Ok, Week 4 quickly- the sunshine girls managed to make 6 Sew NOT a tea towel sling bags....yep you can make 2 groovy looking bags outta 1 tea towel, add a felt and button flower and some tape and wha-la fabbo bag. Me not so fabbo forgot to take any photos.....I did take a shot of the passionfruit melting moments and here is the recipe, thanks to the good old Women's Weekly Big Book of Beautiful Biscuits.
those were the yummo ones that the girls demolished!! But you need
250g softened butter, 1/3 cup icing sugar, 1 1/2 cups plain flour, 1/2 cup cornflour, buttercream- 60g butter softened, 1/2 cup icing sugar, 2-3 tablespoons tinned passionfruit pulp.
What you do- pre-heat your oven 160 degrees C
Cream butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy, add sifted flours and beat for about 3 minutes, you can pipe them onto trays lined with baking paper, I just like to plop a tablespoon on the baking paper and flatten it a little with my fingertips- it's that homemade rustic look!! bake them for 10-12 until they just begin to golden.
Buttercream- beat the butter and icing sugar, generally I do a double mix cause its sooooo good, then add the passionfruit pulp, if the buttercream is too dry add more butter, if it's too wet add more icing, I'm a bit of an adder so I tend to add here and there.
Once the biscuits are cooled sandwich them together with an ample amount of buttercream. Then most important make yourself a cuppa, sit back and let them melt in your mouth, trust me they will!!
Ok, week 5 YAY she reminded her students to remind her to take photos and they did!! YAY, YAY. This week was our final week in the Sew Cool, Sew Skool, Course 1, Introduction to Creation. Week 5 came too quickly and admist the dreary day that was, I left my shop door closed all day! It was dreary....then suddnely it was 4pm and my hour of sunshine came with cupcakes, chocolate biscuits, Sprinkle biscuits, lollies and double chocolate macadamia nut brownies....it's all about the food you see, not really but it is important.
Gathered in Coco's Closet these sunshiny girls made a sew cool wallet as their final project,

pictured a partially finished wallet. Full of chat, craft and cookies we progressed and below is the finished wallets all 6!!
you can see just how clever and amazing and crafty these girls are, with this project finished they received their IMAGINE badge and a cool completion certificate.
They are now awaiting as I write Course 2, Amazing Accessories Darling!! It's almost there, I think.
The Double Chocolate Brownie Recipe is a Family Circle 1 pot wonder- love it, tweaked it a bit...
you need- 200g dark chocolate bits, 100g butter, 2 tablespoons water, 1/2 cup caster sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla essence, 2 eggs lightly beaten, 1/3 cup plain flour (I substituted 1/3 cup almond meal and I think the result is amazing) 150g dark chocolate bits, 2/3 cup chopped macadamia nuts
what you do- pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees C, line a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper. Combine butter, water and 200g chocolate in a saucepan and over gentle melt until mixture is smooth. Stir in sugar, and remove from heat, stir in vanilla essence, eggs and flour or almond meal (depending on which one you have used) mix until well combined. Stir in nuts and 150g chocolate, as soon as its together spoon into prepared cake tin and place in the oven. Bake for 35 mins. Allow to cool in the tin. Cut into squares and if you are not all melting momented out make another cuppa and devour some of this, it is gooey and chocolately and amazingly great!!
So, that's that.... I hope you enjoy those two recipes, they are pretty much no fail, so have a go, it's such the weather for a good cuppa and cake or cookie.