Cake

It's been a while since I have had a chance to sit down and make a cake. This was for the birthday of a co-worker. I enjoyed it and realised how much I miss making a cake that gives me a little (not too much) challenge and where I also get to be a little creative. I was also able to try a combination of recipes that I hadn't used together. It was a lemon cake with raspberry filling & cream cheese frosting on top, & a chocolate cake with buttercream frosting on the bottom.

I am very excited for my next cake. It will be for a 60th wedding anniversery. I've got it all made up in my head & hope it comes out close to my vision. For now it will be a 3 layer cake. If more people RSVP to the event, it will turn into a 4 level.

Cooking show

I want to remind anyone interested, that the next cooking class at the DATC is Monday, May 17th @ 6:00. It will be about pasta & noodles. Learning techniques from Italy, Asia, and Germany. Cost is $35.00- Very excited about that.
I want to thank Tiffany, for going to the cooking show with me. I was able to get a few cooking tips & a lot of new recipes. I was looking through one of the recipe books when I noticed Tif's hand in the air point at both us of-- We'll do it.

Huh What???

YUP, she volunteered us for a competition. We went against another pair of ladies, we both had to decorate a trifle made by http://www.chefshamy.com/



It looked somewhat like this, except the top just had cool whip & we had limited fruit to decorate it. Each team had 1 banana, 2 kiwis, 7 strawberries, 10 pieces of mandarin orange & about 5-6 maraschino cherries. I must say, we totally handed it to the other couple. I only WISH I had taken a picture. We got fancy red aprons that say Chef Shamy, a bottle of his sauce- I got teriyaki & Tif got sweet and sour. His products are preservative free -yea for no hives- and peanut free -yea for Cassidy-. I went and bought his pot sticker sauce which is also fabulous. I would love to get his vanilla honey butter & his garlic butter too, still trying to find someone who sells the vanilla honey butter. Thanks again to Tif for going with me, I wouldn't have had that much fun on my own.

Cinnamon bread

Yesterday, my sitter and friend Kim, had a sick little boy. I called my mom & Nic to pick him up with no luck. So I left work early & went to get him. We then stopped at the store & picked up a few items & then picked up the kids from school. They got out early (today is their last day). We then came home, gave the house a quick cleaning, then started making cinnamon bread. I could have mowed the lawn or started weeding the garden, but I had some much needed time with the kids. I made a double batch of cinnamon bread dough. Each got to make what they wanted with their dough. The usual is butter, cinnamon & sugar. The kids were adding chocolate chips, coconut, white chocolate chips, brown sugar & even (Trent's idea) p-nut butter and chocolate chips. We haven't tried eating that yet. Can't try to eat 5 loaves of bread in one night.



Look at my little man. Too cute!


Good times.

Taking his frustrations out on the bread dough.

Each loaf was designated a color of toothpick & we wrote down what was in the mix.