Thursday, June 4, 2009

SuperMom's Cake



Today is SuperMom's birthday, she is 33.  I have been making wonderful and tasty cakes for a few months now and i decided to make SuperMom a beautiful two tier white cake with a white chocolate truffle frosting with 33 roses on the top tier.  It all started out great.















I made 11 red and orange roses and 12 purple (just incase).  Ok there were 11 orange and 11 dark orange, I used red coloring, but still turned out dark orange.  


Wednesday I get home from work and start looking for my cookbooks with the 2 recipes I was going to make, they are both missing.  I searched and searched, Gus found the one with the frosting and the other one is still missing.
















I gathered all the ingredients for the frosting.  I began with mixing 1/2 cup light corn syrup with 3 cups whipping cream (I was doubling the recipe cause it was going to be a big cake) in a sauce pan.  I brought that to a simmer, added the white chocolate chips and vanilla.  I waited the 2 minutes it calls for then I stirred and chilled it.  The Dr. Pepper was to clam me down if I needed it...


While I waited, I made the cake.  I gathered everything and did great the batter looked and tasted wonderful.  I popped it into the oven and clean up a little.  About 15 minutes into the baking I looked over and saw my 6 egg whites waiting to be added to batter (I just made a cake with no eggs).  I started all over with the cake, this time remembering the eggs.  It turned out perfectly this time.


When the frosting finally cooled I put it in my mixing bowl and started to beat it.  Unfortunately I beat it too long and it is the chunks your get right before full blown butter.  I still used it, ‘cause at 11 o’clock at night you really don’t care what anything looks like anymore.  



SuperMom should be here in a few minutes for coffee, and we will see then what she thinks of it.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Baby Blues

I had the Baby Blues this week...  My babies are 15 1/2, 13 1/2 and 10 (in a month and a week) they are almost grown up and Gus decided when Kathryn was 1 1/2 that he was done having kids.  


This weekend was a rare one where I got to spend time with 2 really cute babies, and this week I have two baby showers to attend (none of which really truly helped me).  Saturday night I got to play with, hold and feed Alicia a very cute 7 month old baby girl.  She loved me and I never put her down.  She even rooted around on me and she wasn’t even nursed! 

 Then on Sunday I got to spend time with RJ.  He is 7 1/2 months old and the spitting image of his father, but with even prettier blue eyes and curly blonde hair.  He helped me get over the B.B.’s, he cried the whole time unless he was being held (even his car seat needed to up off the ground).

  So I am thinking that when Sunshine has her baby, I get custody of Zachary (I still think he needs to be called Byron or Bryce or Bruce) when he is cranky sometimes so I can get over my B.B.’s without having to call Rusty and his wife, who hates me.