After lunch at Michelino's, me and three generations of Ngo's took a little stroll through the gardens around the Alamo. The history behind the Alamo is very interesting but the actual remnants of the building is kinda blah. We didn't bother going inside at all. I'm not much of garden, flower or plants kinda person either so this post will be once again focused on the cutie patootie chubbawubs. Since she was teething, she kept rubbing her tongue over her new found incisors.
I normally do not watch So You Think You Can Dance but Mochi told big poppa and I that we had to watch it cos there's this awesome Chinese contestant from Vancouver who is a super awesome dancer. His name is Alex Wong and he tours with a Miami ballet company. Supposedly he tried out for season five and was picked but he couldn't get out of his contract with the company. However, the judges thot he was so good that they told him that whenever he was done, come straight to the front of line. Last week was the first episode that we caught and for a ballet dancer, he rocked a hip hop routine. But on a more musik note, during a performance from a different contestant, the baby sistar and I were like, what song is that? Well, I can't remember who the dancer was but the song was Jar Of Hearts by Christina Perri. She doesn't have an album out yet but she has a bunch of videos on youtube where she covers a bunch of songs. Her voice is very Alanis Morissette.
*photo courtesy of amazon.com*
Christina Perri
Album: NA
Song: Jar of Hearts (2010)
I've been having the meanest sweet tooth known in dental caries land. If it isn't ice-cream, it's cupcakes. If it's not juice box it's vanilla cappuccino from Teahouse. This is what happens when I mention the word diet. My brain fights back ten times harder. We were going to dinner for chacco's b-day and since she had mentioned that the red velvet cupcakes at Celebrity Cupcakes were pretty darn good, I decided to selfishly buy her a dozen cupcakes from there so I could at least try the red velvet. Haha. And she was soooo right. The cream cheese icing on the red velvet was so soft and smooth and also light at the same time. I also had intended on trying the vanilla bean cupcake but I mistakenly grabbed and ate the lemon one instead. I'm not a fan of anything too lemony but this one wasn't too bad since the lemon flavor wasn't so over powering. It had just a small hint of lemon flavor. Another one that I wanted to try but they didn't have that day was the fleur de sel cupcake. French cocoa cake, caramel center topped with chocolate ganache and a dash of imported French sea salt. Oh my waist line! And there certainly is a whole new sea salt movement isn't there? I haven't tried too many of the cupcake places in Houston but as of now, this one is mos def at the top of the list.
I'm a wee bit late on the whole cakepops train but I finally had an opportunity to attempt to make them. Jacques and Gilles were having part two of their babyshower and I thot it would be a great idea to bring some for everyone to enjoy. Well, at least they would look nice even if people didn't eat them. When I get an idea flowing in my head, I'll walk over hot coals to make sure it happens. I can honestly say that at times, I really make things hard on myself. Instead of making a few cakepops, I went over the top and made almost a hundred of them. I wanted 25 red velvet covered with chocolate, 25 red velvet covered in white chocolate, 25 yellow cake covered in pink candy melt and 25 yellow cake covered in yellow candy melt. Oy! What was I THINKING! Poor mochi came over to help and she ended up staying til really late at night. We were so exhausted. I made so many mistakes. I added too much frosting to the cake so it was a mushy mess. And next time, I think I'll just stick to sprinkles instead of trying to decorate the balls with ink gel or fondant writers. So messy! They wouldn't dry and harden so it got everywhere. I over-heated the white chocolate and it became super thick that it made it hard to coat the balls of cake. I underestimated the amount of styrofoam holders I would need and big poppa being the best bf evar ran out to wally-mart to get some more. I think he wanted to do something nice for me so he could bail and go watch some fight. It's okay. Most guys wouldn't even have helped at all but big poppa helped a LOT with making balls and coating and decorating. I think a lot of them turned out really cute. They weren't as professional looking at some of the ones I've seen online but I think we did good being that it was our first time. I swear, I'm gonna be a forever hopeless baker. I just don't quite have the finesse. Thanks to mochi, monkhi girl and big poppa for helping me out. Y'all are the best! One more thing to keep in mind, don't transport these things during the sweltering summer heat cos we had a lot that didn't survive the car ride.
