Ninja Theme & Birthday Cake

Hi all!

Hope you're doing well! Here's a cake that I made for my little brother's birthday! He turned six on Feb. 1st. Ah, time flies by so fast!

Anyways, I'm really really proud of myself. I think this is the best cake yet that I have ever made! Well, I think so.

I've seen a lot of different

Rice Krispie Treats with M&M's

Hi everyone!

Here's something special that I made for my boyfriend on his new job. Technically, he's been working at this job for 6 months already but it's only as a temp. and now he's officially a part of the company. Able to get the benefits and everything and I'm so proud of him!

Anyways, with a long distance relationship, it's pretty hard to send stuff, especially bake goods. So I thought, why not make Rice Krispies, right?

Chocolate cake with Light Blue Frosting, Spinkles, & Heart Shaped Strawberries

It's good to see you all. I hope everyone is doing fantastic today!

This Saturday, I made a chocolate cake (another chocolate because my family only eats chocolate) with light blue vanilla frosting, rainbow sprinkles, and cut out strawberries into heart shapes. It was another delicious cake!

  

I say, the hardest part was applying the sprinkles on the side of the cake! It was such a mess! The easiest way I have found doing so, is to simply grab a handful of sprinkles in your palm and gently press your palm with the sprinkles on the side of the cake. Start from the bottom and build your way up if you want. Make sure you are working on a clean surface! Always be sure to make good use of the leftover sprinkles that fell off. If you get icing on the side of your hand, make sure to keep wiping it off. The sprinkles tend to stick to your hand. Also, make sure you clean any icing off of the cake platter before you apply any sprinkles. You don't want any sprinkles to fall and stick to the icing on the platter. It makes it difficult to reuse the sprinkles.

Anyways, this cake was made for my mom's birthday! The whole family went out to eat until we were stuffed. We later came home to eat the birthday cake until we were stuffed again. It was a great day!

Happy birthday mom! The whole family loves you!

Thanks for reading everyone! Have a great day and see you next time!

Butterscotch Oreo Truffles

Hey everyone,

I hope you have been doing great lately and been staying warm, depending on where you live! It's gotten colder and hot and cold and windy and then sunny and beautiful today, and has been said that it's supposed to snow tomorrow! Geez, it's been crazy lately but anyways, hope you're all doing well wherever you're at.

Anyways, for my first non-bake sweets of 2014, I made some yummy butterscotch Oreo truffles. And I also made some white chocolate Oreo truffles as well, but my focus for today's entry are my butterscotch truffles!

The recipe and instructions is super easy!

Ingredients:

1 package of Oreos

1 block of cream cheese, room temperature

1 bag of Hershey's Butterscotch Chips

Instructions:
Using a food processor or a blender (which I found it easier to use), grind up all the Oreo cookies until they are fine crumbs. You can also do this manually. Mix the cream cheese (room temperature) with the Oreo crumbs. Combine the two ingredients until the crumbs starts to disappear become almost "dough-like" and might be a little greasy as well.

Start rolling the mixture into bite-size balls and place them on a pan. Refrigerate them about an hour or so.

After you take out the Oreo balls, you can now melt the butterscotch chips according to the package.

Dip the each Oreo balls into the melted chips. I found a easy to dip them is by holding a tooth pick on each side. Make sure to place your Oreo balls on a pan lined with wax paper. Let the Oreos cool down for another hour or so. And viola! Delicious bite-size goodness in your mouth!

Thanks for reading! Until next time! Have a great day! Bye!

Marshmallow Snowmen Cupcakes

Hi all! Hope everyone is having a great day so far! Today, I wanted to share my Marshmallow Snowmen Cupcakes that I made for a early Christmas party a couple weeks ago. These were another hit at the party and I'm so happy that they turned out great.

Made chocolate cupcakes, because who doesn't love chocolate? Used snowflake vanilla frosting and then top the cupcakes with coconut and blue/white sprinkles to represent snow. For the little snowmen I put two or three marshmallows on toothpicks and insert them into the cupcakes.

I hope you all continue to have a great day and happy holidays to you all! Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Hot Cocoa Cupcakes

Hey everyone! It's been such a long time since I've updated but I've been so caught up with my schooling that I just haven't had the time to do anything for a couple of months! Well, since I took my last Final today for the semester, now I'll have a week to update my blog as much as I can before I'll travel down to visit my boyfriend and his family for the holidays. I hope everyone is excited for Christmas as much as I am!

Here are some Christmas cupcakes that I made for a party a couple weeks ago.

These are chocolate cupcakes, because of course, hot cocoa is chocolate. These are mini cupcakes and I used mini candy canes for the handles so they look like cup handles or tired to make them look like it at least! For the icing I used cream cheese. Added crunched up Oreo cookies, candy canes, which I used already broken pieces and sprinkled them on top of the cupcakes, and added marshmallows that I cut up into 2 pieces.

