Slow Living in February - Romanticizing winter ✨ Cotswolds countryside | Victorian Puzzle Purse ✨

Romanticising life and restoring my creative energy in wintertime - spend a day with me exploring beautiful Cotswolds countryside, making a Victorian puzzle purse, walking through magical streets of Oxford and baking a chocolate cake for Valentines day (on a random Wednesday). I'm trying to find little ways how to restore my creativity and feel like myself again. _____ Art Prints: www.dariamundi.com _____ EASY CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE: This was a completely improvised cake, but it turned out really well! 150g plain flour 50g pure dark cacao powder 60g white sugar 60g brown sugar pinch of salt 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 2 eggs 100g of yoghurt or sour cream 75g melted butter or oil 100g milk Whisk eggs and sugar, then add melted butter, yoghurt and milk. (I used dairy free ingredients, but regular dairy will work even better). Sieve flour, cacao powder, baking soda and powder into the wet ingredients, add a pinch of salt and mix very well. Preheat the oven, place into a cake tin and bake for 30-35 mins at 180C/ 355F Espresso soak: Make a double espresso or about 80ml of strong coffee, mix in 1 tsp of sugar and 1 tbsp of whisky (optional) When the cake is out of the oven, pour coffee over the cake and set aside to cool down. Cream frosting: 200g cream cheese 90g whipping cream 65g sugar Mix cream cheese with sugar, then add whipping cream and whisk until soft peaks. When the cake has completely cooled down, spread the frosting on top and let it set for about 1h. That's it! :) You can decorate it with raspberries on top, or any other berries would do. It lasts about 4 days in the fridge. I used dairy free ingredients which I never used before for this frosting, so my frosting in the video didn't quite behave as I expected. I you use regular dairy or familiar alternative ingredients you've already used before, you shouldn't have this problem! _______ Son de Flor 40% winter sale during February! Use my code DARIAFEB for extra 5% off (affiliate link): https://sondeflor.com/#dariashew Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dariamundi Music: Epidemic Sound Get 7 days free of Epidemic Sound here https://share.epidemicsound.com/02b8i1 Find me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dariashew Filmed on: Sony A7 IV Edited with: Premiere Pro CC Music: Epidemic Sound _______ key words: english countryside, cotswolds, oxford, romanticising life, slow living, restoring creativity, victorian puzzle purse, daily life of an artist, finding joy in winter, wintering, the art of wintering #cozyliving #wintering #victorianpuzzlepurse valentines day diy, third space, con of living in the countryside, dealing with negativity ______ Time Stamps: 00:00 - 00:25 Intro 00:26 - 03:37 Cotswolds Walk 03:38 - 06:47 Puzzle Purse Tutorial 06:48 - 10:13 Oxford Walk 10:14 - 17:17 Talking About Creativity 17:18 - 19:20 Puzzle Purse Continued 19:21 - 23:17 Chocolate Cake Recipe 23:18 - 26:43 Puzzle Purse Painting