Friday, September 18, 2009

A very very birthday


Today is my daughter's 14th birtday, and I managed to escape before it was completely over. I'm hot and tired! Still the mess to clean up, but we'll enjoy the photos first.



We had the party on our front porch. No railing on the porch yet but still fun to be able to have an entire party on a porch.



My decorating is a little understated for the large porch but I'm too cheap to spend all that money just for decorations. We had smoothies and snacks.



The birthday girl and her cake.
We better have a close up of that cake....


It was quite lovely and tasted good too!



Alex waiting to get her face painted. I painted a lot of faces.



This one is my favorite.



Girls got their own ideas and thought the water balloons were not enough. Notice the bucket.



A bunch of crazy girls.

They played Red Rover and now doing flipping contests on the trampoline. Still 20 minutes till its officially over. I guess I will go clean up. Hope you had a happy birthday, Grace!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Heavenly Bites

Today I had to make a small dessert buffet for a customer. This means a sugar high because they are just these little delicious bites and you have to make sure everything tastes just right! First there are these yummy, moist, chocolatey brownie bites topped with ganache. Rich, rich, rich!
Then we have lemon tartlets. The bottom is lemon mousse made with lemon curd with a little dollop of curd on top. 
And finally New York style cheesecake with fresh strawberries and Turtle Cheesecake.