Hey look, I made a cake! I know it’s been a while and it feels good to be back. As you may have figured out, it was for a first birthday. The cake itself wasn’t too complicated, but this was one of my more pleasurable cake decorating experiences in a while. Sometimes I forget just [...]
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Hey there, what’s up? Look, I made a cake! It’s been a while, I know. I’ve missed it. I’ve missed kneading the fondant. I’ve missed icing the cakes. I’ve missed the last minute panicking when something inevitably falls apart. But I’m back! Life is starting to settle down again so maybe I’ll have some time [...]
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The baby blocks are back! They’re almost square and kinda cute and this time they have Hebrew letters! Yup, I free-handed those puppies myself. Bonus points to anyone who can read what they say. There were supposed to be only six blocks, but apparently my engineering background and long years of higher education left me [...]
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Right, so in real life I’m an engineer. I work for a company and we build spacecraft. No joke. In college I worked on a satellite. It’s called CUSat and it’s supposed to go to space. No joke. This is a CUSat cake. We’re going to launch it on a brownie rocket. No joke. OK, [...]
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You see, this cake is supposed to be crooked. I’ve actually made this cake before and The Jackster promptly asked me if I had messed up because it was all tilted. I appreciate the confidence, Mom! I quite like this cake. It’s fun and pretty and full of whimsy and class (black, white, and pink [...]
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While the Celtics handle the Magic, the Lakers are playing the Suns. That’s about the extent of my knowledge and interest in NBA basketball. Ok, that’s a lie. I know that Steve Nash looks really short on TV, but he’s actually quite tall when standing next to regular people. I know the Celtics beat the [...]
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I have a lot of friends named Jen. It gets confusing. I have High-School-Jen, College-Jen (a.k.a Blanket-Jen), Pre-frosh-Jen, and Work-Jen, who is now known as Jen-Formally-Known-As-Jennifer. Well Jen-Formally-Known-As-Jennifer had the most adorable baby boy a couple of months ago. He’s got a little head of blond hair, giant blue eyes, and is just the chillest [...]
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I’ve had some interesting cake requests in the short time I’ve been doing this. I had the snowblower with the bloody finger, the music playing boxing gloves, a now defunct military satellite, and a Christmas octopus, but this was by far the weirdest cake request I’ve had yet. A pair of thumbs up? Thumbs up? [...]
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Remember that last post I did about this ginormous cake? Well, this is what it turned out to be: Yup, a First Communion cake! I really enjoyed making this cake. The concept was fairly simple, but I thought the design was quite elegant. The hardest part about this cake for me was the piping. I [...]
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You’re probably wondering who Hadi is. And why he says “Yes!” Hadi is one of my coworkers. And the other day was his birthday. And I don’t know why he says “Yes!”, but most of the time “Yes!” is a pretty good answer. Unless the question is, “May I please leave you in the middle [...]
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I have pulled three all-nighters in my entire life. The first one was before the last day of the semester my senior year of college. We had to make sumo wrestling robots and ours was having programming issues. We spent all night debugging our program just to decide at the last minute our logic was [...]
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