Doc Mcstuffins cake

Out to eat with my bestiee

Wrestling ring cake I made

. I had fun wit this, making it out of cupcakes. I thought it was gonna be easy from start to finish. And it was for a while till I got to the ropes. Which are made of twizzlers, and the bars holding them are made of pretzels covered in fondant.

Chocolate covered strawberries topped with cookies & cream

Cake cake cake!

. Last night I made a chocolate fudge cake filled with chocolate chips, with a peanut butter butter cream icing topped with a chocolate drizzle. I was bored so I made a bundt  cake. It was good, at least that's what everyone said. I'm not a big cake eater. I loved the icing, my little cousins said it tasted like reeses, the candy. I went a little heavy on the decorations. I got excited about drizzling the chocolate on top. So I went a little crazy, buts ok.

Pineapple week

This week I will eat pineapples! I thought of only eating pineapples, but no, I might die. So I will just eat pineapples with every and anything. Technically I do it anyway, but this will be fun. Last night I had a supreme pizza with pineapples. This morning I made a pineapple barbeque chicken sandwich with garlic parmesan fries. Ugh, I died. It was so delicious. I almost forgot I'm trying to lose weight, so I tired to not stuff myself.

I wanted to test myself this weekend.

Soooo, after I was done with the cake I made, I did a little project. I created my brothers head out of rice crispy treats and fondant. First I made some rice crispy treats, after that I molded it to the shape of his head. I let it sit in the refrigerator over night and went to work on it in the afternoon. I had one of my little cousins help me roll out hair and mix fondant colors. In the end I would say it took about 3 hours. It was fun. My brother has a very unique look so everyone knew it was him without me saying anything. I rolls out really thin brown fondant and molded it into the creases I molded earlier. I made eye sockets, and a nose. It was extremely fun, and I hope no one else wants one, lol.

Pwpizza

Me and my mom went to pwpizza in st.Louis. I've been there before last year it's a nice different place. I always order a pizza when I go because I can't pass up pizza. Their pizza is good, but their cheese is sorta spongy and if you eat leftovers the crust is non-existent. By that I mean when I'm ready to eat it later the crust is so soft, there's no bite to it. Its like the cheese. I don't know if that's a good thing or bad. But I don't really like it that much. But anyway. Here's how I eat my pizza!

June 1st (random)

Ugh my birthday is around the corner. I'm so excited to be 22, but at the same time what have I accomplished?  Nothing! Lol. (Makes angry face) I'll be ok. I'm just ready for this year to be over. I wish I could fast forward to a certain amount of years ahead. I would be almost 30 with a dog, child, and hopefully a husband or something. Whatever. I'm random. bye.

Last week!!!

I don't know what's wrong with my phone or blogger. But I've recently transitioned from iPhone to Android so I'm having technical difficulties with everything!!! But anyway. My phone says it's been publishing since last Saturday. So I think there's a problem. I did a cake last week that I thought I posted!! I can't go back into it and edit or post it. It had all the steps to the cake I did. And I don't have the memory to retype it all. So here's the picture!!

Chocolate strawberries! !!

I made chocolate strawberries for my grandmother the other day. We had a lot of people over so they went like crazy. I ended up making 3 different batches in the end. As easy as it is to make these, I've never done it be for. So it was really fun and I'm planing on making more.

More Mickey mouse cupcakes

I'm making a cake and cupcakes and my whole family is over cooking, chatting and having fun. When I'm working on a cake I like to listen to music, but I broke my phone yesterday. And I just broke my earphones today! I have no idea how both happened. When I went to use them they didn't work. I'm so mad, Ugh. Well, I'm done with the cupcakes. As seen below, Or above, my new phone posts pictures weird. I'll be done with the cake later. If everything else goes right! Hopefully.

At it again

Doing another mickey mouse cake for someone's birthday. I'm kind of tired of mickey mouse at this point. Waiting for someone to challenge me. I've done 3 mickey mouse cakes, although one was a minnie mouse cake that I thought was really good. But let me get back to the cake. Post later.

Cupcakes!

Doing homework. I got a lot to do this weekend so I will be posting like every so often. I'm also getting ready for my birthday in a month. I'll be 22. I'm pretty excited..

