Long time no blog.



Practicing a wedding cake and ended up making these cool puff pastries drizzled with toffee!



Well I think 4 months is enough of a blogging break. I've got A LOT of updating to do so be prepared for many posts in the upcoming days. I made this little number last night. And I was so giddy over the puffs. I had so many left over that I CREATED a dessert. I call them Waffle Puffs. (Still debating the name. I may go with Waffle Whips...Whippity Waffity? Ok. Name still in progress.) This delectable dessert is essentially a cream puff--miniature style. I inserted a maple frosting into the mini cream puff and it seriously tastes like waffles. They were pretty delicious.

Parmesan Chicken

I made this. For dinner. It was good.

5 comes after 1 right? Day 5.

Well. I am not good at blogging. I've never pretended to be. And when I said I'd blog every day for nine days, I meant 1..skip a few...5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Yeah. So here's a few things I did. I know it doesn't make up for my failed promise. However, I have a good excuse. I am babysitting my little sibs while my parents are on a cruise.  So that means I'm practically the equivalent of a single mom with a 15 year old boy, 10 year old girl and a 7 year old girl. I'm convinced the reason people start to get aches and pains is NOT age--it's children. I have a crick in my neck, my left shoulder hurts and my lower back is throbbing. I am 21. This isn't normal. It has to be these kids with all of their crazy schedules and lives that I have to keep track of. I feel like I'm losing my mind. We're lucky I even got to post once before this.


Shortbread Raspberry Cookies

Caramel Popcorn!

Sidenote: While I was doing this, I remembered that no one had checked the mail today. So I called for my littlest sis to run and grab the mail. I said it twice since she couldn't hear me and I heard her say, " I was already using it, but ok!" Then she comes trotting from the kitchen. She says, "Here you go!" and I turn around to a jar of MAYO being handed to me. Mail..mayo..tomato..tomoto.

Day 1 1 yaD

!spuC rettuB tuneaP Peanut Butter Cups!

Super delicious. .suoiciled repuS

An updater...

Now that it IS NOT January anymore...I'll catch you up to date before I start my baking extravaganza. I am going to make 9 things in a row. Now that I've said it, I have to do it. By "in a row" I mean day to day. I have 9 days and 9 recipes to try. So I'll begin tonight and we'll see how it goes. Ok. Here is the updated blog post...

Well...now that I've looked through my photos, I realize this is the only update I have for you....which cannot be right since I did this wedding cake in November and it is now February. I did not go on a baking fast. However, I can't find the dumb pictures...OH WAIT. That's right. I dropped my camera into a bowl of milky chocolate. Yeah. That's what happened. So I suppose this is it. I made this cake for my friend who got married super fast after getting engaged. (I'm telling you this because it meant I had little preparation) I'm pretty happy with it actually. All real cake. Funfetti, Red Velvet, Chocolate Ganache Chocolate, and Vanilla with a blackberry frosting if I remember correctly. 

More to come in the 9 days following this!! I know all three of my followers are super ecstatic about that. That's why I put TWO exclamation points. Ok bye.

Anyone who hates January, raise your hand.

Baci De Dama

Well. Here's my version of Baci De Dama! Or in English and not Italian...Italian Ladies Kisses. Traditionally these crumbly cookies are supposed to be sandwiching some type of Nutella or chocolatey goodness but...I didn't do that. Mostly because I didn't have time and I needed to make these for an event to serve a large amount of people so I only used one side of the cookie and doubled the amount. Still cute. Just not the Italian cute. Here they are.

Almond goodness before they were cooked.

Almond goodness after they were cooked.