the wedding cake project

my sister and i were given the amazing opportunity to make our friend's wedding cake. so here it is! finally done!! i spent a good amount of my summer baking tester cakes and playing around with different potential recipes and reading "how to make a wedding cake" articles online. so finally making the actual cake was really exciting, fun, and stressful all at the same time. i'm so glad something disastrous didn't happen. but it was completely worth the two and a half consecutive days spent in the kitchen.

congratulations ben and connie!

(: 

the bakery: part two

learning how to make bo luo nai su bread (my absolute favorite taiwanese bread)!!!
they didn't turn out perfectly but they still tasted unbelievably yummmyyyyyy

the bakery: part one

my cousin's friend owns a bakery in taiwan and my mom and sister and I had the privilege of being able to observe the bakers/ learn how to make a couple things one day. this is the guy who makes all of the cakes. he led us through the process of making this cake from beginning to end. i'm pretty sure the entire decorating process took less than ten minutes and it still turned out as pretty as this. it was impressive to say the least.

food diary: Taiwan (part two)

finally had the chance to post the rest of my food pictures from my trip to taiwan this past summer. looking at these pictures again makes me miss the all that good food over there, except for the sea urchin. wasn't a fan of that (the slimy peanut butter looking stuff on the lettuce strips). (part one)

september to-bake/cook list

whole wheat zucchini bread (a dash of sass)

eggplant salad toast (smitten kitchen)
mushroom crepe cake (smitten kitchen)
something-themed cake pops (bakerella)
caramel pumpkin gingersnap cheesecake (the pioneer woman)

siu mai - chinese dimsum dumplings

While I was in Texas my cousin taught me how to make this siu mai recipe that she recently learned. This is probably one of my favorite dim sum dishes so I was pretty ecstatic when I found out we were going to be making them from scratch. They're surprisingly relatively easy to make for something so yummyy.

pad thai

While my family and I were in Texas this past summer, Cindy taught us how to make this Pad Thai recipe that she had recently discovered. I have a slight obsession with Pad Thai, so learning how to make really good Pad Thai (which is exactly what this was) was sort of really really exciting.