Triple Threat: The Cookie Cake Pie...sorta

I had all the intentions of making the Cookie Cake Pie for the district board meeting this weekend, but what had happened was that:
1) no good pie pans at home [Brea] and I was being lazy and didn't want to go out and get some more
so instead of a pie looking pie, it's going to be in a 8 by 8 pan and a mock-pie. They're more like cookie cake pie bars.

The cake would just not set, but eventually...it did! But it

Happy Early Birthday Alex Chu!

So it's the summer, and not very many midnight birthday surprises. Pretend its 12am on the 27th. YAY! It's my friend Alex's birthday!

I baked him boxed mix. SORRY for not creating something too fab! NO TIME! =[

Anyways, it was just funfetti cake mix with some chocolate frosting. All store bought. BUT the cupcake liners. In his favorite color ORANGE!

Pretty cupcakes for one of my close guy friends!

Thanks!

I have finally received the package that Jaime from My Baking Addiction sent me. It was a wonderful surprise.

I couldnt pick up the package at the exact date that it got here, but I go cajoled my roommate to pick it up for me! Thanks Stacey!

Anyways, I would like to share with you the goodies that she had given to me! It's awesome!

The ice cream scooper, the measuring things, cupcake liners, book!
the wonderful chocolate ice cream toppers!
ORANGE! cupcake liners and ice cream book
awesome ice cream bowl!

THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!

Mini Apple Pies

So my goal for this summer was to create 10 out of the 100 or so things on my want to make list. This sounds like a daunting task, but I have technically already created 5 things off the list since the beginning of summer. This is the 6th one. Only 4 more to go.

These mini apple pies are actually called by the creater as Apple Tarts. I think that these are more like mini apple pies because they look that way. I decided to make that crisscross shape on the top of the pies because they would look nice.

These were really simple to make and oh so yummy! They really went well with some vanilla ice cream and some caramel.

recipe here.

Poppy Seeds Galore [sms]

So I started to make this week's recipe chosen by Melissa from Lulu the Baker. I thought I would have a great adventure story about finding the poppy seeds, but I found them at a local grocery store before leaving for Berkeley. At home [Brea], my parents have a lemon tree that grows HUGE lemons so I had brought a couple of those because they dont use them and I might as well use them. So I decided to make both variations of the poppy seed cake - in cupcake form. In addition, I didnt get to use a blender/food processor, I have neither here so I just zested the orange and lemon and squeezed as much juice as I could out of them.

So I knew that I had some strawberries that I didn't feel like eating, but wanted to bake with. I found this really nice recipe that uses strawberries and poppy seeds. LOW FAT TOO! Anyways, so I made all three of these. In one night. Ambitious I know. It wasnt that hard actually. I enjoyed it enough.

President's retreat was crazy fun and amazing. I was sweaty from being in the heat in Fresno, but then again, I was able to go into a river and meet some amazing people. It was really fun and I'm really glad that I went. I am all sore all over, but I'm glad that I went. =]

Orange

Lemon

Strawberry!

I had not put on the glaze since I was roadtripping with these poppy seed cupcakes, but I know that I wish that I did!

Recipe here for the whole lemon/orange poppy seed cake!