Watermelon Cake Balls

For inservice at work Matt and I made cake balls that look like watermelons! Everyone loved them!

Bake with Jake!

Jake with his steak

Me with the potatoes

My Mom helping with the twice baked potatoes

Jake and I decided that we wanted to make dinner tonight for our family so we went to the store and and bought all the ingredients. He maned the steak and I worked on the twice baked potatoes and asparagus. Dinner turned out to be a success with only limited help from our Mom!

Cake balls

Crumbling the cake

Finished cake balls!

I have heard that this cake ball recipe is really simple and easy to make although I am not so sure I could agree. In theory, making cake, mixing it with icing, and dipping it in chocolate sounds simple, but I found that it can create a huge disaster! In addition, the recipe that I followed forgot an important step that luckily Mrs. Baker (my Mom's friend) helped me realize: the cake balls have to be frozen before attempting to dip them in chocolate. Despite the amount things that did not go the way I planned them, the cake balls turned out delicious!

Raspberry Crepes

The Birthday Boy stirring the raspberry sauce

Raspberry Crepes!

For Matt's birthday he decided that he wanted to go to the grocery store and find something to make. Note to self: find recipe and ingredients before heading to the store next time. Just when we almost gave up on finding something to make we saw some pre-made crepes. Matt is completely content with "eating breakfast for all three meals in a day" so we decided to find some fruit that we can add to the crepe and whipped creme. We headed back to Matt's house and Matt found a recipe for raspberry crepe sauce online. We enjoyed making lunch together and it was so exciting to eat something that we made! The crepes were delicious! We decided that this is something that we definitely want to make again, but next time we're going to make the actual crepe part and possibly the whipped creme. 

Star Fruit

"It looks like I have a beak"

So cute! 

Approved

Disapproved

My Mom and I went grocery shopping together today at Westborn Market and were attracted to and interested in trying exotic star fruit! Not actually, I had to convince to her buy it because I was so curious as to what it tasted like. When we got home we researched how to prepare a star fruit and then had our first taste! I thought it was decent enough to finish eating, but my Mom decided that she would just rather stick to normal fruit.

Choco Taco

Anticipating my very first Choco Taco

Since my childhood, everyone has raved about the ice cream and taco combo: Choco Taco. Considering that I had not been able to eat one until now because they were always sold out in ice cream trucks and gas stations, I figured it must be something monumental. Maybe it was the years of being built up to be the greatest ice cream sensation or maybe that I was raised on Drum Sticks, but I couldn't help but be disappointed with the Choco Taco.

Chicken Noodle Soup with our Homemade Pasta.

With the left over pasta, my Grandma made our family spaghetti with the rest, my mom made me some homemade chicken noodle soup. It's always good to have a meal made by your mom after enduring college cafeteria food. The pasta tastes great, success!

Making Pasta

Grandma, Mia and my Mom thinning out the pasta dough

Matt catching the fresh pasta while Izabella cranks it out.

My Grandpa with the drying pasta.

For Christmas my Mom bought my Grandpa a pasta maker (his old one broke) and our family enjoyed learning the process of making pasta from him. The pasta was really soft and smooth and it was interesting to feel as it hardened the longer it sat out. I can't wait to try it!