest of the cake in a thin layer of the whipped cream;

It is going to be SO sickly sweet, so small slices are going to be necessary... but hopefully tastey all the same.

The sides were so fun to decorate too - I just threw chocolate shavings at it! ha

How are you spending your weekend? For Rachael's birthday we're sorting a murder mystery night.. with proper costumes, accents and characters! Photo's to follow :)