I sewed up a long cat for my brother’s birthday gift. It’s made from a t-shirt, poly fill and embroidery thread. It’s not pretty but my siblings and I have already fallen in love with it. It’s so soft, cuddly and very expressive. If you don’t know what long cat is look here.
Some different foods we made today for Jason’s dinner.
Baked Italian style eggplant sticks. Marinate eggplant in Italian dressing, roll in seasoned bread crumbs, and bake.
Udon noodle stir fry with faux crab, cucumber, pork, and egg.
Teriyaki spam musubi. First time making it! Yum. Couldn’t eat the spam by itself though, waaay too salty.
Something my dad bought from Chinatown. Pinecone? Squid? No, it’s fish. O_O You’re supposed to dump a sweet and spicy sauce over it.
A lovely bento made with leftover spam musubi, broccoli, wasabi peas, mini marshmallows and peach slices.
Happy Birthday to my brother Jason! I did a lot of research and with the help of my siblings, we put it all together. Presenting…. the best burger cake ever!
Isn’t it amazing?!?!
Supplies:
Yellow cake mix
Devil’s food cake
9″ round pans
Large glass bowl
Fondant (I used the marshmallow recipe)
Frosting
Shortening for greasing pans and working with fondant
Food coloring
Green fruit roll up
Bake the yellow cake mix for the buns. Put less than half the batter in the 9″ round and the rest of the batter in the large glass bowl. I tried to do it so that the diameter of the bottom of the top “bun” is also 9″ in diameter. Grease the pans and bowl with a lot of shortening to ensure the cakes come out. You can also use parchment paper for the bottom of the pan, just cut out a circle to fit the pan.
Make the fondant by nuking the marshmallows with some water, grease your hands and surface then mix in the powdered sugar a bit at a time until it stretches nice and smooth. I only made 1/2 the recipe and I worked on a cookie sheet so cleanup is easier. Color some green for lettuce and some red for tomatoes, yellow for cheese, and leave some white for the onions. Make some pickles out of some microwaved green fruit roll up. Make some sesame seeds out of white fondant.
Build burger: bottom bun, cream cheese frosting “mayo”, cheese, chocolate cake “meat”, red dyed frosting “ketchup”, fondant “lettuce”, “tomatoes”, “onions”, fruit roll up “pickles”, then the top bun. We didn’t want too much sugar so all the fondant pieces are only around the edges and not in the middle of the cake. Stick sesame seeds onto bun with frosting.
So if you have been keeping track, there’s still a half a chocolate cake left. With that I made these super sweet and super cute cupcake pops. Original recipe from bakerella! If you haven’t seen her site yet, go visit her site! It’s great. She was even on the Martha Stewart show.
Basically crumble the cake and mix in 1/2 a tub of frosting. I used cream cheese frosting. Don’t add too much! Mine was very moist. Mash that all together. Put in freezer to make it cold. When cold, roll into balls. It’s really messy. >.< Put them all on wax paper on a cookie sheet and freeze again. When cold, mush into molds for the cupcake look. I just used my fingers. Freeze again and melt the chocolate for the bottom of the cupcakes. Let the chocolate cool a bit so it’s not runny. Dip the cold brown lumps bottom side down into the chocolate, place bottom side up back onto the pan and stick in the candy stick. Freeze again and melt the top chocolate color. Repeat dipping but this time dip the top of the cupcakes. Sprinkle on sprinkles and stick them into a chunk of styrofoam or floral foam. Chill until chocolate coat hardens. Enjoy!
sugar comaaaaa
More bentos made for today from leftovers. Pics are kinda sucky because it was dark already. =/
Rice with oven fried chicken drumstick (recipe will be posted later). Yogurt with craisins and banana slices. This was for my brother. Today’s his birthday! Will post the awesome cake later. You MUST see that post.
Sister’s lunch of spaghetti and meatballs.
Sister’s snack box of same yogurt and some sliced grapes.
My simple box of spaghetti, a chocolate covered bananas and ovaltine doggy cookies (see recipe below).
Freeze some mango chunks and blend with some sugar and cream and what do you get? Five minute mango ice cream! Smooth and creamy soft serve style. Freeze for a bit to make it scoopable. We just ate it right out of the blender. Probably easier to make with a food processor.
Doggy shaped cookies made with Ovaltine! Ovaltine is a delicious chocolate malt drink mix. Usually we mix it with warm milk and sugar and it’s a great hot chocolate replacement. My bottle is the European formula which may make a difference in whether it has sugar or not. The cookies were based off of the doggy cookies made out of Horlicks so that’s why mine are darker.
Here’s the original recipe:
Horlicks Puppy Cookies (for humans)
Ingredients:
(makes about 48 cookies)
180g butter, soften at room temperature (1 1/2 sticks)
80g Horlicks (original flavour)
200g top flour or cake flour
25g corn flour
25g milk powder
100g chocolate chips
some chocolate rice
some Koko Krunch
Method:
1. Pre-heat oven to 140deg C. Line baking tray with baking paper and set aside.
2. Sieve top flour, corn flour and milk powder.
3. Cream butter and Horlicks for about three minutes at low speed. Do not overbeat.
4. Put in top flour, cornflour and milk powder and beat for about one minute to form
dough.
5. Divide dough into 10g each. Put three chocolate chips into each piece of dough and roll into balls.
6. Insert two pieces of Koko Krunch to form the ‘ears’, chocolate rice for the “eyes”, and a chocolate chip in the centre for the ‘nose’.
7. Bake at 140 deg C for about 25 minutes. Depending on your oven, it may take another 5 to 10 minutes more for the cookies to be ready.
8. Leave to cool on wire rack before storing in an airtight container.
Recipe from here. Also on craftster.
I substituted Ovaltine for Horlicks and added about 1/2 cup of white sugar because I like my cookies sweet. The original recipe does not make very sweet cookies. I also made mine bigger and cut out ears because that brand of cereal is not available in the U.S. and I couldn’t find a replacement. Since mine are bigger, I made only about 24 cookies.
Woof woof! O_O
