Hubby celebrated his birthday last week, Thanksgiving week. That’s one of the reasons why Thanksgiving week is all the  more meaningful to our family. Per the birthday boy’s request, I made him a cheesecake, a Fudge Truffle Cheesecake. I could have made blueberry or cappuccino, but I chose a chocolate-y cheesecake. It’s a no-brainer! Hubby got his cheesecake, and I got my chocolate fix! You got me! I’m a chocoholic! Hee hee. I just might need the chocolate counterpart of a methadone detox rehab treatment center.  Hee hee.

You can find the recipe for this super yummy cheesecake HERE.

Cheers, y’all!

Yum! You can read more about it HERE.

Thank goodness we are not allergic (to chicken or any kind of food for that matter)!  We sure don’t want to land in one of ‘em food allergies austin clinics! Bok-bok=bok!

Cheers y’all!

This has got to be one of the most fun cakes I had the chance making. It was for the back-to-back birthday celebration of the daughters of good friends of ours. They had a game night of sort of thing going. None of the Gears of War 3 type of games though! Just fun, good old fashioned board games. *wink*

The birthday girls loved their shared cake, and so did their parents and other friends of ours present at the party. And that, for me, made all the hard work well worth it.

Cheers!

I had so much fun making this cake. I made all the decorations ahead of time – around 2 days before the party. The cake, it’s safe to say, was very well-liked and received a lot of compliments from the birthday family’s relatives and friends (mostly nurses, and no, they were not in nurses uniforms!).

This is the 2nd of 3 cakes I made last month that had a fairy topper.

Cheers, y’all!

Mia is one of the many fairies from the children’s book series, Rainbow Fairies. Last month, I made a Rainbow Fairies themed cake for a little girl who was a big fan of the series and whose favorite fairy is Mia. I love how the fondant figure turned out, save maybe for the neck part, which could very well use a gold necklace. Haha! The hair could be a tad curly, too! Oh well. The bottom line is, the birthday girl and her mom loved the cake. And that’s all that matters.

Cheers, y’all!

It’s Sweet and Spicy Shrimps with steamed brown rice and fresh cherries.  I always make sure I involve my daughter in planning her school meals.  She’s the one who will be eating them anyway!

It’s going to be a good school year. I already know it!

Cheers, y’all!

PS:  More school lunch photos from last week HERE.

I’ve been cooking with my wok a lot these fast few days.  After a very very long time, I made homemade fishballs.  Gosh, I’ve missed these! I even attempted to make my own fishballs dipping sauce, hoping to at least come close to the taste of the dipping sauces of the fishball vendors in the Philippines. I dare say that the dipping sauce I cam up with tasted so much like the street vendor variety. Hee hee.  I need to work it some more before I even start to dream of bottling the sauces for possible online sales. Haha! I will surely have a better chance of succeeding in a food-related business than say, selling the products being offered at Wholesaleinsurance.net!

Cheers y’al! Mabuhay!

After a very very long time, I baked some cookies a little over a week ago: Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies.  I got the recipe from my favorite Hershey’s recipe book. My daughter had a craving for chocolate chip cookies and because I was too lazy to go to the the store to buy some, I decided to  just take matters into my own hands and just bake the cookies myself.  You can find the recipe HERE.

I’m glad I satisfied my daughter’s craving for cookies.  It was a welcome break from our daily summer routine of swim lessons in the morning and 30 or so minutes of homework in the afternoon. You read that right! My daughter might be on summer break from school but that doesn’t mean she should stop learning. For the summer, I’m her full time home teacher, teaching degree or no teaching degree!

Cheers, y’all! Have a great week ahead!

I encountered a few hiccups while making the swans. Thankfully, everything came together and didn’t look bad at all.  You can read more about this cake HERE.

It’s been over three weeks since I last worked with fondant. It’ll be one heck of an arm workout when I do! If only my arms would get toned from all the kneading and rolling involved in cake decorating with fondant. Well who knows?! I just might not have to  buy testoripped! (As if I really would! )

Cheers, y’all!

These were the cupcakes for the girls…

I like how the colors came out, although I wanted the frosting to be a more obvious blue. Haha!

These were the cupcakes for the boys…

The sufboards got soft because of the heat of a nearby lamp and besides, they didn’t really have enough time to dry and harden. I made them just a few hours before the party! Talk about poor time management (perhaps I’m better at document management?)

Anyway, the kids loved the cupcakes…as always. They’re sweet like that.

Cheers!