The cakes were a big hit. People kept telling me they were too cute to eat and asking if I really made them all myself. When I finally convinced everyone that they weren't too cute to eat, I was also informed that they were delicious. A couple of the prof's four-year-old daughter enjoyed the eggnog frosting more than the eggnog cake and ended up ( Read more... )

I volunteer at a local elementary school on Fridays. This morning the teacher I work with informed me that I would be baking gingerbread cookies with the kids. I guess this really is a baking week for me ;) The cookies were almost as big of a disaster as some of the stuff I've done here because the teacher thought there was an oven in the ( Read more... )

I love to bake and I'm not too bad at it. Usually. Something about these cakes is turning into much more of a challenge than I ever anticipated.

( Today's Agenda: Making the cakes and icing )

I've changed my mind on the cakes I mentioned in my last post. I decided that cherry-pie filling cake just isn't Christmas enough and I think the snowmen would look better iced than dusted with powdered sugar anyway. So I got some stuff to make eggnog cake and eggnog frosting and some black food coloring so I can make the hat, eyes, nose, etc. I ( Read more... )

I have this booklet that essentially amounts to quick ways to spruce up mix cakes. There History Department holiday party is on Friday and I've got snowman and tree mini cake pans so I figured I make a couple of cake mixes worth of mini cakes to take. I decided to make the snowmen cherry pie filling cake with powdered sugar sprinkled on them and ( Read more... )

My cold is getting better. I've still got a stuffy nose, but no more cough or general feeling like my body has been run over by a truck ( Read more... )