This t-shirt makes me laugh.
I figure if I can start the day with a laugh then everything else should fall into place.
In our house it is more likely to be, “Dude, did you eat the last chocolate bun?”
Home baked bread is a treat on its own but these are even better with the addition of dark chocolate chips.
Cause chocolate!
For those of you that don’t have any interest in cooking or baking please just skip ahead. I’m talking to you Melanie, Patti, Sylvia, Greetje and Anja!
This is my own version of Pain au Chocolat
3/4 milk ( I use lactose free skim milk)
3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp unsalted butter
1 and 1/2 tsp salt
a 1/4 ounce (2.5 tsp) active regular dry yeast
1 large egg
2 1/2 – 3 cups all purpose flour
- Heat milk with sugar, butter and salt in microwave for about 30 seconds – 1 minute. Just enough to melt the butter and make the milk warm to the touch. You don’t want it to be too hot or it will kill the yeast. When it is lukewarm or between 110-115 F sprinkle the yeast over the milk mixture and stir a bit. Allow to rest for 5 minutes or until foamy. If it doesn’t foam that means your yeast isn’t alive and you need to try another pack.
- Once foamy whisk in egg and transfer to stand mixer with dough hook attached. Add in 2.5 cups of flour and mix with hook until soft (about 5 minutes). If dough appears sticky slowly add in up to another 1/4 – 1/2 cup of flour. Dough should be elastic and soft.
- Plop the dough onto your counter and spray the inside of your mixer bowl with cooking spray. Place the dough back in the mixing bowl, cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise in a warm draft free spot until doubled in size about 1 hour.
- Punch down dough. Lightly dust work surface and roll out dough into a rectangle about 1/4 ” thick.
- Scatter dough surface with chocolate chips and roll up dough in jelly roll fashion pinching the end seam with your fingers to seal.
- Cut long roll with serrated knife into about 2″ pieces and place face down in oiled baking pan. Make sure the pan is large enough to accommodate the buns which will double in size.
- Allow to rise again until doubled in size about 30-40 minutes.
- Bake at 400 C for around 10 minutes.
I’ve made that recipe probably a hundred times and it has never failed. You can also use it for regular buns without the chocolate chips or you can use it to make cinnamon buns as well.
I baked bread all the time when we lived in Quebec.
I’ve cut way back on the baking.
Good thing otherwise this thrifted red leather skirt would no longer fit.
What food (or beverage) are you most likely to fight over in your house?
You might like to see the other cute funny t-shirt I recently styled Oh For Fox Sake.
If you do like baking or cooking you can check out some of my other recipes here or check out what recipes I’ve pinned lately.
Linking up for the party over at Visible Monday I Will Wear What I Like
Oh that tee is It – a true story, too. Nobody in our house cooks or bakes, but I so appreciate the look of your pain au chocolat. We did scrap today over the last of the bread pudding. You’re looking fantastic, xox
-Patti
http://notdeadyetstyle.com
Oh, I love the tee, too funny! Le Monsieur is the baker in our house. Fortunately for both of our waistlines, he doesn’t bake that often.
Whisks and dough hooks are dangerous tools.
No, I do no bake – my oven is used as storage – but I like to make friends with people who do. Heh. There are no fights over food in my home because we don’t bake.
Your T-shirt made me laugh! You are so right – if you can start with a laugh it makes the day much lighter. I love how you’ve styled this shirt.
I love that fun tee and how you styled it! I can’t bake but I love to eat baked goods (hence I can never lose weight). This looks so yummy!
Alice
http://www.happinessatmidlife.com
You amuse me. And cooking is my favorite way to play with food. Great skirt, btw.
That is an awesome t-shirt!! Too funny! Angel knows better than to fight me over food. I will win.
That tee makes me laugh too, but I am smiling at that red thrifted leather skirt1 Amazing!
The baked goods look yummy! 🙂
xx, Elle
http://www.theellediaries.com
Such a cute look! Love the tee and ADORE that red leather skirt. I don’t cook, or bake, very much. I have a few recipes I make every once in a while. I’m just not a big fan of all that. We don’t really fight over anything food-ish, except I have forbidden my husband to make his chocolate mousse unless we have guests to share it with. Otherwise I can eat all of it!
