Say It with Flowers: A Spring-Themed Birthday Cake

| April 28, 2011

My bestie celebrated her birthday on Easter Sunday.  And for the third consecutive year, I made her a birthday cake.  The cake from two years ago, you can find HERE.  The one from last year, you can find HERE. This year, for the first time, I made her a fondant-covered cake. I played it safe [...]

Beer Bathed Shrimp

| April 26, 2011

As part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program, Cafe Munchkin was chosen to come up with a dish that either features or pairs well with a New Belgium Brewing Company beer.  This blog will receive a stipend for creating the dish, care of Foodbuzz and the New Belgium Brewing Company.  How cool is that?! *wink* So here’s the [...]

Angry Birds Cake Toppers

| April 25, 2011

Happy Easter Monday, y’all!  We had a wonderful wonderful Easter celebration with our friends – our Texas family – yesterday. I have four words to describe our feast, MAJOR PIG OUT DAY. Hubby and I sure ended our meatless Lent with a bang! Weee! I believe I mentioned that for Lent, I stopped playing Angry Birds [...]

Pilipinas Food Trip #15: Fish Out of Water

| April 12, 2011

Here’s a nice little break from cakes for all of you.  What do you say I take y’all back with me to the Philippines for a gastronomic food trip.  Fasten your seatbelts!  I take that back. The more appropriate thing to say in this case  is, “Loosen your belts!”  Here we go! One of the [...]

Fab at 50 Birthday Cake

| April 9, 2011

Promise, just one more blog entry for tonight and then I’ll finally hit the sack for some much needed zzzzzs. :) I spent a great part of today and last night in the kitchen working on yet another cake. It’s for a 50th birthday and I only had 2 days notice, receiving the request just [...]