1. Happy half Birthday America!!

I've decided to keep going with my new experiences as I had a lot of fun with them last year and have things still on my "things to try out" list. I'll probably continue to do them weekly like last year but I know it may not always happen. So, this year I am just going to number my experiences instead of keeping track of them weekly.

So Here is experience one:
By now everyone that reads this blog knows that most of my random new experiences involve our wiigue. After we had our Christmas in July party we decided we needed to have a Happy Half Birthday America cook out.
Justin was the lucky one who got to grill when it was 32 degrees outside.

Katie brought baked beans and the very special Stars & Stripes 3 litter soda.

For dessert I made holy cow cake. Chocolate cake soaked in a syrup made of caramel and condensed milk topped with butterfinger pieces and whipped cream.
After having the star and stripes we started to talk about whether or not people can really tell a difference between coke and pepsi or other sodas. This lead to a quick taste test. Overall most of us could tell a difference (I didn't participate as I don't think caffeinated sodas). We decided in order to really test it out we need more options and more people. So, if you are one of the lucky ones coming to celebrate my birthday you will get to be a part of the taste test!

This week I made the holycow cake, a cake for bible jump off, 2 cakes for class and a 5 flavor pound cake.
I had attempted the pound cake once before and is was a horrible failure. My 2 piece pan didn't stay together and most of the batter leaked out and burned at the bottom of the oven.
This time it worked!!

I also made pastels this week. They are basically a thin dough filled with whatever toppings you want that is then deep fried. I didn't have a lot of time before class so I just went with cheese.


That is all for now thanks for reading!

Larissa :)