Last Time to Fang Bang

No, sorry, I mean final chance to vote for Frist Time Fang Bang, I got a bit mixed up then. *grins*

Due to your AMAZING turn out in the last round my hot vampire Threesome story, First Time Fang Bang has made it into round five of the Just One Bite Contest. The FINAL!



It's not over yet, I'm up against the amazing, the lovely, the sensational Selena Kitt so I still really need you to turn out and vote for First Time Fang Bang because she's one heck of a tough cookie and I mean that in the nicest possible way! I'd love to come in first place but I can only get their with your help.

So please vote and email me victoria @ victoriablisse. co. uk (no spaces) to tell me you've voted and I will send you a copy of Lyrical as a thank you! Here's the blurb so you can see what you're getting!

Living in a world of lyrics, she sings his song and he is powerless to resist. Peter is anti-social. He doesn't speak to a soul at work and listens to his music 24/7. He thinks he is too fat to fit in. Rock chick Chloe disagrees and slowly pulls Peter out of his shell. She finally wins him over with her beautiful singing voice but he just does not know how to deal with this beautiful woman and her lusts. Does Chloe have the patience to teach him to play her song to the rhythm of their shared sensuality or will he be forever doomed to a solitary life with only his music for comfort?

Please hurry on over to All Romance Ebooks and vote as The final finishes at midnight SUNDAY 31st October so there's not long left to vote!

And then I'll be back to my non-vote obsessed self! Honest. Thanks again for your overwhelming support!

I've informed the 10 personalised story winners via email (yes, I got over 600 votes in the end!)and the winner of the night of the Sense print book. I'm not listing them all here 'cos there's so many but check your email accounts if you voted and entered the contest! Thank you all! I appreciate every vote, I really do. :)

Last 12 Hours to Vote!

Well, less than that now. First Time Fang Bang is still in need of votes even though I have broken the 500 votes mark! Thank you all so much for your help! I am bowled over by all the votes and I know you must be getting a little sick of me harping on but the end is nigh. If I get through to the final it will winish on Sunday, so please, help First Time Fang Bang into the Final.



I've been getting great feedback from you about my hot little vampire threesome, I'm glad you are enjoying it as I had great fun writing it! If you've not read it yet please pop on over to All Romance Ebooks and check out the Just One Bite Contest and give it a read then a vote if you're so inclined. Email me victoria @ victoriablisse. co. uk (no spaces) to let me know you've voted and I'll send you 2 free reads and put you in the draws to win a Print copy of Night of the senses and 1 of 5 short, personalised stories. If I get to 600 people I will DOUBLE the number of personal stories I give away to TEN!

If you've read and voted already, thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I appreciate it a great deal. But I'd love it if you'd help me get the word out about First Time Fang Bang. Tell your friends about it, ask them to vote and email me and YOU will get an extra entry into the personalised stories draw.

Tweet it or facebook it

@victoriablisse Read First Time Fang Bang and vote in the Just One Bite Contest and Win Big! http://bit.ly/3xSWSA

and I'll give you an extra entry. Post about it on your blogs, and on forums you frequent and email me the link and you can have an extra entry for every link you send me. Lets get the word out, lets get to 600 votes and let's get First Time Fang Bang into The Final!

There is no doubting the competition is tough, really tough and I admire greatly all my competitors but I still want to win, that's not evil, is it? :)

500 Votes and YOU Win even more!

You are all awesome and I am happy to announce that not only have I smashed the 300 vote level, I have exceeded 400 as well! I am completely over-awed by your response. I am truly grateful for every single vote I've received.



So, on top of giving away a copy of Night of the Senses as promised I want to give something more. So if my vote total hits 500 votes or more I will give away 5 personalised stories. Yep, 1 for every 100 votes. Each story will be 1000 words and will be written to your specification. It can be about anything, for anyone and in any genre. I'll use the specific names and features you tell me and I can write adventure, romance, humour, erotica- whatever you want I can write it for you and you will have your story in time for Christmas, so if you want something a little different to give to a special someone this year then you need to make sure you vote and let me know you have done so.

Of course, you should read each story first and vote for the one you prefer. If you vote for my esteemed competitor please email me and I'll let you have my free reads anyway. It's all about chosing the story you love the most.

The good news is that all those who have already voted and have emailed me to tell me so are already in the draw! So please pass the details onto all your friends. Currently I need 60 more votes to reach 500 and I only have 'til Thursday at midnight EST to get them. So every vote counts!