Cupcakes galore!

I had to do a party for someone abd they told me to just be creative and go crazy with chocolate. So. This was fun. Never did a strawberry abd chocolate. I made a strawberry buttercream & a peanut buttercream for both my icing. They turned out great! I got a lot of positive feedback.

Oh my gosh

I normally blog at least every day.  Its just been a long week for me. Studying, typing papers, baking, my personal life. I barely have had my phone on me. I feel like I'm neglecting my blog. I have so much to say about my weekend though. I just need tune to type it all.

So tired

I've had an extremely long weekend and I'm so tired. The only way to describe my weekend is many pictures & posts. I keep forgetting to blog because I'm so busy. Ugh. But here I go.

Thursday

I'm panicking a little bit because I have so much to do in so little time. I'm making a birthday cake with cupcakes & another set of birthday cupcakes. All different flavors so I can't cheat & share. I'm baking right now. Just thought I'd post about it. Be back later with pictures!

The Mickey Mouse cake I did

Remember the Mickey Mouse cake I dd for a baby shower. They sent me pictures of it a while back I forgot to post everything at the party. But they sent me how they looked after I left. How beautiful :) 

Baby nephew

I'm so in love with my nephew Dj. He just makes me smile and cry when I think about him. He is so beautifully handsome. He is so smart and funny. He came into this world with his own amazing personality and he makes me so speechless. I never felt so much love and admiration for someone. He's not even my child and I love him like he could be. I just wanna be the best aunt to him. I can't wait for the rest of his amazing life.

Thursday I made my nephew and my sister a cake. I was influenced by a ballon I saw the day he was born. We were just waiting for him to come into this world, and I was so excited. Someone brought a ballon and candy to the room. The ballon was a big heart with a bear holding it. I took a picture so I could remember what it looked like, and I went home and made it when I had some free time.

New love in my life

Yesterday at 7:34pm my brother and his girlfriend had a baby boy. In that moment, I never felt so many things before. I only have one sibling, my brother. So becoming an aunt, it's probably nothing to the next person, but to me it's everything! One minute I'm saying "see you later!" To my brother Nic and his gf Chelle, the next I'm saying hi to my nephew. I wanted to cry just looking at him. He is the most beautiful thing I ever saw. He has such big vibrant eyes that makes my heart melt. I catch myself just staring at pictures of him in my phone when I can't see him. It's just amazing. I was excited before, but him actually being in this world is crazy. I never felt so much love just by looking at him. It's amazing how he can make me smile. He's such a smart baby already, not even a week old. He's so observant, he would look all over the room at whoever is talking. At one point he even rolled his eyes at a comment someone said about his skin. I'm just so star struck by him. I miss him while I'm typing this. But for his and Chelles welcoming home get together, I'm gonna make her am individual cake. Just because I'm so happy and since I can't create a beautiful baby, I'll make a beautiful cake.

 I love you nephew! 

Dominic Aaron Kennedy ❤️ 5/13/14

Mother's Day breakfast

. I forgot to post the big breakfast I made for everyone on Mother's Day. My mom, my granny, my two little cousins, my brother and his girlfriend. We all enjoyed breakfast. We had scrambled eggs, French toast, hashbrowns, biscuits, bacon, turkey sausage, sausage patties, ham and turkey ham. My spinach was getting a little soft, so I cooked half of it off in some Olive oil. That was our breakfast!

Mother's Day!

For Mother's Day, my mom and I went to the oyster bar downtown St. Louis. It's a little bar on the corner right next to a White Castle. They have an inside and outsite area, My mom and I ate outside. It felt really good outside, warm and windy. We ordered some oysters for our appetizer. But, it came after our actual meal. I ordered crawfish linguine and my mom ordered some fish tacos. The food was really good. I would definitely eat there again. 

