Birthday cake!
Posted: January 26, 2012 Filed under: Art, Recipes 1 Comment »Once again, a large lapse has befallen my posting. So what better way than to start the new year with my birthday post? Lol, this past weekend was my birthday (1/21) and also the ringing in of the Lunar New Year! Hehehe, it’s my year (and Kunku’s!) because we’re both dragons ^_^ Dede tried to plan a surprise party for me .. but failed to keep it a surprise <3
Friday, we started off at my place with Sangria and cake. There was Peach and Mint white, Citrus and Pear red, and Grapefruit and Mint white. For recipes check out my post on birthday sangria at my food blog.
Birthday Sangria!
It all started out with a new cupcake I was making for the holidays. I’ll be posting these recipes on my other blog, so if you want the recipes, check out http://shlieka.blogspot.com/2012/02/birthday-trifle.html
The Sugar Cookie Cupcake
This cupcake was kind of an accident. I was messing around with the measurements of the vanilla cupcake recipe and didn’t quite know what would turn out. The result was a sugar cookie cupcake. It taste and looks just like a fluffy, soft sugar cookie on top. I had so many cupcakes, and nobody to eat them. Fast forward a few days later, and I’m thinking ‘hey, I need to figure out what to do with these cupcakes without wasting food. ‘ The fantastic part is that I had just dug out 3 jars of Trader Joe’s Lemon Curd. I love this stuff, and it was getting close to it’s expiration date. I just knew that I had to make a trifle, to put a little moisture back into the cakes, they would soak this lemon curd right up. But when I opened it up … the consistency had thickened over time. I wasn’t sure how I was going to spread it over crumbled cakes. Thankfully, I also had a bag of Meyer Lemons in the fridge that I’d been meaning to turn into homemade Lemon Curd.
Mmmmm lemon curd ..
The left jar is the homemade lemon curd, and the right is the lemon curd from Trader Joe’s. I ended having having extra homemade lemon curd, which I whisked in a bowl with the Trader Joe’s lemon curd. The homemade curd was very thin, which helped thin the Trader Joe’s lemon curd to a perfect consistency. I used the rest of the heavy whipping cream and made whipped cream with a little lemon curd whipped into it.
The first trifle ^_^
The first trifle I made was so delicious. Layers of sugar cookie cake, lemon curd, blueberries and whipped cream. Dede went crazy over it which is why we decided to make it for my birthday. We used canned peaches, strawberries between the layers for my birthday cake and dotted the top with blackberries before decorating with piped chocolate.
Me making a wish! This was my first time piping chocolate ^_^. It was so much fun! I made hearts and shoes and swirls. We got the gold candles from Party City and the freaky thing is that when they melt, they’re still gold on the inside!
After cake and drinks, we headed to the The Smith for food, and ended the night at Santo’s Party House! I’ll be posting a birthday post 2 with pictures from the rest of the night/weekend as soon as I get them n_n.
Current Things on Aileen’s Mind…
Posted: May 11, 2010 Filed under: Fashion, Music, Personal, Recipes, Silly, Uncategorized 2 Comments »Current Songs On My Mind:
Just Jack – Embers
Scanners – Salvation
The Shins – Girl Inform Me
Morgan Page – Fight for You
Fleet Foxes – Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
This is the gift, it comes with a price
Who is the lamb, and who is the knife?
————Florence and the Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
Current Video On My Mind:
Okay I’m sorry but I watched this shit like 329374824 times and i CRACK the eff up every time. This lady is hilarious…part of the reason being that I think she’s trying to do an actual serious makeup tutorial haha. But you know this is legit stuff because Michelle Phan commented and even favourited it (and i LOVE Michelle Phan yay!). Yeah, eff fancy vibrating mascaras (eg, Maybelline) just vibrate your own damn head ok.
Current Picture On My Mind:
I saw this on PG’s page HAHA and thank you this is hilarious and so true.
Which leads me to the…
Current Movie On My Mind:
“Better than Chocolate!” I was having a Lesbian movie marathon yesterday and busted out the “Saving Face,” “Better than Chocolate,” and a new amazing discovery–”I Can’t Think Straight!” I just LOVE lesbian movies because (some) most of them tackle gender, sex, and sexuality taboos. I love movies that bend your mind, and unusual couplings/scenarios that would usually never surface into our mainstream media. YAY INDIE FILMS. YAY (some) GLBT FILMS. I think “Saving Face” is still my all-time favorite though–the funny parts are HILARIOUS and the sad parts are SO SAD. You’re crying one minute and laughing hysterically the next–definitely a sign of a great movie (=
And to end this,
I just made fried rice for the first time in my LIFE today. FROM SCRATCH. Yes, I know I am an almost-21-year-old Chinese American but KEYWORD American and thus I don’t cook.
No seriously though, I made the rice and then fried the rice, and put everything into the fried rice MYSELF!! I am so proud (= *waits for applause*
Okay well, you don’t want to know what’s in there, but it’s basically anything and everything I could find in my fridge–but hey, that’s kind of what fried rice/bibimbap style food is, right? You just take whatever shit you can find in the fridge and mix it with rice and sauce and its good (=
So i have (kind of hard/undercooked) rice, canned crab, salt, olive oil, stir fry oil, lao gan ma chili sauce, eggs, chickpeas (from yesterday’s hummus bros takeout), and broken bits of fried dumplings (i tried to fry frozen dumplings but they came out in a wad and got all broken up when i tried to break it apart so i just threw it into the fried rice too…)…..woo.
And guess what?
It is so good.
*proud*
purple print leopard dress from topshop that now belongs to sharone..
SEE I CAN STILL PULL OFF FEMININE!!
(sorry sharone…i only wore it once to try it on before you x___x) But the back on this dress is the coolest part…and sorry for whoring your dress out…but i just think the world should see how hott you are <3
cheers!
xx~ aileen
