Prom Flowers

These were for all the kids at school.

My "#12 Grimmauld Place" Gingerbread House

In October at Culinary School we started building gingerbread houses for the competition at Thanksgiving Point. I decided to make #12 Grimmauld Place from Harry Potter.
One of the funnest parts was stamping and painting the gingerbread. I stamped the gingerbread before I baked it then literally painted it with food coloring.
It was easiest to decorate most of it before putting it all together. I used hard candy for the windows and royal icing for all the decorations

After months of work... here I am in my culinary outfit and my finished house!

The next morning I came in (the day before the competition, mind you) and somebody punched in my house! Not a very nice thing to do. To this day I'm not sure who it was. The most I can figure it was a Lord Voldemort supporter... or the Anger Management class.
I thought it was over but my class and teacher encouraged me to try and fix it...

Not as good as the original but for being smashed to pieces, not too bad.

In the end, despite the hate crime, I won 2nd place!! And I won a Blendtec. Not too bad.
I cant wait till next year. I learned my lesson though, to not get mixed up with the Dark Arts and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

The Morning Benders

I listen to this song probably 3 times a day. I don't know what it is. I think I may be in love with Chris Chu, the main singer. What an amazing voice!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jgmgE-QDzA

Enjoy! (Skip the talking at the beginning and the end)

Tonya's Wedding

Dreaming of Hawaii

I am laying in my bed with my electric blanket on high and my space heater going full blast while it dumps snow outside. I listened to Christmas music today because it just feels like nasty winter. It literally is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It's times like this when I seriously question why I live in Utah. The only way to get through times such as these is to change you desktop wallpaper to a tropical beach and look at pictures of summer and trips to Hawaii while listening to Damien Rice.









ahhhhhhhhhh......much better now.

Cakes

I have found another hobby.... CAKES. It is the best of both worlds. I get to cook AND do fun, colorful designs. Martha, my roommate, gave me cake decorating classes for my Christmas present. The class started a week ago. It is so much fun.
This is my first cake for class.

I made this one for my roommate Sarah's graduation.

This cake we just made for fun at school. We had to make Italian Meringue Frosting. It was really hard. After 3 tries we finally got it.

This one was for my friend Laura's birthday. It was the tastiest of them all. The outside is made of whip topping and yogurt. So good!

Valentines Flowers

Martha and Sarah helped me make an arrangement with the extra flowers. I really like what they did with the spikes at the bottom. It really speaks Love to me.




I love Valentines Day because its another great excuse for flowers!