slow weekend

I was told that this I would be babysitting my little sister and her friend.  I wanted to try a recipe for apple turnovers.  I was looking for a recipe and many different sites used a similar recipe for a flaky turnover, unfortunately it came out horrible, since even my sister and her friend didn't like it.  P.S. they eat mainly anything ;).  Since that didn't come out I decided to make an easy dessert; Rice Krispies.  Again unfortunately it came out horrible, apparently the marshmallows were stale so I covered up the taste with a chocolate drizzle on top.  I don't know what was wrong with me this weekend, I was in a funk I guess.  So after yesterday's disasters I decided to do A LOT more research.  I found a baking cook book that belongs to my older sister (she never uses) and found out that one calls for puff pastry and another recipe calls for phyllo dough.  I didn't know the difference so I looked them up and what I want to use is the puff pastry.  This is the website that I looked at to decide: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Cooking-Tips/Ask-the-Test-Kitchen/Puff-Pastry-Vs--Phyllo-Dough of course I haven't made both to make a decision on but I will.  So after that I found a puff pastry recipe and it is very similar to the croissant recipe that I used before, so I will try using some of both recipes and try making turnovers and croissants again this summer. 

Summer

What I plan on doing for this summer, is try some new recipies and make a portfolio of what I did in the past, also make my own recipe book so I wouldn't have to look at all of the different cook books that I have.  This is also helpful when I would like to change the recipe a little bit I dont have to write on a book but in my own book.

Jo's surprise :)

Stressing over finals on friday so I decided to bake a cake, with what was left in the cabinets.  I made a screwball cake, which is chocolate cake with no eggs but vinegar, yes I said vinegar.  I had some chocolate squares so I made a fudge frosting to ice it with.  Then since my friend Jo is going back to France in the fall, so I traced a fleur de lis on it with buttercream using a star tip.  I wanted to use a smaller star tip but since I was packing to go home for the summer, I couldn't find it.  The middle layer of the cake was filled with buttercream icing also.  Jo loved it, I could only have a small piece since I can't have chocolate, It was delish though.  To decorate this cake was a little difficult since it was so hot in my apartment the frosting kept melting off the cake so I could do one side at a time, which was sorta okay since I was stressing over my final on saturday so I decorated and studying on and off.  It worked out okay, wish tho I had went to bed before midnight. 

Mother's Day cake :)

I made a cake nothing fancy besides the roses I made out of fondant.  My mother loved it.

Baby shower :)

I made the decision to make the cake a one tier cake since there was going to be more cakes there.  I made the cake on friday night when I came home and let it cool overnight.  I woke up early on saturday and iced, placed the fondant on and decorated the cake.  Here are some of the pictures :)

Flowers :)

This weekend I am making two different cakes one for saturday and one for sunday.  The one on saturday is for my sister's baby shower, and sunday's is for my mom for mother's day.  The calla lilies came out amazing well the 7 that I made, I have to make at least 24 in total so I have to work tonight on packing and making some more calla lilies.  I also made for my mom some purple roses and the first two looked that something sat on them but I started to get it right after that.  I will put pictures after just in case the two look at this blog before this weekend I want it a secret how awesome they look. 

Baby shower cake part 1

This weekend is my oldest sister's baby shower. I am one of the people making a cake for her.  I found one online but I redesigned it to fit my sister's personality and request.  I am making a two story cake with pink and white backgrounds.  The top of the smaller cake is going to have a pink and white ribbon.  The bottom one will have calla lilies all around it, the top one will have them around the base.  The cakes will have baby stuff around the middle with hearts.  The baby stuff is made out of fondant.  The calla lilies are going to take forever since I only have one calla lily maker.  I made one so far, if anyone wants to know I will put up the steps and pictures of how to make a calla lily.  The middles of the calla lilies I will make probably tuesday since I can make them all at once with the yellow sugar to enhance the middle parts.