You could post it to twitter

@victoriablisse vote in the Just One Bite Contest and Win Big! http://bit.ly/3xSWSA

Or post it on facebook or simply use email or word of mouth or pigeon post, whatever works for you. I will appreciate it and will give you an extra chance to win, two if you tweet AND facebook me (oooh, that sounds rude!)

So, in short, let everyone know to vote in the Just One Bite Contest! When you have read First Time Fang Bang and voted for whichever story in the pairing you feel is best email me victoria @ victoriablisse. co. uk (no spaces) and let me know and I will send you 2 free reads, add your name to the list to be in with a chance of winning a copy of Night of the senses (print and signed by me) and give you the opportunity to win 1 of 5 personalised stories when I get to 500 votes.

Yes, I have discovered my cometitiive streak and yes, all this will soon be over. So please vote whilst you still can. Thank you very much.

Please vote in Round 4!

First Time Fang Bang my hot vampire threesome story is into the last 4 of voting in the Just One Bite Contest. I can't believe I've managed to get so far but I've only been able to do it with your help so thank you all so very, very much. I'm thrilled to have gotten to the last 4. Yep, from 32 authors and 30 hot stories mine has stuck into the competition 'til the last rounds. I am completely amazed and really thankful for all your support. I appreciate every single vote.

So First Time Fang Bang needs your votes again. Please pop over to ARE and vote.

Then when you've voted email me victoria @ victoriablisse. co. uk (no spaces) and I'll send you 2 free reads for your efforts (new ones for this round!) and if I break the 300 mark in votes again I will give away a copy of Night of The Senses signed by me!

I only got this far with the help of your votes, thank you all again so very much. I really do appreciate it and giving you all some free reads is the very least I can do. You Rock!

Now, I got to 300 votes in round 3 so I need to pick a name. Congrats Nikki T, I will be emailing you about your prize soon.

Take a Bite!

There's no food in this blog I'm afraid, but I will post a recipe this weekend if you all go out and vote for me! Heh.

So my story, First Time Fang Bang made the last 32 of the All Romance Ebooks Just One Bite contest. If you'd like to read it and maybe give me a vote I'd be really grateful, thank you.

http://www.allromanceebooks.com/contest.html



There's 32 paranormal erotic stories there in total and you can read them all free of charge. You do have to sign up to All Romance Ebooks, but it's a simple little form and you can opt out of any email and I imagine many of you will have accounts there already anyway. It's very little trouble for access to all those hot little stories and to help out one of your favourite authors! *grins*


First Time Fang Bang is in Pair 12 and you can vote for one author in each pair. My story is set at The Point, the Vampire bar that is the centre of all my Point Vamp books and in it Carrie decides to give the bar a visit. She's heard stories about The Point and wants to see what happens there for herself. She gets more than she bargains for when she gains the attention of Jean and Sebastian, two very tall, dark and handsome vampires.

I hope you enjoy reading it and I appreciate each and every vote, thank you!

Sweet Sunday -C is for...

My daughter is going through a phase of sending me cute images and I have to send her ones she'll like back. In the process of finding me a cute Elmo (I'm a sucker for Elmo) she found this photo:





And decided we needed to make cookie monster cakes. So being the lovely mum I am i got the ingredients together to give it a go. I made my muffins, but you could easily buy them and I bought my cookies but I could easily make my own in future and probably would if I had more time.

Now the major difference between the above cookie monster and my cookie monster is the fur. My husband is allergic to coconut so when I found this recipe video for cookie monster I was dismayed to find him covered in coconut, not for me and the Boo, we love coconut but for poor old Daddy. So we decided to do ours purely with blue icing.

So here's what you'll need.

6 muffins
6 cookies (or more incase of breakages)
12 white malteasers
black writing icing
blue butter icing (recipe following)
An icing bag.


Okay, so first you need to bake your muffins, here's the recipe:

• 2 cups plain flour, sifted
  
• ½ cup caster sugar
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 large egg (or 2 medium)
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine or a combo of both.
  

Preheat your oven to gas 6.

firstly, melt your butter/marg in a macrowave or in a pan. You need to do this first so it can cool down whilst you prepare the other ingredients.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl, set aside.

In another bowl whisk egg 'til combined and then add the sugar, milk and vanilla. Once this is done, start to add the butter a little at a time, stirring after every addition until it's all mixed in. Make sure your butter is cooled before doing this or you'll end up with scrambled egg!

