Nom nom nom

I usually get some treats for my monkies when picking them up from the camp. 2 weeks ago, I decided to try out the cupcakes place that I often pass by - Dolled Up Cakecakes at Meadowvale Town Centre. I got 6 mini-ones... rainbow, vanilla, chocolate, key lime, cookies & cream and banana. They all tasted good and my fav was the key lime. My monkies loved the rainbow 'coz all 7 colors were layered nicely instead of getting mixed together. Since then, I always wanna go back for more. Of course, my belly asks me to better behave :P

 

Daddy monkey has reached his 1 year milestone at his current job this week, and he's pretty excited about it. So I've decided to celebrate it with a couple of cupcakes. Hee... got a good excuse. Today, I got the toasted coconut and raspberry bliss... nom nom nom... Most of the cupcakes out there got really sugary icing, but this place doesn't. I would say this place is better than the famous one located at FCP downtown.

 

Before they went into our tummy, I did a few fun shots of the cupcakes. Still remember from my Small Product course that cupcakes and donuts are the two difficult items to shoot - swirls, holes, cuppies, etc. They all create shadows and it's not easy to get rid of them.

 

Below are my shots in 2 different styles. What do you think?

 

 

Disappointed... then melted...

This is the 2nd week since Little Monkie #1 is in full-day JK. I've been flipping thru' cook books and googling online for lunch ideas, treat ideas, etc. Thought that it may be a good idea to start baking something healthy. Found the X'mas tree baking pan from the bottom of the drawer last night when I was prep'g some banana raisins muffins, so I thought he might be more excited to eat a tree. He likes banana, raisin and has requested treats with some rice krispies. Shouldn't go wrong... Smelled good, tasted good... at least daddy thought so and I thought so. Happily packed 3 of them and put them into his lunch bag. I got a couple packed for Little Monkie #2 as well.

To my surprise... my Little Monkie #1 didn't touch them. Wait... a minor correction... he did have a small bite... see the one on top? That's the one he bited. Quite disappointed...  as a matter of fact, he's not a fan of muffins (the ones from Starbucks may be an exception). Unlike his bro Little Monkie #2, he could finish almost the whole muffin by himself. Little Monkie #1 was really hungry after school and asked for the left over rice from lunch. We ended up taking him to M for a Happy Meal; needless to say, he's become a Happy Boy.

When he got home, we went upstairs to change. He's all ready to go back down for TV time. He hold my cheeks with both of his hands, kissing mommy's left cheek, then nose, then forehead and xoxo... all melted.

Shortly after, I left home to pick up Little Monkie #2. Got disappointed again that the treats were still untouched... he said he's saving it. He really meant it! As soon as he took off his shoes after coming home, he opened his little bag then his little lunch box, hold the X'mas trees one in each of his hands. When he got them done, he found the rubbermaid that keeps the rest and took one that's a regular size. It ended up being in his tummy.

Mommy's all happy now :)

Homemade Blueberry Ice-Cream

What's better than a get-together with friends on a long weekend... today we had a pot luck with close friends. Wait... what about the paper airplanes that I've mentioned in my previous post? I was thinking of having some fun time to fly paper planes with them, as well as the chance to take some shots in fast shutter speed. We still made a few paper planes; it's quite windy tho' so the plan didn't quite work out.

So I gave up and started to prep the blueberry ice-cream for the pot luck. A couple of days ago, I accidentally got this recipe. A friend of friend on FB was making some blueberry ice-cream and got a picture up. I thought it's my friend, so I jumped into the conversation and asked for the recipe. She's very nice and shared me the link. So here it comes the yummy ice-cream in my fav purple color. I will definitely try it again. Lov' it!

Thanks to Jane, the nice girl who shared me the recipe :)

Dedicated to My Hubby

Tomorrow is my hubby's last day at the current company. So I've made some treats for him to bring back for his co-workers. During the past festive season, I made them some classic kid treats - rice krispy. Instead of cutting them into squares, I didn't melt the mashmallows completely, such that they're more chewy. And I rolled them into small balls, also mixed in a bit of dried cranberries on some of them. Surprisingly, his co-workers got them all finished shortly. 

This time, it's mostly the same ingredients, just a bit of variations on the shape. I had fun making them and enjoyed the time to shoot them afterwards :)

Here I would like to wish my hubby luck on his new endeavour!!

PS - stay tune for the next post on paper airplane :)

2012 Oakville Family Ribfest

Yummy yummy yummy... the past weekend (June 22 thru 24) was the Oakville Family Ribfest organized by the Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar. Numerous award winning rib vendors there. Is that the only thing about this rib fest? Of course not, that's why it's so much FUN to be there. There were lots of bouncing castles, face painting, entertainment on the stage and they are all free. There must be something there to make your family members at all ages being happy there.


Wait wait wait... are we missing something here? Why's there a cupcake showing in the picture? Y-E-S... other than the ribbers, there are also vendors selling corn on the cob, ice cream, funnel cakes, fried bananas, blooming onions, lollipops and... cupcakes. The one featured here is the Margarita Lime by Sweet Temptations Cupcakery. Wooo... mouth-watering... hee...  this year, they've brought us other favors including: Chocoholics Anonymous, Pink Lemonade, Fresh Ontario Strawberry, Peanut Butter Chocolate and Cookies & Cream. Amazing... 

After this fun- and food-filled fest, we're all happy and mom can skip a cooking evening. What a wonderful day!

p.s. Thanks to Katie from Sweet Temptations Cupcakery presenting us the nice cupcake :)