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How was everyone's New Year? I hope everyone had a nice time. :D

Mine was quiet. My aunt and cousin didn't come over this year becuase my aunt was sick with the flu... :'(   Maybe I'll see them for Easter.

I baked a cake. A special cake for New Year's. My mom always called it "Santa Claus Pie" but it's really "Vasilopita" or "Basil Pie" after the ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in my earlier Christmas post I spent several days (almost a week!) baking things. It would've gone much faster if I had had my assistant (bro) helping me out but he didn't arrive until much later when everything was nearly done. :(

I made gingerbread cookies and 4 different flavors of cake balls/truffles: pumpkin spice, chocolate ( Read more... )

 I had been meaning to post some pics of the garden in the backyard but never really got around to it until now. My brother was playing with the camera and took these pics on our mother's birthday early last month.

Oh here's the cake my mom's bf bought from the bakery...


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 My mother's birthday is this Sunday and I'm trying to decide what sort of cake to make for her... (It won't be a Professor Layton cake.)
She doesn't like things that are overly sweet and she's on a diet (all the time it seems) so it needs to be something light.
I'm thinking maybe some sort of honey cinnamon/lemon/ginger angel food cake with cream/ ( Read more... )

Since I totally failed the previous Mini Layton Hat Cake (aka FAILCAKE) for spunkywulf  I decided to give it another try with the leftover stuff I still had.

After about an hour I had created this....


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 And so it's time for another cake post! :D
Earlier last week was my mom's BF's birthday. So naturally I made a cake because that's what a pastry chef does. XD

As partial thanks for doing something for me, I asked spunkywulf  pick out the flavors since my mom's BF likes just about everything and I couldn't decide what flavor to make. She asked for Chocolate + ( Read more... )

As I was making my Layton Hat Cake, my brother was being an annoyance quoting Skaijo's Luke nearly the entire time!  >:(
"I'm 42~!"   "I've been on the moon!"   "BASEBALL!"   "He~y Professah! I'm gonna touch you!" *poke*


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It's my birthday and a Mini-Layton came to visit!!!
(Actually, it's really on Sunday but we had to celebrate it a little early due to classes starting soon...)


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