Boston Cream Pie Minis

For this week, I kept up the baking trend and have for you Boston Cream Pie Minis! According to the two people who ate them so far, they are superb. I made them for the Shabbat dinner I'm attending tonight - my friends and I usually have one every Friday and I've been keen to bring desserts. I never thought I'd be celebrating Shabbat, or even having weekly dinners. I'm very grateful for my friends, but I'm awfully depressed to think that they are all graduating in a few months, and I'll be stuck here another semester without them! =(

Making the chocolate glaze and cream filling (bow-chicka-bow-wow)

 This would be my boyfriend separating egg yolks for me...as you can see in the smaller white bowl, I did not do so well in this department.

The completed project! Twelve little mini cakes. =]

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Cake photos

Sorry for the delay, I didn't have much time to relax since moving back to NY! here are the photos...

But WHY is the rum gone!?

I finished the cake yesterday and they are DELICIOUS. I made two cakes:
1. One layer of the chocolate rum cake, topped with the whipped vanilla tapioca filling and glazed with the bittersweet glaze...
2. A two-layer chocolate rum cake, with whipped vanilla tapioca fill, glazed with the bittersweet chocolate and with pressed walnuts along the sides. PICTURES SOON.

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This week...

I'm currently waiting for my dark chocolate rum cakes to cool off so I can glaze and nut them.

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Go cape, go!

Finished! I'm leaving out the buttons because it wouldn't close when I wear it anyways...I don't know if I want to give it to someone or not though. More pictures later tonight =]

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More photos

This is my work station. It's my mom's formal dinner table...I hope I haven't scratched anything. 

 The tie part of the neck part, the circle part is on the inside and the dark suiting is on the outside. This part took quite some time. I did it wrong, and therefore it took forever for me to finish it. 

 The jagged edge of the cape. This is where the buttons are supposed to be but I don't think I'm putting them in. I don't think it'll look quite as good...and it wouldn't close if I tried to button it haha

This is what it looks like when it's open. It reminds me of a manta ray

More manta ray.

Almost done with the cape. You can see it here draped over a chair. It was a bit more complicated that I thought, but mostly due to my own errors that made it harder than what it should be. Also, it's going to be too small for me to wear, so someone is getting a lovely gift =]

I still need to hem the bottom, add buttons and touch up on everything. I only have three more days to finish it!

On another note, I'm totally rocking at my other resolutions.

New year, new times.

A new blog for 2011, to keep track of my resolution(s); how cliché, right? Well, I might as well jump on the bandwagon and hope that I can hang on. This year, I intend to create something at least once a week. I'm leaving myself a lot of leeway in the this resolution, considering how every year before this, the number of kept resolutions stands at a solid zero. Perhaps with this blog, I'll feel obligated enough to make myself better through the projects I create.  Plus I don't really like Twitter or tumblr so this seemed the most viable option.

For the first week of the new year, I've committed myself to make a Road Cape, patter by Thunderlily. I love to sew. I love fashion. I love colors. I think you get the idea. I wanted to start with something easier, but I couldn't find my old fabric bin, so that may be my project for next week.

The pattern for the cape printed on 32 pieces of paper, and the assembly took the better part of my night, but if it comes together nicely, the time would have been well worth it. I've chosen a striped dark brown/grey suiting for the outside, and a fun bright black/red/white circle patter for the lining. I haven't really been sewing in quite some time, and starting this project is really getting me excited. I can't normally take my sewing machine to school with me, so I have to scramble to do all the big projects I want here at home...until I have to learn how to backstitch and hand-sew really well. I suppose I can be considered a "Creative" but these are just interests that I have.

I can't guarantee that anything I make will be functional, appealing, fun or real, even. But it'll be a fun ride through the year, making sure I keep the creative juices flowing and accumulating random things in my room. I got this.


Pictures of the cape soon. Until then, I'll leave you with this: