95: Cheesecake and Books

I don't know why I bother counting the days anymore. I'm so silly.

Last Thursday was our second general meeting for Chi Epsilon. And being the crazy person I am, I decided I would bake miniature cheesecakes in addition to the food we were buying, because we're a bit tight on money and I wanted to feed our members well...Anyway, I made these, except Safeway didn't have an raspberries (if only I didn't eat that whole box I got before...). I substituted strawberries, which were just as good.

I guess you would call them mini-miniature cheesecakes because they are extra tiny. And even though I forgot to put in the vanilla in the cheesecake part (oops ><), they still turned out tasty.

I was so excited today at Borders. In their bargain book section they had a few cookbooks with really yummy looking recipes and great pictures (I like pictures) for most of them. I feel like pictures are essential for a cookbook. I want to know what my food is supposed to look like...So I got The Essential Guide to Baking, The Essential Guide to Desserts, Great Tastes: Indian, and Great Tastes: Drinks. I also got another knitting book, Holiday Knits. And all of this for under $25! Yay ^.^ I'm looking forward to doing a lot of cooking in the near future.

80: Baking Adventures

For Saint Patrick's Day I made "Green Velvet" Cupcakes. They were absolutely adorable and delicious with cream cheese frosting, but they were pretty damn unappetizing looking. The batter was bright green and sort of looked like the colored concrete mixes we've been making...

Yummy Green Batter

Not as Yummy Concrete

But the finished product was not as bad-looking. The green came out a bit darker than the batter and the mini-cupcakes were a hit at Study Hall, as always.

Pre-Iced

Nom nom.

34: Wednesday, Break My Heart

The baby coffee cakes were a success, as were the pretzels. I made bread dough! So exciting ^.^ I've never been successful making anything that requires yeast, but this time, I did okay!

I got a text from Miriam saying that she was going to start a new knitting project. I'm excited for her, she doesn't taken on too many new projects, or at least not as many as I do, and it's expanding her knitting knowledge. Now I want to start something new...

On Four Hours

I went to bed around 5:30 this morning. Yes, that's right, 5:30 am. What time did I have class? 10 am. What time did I want to get up to get ready? 9 am. What time did I actually get up? 9:50 am. Of course I contemplated not going to class and just getting the notes from someone...which took 2 minutes. And it takes 10-15 minutes to walk to class. I decided I should go to class, and I was 15 minutes late, which wasn't too bad. So I've been running on 4 hours of sleep and so far I'm okay. I don't know how I'm doing it...Must be magic.

You might ask, what in the world was I doing up so late? Well, I was baking. With Cathy. For Valentine's Day basically. Look what we made:

Cherry Pie
Can you tell it's canned? Yeah....that's all we really had time for since we were making so much stuff (I was inspired).

Bleeding Heart CupcakesThese were so fun to make. Very tedious though. As you can tell, they don't really look like hearts, but that's okay. Fortunately, I'm not going into Anatomy or Physiology.

We also made some of these, but omitted the nuts and half a cup of chips, and added raisins. The raisins added a funky taste when eaten right out of the oven, but when they cooled off, they weren't bad. I'm planning to make some for my special someone this weekend.

Okay, I need to finish some homework before I crash. Sleeeeep...mmm