Banana & raspberry cake with passionfruit icing

 Ingredients:

• Melted butter, to grease
• 125g butter, chopped
• 140g (2/3 cup, firmly packed) brown sugar
• 2 eggs, lightly whisked
• 125g (1/2 cup) sour cream
• 260g (1 cup) mashed ripe banana - i used 2 1/2 bananas
• 225g (11/2 cups) self-raising flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 100g frozen raspberries
• 125g cream cheese, at room temperature
• 40g butter, at room temperature
• 80g (1/2 cup) pure icing sugar
• 60ml (1/4 cup) fresh passionfruit pulp - i used 2 passionfruit 
• Raspberries (optional), to serve

 Method:

1. Step 1
   Preheat oven to 180°C. Brush a 10 x 20cm (base measurement) loaf pan with melted butter. Line the base with non-stick baking paper. Stir the butter and sugar in a small saucepan over low heat until the butter melts. Set aside for 10 minutes to cool slightly.
2. Step 2
   Stir the egg, sour cream and banana into the butter mixture. Sift flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl. Make a well in the centre. Add banana mixture and stir until well combined. Fold in the frozen raspberries. Spoon mixture into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Set aside in the pan for 5 minutes to cool slightly before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
3. Step 3
   Use an electric beater to beat the cream cheese, butter and icing sugar in a small bowl until pale and creamy. Beat in half the passionfruit pulp. Spread the icing over the cake. Top with raspberries and drizzle over the remaining passionfruit pulp.
   
   
   This cake is so so so yummmy! Hope you enjoy and let me know if you try it out :)
   
   
   Ruby xxx
   
   

Glitterati shoot

These are some behind the scenes photos from a photo shoot i did last Wednesday. It was for my friend Sienna's uni project where they had to create a new band and style them. She was part of a team that included Ross, Vicky and Kim who were awesome fun to work with! The band was called Glitterati, we were an up and coming girl band all had different characters to play. It was so much fun pretending to be some sassy bitch (which was my character)! We had a 90's inter galactic style and an electronic sound that was similar to Grimes. The photos were for a street poster and fashion editorial, we did both group shots and individuals all in character. The other models were also so much fun to work with too, Laura being the crazy chick, Lutece being the cutie kind of like baby spice and Cheyney who was sporty and cool.

 

Laura and i getting our hair and makeup done!

Who doesn't love a cheeky bathroom selfie, changed into the costume..

 

The hair and makeup was so cool it was a sliver eye with dark eye liner and define eye brows, we also had the sliver bindies on out faces. We all had them in different places but it still looked cohesive as one band we also had different lips, mine were a slivery blue which was awesome! My hair was loosely curled.

 Above are some of the instagramed and behind the scenes shots that people have uploaded!

AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE FINAL SHOTS!!

Had such a great day and cant wait to see more of final photos, they turned out so well!!

Ruby xxx