I had a request for a basketball themed birthday cake. The birthday girl loves basketball and the Knicks. My team (Rockets) fell out of the playoffs recently..so I will be following the Knicks now too 🙂 Anyway, this was a fun cake to make. I hope the birthday girl enjoyed it as well.
Cake#1
Frozen raspberries + a tiny bit of frozen blueberries + almond flour = Raspberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake
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#1 fan really like this one.
Cake#2
Whole wheat flour + millet + overripe bananas = Whole Wheat Millet Banana Bread
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I didn’t taste this one, but was told the millet provided a really nice crunchy texture, similar to the crunch in Nestle Crunch bars. that’s interesting 🙂
more to come 🙂
I realized that my pantry and cabinets were too full of stuff. Instead of grocery shopping for more ingredients, I wanted to try to use up what I had already. Cue Chopped~! In case you’ve never heard of or seen Chopped, it’s a TV show where the challenge is to take a mystery basket of ingredients and turn them into a dish.
So here’s Chopped Part 1
I had way too many graham crackers..and a couple of apples…and some slivered almonds. Seemed like it would make a fantastic apple pie with toasted almonds on top.
and it ended up turning into my first (minor) kitchen fire ever~! Quite frightening, but all was ok..except for the pie. Thank goodness we had a fire extinguisher.
Not all was a failure. For the church kids Easter party, my station was “Resurrection Cupcakes.” Cupcakes with green frosting and coconut “grass” and a marshmallow tomb with the stone rolled over, so the kids could remember that the tomb was empty and that Jesus had risen~! So leftover green frosting + green coconut + a can of Dr. Pepper + flower sprinkles…
Chocolate Dr. Pepper Cupcakes with (green) vanilla frosting and coconut 🙂
Stay tuned for Chopped Part 2~!
A long time ago, I found a recipe floating around online for a cupcake recipe for two. I thought to myself, why would I make only two cupcakes? And I sort of ignored the recipe. Fast forward like 5 years, and after I made the 1st Birthday cake for my friend’s daughter, I had a tad bit of frosting left and a lot of fondant butterflies and flowers and was wondering what I could do with them. It happened to be a friend’s birthday and I thought, what a great time to try this cupcakes for two recipe~! I ended up searching online for like 30 minutes trying to locate the recipe. But I found it, the recipe really did make exactly two cupcakes, and I hope they tasted ok?? 🙂
Proof
Finished product
with the office being closed and a lot of time on my hands, i decided today was a good day to try to make donuts. i was always intimidated by the whole process of it, but it was easier than i thought. and fun. and yummy 🙂
Step One: make dough and cut out into donut shapes
Step Two: deep fry~! handy to have a little deep fryer, but not necessary
Step Three: coat with sugar and cinnamon
Step Four: eat~! 🙂
a good friend asked for cupcakes for her little girl’s first birthday. she kept it low-key but sent me a picture of the birthday decorations, which looked like this:
So from that, i made these vanilla bean cupcakes with vanilla frosting 🙂
apparently momma had a hard time getting that cupcake out of her hand~!
happy 1st birthday~!
i’m still here~! i’m still alive~! here are a few of the things i was up to this summer…
i learned how to make sugar roses with a friend.
bid a friend farewell. i had to remake these black sesame cupcakes with matcha cream cheese frosting because she loved them so much.
made my own birthday cake (only ice cream cake for me~!) and celebrated with friends
was gifted a cookie press for my birthday~! it was a lot harder than i thought, but i eventually got the hang of it. i made peanut butter and nutella cookie sandwiches. i unfortunately forgot to take a final picture..but they were yum 🙂
and more…but i was pretty bad about taking pictures and documenting my kitchen going-ons. hopefully some new posts to share soon 🙂
Mango Cheesecakes~! And I had a special secret ingredient that I’ve been hankering to use..mango extract~! I think it gave it an extra edge and enhanced the mango puree that I already put in. I saw the mango extract on a trip to the Philippines and had to buy it because I’ve never seen it before. I have another special extract from the Philippines up my sleeve…hopefully I will find the perfect dessert to feature it in 🙂
Wanted to make some Japanese inspired cupcakes for some special Japanese guests 🙂
Best.Cookies.Ever.
The NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookies and Momofuku Milk Bar’s Fruity Pebbles Cookies
Only notable thing is that there is a substantial drop in yumminess the next day. Must be eaten on the day of~!
#1 fan was supposed to be eating healthy and was caught bringing a bag of cookies home…oops.. 🙂
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