Holy Crap I Have Not Updated In Over a Year

I am a terrible blogger. I have no life, therefore nothing ever to really blog about. I meant to post about this cake back in February. February!! What is wrong with me? How can I have no life and still not manage to fit in an update?

Anyway, this is a Rubik's Cube cake I made for my birthday (as I became enamoured with the Rubik's Cube after my friend made this documentary. Check it out!). The original recipe I found was full of complicated stuff I didn't want to deal with, so I just got a bunch of white cakes from the store and dyed them different colours. As you will see, it didn't hold up super well. Well enough to eat though, which is the main thing.

So here is some of the dyed cake batter pre-baking.

And post baking.

So then you take your coloured cakes and chop them down to size and put all the extra bits in a tin in the freezer and slowly end up eating frozen cake over the next couple of weeks.

Start sticking them together with chocolate icing.

Make three sets, then stick the three sets together.

Eventually cover the whole thing however you want really. I just used a boat load of white icing (that I had to go buy more of at midnight on a day I had not bothered to shower) and sprinkles. If you end up with a lopsided cake, you're doing it right enough.

Pack it up in a cake carrier since you have to bring it to the location of the party. Have your dad (after seeing much fancier cakes you have once made) say "I thought you'd make something fancier for your own birthday." To which I replied "It's pretty on the inside! Like me!" For I am also lopsided and often covered in a boatload of icing and sprinkles.

Cut into the cake and make it further lopsided.

Serve on your friends' fancy dishes.

Start eating it and be like "Holy shit, there is a boatload of icing in this."

Still awesome though. End post by saying hello to the only friend that seems to still check this site every now and then. Hi Nicole!

Okay.

Who is the wise guy that designed these?

These are ruining the shelves of 13-year-old girls everywhere!

Shank Bear

What? Why is there a Department of Corrections bear in this Zellers claw game?

More importantly, why does this toy exist to begin with?

Bacon Potato Cheese Tart

Strap in!

Start with fanning out 1 pound of bacon.

Layer of potatoes.

Layer of cheese.

Another layer of potatoes.

Another layer of cheese (1 pound total!).

Fold the fanned-out bacon over the top.

Jiffy Pop!

Place in oven for an agonizing THREE HOURS!! Eat popcorn while you wait and bacon smell wafts around the house.

Lookin' good! We decided to crisp it up a litte.

Yumville!

I was not remotely hungry for the next seven hours.



Why?

                                                                        Why does this exist?

                                         More understandable: Why it was in a bin at Value Village.

The Holidays Are Over

I guess the holidays were tough on a lot of us. This shopping cart committed suicide.

Blurry Christmas

Cat Separation Station

My parents' cats are not too jazzed about Cupcake visiting. Cupcake is on the right, Keiko on the left, swiping and hissing at Cupcake, who is just curious and wants to be friends.

Note the motion blur on Keiko's mad tail.

Cupcake The Yellow-Nosed Cat

Adorableness (and lack of focus) enhanced!

Christmas Cat

From teeny kitten to gigantic chomping monster in one year.

World's Cutest Teapot

I do not drink tea and have absolutely no real use for this teapot, other than to adore it.

Those little wheels actually move! I suppose you could wheel it across the table if you had friends to wheel it to. Which I don't.

Awesome!

World's Angriest Snowman

An advent calendar might cheer him up.

Whoopie Pies!

More like Whoopsie Pies, as it turned out.

I got this kit to make whoopie pies. Here what came in it:

No instuctions were included. I e-mailed the company and got them, no big deal. However here are all the things you actually need to make whoopie pies:

I get that they can't really include eggs, milk, oil, and butter, but then really, this is hardly a complete kit.

Alright, so mix up the cake batter-type stuff with the oil and milk.

Egg it up.

Whirrrrrrrrr and it's mixed.

So here's where it got whoopsed up. The kit says it makes 12-15 whoopie pies. So when I blobbed them out on the cookie sheets I was all "12 blobs. Done and done," forgetting that 12 blobs would only equal 6 whoopie pies. Therefore, I made them way too huge.

So while those are baking, it's time to make icing! Measuring out 8 tablespoons of butter is a royal pain in the ass. Also, the icing mix they provided (along with icing sugar I provided) was seriously and ridiculously runny. It was not usable whatsoever. I had to put in pounds (well, not really) of extra icing sugar, just to make it usable.

Like I said, I made these way too huge. Although, my only real experience with whoopie pies is based on the ones sold at Irving, and they are a decent size. Not as big as these mothers, but still. Anyway, I tried to cut them down to a reasonable size.

Here is one before I altered the icing. What a mess.

Gross. Anyway, evenutally I got the icing to a decent consistency and put the candy cane bits in there and it all worked out okay. Although, I thought they were too sweet. The pregnant lady who ate some thought they were juuuuust right. But you can't trust the tastebuds of a pregnant lady!

And that is that!