Adventures in Cupcakes

Last week we did cupcakes instead of cake to practice decorating. Gabby and I made chocolate cupcakes. Half of them had raspberry filling, the other half had whip cream. We didn't pick a theme or anything. We just tried to practice the techniques we learned in class. Plus we tried to frost 10 each when we were really supposed to do 6 each so there were a lot of cupcakes to frost in a little amount of time.

Gabby adding the final touch to this dotted cupcake.

You'll notice the one on the left has a lot going on. That's because I basically tried to do almost everything we learned on one cupcake. It kind of turned into a frosting fiesta, lol. Oh and look at Gabby's cool pom pom flower on the bottom left corner of the picture on the right.

I don't know why, but this was my favorite one that I made.

The one on the left is me practicing flowers, the one on the right is me practicing being ugly. jk, but seriously I don't know why I made a cupcake that looks like it has green peas all over it!

This was my favorite of Gabby's cupcakes. The flowers all bunched up together look really interesting.

Currently anticipating: Glee!
Currently reading: Gary Schmidt books

Cake Decorating Class

Gabby and I started our cake class this month. We made our first cakes this week. Gabby did a BYU cake and I did a double rainbow cake. Anyway even though I'm definitely NOT a professional, I thought things went well for my first attempt at cake decorating ever.

Gabby baking her cake.



Gabby's awesome BYU cake!



My double rainbow cake... not perfect but I had fun making it.


As you can see, I only know one technique right now... the star tip. Oh and I made the cake with a rainbow confetti mix, you know, to keep with the theme and all.

Oh and just in case you haven't seen the double rainbow video, it's just a guy freaking out over a double rainbow... in a hilarious way. You don't have to watch the whole video to understand it (I never do).

And just in case you have seen the original video, here is the KFC/TacoBell remake. Lars showed this to us the other day and we could not stop laughing.




Currently Reading: lots of picture books for my adolescent lit. class, oh and I finally read Hunger Games!

Back in Session

In case you haven't noticed, lately I've been on an internet vacation. During the time I was away I spent a week on the beach, moved from Washington D.C. to Houston (via plane), moved from Houston to Provo, Utah (25 hour road trip), helped my sister move into the dorms, and had my first week of school. It has been a little crazy!

Well, I don't have too much to say about Provo right now (except that I've already taken advantage of the dollar theater). I've mostly been catching up with friends and doing your typical back to school stuff (buying books, unpacking, and more unpacking), so here are some of the last things I did in D.C.

Sculptures from the Kreeger Collection

One of my favorite Washington D.C. residents, the national zoo panda :)

Currently watching: Project Runway
Currently baking: Chocolate Chip Cookies