Wow for your red skirt and, of course for your funny Tshirt!
Chocolate is a magic word for me, and even if your recipe sounds delicious, I prefer to buy my sweets at the bakery!!! As …I am a very bad cooker … 🙁
That tee…I can’t even! I laughed out loud when I saw it! Not a lot of fancy cooking/baking going on in these parts. Perhaps you could send me a little something…
Debbie
http://www.fashionfairydust.com
FUN holiday styling Suzanne – thanks for the recipe too!
Rebecca
http://www.redtagchiclosangeles.com
Ha, that is a cute t-shirt, and it looks great with the sexy leather skirt.
I don’t bake – I can, but I don’t like it, which has meant my eldest daughter steps in when cakes are required. Hmm… I wonder if that strategy would work for laundry and cleaning too? Somehow, I doubt it.
PS. Nice buns. Oh come on, someone had to say it! xxx
I loved the T-shirt and the whole outfit – skirt, shirt, all so beautiful and you too, of course! By the way, I love chocolate, but due to some reasons, I cannot eat it till Dec 26 (well, I am counting the days. ON Dec 26 I am allowed to eat chocolate again, yaaaaay!) I don’t know, I think I would be mad if I couldn’t drink water, if I only had Coca–cola to drink or anything else. I am so obsessed with water 🙂 Not any food in particular, but water 🙂 Bisous!
DenisesPlanet.com
Another cute t-shirt! But the skirt really makes me swoon. I’ve been wanting to get a new leather skirt (no black or brown) for a while… I’m weird: I have no interest in pastry. So, I don’t bake. Hubby does, occasionally, and he gets to eat everything he bakes all by himself, too, as I just don’t eat pastry. Chocolate, on the other hand… well, let’s just say hubby would not dare touch the last piece of chocolate in the house, he thinks I would turn into some kind of homicidal maniac if I was deprived of chocolate. He might be right…
Great tee and fab pairing with this leather skirt – thrifted? Wow, what a find and a perfect fit. Am delighted to see that Catherine has lined us side by side in her chosen few in last weeks Bold style challenge. I just adore that dress of yours. Maybe we need to do a bit of clothes swapping…
Anna x
Anna’s Island Style
Nice buns! Baking doesn’t hold any appeal as I did it professionally for years but I do find reading recipes wonderfully therapeutic.
The tee shirt is hilarious and the red leather skirt is an absolute beauty.
Jon’s a sweet tooth and I’m not so we don’t argue over food (unless he gets biscuit crumbs in the bed!) xxx
You can add my name to the list of bloggers who have no interest in baking (except for eating it after other people have made it). Damn cute outfit there, girl, especially the unicorn t-shirt.
Great outfit, and the tshirt is perfect. I agree, starting the day with laughter is always a good idea. And now I want chocolate!
mwahaha, lovely t-shirt, a perfect detail to cheer up the day!, and love how you wear it over a shirt!, such a nice layering!
Fabulous red skirt, it fits you like a dream!, gorgeous!
And I’m not a good baker at all, I’m able to make a cake, and not a fabulous one. We’re not particularly sweet lovers at home, but I’m addict to chocolate, the darker the better.
Besos
Cake – it can get vicious. Especially if it’s chocolate cake.
And that tee is the best!
http://petitesilvervixen.blogspot.co.uk/
Oh, I like how you have taken a joke/novelty t shirt and made it feel high fashion here. Also- chocolate buns sound yummy!
We don’t fight over food. We are not that much into food. It is of course nice to go out for a meal and get really good food, but otherwise.. nah..
Now clothes… that is another thing… I love this outfit. Love it. The fun sweater, the gingham shirt underneath it, the perfect red leather pencil skirt and the boots…. I would love to recreate this outfit but I haven’t got your figure (read: tiny waist, normal hips, luscious bum) so better be careful.
Greetje
Hey! I remember you telling me about that shirt! Now, I finally get to see it. I love it! :DDD Looks great with that skirt, too!
– Anna
http://www.melodicthriftychic.com
That T-shirt is hilarious! Love the way you styled it too.
And thanks for acknowledging my lack of kitchen-princess-ness. I’m in good company, hahaha!