2nd phase

I no longer have any space in my crappy phone, so this post is going to include pictures of everything I've done in school the past year. When I first started school I was so excited to learn everything about cooking. Everyday I would wake up extra early (3am to be exact) and I would iron all my clothes. I would do my hair a certain way, so it wouldn't bother me the whole day. And last but not least I would do my trade mark make up, my cat eye, or my winged eye. For the first couple of weeks school was amazing. Until i lost my best friend. After that I was damaged and lost. I tried to drop out of school cause I just couldn't wake up everyday for it. But long story short, I got through it. And I'm still getting through it. As soon as I got back into my routines, my other best friend died. My puppy blue. She was about 7 months. I'm not gonna lie it was really hard. But I did my best to stay in school and work hard. And shortly after that I got deans list. I was so proud of myself. My second phase was my best and favorite phase. My old instructor Chef Decoster, I loved him. He was do weird and funny. Even thought half the time we couldn't understand him, I think my whole class loved him. Any way. Here's some pics of food we made in his class.

My horoscope for Thursday

"This is a good day for you to analyze information, Cancer. You have an especially acute business sense, which you should use to your advantage. Whether you're thinking of translating a creative project into a business proposal or working on that business plan, all indications say that your efforts will yield rich rewards. Make the most of whatever this day has to offer.

On the agenda

Just found out I'm going to be doing a Incredible Hulk cake sometime soon. The thought of it, sounds intimidating. I haven't found a lot on hulk cakes. The ones I've seen are mostly the same. But I'm going to try to do something different.

Date night

Last night my boyfriend and I went shopping for cake supplies. Along with all the fondant, flour and other ingredients. We came up with an idea to cook dinner for eachother that night. I made lemon pepper chicken breasts, which he loves. I also made mashed potatoes and string beans. He made his famous macaroni.  I lt was so good. It's his own recipe, Atleast that's what he said. It was some spicy queso sauce, pepperoni, and pepper jack cheese. Just some things he had mixed up in there. I thought it would've been a hot mess, but it was good. 

Birthday BBQ / alcoholic cupcakes

This year for my 22nd birthday I'm going to have a BBQ. When I was younger I use to go to six flags, or just hang with friends. Now that I'm older, and barely have any friends, I'm just having a small get together. It's mostly family and a couple of friends. I did the sane thing last year it was fun. I hate the summer and I hate that my birthday falls in one of the hottest months. It's always scorching hot on my birthday. I wish my birthday was between the fall and winter. But then I wouldn't be an awesome cancer :). This year I'm going to try a lot of alcoholic recipes for cupcakes. I've seen a lot of ideas going on about what types of alcohols with what type of flavors. I'm going to use a lot of peach ciroc. I found some types of whipped cream vodka, I've tasted some and they ate extremely strong! I'm pretty excited to see if people can get drunk off of cupcakes, lol.

Disney

I have a lot of requests for Mickey and Minnie Mouse cakes and cupcakes this month. Of course after finals. I'm not gonna be trying to study and putting all my efforts into a cake. I love baking and money but my grades come first. I have two birthday parties on my agenda close to the end of the month. My boyfriends daughter Minnie Mouse cake is due around the 20th-23rd of this month. Depending on the party date. And I have a Mickey Mouse cake due the last day of May, which I think is the 31st. I'm pretty psyched about it, but I always worry about the pack up/delivery. Still have no cupcake boxes. That's a real bummer. I'll just have to improvise I guess.

Fish fry Friday

I spent my Friday at my boyfriends family house, they had a fish fry. We were there litterally the whole day. It was fun, meeting a lot of people, music, food! I had a great day. Me and my boyfriend shared like 3 plates of food. Spaghetti, tilapia, catfish, it was all so good. 

My schools restaurant

I attend L'Ecole Culinaire in ladue, St. Louis, and I ate dinner at the restaurant yesterday. I went with my two best friends on our one hour lunch break. I never ate at the restaurant with other students serving me, I only are there when I was working there. So it was a cool experience and it was fun. Everything on the menu was under fifteen dollars. Now, I wasn't originally going to eat over there. I made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. And it was pretty darn good too. But we went ahead and ate there. We all were so lost on the menu, they had so many things with words we couldn't understand. At times we felt so dumb, we had to google certain words on the menu. In the end we all ordered the same thing in different ways. We all ordered a burger with fries. Because a burger sounded so good, especially the way the server explained it. Now, I feel really bad I can't remember the names of everything we ate. For a starter they served us some asparagus with I believe feta cheese, tomato and mandarin slices. That was deliscious. 