Now add the liquid mix to the dry ingredients and mix until *JUST* combined. This is very improtant. You want lumps, you might even see a bit if un mixed flour in there, it doesn't matter. If you over work your mufffin mix your muffins will be hard and not muffinly good.

Now put your miffin mix into a muffin tray, either grease it well or use liners. I got 6 muffins plus one extra cake. You want to fill the muffin cases quite generously as you want them to rise up quite high over the edge of your liner.

get your muffins in the oven and bake for around 15-20 mins. check with a skewer to see if cooked through, the skewer will come out clean if the cake is cooked. leave muffins to cool (on a wire rack if possible)

Of course, this muffin is adaptable and you could add flavourings, chocolate chips, blueberries or whatever you liked if you wanted too.

Now we need to prepare our butter cream .

Ingredients:

1/4 cup softened butter
1-2 tsp milk
1tsp vanilla extract
Approximately 1 -11/2 cups icing sugar sieved.


You need softened butter for this, the softer the better. Place it in a big bowl and stir it around a bit until it's really soft and malleable. Add in the vanilla, the milk and about 1/2 cup of icing sugar to start. make sure you sieve it in so you don't get lumps. Keep adding icing sugar until you get to a stage where your buttercream is making soft peaks (so when you pull your spoon up it stands in a peak but flops a bit) and make sure to taste it to check it is sweet enough. If you need to add more sugar to sweeten and it goes too thick simply add a drop more milk.

Now you can add your blue colour. I went a *leeetle* OTT with mine. I say start witn 4-5 drops, stir then add more until you get a colour you are happy with. Depending on your blue colouring this could take quite alot to achieve perfect cookie monster colouring.

Okay, now get your icing bag and pour your buttercream into it. I used a fluted nozzle on mine but you could use a rolled up piece of greaseproof paper with the corner snipped off, that'd work too I am sure or simply slather the icing on and use a fork to fluff him up!

So I dotted the icing all over my muffin, just leaving little splodges all over until he looked nice and shaggy. Then I let my daughter do the rest so....well, they're a little more flowing and organic shall we say. They still look good though, so it just proves there are lots of approaches to making a shaggy cookie monster.

Right, now get your cookies and cut about a third of it off so the cookie will fit in the monsters mouth. When this is done cut into the side of the muffin just above the liner line and take it about half way through the muffin. Now insert your cookie into the slit.

T o finish put two white malteasers (or white chocolate buttons on top of his head and use some black writing icing to draw on his little pupils. And you will then have something that looks vaguely like this:



He's kinda cute isn't he? Here's the photo of a whole herd of monsters. Yes, I made 6, but one poor moster met with a messy end, so the photo only shows 5!

Chocolate & butterscotch yummies.

Yesterday I saw some oat cookies in the supermarket that looked pretty yummy but I decided as I looked at the price and the ingredient list that I could make my own at home. So I looked at recipes on allrecipes and finally decided on this one.

And this is the end product:



Now, the original recipe looked a large amount so I divided it in half and it made 24 yummies. Here's my recipe:

* 1 cup softened butter
* 1 cup icing sugar
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1 1/2 plain flour
* 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
* 1 cup quick-cooking oats
* 2/3 cup chocolate chips (plain or milk)
* 1/3 cup butterscotch chips
*2 tablespoons milk (only if needed)

Preheat the oven to gas mark 3 (325oF) and get out some baking trays, don't grease them though!

In a medium bowl cream together the sugar, butter and vanilla. You can't skimp on this step, you want to mix the butter and sugar together until they look light (almost white) and creamy.

In a sperate bowl sieve the flour and bicarbonate of soda then combine with the ceamed mixture in 3 batches. This might get a bit tough as the mixture is quite stiff. Next add the oats and chocolate chips. At this point I decided to use up the last of the package of butterscotch chips a lovely American friend sent me, I had 1/3 of a cup of those and used plain chocolate chips for the rest. I also added about 2 tblsp of milk at this point in two seperate batches as the mix became crumbly and hard to work with.

When it all combines together into a dryish dough (you don't want it too wet you can then take dessertspoons full of mixture, squeeze and roll them in your hand to make ball shapes and put them on your baking tray. These cookies don't spread a huge amount but you still want an inch between cookies on your baking tray. Before putting them in an oven flatten with a fork or just your fingers, so they resemble cookie shapes not balls any more. Don't flatten them too much though or they'll crumble.

