 {{popup IMG_1850.JPG IMG_1850 480×640}}My Christmas Cake
(And a YouTube link to see a full 360 view)

Here’s my Christmas cake! Made it with MCK (there’s a long story behind her that I won’t get into, but we’ll just say she used to be my student a year and a half ago), all by hand. It’s a 3-layer cake with coffee-flavored whipped cream between layers and normal whipped cream used for the icing (all hand-whipped, by the way, which takes a really long time). The house on the top came out decently, though the coffee whipped cream wasn’t whipped long enough so it wasn’t stiff enough to come out like I hoped. Otherwise, I’m ridiculously proud of my very first diorama cake. Especially the trees (which are just biscuit-sticks stabbed into the cake with green-colored whipped cream and a star-shaped tip).

And to think that people made fun of me for spending all of my developmental years watching Martha Stewart. Ha! Admire my cake skillzzzz.

Anyway, I’m kinda in the middle of writing my research proposal for grad school, so I need to finish that up and translate it into Japanese. Need to stop procrastinating. Also have to buy a new hard drive for my backups, since my other drive just died tonight (lame!!!).

But before that, we’ve got another video tour or my apartment (Christmas edition!), and more pictures for my daily random sketching. Those are all under “more..” at the bottom of this entry.

Work, work, work.. blah. Good luck!
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Here’s my Christmas cake! Made it with MCK (there’s a long story behind her that I won’t get into, but we’ll just say she used to be my student a year and a half ago), all by hand. It’s a 3-layer cake with coffee-flavored whipped cream between layers and normal whipped cream used for the icing (all hand-whipped, by the way, which takes a really long time<\/b><\/i>). The house on the top came out decently, though the coffee whipped cream wasn’t whipped long enough so it wasn’t stiff enough to come out like I hoped. Otherwise, I’m ridiculously proud of my very first diorama cake. Especially the trees (which are just biscuit-sticks stabbed into the cake with green-colored whipped cream and a star-shaped tip).<\/p>\n

And to think that people made fun of me for spending all of my developmental years watching Martha Stewart. Ha! Admire my cake skillzzzz.<\/p>\n

But before that, we’ve got another video tour or my apartment (Christmas edition!), and more pictures for my daily random sketching. Those are all under “more..” at the bottom of this entry.<\/p>\n

Work, work, work.. blah. Good luck!
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