But before that they gave us some fried cheese with Mexican salsa, if I remember it correctly. 

And the burger came and I was so happy. I hadn't had a burger in so long, and it was soooooooooo good! I think mine came with some kimchi sauce, I have no idea what that is but it was sweet and tangy. 

My meal (with my student discount) came out to be eight dollas and some change instead of twelve & change. My burger was so big after I added everything on it. It was hard to take a bite outta the while thing. I had to cut it in fours. But it was worth it. Not to mention I was there longer than an hour & ended up late for class. I'm not gonna say it was better than my pb&j, cause I can make a great one. But it was really good and I can see myself going broke eating there every lunch break. :)

When I sorta knew I was destined for greatness

In high school I tracked to spring field with some of my classmates to compete in a themed cake challenge. I won 2nd place in my category for valentines day. We were down there for 3 days I believe and it was an amazing experience. I won a ribbon, and they gave me a pin. Of course I lost both, it's been over 4 years. My teacher kept the certificate with my name. After that day I knew I loved decorating, I also knew I was very creative. That's why instead of jumping into culinary arts I studied photography for almost 2 years. I had to leave the school for reasons I can't explain, but it wasn't a waste of time. I learned something I still do, I take pictures for people sometimes. But I'm getting off topic, it took a long summer for me to actually realize what I wanted to do with my life, and it's like every time something different happens to me I lose focus and get lost on what I'm trying to do. I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life after school. I know what I wanted to do, that was own my own small bakery or boutique. But I got so many negative people in my ear they throw me off my path. I still want to bake and decorate, nothing had changed about that, but who knows. I might be working with someone instead of working for myself. Either way, hopefully I'm happy with it.

Old accomplishments

   One of the first cakes I did for a birthday. I worked all day on it, I was so scared. I woke up at 8 and didn't finish until around 5. It was for a little boy who was turning 6years old. It was my first time working with fondant by myself. In high school I learned about it from my amazing culinary arts teacher Ms.Kennedy, I loved her so much. She is the best teacher I ever had. She taught me a lot. Like how to make a good cake. 

This is a yellow cupcake cake of sponge on square pants. I did last summer. The only fondant pieces are his clothes, shoes, teeth and eyes. My mother helped me do this. "Pass the black icing, pass the hands, pass the eyes." She actually did a lot helping me on this, if I can remember right she did the hands by herself, which were hard. The cake is mostly vanilla icing with a ton of food coloring. I never could get his skin smooth and that's what made me feel horrible. In the end when I dropped it off, as soon as I walked in the door I was attacked by small hungry children. They demolished it in the 5 minutes I was there. Everyone loved it, you know it tastes good and looks good when they eat the fondant :)

No baking for me

I won't be baking or decorating this weekend. Even though it's my moms birthday. If I have time to squeeze her in a cake I will do it, but my weekend is study time. I have a birthday party of Minnie Mouse & ballerina tutus close to the end of the month, pretty excited about that. I have a close idea of what I'm going to do, but until I'm right there with my hands  in fondant and food coloring I'm not 100% sure. I'm really ready for the weekend, I need a break from this week. But hey tomorrow is Thursday, almost there. 

Finals :(

This week at school consists mostly of finals I'm not ready to take. Going to a class one day a week for 4 weeks & then taking a final the fifth week is a bummer.. Really not looking forward to it, I'm already stressing about it. But hopefully all this studying I'm doing will pay off. 

Gotta get down on Friday

Today me and my boyfriend woke up early to eat breakfast at Denny's. We were craving a good big breakfast all week. The only reason we got up early was because one of my best friends was having a competition up at my school and I wanted to stop by. At Denny's we both had the same food, but I don't like eggs and he doesn't like pancakes so we traded. We enjoyed our morning eating bacon and talking for about an hour, then it was off to culinary school! I was skeptical about going in regular clothes and about bringing him. I didn't want to get all dressed up in my chef uniform so I just put on one of my favorite dresses. I was worried about bringing him because he is so goofy I thought he would embarrass me. When we got to my school of course he was bored out of his mind. I was thrilled, seeing people cook and compete it's amazing. He watched for a while, the only part that had his attention was a chef plating up some chicken. He kept bothering me asking were we going to get some food, I ignored him most of the time. I didn't get to stay long because I had stuff to do, but I saw some people making ice cream, which looked delicious. Other than that I saw my friend get started, she made something with ice cream too. I didn't get to see her finish but I know she did amazing. As much as she practices she could beat everyone. Only because I love her though. Overall I had a good morning & enjoyed my Friday.   

