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Monday, 24 March 2014

"So What" Doodle, Pride and Prejudice

I'm not sure what Pride and Prejudice is actually about. I heard that it's a very cute romance novel, but that's about all I know. So far, with what I've been reading, this is what I got out of the meaning of the past few chapters.

"So What" Doodle, 50 Below Zero

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Pie Review

Alright, so I found this pie recipe and decided to try it out because it seemed good. I got it off of this site: http://www.thecountrycook.net/2012/09/butter-crumble-apple-pie.html?m=1

I had been craving pie for about 2 months now and finally decided it was time to bake one. I'm not entire sure if I had made the pie wrong, but I found that it didn't work out at all.

I give this apple crumble pie 2 stars out of 5.

I'm not the type of ever give out no stars because there's always something good within the bad.

I found this pie to be very dry, and after being baked, the crumble on top seemed to still be a little overbalrd in some areas and underbaked in others. The filling was also quite dry, which was surprising considering the filling should be wet and moist, but it was not. The bottom crust was too crumbly and not flaky at all. It would make sense though considering the ingredients for the crust resembled a crumble rather than pie crust. I wasn't very satisfied with this pie and I'm upset the ingredients went to waste.

**Update**

I made a caramel sauce to drizzle on top to add a little moistness. That really helped with the flavour of the pie!

Sunday Mornings

Nothing like fresh, straight out of the oven, homemade bread on a Sunday morning/afternoon!

These butter topped buns are so good!

Friday, 21 March 2014

Starcraft Cake

So tomorrow is my boyfriend's birthday and I had no idea what to get him as a gift. One day I was talking to him and he said that I should make him a Starcraft cake, as a joke. Since I didn't have anything else in mind, I just decided to do so.

Starcraft is an online game run by Blizzard, the same company that made World of Warcraft. Starcraft and WOW are very different though. In Starcraft there are 3 races; Protoss, Terren, and Zerg. Kyle, my boyfriend, likes to play as Protoss best, so I decided to make him a Protoss themed birthday cake.

Here is the final result!

Every single element on this cake was handmade, straight down to the cake and fondant. The only thing that wasn't made from scratch would be the chocolate cookie crumbs on top and the bit of gumpaste I mixed in with the marshmallow fondant to make it easier to mold into shapes.

The cake itself is a vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream and green buttercream grass.

The figures are hand sculpted using a mixture of 2:1 fondant and gumpaste. The base of the prism building is made of rice crispy treats.

Overall, this cake took me about 7-8 hours to make (excluding time for the cake to cool down after it's been baked). The whole process went over a span of 3 days, from baking the cake, making the fondant, sculpting the figures, and finally icing and finishing the cake.

I had a lot of fun making this cake and I'm very satisfied with the final outcome! I think it turned out great!