One Week. Three Heart-Shaped Cakes (Subtitle: Hostess with the Mostest)

Well you know I'm always writing blogs in my head and hardly ever writing/publishing them. And I know you all are probably wondering about my job, but first things first! I want to tell you this story about the second week of February (because I have pictures).

This was a week with crazy amounts of hosting. It was fun.

First, on Sunday: I hosted a dinner group. I can't exactly remember now, but I think about 15 people came:















As far as I know, a good time was had by all. (We had tacos because there was a recipe I had been wanting to use. It was good. [if I were a blogging diva, I would connect the recipe with the blog in blue letters where it said recipe. That would be cool, but alas, my blogging skills are lacking!])

At church before the dinner group, I invited a girl because it was her birthday. She said she didn't know if she'd be able to come (which is great, because when it's your birthday you should be able to do whatever you want sans obligations but have lots of good options) but since I thought she MIGHT come, I decided to make a birthday cake. Since the cake pan was full of lemon squares, I used the totally awesome silicone heart-shaped cake pan I got at Target for $2.50. I decided I would use a can of frosting that had been in the pantry for several months. Although I was vaguely aware that it was left over from Christmas, I was caught by surprise that it was Christmas-tree green. Also, I forgot the cardinal rule that cakes should be cooled before frosting. This was the result: It was actually fairly tasty. The green frosting was just vanilla and since the cake was still hot, it kind of melted in which turned out to be quite yummy.

Next Party--

Valentine's Day Celebration of Love

Back in January, someone in the halls of church jokingly suggested that I would spend Valentine's Day crying. I was so disgusted by the very idea that I decided to throw a massive Celebration of Love Valentine's Day party. The idea is that we all know that someday love will come into our lives, so why not celebrate that now instead of mopping that it hasn't come yet. I invited everyone I knew. About 50 people came. Success! I didn't take any pictures of the people, but I did get a picture of the cake that I made and decorated:


Some of you more observant readers might recognized (as several of my friends have) the uncanny resemblance between the Valentine's Day 2008 cake and the Independance Day 2007 Cake:









And to those of you, I say "Holy cow, cut a girl some slack! I only went to one, two hour class. And I only own three colors of food coloring. Good gracious!" (PS but I did the letter on the Valentine's Day Cake myself.)



So, Valentine's Day was Thursday, and then Friday my long-time BFF Jamie came to visit from St. Louis. Since she was only here for a day and a half we ran around the city revisiting the greatest hits of Jamie's 2007 New York City Tour. Some touristy photos:























Jamie left Sunday morning, which freed up my Sunday afternoon for a dinner party for twelve friends which my roommate threw. But I did provide the heart-shaped cake. Aptly named Heart Shape Cake #3:Again, it tasted better then it looked. It tasted dang good, now that you mention it. It was a cake that turned out too misshapen to use for the double layer Valentine's Day Cake (AKA heart-shaped cake #2). But we needed a quick dessert. It was still frozen when we ate it, but this cake served the very important purpose in my life and will always be remembered for introducing me to the absolute wonder of homemade buttercream frosting.

So, that was a fun week. Recorded for posterity only 5 weeks after the fact.

The end.