BERRY CHOCOLATE CAKE

I love baking cakes, especially for birthdays!  

But today I present you with a cake I made for no celebration at all! This berry chocolate cake,  is super easy to make and is very yummy. 

PREP TIME: 20 MINUTES | COOK TIME: 40 MINUTES | DIFFICULTY: EASY 

CHOCOLATE BERRY CAKE INGREDIENTS 

+ 2 eggs 

+ 220g brown sugar

+ 1 tsp vanilla extract

+ 120g unsalted butter, chopped

+ 240g sour cream

+ 225g plain flour

+ 75g cocoa powder

+ 1/2 baking powder

+ 300g thicken cream

+ 1 tsp brown sugar

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 160ºC. To make cake, grease the baking trays  and line with baking paper. Place butter and sugar in a saucepan. Cook, stirring, over medium heat for 3 minutes or until sugar dissolves and butter is melted. Remove from heat and whisk in eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Sift over flour with cocoa and baking powder, then whisk until smooth. Divide batter between pans.

Step 2: Bake, swapping pans halfway, for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into centres comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans for 5 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Step 3: To make whipped cream, place thicken cream and brown sugar into the mixing bowl. and mix until cream is nice and thick.

Step 4: Bake, swapping pans halfway, for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into centres comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans for 5 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Step 5: Spread the whipped cream over top of 1 cake. Top with second cake, then gently press together. Sprinkle all kinds of berries you like onto the top and second cake layer and Enjoy!

Happy Baking! 

Have you ever made a berry chocolate cake before? 

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Tarte Tartelette Amazonian Clay Matte Palette Review

Guys, can you believe it were in June already?!

Today I've got a beauty review for you all. This is my first Tarte Palette and I'm in love with it! Love the packing - a beautiful purple ombre palette with gold writing. The quality of these twelve matte shadows are out of this world! The shades are super gorgeous and are very buildable. Love using Super mom, Caregiver, Free spirt and Natural beauty from the Tartelette.  I definitely want to get the Tartelette in Bloom Clay Palette next. 

Free Spirit: is a light and pale yellow beige eyeshadow with a warm undertone with a matte finish.   

Force of Nature: is a medium brown with a warm and slightly reddish undertones with a matte finish.

Dreamer: is a dark brown with warm and yellow undertones with a matte finish. 

Multi-Tasker: is a dark brown with warm and reddish undertones with a matte finish.

Caregiver: is a light pinkish with subtle and cool undertones with a matte finish.

Natural Beauty: is a subdued and a pinky taupe eyeshadow with a matte finish.

Best Friend: is a muted medium dark purple with a subtle, cool undertones with a matte finish.

Bombshell: is a blackened purple with a muted quality to it with a matte finish.

Super Mom: is a very light beige with a subtle warm undertones with a matte finish.

Wanderer: is a light medium brown with subtle, warm undertones with a matte finish.

Power Player: is a warm, taupe brown with a with a matte finish.

Fashionista: is a rich black eyeshadow with a matte finish.

Have you tried anything from Tarte before?

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KYLIE COSMETICS: LIP GLOSSES REVIEW

I did it again and bought the Kylie Cosmetics Lip Glosses in 'Literally', 'Like' and "So Cute". 

Kylie Jenner has been on fire with her new business venture! Waiting for her next restock to get my hands on her metals bundles - Reign, King K & Heir and of course her new liquid lipstick - Exposed (gorgeous nude shade). I was one of the lucky ones who didn't buy it on the first batch, which contained the terrible wands (phew). 

The packaging is pretty cool, it has a liquid spill effect on it - very minimal and sleek. The glosses are really great and the shades are just beautiful! They are highly pigmentation which means that you could wear them without a lip liner underneath (yay)! I'm currently really loving the brown toned nude shades. The glosses are pretty thick and I really love the formula/consistency, plus they are not sticky at all. However my brushes seem to be okay and does apply the shades evenly. Like any other gloss though it does wear off after you eat or drink.

Did you guys manage to get one or are you going to grab one in the next release? 

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APRIL FAVOURITES

How fast has April flown by?

 But I'm so glad it's May - I'm twenty one in  f o u r  days (13th May).

