day with my dad

I went out with my Dad a few weekends ago to go to the Cowgirl Creamery in Point Reyes. So we made it there only to find out that it was the one weekend they were closed to do a massive clean out of the entire market place. 

So we ended up wandering around their Main St, the surrounding towns and many many cheese shops.

Sorry for the lack of writing in this post, gotta pick up my parents from the airport. A recipe next post!

The best scone my dad said he had ever had at a bakery in point Reyes.

On our way up to Mt Tamalpais

Rose Petal Sugar I found at nicasio valley cheese company

I made a cheese plate from all the cheeses I got, and the peppered cheese in the middle is a goat cheese log I made.

peppered brie

tiny apples and homemade cranberry marmalade 

We stopped by Trader Joes on our way home, I loved the packaging for these tomatoes

golden syrup cake

Hello

Have you heard of golden syrup? Its quite amazing and I hadn't heard of it before this recipe. Well I had heard of it but I had never used it, because I'm in America and it is more of a UK thing. It's kind of like honey, in texture but tastes like liquid gold. 

This cake is simple and rustic with the greatest frosting. The cake is good, buttery and soft. The frosting is what makes it though. The golden syrup makes it slightly sticky and a much richer flavor than my normal buttercream.

One of the reasons I bought the golden syrup was honestly not for the syrup at all but for the can. What classy packaging? I thought. Not like the normal plastic squeezy bottles, white bags and jar with off brand labels I'm used to seeing.

So today and tomorrow are my days off. I've planned out, picked out props and started recipe prepping for three different photoshoots to do tomorrow. Well, two are quite simple so hopefully it won't be too much of a task. I can't photograph during the week, too dark when I come home from work, so I cram as much as I can into my days off. Wish me luck!

recipe from Lyle's Golden Syrup