The Minion Cake

As promised, I made a little Despicable Me cake for my son's second birthday. Yes, it's not professional and I won't be posting it on Pinterest, but I think it's still pretty cool.

Want to know how I did it? Here's is my extensive recipe list:

Lemon cake mix
Buttercream frosting with blue food coloring
Twinkies
Candy eyeballs
Black gel frosting

It's also good to have some artistic skills and an internet connection so you can see what a minion looks like.

My favorite part? The minion who looks scared to death.

My son's favorite part? The candles I dug out of a junk drawer. Go figure.

Pinterest Bitches

http://bitchinsisters.wordpress.com/

A few hours after I wrote my "I'm out of time" post, a friend of mine sent me this link from Bitchin Sisters.

It's about moms who have the time to make cute little gifts for their kids's first day at school.

My kids aren't even in school yet and I already know what they're getting for the first day. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a brown bag. Okay, that's not true. I will go buy them some cool lunch box, but you get the point.

The Bitchin Sisters blog is awesome if you want to check it out.

PS: The boy's birthday is in a few days and I will be attempting to make a cake with dumb Twinkie Minions. It will not look like this:

http://cakecentral.com/

It's Official, I'm Out of Time

When I first started this blog, I needed a distraction. I love to write and I love to cook, so there you go. But now I have too many distractions. They're called my 4-year-old and my 2-year-old.

Let's face it, the days of being able to flip though a cooking magazine and then spend an hour at the market finding some ridiculous ingredients are over. Instead I spend 10 minutes at the park trying to get the two kids to look at the camera at the same time.

Yep, photo fail.

Cooking is beginning to fail for me too. I still love it, I just don't have the time. Yes, I still have saffron in my spice cabinet. But I also have Kraft Macaroni and Cheese in the pantry. Guess which gets used more often.

Not that any of this is a bad thing. Lives change, priorities changes, people change. I still love to cook, and I still subscribe to those cooking magazines. But cooking those special dishes will be reserved for birthdays and holidays. Not every days.

As for this blog, I want to... What? Your brother did what? He put it where?

Never mind, I'm out of time.