 I've been really busy this month with so much university assignments. The semester is ending real soon, but that hasn't stopped to trying some new beauty products which a few made it into this months favourites. 

+ Hourglass - Ambient Lighting Palette: I love using this palette for highlighting my face and I use it nearly everyday.  The Hourglass ambient lighting palette consists of three gorgeous finishing powders. All three shades in the palette are highly pigmented, finely milled and very soft. 

+ NARS - Albatross:  Is another beautiful highlighter for the face which can also be used for an eye shadow. Recently I've been using this as a highlighter for my cheekbones to lighten up my complexion to give me a golden look. 

+ YSL - Touche Eclat Blur Perfector: This is one of the new beauty products I've bought - and I definitely recommend it. How super cute is the packaging and it is SO good for touchups! I've been using it on my t-zone and around my nose where my pores are a bit more visible. It is a balm to powder formula and as soon it's on the skin it's got a velvety, matte and almost powder finish.

+ ZOEVA brush - 127/luxe sheer cheek: I'm a massive fan of Zoeva make up bushes and this would have to be one of my favourites! The brush is super soft and gentle on the skin and is perfectly angled for blush or highlighter application. Due too it's natural bristles it gives you a much sheerer application. 

+ Kylie Cosmetics - Gloss in Literally: I've recently got my hands on all of Kylie's lip gloss (blog post coming soon) and they are super duper amazing! The lipgloss glides on smoothly and evenly on the lips and you only need a small amount. 

+ Charlotte Tilbury - Love Liberty Lipstick: I'm a massive fan of Charlotte Tilbury products and their lipstick range is on a whole different level. The love liberty lipstick is like a wild rose flush. 

+ BonBon Perfume, Viktor&Rolf: Yet again this perfume is in my months favourite blogpost! The bottle is super cute and it's a beautiful and feminine scent that is absolutely perfect for springtime. It has a delicate blend of tangerine, black currant, orange, orange blossom, jasmine, peach, guaiac wood, cedar wood and caramel. It's perfect to be worn out to an dinner or an outdoor wedding! 

+ Fresh Prince of Bel Air: I know this isn't a beauty product, but I wanted to share with you guys that I've been also loving rewatching the Fresh Prince of Bel Air episodes, currently on season three, brings so much memories! Definitely a good show to watch and relax. 

I hope you enjoyed reading my favourites this month! Let me know your April favourites in the comments below - I always love trying new products! 

What beauty products have you been loving in April?

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KYLIE JENNER LIP KITS REVIEW

The past couple of months or years I must say, we have all become obsessed with Kylie Jenner’s Lip frenzy. I couldn’t resist and I had to jump on the bandwagon and try Kylie Jenner’s make up line. I was lucky enough to get a hold of all of the liquid lipsticks, since they always get sold out in a couple of minutes and sometimes-even seconds! I remember staying up really late (well, really early in the morning 3AM, AEST) for her very first ever launch, the three lipsticks and lip liners -True Brown K, Dolce K and Candy K! Unfortunately I was unable to get a hold of it. I was a bit upset and really tired, Ha. Staying up all night/morning to get none of them! In the end, I ended getting all the lipsticks this year - not all at once though. 

Moving onto the Lip Kits, every kit has a liquid lipstick and a matching lip liner, which comes in the prettiest packaging ever! To me, it’s really minimalistic and simple packaging. The kits are $29 USD, which I think is a pretty reasonable price for getting two make up products. All of the lip liners glide onto the lips really easily and leave your lips feeling soft, and the shades are super pigmented which is a plus! 

The liquid lipsticks is where I got really impressed, the smallest amount really does go a long way - you never need to re-dip for more product. The texture is super light and mousey, they dry really quickly into a gorgeous matte. I can honestly say that the liquid lipsticks stay on for a really long time. I’ve found that these easily last 5-6 hours on the lips! Kylie Jenner has now over eight liquid lipsticks and liners; Kourt K being the newest shade, Candy K, Dolce K, Koko K, Posie K, Mary Jo K, 22 & True Brown K.

I’d love to know if you had managed to get your hands on these? Or are you still lusting a lip kit by Kylie?

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