This weekend

This weekend is going to consist mostly of me trying to get my boyfriend to take me out to eat. There's not much for me to do besides do homework, bake a couple cupcakes and start on a cake for my mothers birthday and my boyfriends daughters birthday. I'm pretty excited about making a Minnie mouse theme cake with tutus. I have a slight idea of how I want to do it but I haven't wrote it down yet. Now, for my mothers cake I'm really not sure how to do hers but its going to be a surprise. I might center it around a Jamaican theme because my family loves anything red, yellow and green. But that's mostly my weekend plans, nothing exciting.

Almost 1 year

April 28th will be my best friends 24th birthday. Too bad he won't be here to enjoy it. When he was still here, me and him did everything together, I mean EVERYTHING. When I first started Diamonds Cupcakes he was there to support me. He is my biggest supporter, one of the main reasons I chose culinary arts, and the main reason I'm still doing it. Helping me bake, box up, even deliver them. He never complained about it. It was mostly about the time we spent together. The one flavor of cake he loved the most was strawberry. If it wasn't strawberry he didn't eat it. I remember one night it was about 2 ion the morning. We went to his house to get some cake mix he had lying around, and then we went bake to my house to make it. Who eats cake at 3 in the morning? Us. When I lost him in July it hurt a lot, and soon it will be one year since he's been gone. Something that will make me feel a little better about the situation, I wanted to make him a cupcake, a strawberry one of course. I want to take all my love and time and put it in that small dessert and take it to him. Is that weird? He's gone and I still want to make him happy. But to get to the point, that's how I plan on spending my Monday. Baking one amazing cupcake, taking it to  him and just reminiscing about old times. 

Because I still love you.

School

Not too much going on this week, or this weekend. Last weekend it was so busy making cupcakes for Easter and for the baby shower. This week not too much to do but work and more work. School is my main priority right now due to all the papers I have to write, and all the quizzes I have to study. The experience is good and I need it, but really.. I'm not a school person, lol.

Baby shower cuteness

The babyshower cupcakes I did over the weekend. They weren't the regular size cupcakes I made them in a muffin pan, so they would be huge enough to put all my toppings on. In the end I thought they came out very pretty. So I was satisfied. 

Taylor swift of baking

When I'm feeling a little low, instead of cry & feel bad for myself I bake a cake! It's been a rough two weeks for me, I don't wanna get into the why, but it has. I was feeling really bad the other night and I was tired of it. So I got up and a yellow cake from this new pan I got on sale at Micheals. I promise I loveeeeee Micheals. It's my favorite place to shop. Nowadays when I get money in my pocket I run to Micheals and buy baking supplies, instead of running to the mall and buying shoes. So I bought this pan & I just uses my basic recipe for yellow cake.

You can tell how unprepared I was for this. I didn't have parchment paper, or anything else to put under this cake when I was done. I didn't even have a plate long enought for it. 

                  Ingredients

• 2/3 cup butter, softened

  1-3/4 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 2- 1/2 cups of cake fl 2-1/2 tsps baking powder 1-1/4 cups of milk  1/2 tsp of salt For my icing it was just vanilla whipped cream and half of it I put a few drops of brown food coloring. I lined the bottom of the cake with white icing to make it look flat, but to make it pop at the same time.   I brought my guitar out so I could compare the colors. In the end they were similar, but not really.  Of course when I start getting into it I forget to take more pictures. But, I had Atleast 5 fondant pieces, the neck, the head, the circle and the part where all the lines meet up. Now again, I didn't make this for anyone, because I still think it looks like crap. But I enjoyed myself and made something different. :)