With its narrow medieval lanes, pink-tinged buildings and castle-like fortifications, Albarracín, Spain, is a proper fairytale village.

📍Albarracín, Spain
📸 Meyntjens Jean Paul / Alamy

With its narrow medieval lanes, pink-tinged buildings and castle-like fortifications, Albarracín, Spain, is a proper fairytale village.

📸 Meyntjens Jean Paul / Alamy

Back to Toraja👻 this time we went to a cave filled with coffins hanging on the top and puppets in front of them. It gave a simply mysterious and creepy kinda vibe. But me personally, I enjoy this type of adventure rather than taking beautiful photos in front of a castle like a princess 😂(not saying that it’s bad)
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Some people in Toraja still have their ancient belief, so they follow all the traditions and perform those rituals accordingly. Laying puppets in front of the coffins is one of them. (More to be revealed. Stay tuned!😘)
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配合鬼月，我們就來一系列應景的驚悚旅遊景點介紹😏
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記得上次介紹的神奇印尼🇮🇩小鎮Toraja嗎？神奇的點除了非常異國風情的建築外，再來就是因著古老信仰流傳下來的喪葬方式
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這次來到這個超像《神鬼奇航》場景的洞穴，一走進洞穴的瞬間我整個嚇傻，一秒到好萊塢片場一般😂Toraja是現今少數還保有懸棺文化的小鎮，在親人死後他們會將棺木放入洞穴或峭壁的凹槽處，並製作神似往生者的人偶，放在棺木前，但因為時代久遠，有的棺木腐蝕，有的從高處落下，裡頭的人骨散落各處，當地人民就索性用人骨裝飾整個洞穴（下一篇分享給大家看，敬請期待🤩）看到這些真真實實不是迪士尼片場的人骨裝飾，我整個興奮到不行啊啊啊啊
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如果你們看到真的人骨的建築或古蹟會害怕嗎？
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This uber pretty and magical Disney's FROZEN winter wonderland let's you (literally) whip up the cutest cupcakes, macarons and a big two tier cake! ^.^
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Loose yourself into this Winter Wonderland of sweets that just look too good to be true, because, well they are! You may not be able to eat them but at least they last forever. Let me show you they're made!
Let's Start!
This super pretty Frozen box filled with even sparklier stuff to help us decorate Frozen themed macarons, cupcakes and a two tier cake. The amazing thing is that you can use these sweets as a jewellery box or container when you're finished. We will set soft, fluffy whipping cream in the spotlight! Let's take a look inside! Aah, too cute to handle! Alright, let's get everything out! Wow, there's a lot more in there than I expected! Well, that's awesome!!

For the star of these winter sweets, the two tier cake there's, a bottom and top cake. Competitive in cuteness are definitely the macarons which we'll turn into two pretty key hangers! The blue Macaron pictures Elsa and the pink one is Anna themed. In a small sachet we've got pearls and crystals, safely packed away. While the pearls and crystals are responsible for the sparkly look, they're quiet limited so I'll take an extra effort to keep them clean and organised by handling them with a a pair of tweezers, gently placing the pearls I use kitchen paper with rough texture to keep small parts from material from rolling around.

This pastry is a small container in disguise and we're lucky enough to have pretty violet twin. Both come with two domes which are super important and you'll soon find out why! But the most important item of all is the whipping cream, which makes for the magical cuteness of these sweets!

(transition with sparkle sound)

Before we start let's pop out the images with which we will decorate the whipping cream. One motif seems to be missing, but luckily there is such a great variety that it allows you to be picky and only choose your most favourite ones.
Here you also see long strips with a scooped silhouette which are specifically for the two tier cake.

All let's see...yep we're all good and ready to start!

