Gastron Om Nom: Owl Cake Pops

For x-mas, I received a cake pops book and I finally made some. A co-worker was having a baby shower and I decided I wanted to make some owl cake pops for the event. My issue with making these cute cake pops is all the little odds and ends you have to buy in order to create the eyes, nose, arms and feet. It just all starts adding up. I started around ten at night and didn't finish til about four in the morning. OMG I was freaking exhausted. But you know. I started it, so I had to finish. Plus, they ended up looking so darn cute! Very imperfect but cute. No two owls looked even remotely the same. Haha. I used boxed red velvet cake mix and semi-sweet chocolate coating. Everyone seemed to enjoy them and said they were good even though I thot they were maybe too sweet? After reading the cake pops book a little more thoroughly, I realized that all this time, I was supposed to thin out the chocolate coating so that it would be easier to coat the cake balls. Well, now I know!

Some of the supplies used for the owl cake pops.

The cake has to be formed into these trianglarish shapes and then chocolate chips are applied with melted chocolate to act as the 'ears'.

The cake is coated with melted semi-sweet chocolate.

Evolution of the owl cake pop.

Restaurant: Post Oak Grill

1550 Lake Pointe Pkwy #500
Sugar Land, TX 77478

For the first time since I began dating big poppa, we finally celebrated geetar's birthday. I feel so bad! We're such bad friends! We had dinner at Post Oak Grill in Sugarland. That area keeps getting nicer and nicer! I finally got to meet his super adorable niece. It's nice to see all the brothers with their significant others. Most of the people in the group ordered steak. I ordered some pasta dish with chicken that wasn't all that great. I was thinking that it sounded close to this one pasta dish i had at vic and anthony's but it wasn't even close. You prolly only want to order some kinda steak to really get the most out of the restaurant here. I guess that's how it is at most restaurants. For dessert, geetar's gf bought cupcakes from celebrity. Yums! I love cupcakes.

Musik Mundi: Landon Pigg

Landon Pigg
Album: The Boy Who Never (2009)
Song: Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop

I am back posting. This week has been nothing short of hectic. I won't elaborate on who Landon Pigg is cos I really don't know. But I do know that he's had several songs featured in television shows and some movies too. Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop was in some jewelry commercial. It's such a sweet song that I think every girl would love to hear from their guy.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*

Trippin': Austin - Juan In A Million

2300 East Cesar Chavez St
Austin, TX 78702

I've heard rumors that the wait for Juan In A Million in Austin could be super long. Luckily when we arrived, we waited only about fifteen minutes. I'm not too big on Mexican food so I would have had to veto this place if the wait had been any longer. I think most of us got some version of their 'don juan' legendary tacos. HUGE HEAPINGS! And super cheap. This could and maybe should definitely be shared. It was pretty good and flavorful. We also ordered this huge plate of nachos to share. And this was like minutes after we had just ate at lucky j's. For food, there's always room. Haha. Adam Richman featured Juan In A Million on his Man vs Food show before. He took on the breakfast taco challenge where he had to consume eight of the don juans. Keep in mind that I could only eat less than half of my order. Maybe half if I didn't just eat some chicken and waffles. Those who know me know i can eat! Adam failed at the challenge. Some skinny asian dood from hong kong is the record holder for eating seven tacos on one sitting. Representin'!