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EcoTools Makeup Brush Set

Ive been quite a lucky person that I have been able to accomplish certain things that a young 'Laura' always wanted to achieve - one of these was to become a Make up Artist. As a Make up Artist I have used alot of different types and brands of brushes!
But I have to say that these EcoTool makeup brushes are the best quality of brush I have used, and the ones I use daily.
Not only are these brushes good quality they are eco friendly.
The handles are made from bamboo, which is a highly sustainable plant. Metal used is re cycled aluminium and the bristles are 100% cruelty free, using only synthetic materials, and they are incredibly soft and dont fall out! and they are affordable!
The company also donate 1% of their annual sales to 1% For The Planet®, an alliance of businesses committed to leveraging their resources to create a healthier planet.
Im a great fan of these products and recommend them to friends and family....beauty doesnt need to harm the planet or animals in the process :)

Where to find them? Boots or here...www.ecotools.com/

Mocha 'cheese' cake

So I went to my parents recently and used my mums very lovely kitchen and appliances to make this lovely cheeseless cheesecake cake! I made it and didn't tell my dad that the main ingredient was tofu! and he was nicely surprised! - we all enjoyed it even my dessert lovin' sister - thou she did say that she would have preferred a more chocolaty taste! and covered it in cream! lol
The recipes is based on one I found from 'Mouthwatering Vegan Recipes', which is a great blog full of lots of vegan recipes.

Base
14 vegan digestive biscuits
1/2 cup of walnuts
1/2 of vegan butter (melted) - I used 'Pure' dairy free butter
2 tbsp of cocoa powder
1 tsp of coffee powder - I used Starbucks Via coffee
1 heaped tbsp icing sugar
zest of orange
2 tbsp of coffee
pinch of salt

Grease an 8 inch tin and line with greaseproof paper. Break up digestive biscuits into processor and process until crumbs are formed. Add cocoa powder, coffee powder,icing sugar and walnuts-pulse of a few seconds, try not to make this mixture too powdery! Add melted butter and process for 30 seconds. Add zest and coffee and process again.
Now spoon this mixture into the tin and press down to create the base - its quite a sticky mixture so I used the back of a metal spoon which I had warmed up with hot water to help even out the top. Place this in fridge for an hour.

Filling
1 packet of drained Firm Silken Tofu
125g of dark chocolate (melted)
3 tbsp of cocoa powder
2 tbsp of maple syrup
1 tbsp icing sugar
shavings of dark choc of topping!

Put tofu in processor, add remaining ingredients, process for minute or so until smooth.
Spoon onto base and even out with spatula-add shavings-cover with foil and refrigerate overnight....serve....yum :)

Easter eggs....

Happy Easter everyone, the official day of chocolate!

I was very lucky to wake up to vegan chocolate egg which was bought from Sainsburys from their Freefrom section. It a lovely dark chocolate egg with a wee box of plain chocolate discs. Its also gluten free.
I got my bf the adorable Lindt Gold Bunny, dark chocolate which is also vegan.....bonus!
Its great that there are vegan chocolate egg options out there and they taste amazing!
Hope you all have a great day eating lots of chocolate and spending time with your loved ones x

Happy Easter!!

card mum and dad sent me...it makes me giggle!!!

The Raven of Bath

After a longer than scheduled train trip to Bath, we decided a pub type dinner would go down a treat! Dad had done his research and found an institution of a pub called The Raven of Bath. Which is a family run pub which do at least nine different choices of PIES including vegetarian pies. All made with the best local meat and vegetables- you get a big hot pie on a bed of mash or chips, with a choice of gravy, or a wedge of cold-cut pie with chips and salad. All gravy's that you can choose from our vegetarian, thou I noticed that one was a Guinness based gravy, which isn't vege! - they had two vegetarian pies, one was mushroom and asparagus and the other was sweet potato and goats cheese, all pies went down very well along side warm draught cider! The pub is obviously popular, we were there on a Monday night and it was packed. Its a small pub and there is more seating upstairs. If you want an unpretentious night out of uncomplicated good food and local atmosphere, The Raven is where you want to be!

open? Mon-Thurs: 11:30 - 11:00pm Fri & Sat: 11:30 - 12midnight Sun: 12:00 - 10:30pm

where? 7 Queen Street Bath, Avon BA1 1HE

Demuths Vegetarian Restaurant - Bath

My family and I went to Demuths for dinner, and we had the most wonderful meal. I had Eades Winter Beets for my starter, my Dad had pumpkin soup and Mum and my boyfriend had 'Mikes Cauliflower', then for mains I had King Edward Ballotine
stuffed with spring onion and tarragon served with a garlic, almond emulsion, sunchokes & a selection of pickles, being vegan I miss cream sauces and this almond emulsion was just beautiful. Dad had Applewood Smoked Somerset Cheddar Souffle, Mum had Purple Sprouting Broccoli and my Mr had Mushroom

Parfait.

All where beautifully presented - flavours were unique, creative and full of character. The restaurant is well decorated, simple, warming and homely. The staff were full of knowledge, suggestions and very friendly, it was a fantastic evening - definitely worth a visit every season!

Where? 2 North Parade Passage, Bath BA1 1NX