♡ ♡ ♡ Let's create a magical sweets winter wonderland ♡ ♡ ♡

I'll remove the lock from the whipping bag and soften the crafting cream by kneading with my hands until i finsih Counting to 100. Utilising some pressure I use a ruler to push mass towards the opening and tightly close the empty part of the bag.
We'll make the cupcakes first, so exchange the regular cap with the large star cap.
The target is to make the most perfect of whipping swirls. If you get the swirls right, the rest is no big deal. Glue a dome in the very centre of each cupcake. This is to support the swirl shape. Keep your hands relaxed and quickly move in circular motions. Oh, the cupcake moved. If you mess up you can wipe it away while the craft creme is still wet.
As you see craft creme looks and behaves like the real thing but dries on air within a few hours. When decorating with pearls there is no need to use pressure as this would immediately get the soft whip out of shape. I gently place the decoration where I want it to be and let it air dry.

(sparkle transition)

From this point on it'll get more difficult as we change to the small star cap! Let's Go ☆

Let's top the the edges of one macaron with whipping cream but leave the top part empty so we can close the macaron at an approximately 20 degree angle. The finished macarons will look like this.

Now on to the biggest part of this set, the amazing two tier ice cake which we'll load with lots of whipping cream to create it's magical castle like appearance. One neatly centred large swirl in the middle of the top cake, surrounded by a sequence of swirls alternating between single and double swirls. Don't worry too much about where to place the pearls as pretty shiny things will look pretty and shiny wherever they are them! *^-^*

I push the cake in a single folded deco strip and voila the top cake is all topped!
The bottom cake needs 6 big double swirls and a small single swirl between each double swirl. While still wet I'll place the top cake on the lid of the bottom cake so that they can dry and stabilise together. I enclose the bottom cake's base using two deco strips and cover the scooped borders with closely spaced droplets of whip. I go for snowflakes because, well, I don't know about you but they kinda remind of sugar . I'll hold the motif gently them onto the cream until they're stuck. As we're finished decorating, we can finally combine all parts together and voila we've built a sweet winter wonderland!

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On the weekend, my family and I went to Kinugawa Onsen to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday!!!

Kinugawa Onsen (鬼怒川温泉) is a popular hot spring resort in the city of Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan. It is located 2 hours by train from Tokyo.

Here are some souvenirs from the places we went!!!

Tobu World Square (東武ワールドスクエア):
A theme park with more than 100 famous sites from around the world, in 1/25th of the original sizes. You can also enjoy nighttime illumination from 12/1-3/2. It is freezing cold though. haha

Tom and Maimu Colorful Print Cookies (カラフルプリントクッキー)

Kinugawa Confectionery Castle (鬼怒川お菓子の城):
You can taste & buy all sorts of popular Wagashi (traditional Japanese confections) from Kinugawa. It is not a castle-like place, but they have great freshly made sweets!

Top 5
#1 ごま・胡麻クッキー (Sesame Seed Cookies)
#2 胡麻まんじゅう (Sesame Seed Manjyu)
#3 かりんとうまんじゅう (Deep-Fried Brown Sugar Manjyu)
#4 チーズケーキ (Cheesecake)
#5 塩羊羹 (Salty Yokan)

Nikko Hanaichi-Monme (日光花いちもんめ):
Begonias and more than 600 varieties of flowers are full in bloom all year round. You can also enjoy strawberry picking!

Strawberry Curry (いちごのカレー)

Tasty Salt for Boiled Egg (ゆでたまごの塩)
マヨネーズ (mayonnaise), 醤油 (soy sauce), 抹茶 (Matcha green tea), ゆず (Yuzu Japanese lemon) and さくら (Sakura cherry blossom).
It goes great with Tempura, fries, salad, meat, fish, rice, pasta, sweets, etc...

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コメント欄に好きないちご料理(スイーツでもok)を書いて下さい。

The giveaway is open for a week and will end on TUESDAY, JANUARY 21st, 2014 at 11:59 PM Japan Time.
締め切りは2014年1月21日です。

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The winner will be announced here in this description box, too!
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