5 Sweets for Valentine's Day

For this year's Valentine's day, I baked 5 different sweets over one week time, 4 before Valentine's day & 1 a day after Valentine's day. First, I baked Muffins (chocolate) with pink icing & sprinkles which had white and red hearts. Before I had a chance to take a picture, they were gone. Then, I baked Peanut Butter Blossoms with Bliss chocolates (heart shaped), in 4 different version; 1 is without any sugar on the cookies, one with regular white sugar, one with RED colored sugar & one with PINK colored sugar. I wish I had a better PLATE to place them for Photo shooting... 3rd one was the heart shaped cinnamon crescent rolls. I saw this recipe on somebody's blog, and made them, using 2 cinnamon crescent rolls from Pilsbury's refrigerated dough, to make a heart shape. I didn't have a chance to take this picture either, before we ate them! lol! 4th one was Chocolate covered Strawberries. I sometimes make these just because I luv chocolate & strawberries! LOL! But this time, I dressed the strawberries a bit more, with white chocolate & "Valentine's day" Sprinkles :-) A day after Valentine's day, I baked this heart shaped brownies. It was more like cake. I luved decorating these hearts with chocolate frosting, white chocolate (made it in pink) & sprinkles. By then, I bought a Better Plate to display! :-)Over all, I baked a lot for this Valentine's day! :-)

Happy 4th of July!!

For today's celebration, i made the same cake i made last year, and again, it was a big hit! Here is the pic., and the recipe from Kraft. If you love berries, like i do, you'll love this cake, and for this celebration, it looks good too. Underneath of the white whipped cream, it's the strawberry flavored jello, folding sliced strawberries and blueberries. On the bottom of the cake, it's a layer of pound cake. It's very yummy! You can find that recipe @ www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/wave-your-flag-cake-50205.aspx

today is... National Doughnuts Day!!

Recent years, when i think of Doughnuts, i remember Malasadas! It's Very Very Very Yummy!!! I bought this in Guam several years ago, when someone from Hawaii opened a store in Guam. When i lived in Hawaii, i learned it's VERY popular there. And yesterday, i learned there are many portuguese descendents in Hawaii, and it's a portuguese doughnut!! This is the recipe & pic.of Maladasas; http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Malasadas/Detail.aspx This doughnuts day reminded me of my childhood, when i lived in Tokyo... doughnuts with Sweet Red bean paste inside of these small doughnuts. It was also really good but haven't had one in ages...

Easter Cards & Sweets

Hope everybody is recuperatinng from BUSY Easter weekend! & maybe FOUND a GOLDEN EGG! :-) Well, my GOLDEN eggs were found on my Mini Cheesecake i baked! :-) Since i FINALLY watched the WHOLE movie of Charlie & Chocolate Factory about 10 days ago, i was happy when i found ONE bag left on the shelf at the grocery store, with full of WONKA's GOLDEN EGG CHOCOLATES, right before Easter sunday! So this is my Mini Cheesecake i baked. For the easter cards, the first 2 went to my non stamping friends, and the rest 3 went to my HM club friends. Hope everybody had a great Easter! ...we DID have Gorgeous Weather!!