Winter Break! 2014

The girls had a winter break from school, that a whole week of them being at home. I wanted to plan a week of fun but it turns out the week plan itself ( as weird as that sounds it was true!). The girls and i spend the winter break either outside or inside but it was always with family.
so heres how our winter break went:

Monday: Lazy Day!

Tuesday: Pizza Night!

(Kids pizza ingredients) 

(Mommy n Daddy ingredients)

Wednesday: I made Pancakes with heart sprinkles!

Thursday - Saturday: My little niece stay with us, they had a little sleepover :)

 Saturday: We went Ice Skating!!

 and took a selfie in the bathroom...priceless moment with them..lol

To top of our week my sister cut a cake for her daughter and close friend ( excuse the blur the camera was a little dirty..lol)

The girls were sad the winter break was over and everyone had to go home but they were excited to be back in school the next day. Hope you all enjoyed your winter break as much as we did.

 Until the next Blog...

Snowy Days 2014

There's no better way to survive this crazy weather in NYC with some games and crafts. Last night was winter snow storm and thank God hubby was already home. It started around 10 am and kept going all night. This storm wasn't as bad as the one we had in December 2013. However, the girls and i kept busy inside our apartment "nice and toasty" as Amelia puts it playing games. We also did arts n crafts, thank goodness these were Christmas gifts from my aunt and uncle. We discover a new game its really fun once we kept play the game over and over, Amelia loves it. There are other ways to active at home with our kids to be away form any storm not matter what it is, they can do the following:

1.  Help us clean up their room
2. Help prepare lunch or dinner
3. Play pretend
4. Make it a movie day: watch their favorite movies and ask them questions about it
5. Find new food recipes to try 

Whats your favorite thing to do with your little indoors on a stormy night / afternoon??

Until the next blog...

Monster High Cake!

Yesterday was my second cousin's birthday party. The theme was Monster High but she wanted a replica version of Draculora Sweet 1600th birthday cake. And i did just that! With some of my knowledge of cake decorating i put all my effort into this cake. The end results was that the birthday princess was happy and she loved it. I took about 12hrs of no sleep and mulitple breaks (because of the kids) to make this cake. Im not a professional or experince baker that i can do any cake less than 12hrs with no breaks.

I wanted to use cake box mix just to avoid getting stress out and it saves time. However, what i did was i added 3/4 cup of flour just so that the cake is not completely moist and easier to work with when working with layered cakes. I made homemade cream cheese frosting n try to make frosting to crumb coat my cakes before i put fondant. When crumb coating a cakes means that you are covering up the cake with frosting that way your not dealing with loose crumbs. Fondant is a edible clay made of marshmellow and sugar powder, its used to create figures and whatever design one comes up with.

What do you think about the cake? its one of the cakea ive made so far and im proud of the cakes i recently made. I greatful i started within family and now i have people reaching out to me about my cakes! Who knows maybe i see a business in the future..

Until the next blog!..