Now bake in the oven until golden brown at the edges. My yummies took 15 minutes but check yours after 10 mins to see.

When they're cooked transfer them immediately (but carefully) to a wire rack to cool.

These are tasty, like a cross between a shortbread and a digestive biscuit with yummy chocolate and butterscotch goodness. I think this is a great basic recipe and you could use different dried fruits instead of chocolate in the mix. I'm going to have fun experiementing with different flavour combinations. I also think a little touch of cinnamon would taste yum with the chocolate and buttery biscuit so I'll try that next time.

These are definitely a biscuit and not a cookie to my mind as they're dry and crisp and to me a cookie is a bit doughy in the middle. These are perfect to eat with a hot drink or even a glass of milk and the oats make them really satisfying and pretty healthy too!

Vampire Themed Drinks for The Point release Day.

Well, today I’m going to break in this brand new blog with not one but two recipes for lovely, refreshing drinks. One is alcoholic and the other is not and they both have a vampire theme as today my ebook The Point is released from Total-E-Bound So before the recipe, here’s my book cover and blurb.




Book one in the Point Vamp Series.

Love conquers all, that is the point but can it bridge the differences between a vampire and a woman?

Hugh is twenty eight. He has been twenty eight for nearly one hundred years. Hugh is a vampire. He owns a club called The Point and he pays girls to have sex with him. He then counts to ten as he sucks their blood to semi-satisfy his lust.

Elizabeth is a doctor, she loves her job but likes to escape into the countryside now and then. When she twists her ankle Hugh comes to her aid. He carries her curvy form all the way back to his home. He takes care of her ankle and the rest of her body too but he goes too far and sucks her perfectly intoxicating blood.

How can these two lovers have any kind of relationship? They don’t know, only time will reveal the answers.

And now, onto the drinks and later a competiton. First, I’m going to give you the recipe for The Point Smoothie. This is a fresh, fruit and yoghurt smoothie that is suitable for adults and kids alike. The end colour is deep, dark, pink if you wanted to make it even more blood like you could add a little red food colouring, I didn’t because I like to keep things natural, especially as I was letting my daughter have some of my smoothie! I found this on smoothie web and adapted it into more of a raspberry smoothie as I love raspberries. This recipe makes enough for two big glasses full or four smaller, kid friendly glasses full.




The Point Smoothie.


1 ½ cups raspberries (or approximately 1 punnet of raspeberries)
2/3 cup cranberry—raspberry Juice
6oz raspberry yoghurt (1 ½ standard pots approximately)
1 ½ cups ice.
Note: for Brit readers who don’t have American cup measures a small tea cup is the size you want, not a mug! Instructions:

Bung it all in a blender and blend. Or if you have one of those stick blenders bung all ingredients in a jug and blend with your stick blender.It is as simple as that. You can then add more yoghurt or more cranberry—raspberry juice to make a thicker or thinner smoothie.It is a very refreshing drink which is thick and a little milky from the yoghurt but mostly it is rich and fruity with the taste of tangy raspberries.






And now onto the alcoholic drink, this one folks is for us adults. I was looking for inspiration and found a page of Vampire Cocktails on Squidoo by Lou16 and the Vampire’s delight I saw there inspired the following drink:




This recipe makes enough to fill two wine glasses.

The Point Cocktail.

1 floz Dark Rum.
1 ripe banana
3 scoops vanilla ice cream
A Squeeze (about 1tsp)lemon or lime juice
Grenadine (to coat glasses)

Combine the rum, vanilla and ice cream in a blender. (This will take a minute, you might want to add a little water if your mix seems very thick). Now have a little taste and squeeze in lemon or lime juice (I had lemon in but I think lime would be better) and blend again. Repeat until the desired flavour is achieved. You could add more rum too, if you desire but I’m a bit of an alcohol wimp myself though Rum is my favourite tipple. You don't much taste the banana either, it's the rum you taste mostly with the creamy ice-cream.

Now take one of your two wine glasses and the bottle of grenadine and pour just a little onto the sides of the glass and swirl it around so it coats the sides. Or, like me, if your grenadine has been in the fridge (and is at least 8 years old *L*) use a straw to pull out some of the set grenadine and smear it all around the inside of the glass, it leaves an interesting smeared appearance that way. Repeat in the other wine glass then pour in the blended ice cream and rum mix. Drink and enjoy.




