So as you can see, I've switched to my summer theme. Yes, I realize that its not summer, heck...its not even spring! ( At the time of this post, spring was approx. 3 Days, 21 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds away) However, I'm just sick of winter and I'm skipping ahead. I can't stand looking at that snowy picture & background any longer! It was 50 degrees this weekend and the snow is melting quickly. We still have a fair amount left but with no snow in the 10 day forecast and a string of 40 + degree days, I think its safe to say that its on its way out.
My back is killing me this morning after lots of heavy lifting over the weekend! I was at the home depot looking at countertops when I came across a stellar sale. Ceramic tile at just 49cents a square foot. This is half the price of the sticky vinyl flooring I had picked up. So I loaded up my cart and lugged it home with me. Sweet deal!
It was also my very favorite neighbor's birthday this weekend! I've decided that I want to teach myself to bake. I have ZERO experience in the cake department but I thought I'd give it a try. You have to start somewhere right? Her favorite cake is strawberry so I pulled this one up from allrecipes.com. Then I used a buttercream frosting recipe that I found on the net. The cake itself taseted good but the frosting was a bit too sweet for my taste. It wasn't stiff enough to decoarte with either which was a problem. That said, I would say the cake was decent for a very first try. I even tried making some frosting roses. You'll laugh, they are a little bit lopsided (I'm blaming it on my frosting recipe!!! ) :-) I rushed at the end to add the wording because she was on her way!
Check it out!
Do you have a great frosting recipe?
I need to practice, practice, practice as I have no instructor to show me the tricks!
After I made the cake I went to wrap her present and I realized..AHHHHHHHH no wrapping paper!!!! I once saw that you can wrap presents in newspaper but I couldn't' find any anywhere, except for the grocery store circular but I wasn't quite sure how that would look. So i pulled out my stash of magazines and started clipping.
A little silly- but it did the trick! Its the unwrapping part that makes presents fun after all.
I hope you all had a great weekend, hopefully next weekend I'll have a completed kitchen to show off!
1 comment:
Wow - I am impressed! I could never ice a cake impressively. I always blamed my helpful daughters:-)
Now I can't even bake a level cake, as this old English Cottage floors are VERY unlevel.
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