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Follow these simple baking hacks to give Mary Berry a run for her money!

1. Ripen bananas in the oven
If your bananas are perfect for eating but not ripe enough for baking, don’t panic! Cook the bananas you need for your recipe in a medium temperature oven for 30 to 40 minutes. Be sure to line the pan with foil as some bananas may leak when cooking. Once the bananas are black and soft, remove them from the oven and let them cool for 20 to 30 minutes. Peel, and start baking that award-winning banana bread!

2. No rolling pin? Grab the vino!
If your mostly-unused rolling pin is on a dusty top shelf, save on cupboard space and just use a wine bottle as your rolling pin! Empty or full, remove the label and scrape off any residue, then wash the outside of the bottle.

3. Cheat! (a little)
If you want everyone to think the cake mix you baked was from scratch, just add one more egg than the box’s recipe calls for, use melted butter instead of oil, and use whole milk or buttermilk instead of water. Shhhh…we won’t tell anyone!

4. Make the perfect cookies
If you’re looking for perfect chocolate chip cookies that are crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, follow these two steps! First, chill the dough prior to baking (one hour is good; overnight is better). Second, when you remove the cookies from the oven, bang the pan straight down on the stove to force the cookies to settle.

5. Keep brown sugar soft with bread
Throw a piece of bread into the container to keep your brown sugar from going hard. The bread magically keeps the sugar soft and never gets mouldy!

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Ellie Goulding has voiced her opinion on followers who criticised her weight recently.

The singer uploaded a photo to her Instagram account that was met with much debate about her shape.

Ellie captioned the photo: “cake eaten insanity completed 7k done keepin’ it subtle #Nike.”

Soon after the photo was uploaded her followers started to comment on the singer’s weight with many speculating that she has gotten too skinny.

Ellie decided to address the comments on her Twitter account today, first by retweeting a fan who was perplexed by the comments and secondly by writing: “Re recent Instagram post – quite baffling being described as underweight and overweight simultaneously…*scratched head*”

 

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A fellow co-star has called her a demon in a recent interview. Find out why!

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This wedding crasher made an entrance to remember on a bride and groom’s big day.

The giant sea turtle showed up at the beach wedding in the middle of the ceremony taking some, if not all of, the attention away from the bride!

But this wasn’t just any old sea turtle.

She’s a leatherback – the largest living breed of turtles on earth!

The guests at the wedding, on the US Virgin Island of St Croix, witnessed a super cool moment, when the turtle laid her eggs!

Can you imagine the size of the babies!

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Laura Whitmore has been seen hanging out with Love/Hate actor, Killian Scott, leading to rumours that the two are dating.

Killian, who plays Tommy in the popular RTÉ drama, was pictured accompanying the presenter to a Prince gig in London last night.

Laura has previously been linked to Niall Horan and Paulo Nutini.

The presenter was up bright and early this morning to appear on ITV’s This Morning and looked fresh as daisy.

We really like these two together – hopefully we’ll see more of them!

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Most single girls can be broken down into two main categories: those who secretly (or not so secretly) want a relationship and those who love being single more than Kim Kardashian loves her own arse. But whether you think you want a relationship or you think love is vile, you are likely to think about it in some shape or form.

Here are the thoughts every single girl will have about relationships:

1. “Thank God that’s not me”

tumblr_mn685xGtpU1s9knz8o3_250This is usually said about those couples who, for some unknown reason, are still together despite holding on to a large amount of hatred for their respective other halves. This is nearly always brought out in force on a night out, resulting in everyone else just feeling a bit awkward and wishing they weren’t there. Totes awks.

2. “I wish that was me.”

tumblr_n5sfwe0XoL1r6qtnno1_500Usually uttered (hopefully not aloud) in the company of those horrifically perfect couples that everyone secretly hates. They look perfect together, so perfect that you know that the one child they’ll have three years into their marriage will be a beautiful culmination of two beautiful gene-pools. They get on perfectly together, they are perfect. Now we can all feel perfectly nauseous together.

3. “Men are pricks”

tumblr_n5f4tg31lZ1sfhy94o1_500There comes a point in all womens lives when we detest men with every fibre of our being. This is especially true of single women. The wanker brigade is usually out in force on a drunken night out and the slurs fly faster than Sonia O’ Sullivan around the tracks down in Mosney. Insulting us is uncalled for. You’re not that hot anyway. Fool.