This is somewhat like rum and raisin ice cream without the raisins but the citrus tones down the sweetness quite a bit. It is very unctuous and feels very decadent flowing down your throat, but don’t trust me, make one yourself.

Now, on to the competition. I am sure, like me, you were disappointed with the cocktail’s name. I’ve not been able to think of something suitably vampiric, so folks, it is over to you! I want you to name my cocktail and in return I will give you an awesome prize.

Firstly, your cocktail name will feature in a future Point Vamp book and secondly you will receive an assortment of The Point goodies including a t—shirt, signed bookmarks, magnets and some special, secret vampiric treats and a $15 gift voucher to spend on ebooks. Simply email your Cocktail name to me at victoria @ victoriablisse .co .uk (no spaces) and title your mail “Point Vamp Cocktail Competition” by the 1st of May to be in with a chance to win this unique prize or comment on my posts about this competition on facebook, those suggestions will go into the hat as well!

But because I’m so generous I’m giving away TWO other Blisseful Vamp prizes. These prizes will include The Point Magnets and Bookmarks as well as other Blisse goodies (some signed) and some special, secret Vampiric treats and a $10 gift certificate to spend on ebooks of your choice. To win one of these prizes all you have to do is:

Tweet about my competition at twitter.com(make sure you mention @victoriablisse so I know you’ve done it!) if you follow me http://www.twitter.com/victoriablisse I will be tweeting about my competition regularly and so you can RT my message and that will count as an entry into this competition.

Or you can mention my competition in a facebook message ( use @Victoria Blisse so I will see it) again, if you add me as a friend http://www.facebook.com/victoriablisse you’ll be able to ‘share’ my status updates with your friends and that will count as an entry.

And one last chance to win. Take a photo of yourself drinking your ‘The Point’ Vamp Cocktail and either email it to me victoria @ victoriablisse.co. uk (No spaces) or upload them to the photo album on the Victoria Blisse fan page on facebook . If you are tee-total or don't like/have rum you may upload a photo of yourself drinking a 'The Point' smoothie instead in the same photo album or email it to the address mentioned above.

Then you will get a chance to win a Blisseful vamp prize pack too!

I’m terribly good to you all aren’t I? Oh, yes I am. The deadline for entries to all 3 of these competitions is the 1st May. All 3 will be kept seperate and drawn seperately. All names will be placed into a hat and drawn by my handsome assistant (my husband) and then I shall email all the winners (or notify you on twitter or facebook if applicable) to ask for your snail mail address.

So you have a couple of weeks to get your entries in.So engage your brain (make up a cocktail name)exercise your fingers (spread the news on facebook and twitter) and then get yourself a little tipsy (photo yourself drinkingThe Point cocktail) and then hopefully you’ll win an awesome prize!

Welcome to Cuisinelingus!

Sexy Time for the Tongue.

I am your main blogger, my name is Victoria Blisse and I write erotic fiction. I also love to cook and have a special affinity with anything sweet.

I'm in my thirties and I've been writing erotica and erotic romance for over a decade. I started out doing it for my own pleasure and then moved on to posting it on literotica to share with folks for free. In 2007 I had my first story published with Phaze and I've been publishing erotic romance stories for profit ever since. I've expanded and have titles with Total-e-Bound, Xcite and Allromanceebooks as well as Phaze and now have over twenty titles available in eBook, print and audio formats.



I've been cooking since I was a kid. I've always enjoyed it. I'm grateful to my Nanna, mum, Dad and my secondary school home economics teachers for giving me a good base of knowledge to work on. I've never seen cooking as a chore, in fact I find it quite soothing. In times of stress you will find many baked goods in my home.

I have a great love of my slow cooker, which I use several times a week and I do love adapting stove top recipes so they'll work in the slow cooker. It's very satisfying ot fling some ingredients into the crock and several ideas to come back to it and have a fully cooked meal all ready to serve up and go.

This blog will attempt to fuse together my two passions, my passion for sensual romance and my love of cooking. Sometimes it will be more of one than the other but I hope there will be an interesting and entertaining balance of the two.

Here is a sample of my cooking style. It's the coconut cake I made for m Nanna's birthday last year. I'm not fancy schmansy , I like things to taste great and look tasty but I go for that rustic, homemade look more often than not. I'm not one for fine details but I do enjoy making food look pretty as well as tasting good. I don't use expensive ingredients, I don't have expensive equipment, I'm just a simple woman who enjoys turning people on with my food and my writing.