Halloween, in the dead of the night, hear me scream...

♫ Halloween - Aqua ♫

Hello you gorgeous ghouls! 

Ok, so Halloween was on Thursday, but it's never too late to share a little bit of out lives with you, right! So, we were invited to our friend Susan's house for a Halloween party, this meant dressing up to the max and finding matching costume ideas! Pretty soon after brainstorming, we settled on good and bad fallen angels, yes we made the costumes, wings and all!

What did you all dress up as?

Check out the pics below if you want to see what all of our lot dressed up as and our arty pumpkins...we do love Halloween!

Anyway, halfterm is over now, as is my NYT Shakespeare course which was the best week ever, and its back to school for us, meaning more frequent posts, yay!

Speak soon my lil devils, Jess xxx

Honest Truvia, you're the answer to my wishes...

'From a leaf so naturally, without a single calorie, honest Truvia it's true!'

Do you have the fattest sweet-tooth ever?! I know I do! If you check back through the blog roll, i'm always baking sweet treats, anything savoury is blogged by Paloma. I thought my life as I knew it was over as...Iv'e given up sugar!! (except fructose)

 This means no sweets, ice-cream, chocolate, and I thought it meant no home-baking either, all for glowing clear skin and a summer body. I was so wrong! I went along to my local supermarket and saw a bag of Truvia - the pretty green packaging caught my eye. It has NO calories and is made from the Stevia leaf. I thought i'd look online for recipes to use and found this one for choco chip cookies.

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1⁄2 tsp salt
• 1⁄2 tsp baking soda
• 1⁄2 cup (1 stick) light butter, softened
• 1⁄4 cup + 2 Tbsp Truvía^® Baking Blend
• 1⁄2 tsp vanilla
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup (6 oz.) chocolate chips / Fudge pieces (sugar-free)
• 1⁄2 Tbsp molasses (optional)

Directions 

Preheat oven to 375^° F, 190 °C

   Beat butter, Truvía^® Baking Blend and vanilla (and optional molasses) in a separate large mixing bowl.

 Mix in egg.

 Combine flour, salt and baking soda in a small bowl.

 Gradually stir in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop rounded tablespoon on cookie sheets and press down to slightly flatten.

 Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until lightly browned.