Dessert Tastings and Powder!

Oh my shmoly shuga' sweets! So, Daniel and I went cake tasting for our wedding cake a few weeks ago and were blown away by what it entailed. We were allowed three different cake flavors...and me oh my.

Let's just say, I could seriously become a professional cake taster FO' LIFE.

 

HOW CUTE are these mini cakes??? ERMAGASH I die. 

We first tried the Chocolate Monkey Cake with Frosted Buttercream. Daniel's description of this delectable, sugary delight? "TOP SECRET". And boy, was it. The buttercream was perfect to the 'T'. I've actually never been a fan of buttercream, but our baker was able to make it so light, not full of the 'buttery' flavor and just the right amount of sweetness. (I'm sitting here drooling thinking about it. No, seriously.) The 'monkey' part of the cake were caramelized bananas and the chocolate cake was fluffy goodness.

The next flavor we tried was a Bailey's and Pralines cake which was a chocolate cake drizzled with Bailey's liquor and filled with milk chocolate and praline mousse. Still delicious, but not exactly our favorite. (Tasted like a decadent chocolate cake and lacked texture.)

 The final cake we tried was a Pistachio Raspberry cake. Isn't it fabulous? This particular cake is layered with pistachio cake and filled with raspberry jam, sweet vanilla bean cream and raspberries. YUM/\Nth Power. 

I  was surprised by how large these 'mini cakes' were. Would it be legal to do a cake tasting every weekend? :-) 

Oh, and I also surprised Daniel one night with 13 different macaron flavors to test out, also. We had a ton of fun doing it, and I'm pretty sure we scored on the flavor that we've decided to use at our wedding. 

Pretty Little Macarons.

Om nom.

So, Daniel and I are heading off to Mammoth for the rest of the week with a couple of our dear friends. I'm SO EXCITED. I've been waiting and waiting to go skiing for forever and a day. Haven't gone since Italy too many moons ago.  As far as I'm concerned, the weather is screaming at us to get our butts over to the slopes and to play on the powder. WOOHOO!

Mickey's 1st Birthday

Hi y'all!

It's Sunday and I'm sitting here with Mickey Rae Rae also known as McCrazy also known as McCreeper...more simply known as McCrae.

He just celebrated his 1st BIRTHDAY!!!

And since Daniel and I love to party, we decided to throw him a 1st birthday par-tay-tay with his little cousin P-Rock, also known as Miss Pebbles.

Made McCrae a mini Peanut Butter 1st Birthday Cake...then tortured him by making him wait.

Miss Pebbles also got a little slice of Peanut Butter Cake.

We even wrapped a couple of gifts for Mickey and one for Miss Pebbles so she could partake in the festivities!

Tearing apart the wrapping on his first gift.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Family Photo!

With the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, Daniel and I have been trying really hard to get all of our Christmas shopping done way ahead of time. SO, we spent a good number of hours yesterday rummaging through a few stores like scavengers and got 99% of all our presents out of the way. Now, just time to wrap the gifts like a fiend!

Well, big things are coming this week, so keeping my fingers crossed and praying hard! Time to get to bed early and get ready for the long week ahead.

Love you all, besos!

Man Cave

Hello blogosphere -

It's me Daniel, again. So as our wedding nears, Christine and I need to start planning out our future living arrangements. I have a house in Aliso Viejo, and she has one near my office in Costa Mesa. We decided that it is probably for the best that we move closer to my office. As you may have noticed, Christine has a very particular design taste that lets just say is a little more princessy than my taste. Christine's house is a three bedroom, so I'm thinking we will have the shared master bedroom (obviously), a guestroom that will double as her office, and the third room will be a guestroom that will double as my office/man cave.

Christine doesn't seem as excited as I am about the man cave, so I'm still trying to convince her it's a great idea. I mean, how harmless does this look.

I am pretty sure when Christine closes her eyes and imagines my man cave, she is picturing something like this:

I'm picturing something closer to this:

Assuming my dreams come true, and I get a man cave, in realty, it's probably going to be something closer to what Christine is envisioning with a little freshman year dormroom flare. Think Godfather posters and a sweet Fathead.