4. “I’m going to die alone”

tumblr_n0r27wOQ801s6ic8bo1_500Women are not being dramatic when we think we’re going to die alone. For all intents and purposes, this really amps up when we hit old age, usually around 23. You just have to log on to Facebook and boom, oh there’s another damned person in a relationship.

5. “Where do people FIND these men?”

tumblr_inline_mt2lg60lg71ry3wlgHave you ever just gone for a stroll around town and noticed how many couples there are? Of course you have.

6. “All the good ones are taken”


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Well that is just nonsense and you know it. There are very many beautiful men out there with manners and they’re just waiting for you girl, you just need to get out there and mingle like the single Pringle that you are.

7. “Please don’t ask me if I’m still single”

tumblr_m3u62jMohg1qebseoo1_500Any single girl out there will know the pain of family events where, religiously, one-by-one, your aunts will line up and enquire about your love life.

8. “Is there something wrong with me?”

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There will come a stage, a stage during which you’ve probably got zero action, when you’ll begin to think “is there something wrong with me?” There is nothing wrong with you. It is the men that are to blame of course.

9. “I’d definitely be bored”

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Once you’ve been single for a while, you almost forget what it’s like to be with the same person for a long stretch of time. You’ve been in your single stride for quite some time now, on the pull on nights out, being free and always on the prowl. You look at couples who’ve been together for ages and wonder how they’re not bored of one another. Just reassure yourself that they most definitely are. In fact, they probably detest one another.

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Fresh from her Vogue spread with Kendall Jenner, Dylan Penn stars in an exclusive mini-movie to celebrate the launch of Karen Millen’s two new flagship stores.

The label celebrates in style with fun fashion video No More Tiaras to mark the launch of their new stores in the iconic retail locations of 5th Avenue, New York and Brompton Road, London.

The short movie, by director Mary Nighy, stars young, female talent from both sides of the pond alongside actress and model Dylan – including designer Langley Fox Hemingway, writer Stephanie LaCava, actress Adwoa Aboah and stylist Valentine Fillol Cordier.

What a cast!

In the video, the girls play beauty queens from the US and the UK, competing in the Miss Galaxy Beauty Pageant 2014 – but from the opening scene, it’s clear the ladies are not interested in playing fair.

Shoppers who loved the style in the mini-movie, can pick up the No More Tiaras edit in stores nationwide right now!

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Channing opens up about his demons. Watch the video for more.

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It has been reported that Rachel Bilson is expecting her first child with her fiancé, Hayden Christensen.

The O.C. star is said to be delighted, with a source saying: “They’ve both talked about this for a while and are so excited. Everyone is beyond thrilled for them.”

Rachel has been dating the Star Wars veteran since 2007 and got engaged in 2008. They went through a bad patch in 2010 but got back together briefly afterwards.

Rachel has always been open about wanting a big family and has said in the past: “I definitely have family on the brain. Having kids is something I want to see in my future – I hope.”

Congratulations to Rachel and Hayden on their happy news!

 

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Uh oh, didn’t she predict this?

It looks like Jennifer Lawrence has angered A LOT of people with an inappropriate joke she made at the Cannes Film Festival recently.

When Jen was approached by Gravity director, Alfonso Cuarón, at a party, she was overheard saying to him: “I broke out my rape scream for you!”

As much as we love Jennifer, we don’t think it’s ever okay to joke about rape, on any level.

The actress had previously said in an interview with Marie Claire that her time at the top may be coming to an end: “Nobody can stay beloved forever. I never believed it. The whole time I was like, just wait: People are going to get sick of me.”

Eek, could this be the end of the love affair between Jen and the public?

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Cancer is scary and with one-in-three developing it, you are bound to know someone who had it or someone who is fighting it right now.

While cancer can be a pretty frightening word it is vital we understand it, so that we can fight it. This pretty awesome video will help you to understand why some people get it and others don’t.

At nine minutes it’s pretty long, so grab a cup of tea and biscuit and sit down to get informed.

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We could nearly fall asleep to this…ahem

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