They really give away that holiday spirit and make such great holiday treats as well! Everyone enjoyed them and I'm so glad because I worked so hard on them, making every individual cupcake look all neat and nice!

May you all have a wonderful day and look forward to the next post!

Three Bridal Shower Signage Stationery Ideas

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well.

Yesterday, I just threw a bridal shower for my dear cousin who is getting married in two weeks! If you're struggling with what signage stationery activities to do at the bridal shower then here's some of my activities that we did at my cousin's bridal shower.

1. Date Ideas

I used a Mason jar and decorated it with a ribbon and a label that said "Pick One! Date Ideas." Then I used plain index cards and cut them into strips. Guests are able to leave the bride and groom funny, romantic or wild date ideas on the paper strips. For example: "Go on a romantic stroll in the park," "Go skinny dipping in the dark," or "Go bar hopping."

This is such a neat idea for the bride and groom for whenever they are bored of their daily routines or just ran out of ideas on what to do on their next date. They can simply pick a date idea from the jar! They will never have another boring date again! So cute!

2. Words of Wisdom/Best Advice for the Bride

Another thing that we had guests participated in at the bridal shower was sharing their advice and wisdom for the bride.They would write on note cards and insert it in a box. Then when everyone had a chance to write something, turn it into a little booklet or keep it in the box and presented to the bride. It's also fun to say it out loud and share with everyone!

3. "Guest Board" instead of a Guestbook

So I know this is pretty early to have before of the wedding, but with I just couldn't help myself and had to make one for the bridal shower. Also, knowing that some of our friends and family are only able to attend the bridal shower or the wedding, I wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to sign the board. I drew the groom and bride's name on a board that you can get super cheap, like a $1 at the Dollar Store or at Walmart, and also added their wedding date on the bottom. At the bridal shower, we had guests signed the board. There was still a lot of room so we'll use it again at the wedding!

Everyone loved the board and it's way better to display than a guestbook where you'll probably rarely go through it again. But with a board you can display it and even frame it for all of your guests to see it in the future.

Thank you for reading! 

Steps to Planning a Ping Pong Tournament on your School Campus

Planning any type of tournament is a lot of work! And I can tell you that by experience! Especially, if you're the person who's in charge of e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g and trying to get everyone involved and happy and make it run successfully. Here are some tips and pointers that I'd came up with that could be useful for anyone who is trying to plan a ping pong tournament of their own on campus.

Steps in making a Ping Pong Tournament:

1. Talk to the officers of the club and members about planning a tournament. What times and dates are better for them? Who's willing to commit and show up for the tournament? Don't forget to fill in with your advisor. They will be a big help in the process!

2. Talk to any offices in charge of events/sporting events on campus. You want to know what you can and can't do before establishing a tournament on campus. The last thing you want is to have your club in deep trouble.

3. Once you got the okay, talk to the officers and the advisor. Setting a meeting would be the best option to sit down and talk about planning the dates and times, setting up the registration, setting up the brackets, and of course, you can't forget the prizes! Another plus for my club is that our advisor is the director of our campus PE facility. Which can be a big help when planning tournaments.

4. Now here's the little things (advertising, registration, etc.) you'll need to do for the big day:

•   Now that you have establish a date & time, make flyers. Post them around your campus, the school's website/Facebook, the TVs
•   Send out a mass email to all of your current members & ask them to get their friends involve! Facebook can help out as well!
•   For those who are not members, make a big poster board with the tournament info and a sign up sheet. Put it somewhere where your ping pong tables are located. For my campus, we have ping pong tables in the Game Room. Throughout the week, go and check the board. You want to add them to your email list to tell them how to register.
•   Set up your registration form! For our club, our advisor took care of that. We had it set up on the school's website and people can just register from there. Registration really makes it easy for when setting up the bracket and knowing how many goodies/prizes to giveaway or food/drink and t-shirts to provide. But do expect a number of people who will register the last minute on the day of the tournament! It always happens!
•   If you're looking to giveaway goodies to your participants, like free fast food coupons, then start talking to places near your campus to see who's willing to help out!
•   Look into your prizes!

5. The night of or whenever you close the registration, start setting up the brackets and the levels. Randomly pick who's going against who. And you might want to make another poster board to display for the day of the tournament and have the list of brackets. So that way the players can see.

6. And of course, have fun during the event! Give out the free goodies/T-shirts/water to the participants. Constantly keep record of those who passed to the next round! Make sure to take pictures and videos so that way you'll have something cool to show with your previous events when recruiting new members.

I hope you found this information useful!  If you have any questions or comments, feel free to always leave me a message! Thanks for reading!