Do you have one of those friends who you can go months without seeing, but as soon as you see each other again, it’s like you no time has passed? I have a couple, and Shosh is one of them. Shosh and I met in college. We were on the gymnastics club together and bonded over knee injuries and our Jewishness.
Shosh is two years younger than me, and since I’ve left college she’s become an advocate for malaria awareness and prevention, started med school, and is generally poised to change the world. And I have no doubts that she’s going to do something extraordinary with her life.
Shosh also likes penguins. And peanut butter. Which was the inspiration for this cake.
I was headed back up to college to do some recruiting for work. Conveniently enough, I was headed up there on Shosh’s birthday. So I decided to make her a cake. The cake you see above in fact. I spent a long time with this cake and over the course of our adventure together, I named him Penguin Pete.
Penguin Pete had the honor being the first cake I ever traveled with by plane. In order to ensure that he got to school safely, he traveled in a large plastic container. Now Penguin Pete doesn’t mess around. He’s like the dad penguin at the beginning of the incubation period (stuffed full of food and heavy). Seriously, lugging around a giant plastic container with a cake in it in one hand and pulling a suitcase with the other while running through an airport is not a pleasant experience. Also, you get a lot of looks because you are a crazy person running through an airport with 18 inch tall, three dimensional penguin cake.
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I’m an engineer. I think that means I’m supposed to like video games. Sad to say though I never played them much. My mom would never let me have video game consoles when I was a kid, so the only time I got to play them was when I went to my friend’s house. My friend and Andrea and I used to play Duck Hunt sitting with that plastic orange gun pressed up against the screen trying to shoot those crazy ducks. Put me two feet from the screen though? I didn’t have a shot (har har).
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My roommates got married last weekend. Yes roommateS. To each other. Although it would be quite the coincidence of they were getting married to different people.
I didn’t always live with an engaged (and now married) couple though. When I first moved to my current place it was just me and one-half of the couple. I specifically remember when we moved in making a joke about her not getting engaged anytime soon so I wouldn’t have to move. Apparently the joke was on me, because 5 months later she had a ring on her finger. But…I didn’t have to move.
Eight months later the fiancee moved in. But…I didn’t have to move.
Eight months after that, well, they’re married. And…I’m still living here.
I’ll move eventually, but in the meantime, I thought I would make them some cookies.
I made some checkerboard cookies because, well, I’ve never made them before and they look pretty cool. They require a certain amount of accuracy with a ruler, but the result is worth the extra effort. It’s like a tasty variation of graph paper. Yum.
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