Karess' Kreations: November 2011

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Gobble Gobble

Happy (late) Thanksgiving! Hope you all ate your hearts out, shopped till you dropped, etc!

Anyways this is how my holiday went about..

Wednesday: My FST math class thought it'd be a great idea to recreate our wonderful Halloween party and change it up a bit to a Thanksgiving Potluck. I brought cupcakes as usual..(pictures will be posted below).
Wednesday night/Thursday morning: Started baking for my family's Thanksgiving dinner (this was the only time I could have the oven before the turkey would be cooking). Initially I planned on making 1 apple pie, 1 pumpkin pie, and about maaaaybe a dozen pumpkin spice cupcakes, however; the recipes I had made 2 pumpkin pies and 18 cupcakes! Oh my. Let's just say there was way too much dessert..
Thursday: Since I had been baking all night/morning I was dead tired! By the time I woke up it had been about 3 pm! Long story short... the house still needed to be cleaned and I still needed to make fondant toppers and frosting for the pumpkin spice cupcakes.
Thursday night/Friday morning: BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING! Ha. Just kidding. But not really. It's actually a tradition of mine to go every year. I usually go with my family, however; this year I went with my friends, Nickta and Anisha. There really wasn't anything specific that I was looking for but I thought I'd give it a shot and go anyways...I ended up leaving empty handed.
Friday: Sleep, sleep, and more sleeeeep!
Friday night/Saturday morning: Random craving for donuts!!!
Saturday: Sleeeep and my knitting phase has started once again.
Saturday night/Sunday morning: thought I'd give it a shot to make meringues (I've tried once before and it completely failed..)
Sunday/Today: Sleeeeeeeep....and now blogging ;)

What have I gained from this holiday, you ask?

1. A messed up sleeping schedule

2. Many leftover desserts...actually just many leftovers in general (LOTS of turkey sandwiches..)

3. Knitting needles and yarn all over my house

4. Random cravings late at night/morning

This is not good....I have to go back to school tomorrow! Ah.

Okay enough of me blabbering, it's now picture time!!!!!!! WoOoOoOo.

Cupcakes I made for the FST Thanksgiving Potluck

The apple pie I made for my family (before it was baked)

Cupcakes I made for my family as well. Pretty much the same toppers as the ones for my FST class, except the turkey feathers were made of fondant wrapped on toothpicks (I didn't have enough drying time..)

The night/morning that I had a random craving for donuts.. haha.

Meringues...Brown Sugar Meringues to be exact (; !

At last!!

The scarf I started last year but finally finished!!!

Don't worry, the finished product is a lot longer ;)

Sunday, November 13, 2011

SMH

smh.

(shake my head.)

Earlier this week my mom asked me if I could make a princess themed cake for my cousin's 4th birthday. The only thing is that my cousin is very specific with which princesses she likes. For instance, I thought she might like Sleeping Beauty/Aurora, but no she doesn't. She doesn't like her because she is scared of the witch. That's understandable. I used to be afraid of that witch too. As much as I loved that movie, every time the fireplace scene would come on, I would run away like a little cry baby. At the time, I thought Maleficent was the most horrifying thing ever. The fireplace scene (below) would just always give me the heeby jeebies!!

See? Isn't that scene creepy? (excuse the french..)

Anyways, I could babble about Disney for days, but I won't.

...for now. Hehe ;)

So long story short, I made my cousin a cake, however; MY MOM GOT THE WRONG DATE! Oh my goodness.

Turns out mom thought that my cousin's birthday was yesterday, November 12th, but really, it's actually next Saturday, November 19th. I guess now my cousin will just get an early birthday cake!

Note: My apologies for the amount of Disney videos in this post. Making this cake just put me in the Disney music listening mood! (:

The cake...

fun fact - as of now, this is the biggest cake that I have made.

If you haven't guessed, her favorite disney princesses are Mulan (even though she technically isn't a princess?), Cinderella, Jasmine, and Ariel.

Mulan!

"Honor to Us All"

(this was the dress I tried to copy with fondant)

Cinderella!

"Cinderelly"

I don't know why but while working on the Cinderella song, I couldn't help but just think of this song! Might I add I just love Gus Gus! He's so fat and adorable. Hahahah :D

Jasmine!

"A Whole New World"

Ahh, who wouldn't want to ride on a magic carpet ride?!

Ariel!

"Under the Sea"

This song is just so fun! "The seaweed is always greener...under the seaaaaa!"

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Practice Makes Perfect

...right?

Well, hey!

The weather's getting colder, baking season is here, and black friday promotions are coming out, you know what that means?!

IT'S HOLIDAY SEASON!

hehe

Last night, my friend, Anisha told me that she was having a holiday party at work. I gladly offered to make her holiday themed treats. Hopefully they looked festive enough...