Herb Cakes and Bad Ideas

I had the honor of creating a cake that went beyond your standard shapes, lots of corners and shapes were involved the the creation of this green chocolate marble experience to really drive the theme of this birthday party home!

Unfortunately after weeks of planning I lost touch with the woman who ordered it and it was never picked up... (Yes I too am still confused over the whole thing) So I was dubbed with the challenge of re-purposing this eccentric cake! Usually I will jst pawn it off on my co-workers if I do experiments or if orders get cancelled but with the nature of this cake- I felt a room full of insurance brokers wouldn't really enjoy it as much...

 

The spare cake was turned into "old fashion" style cake pops (when you mush the cake up and reform it into terrible looking balls) but there was still the issue of this big cake.

So.. I've been toying awhile with an idea... I make a cake... we eat it.. and talk about stuff! It's simple but in front of a camera it could certainly be interesting! This cake- I decided would be the front runner for this idea. The first episode went as soon as I could have expected it to with the minimal prep I did for it-- didn't take long to realize I am weak when it comes to starting and driving conversations in front of a camera apparently! (while in real life I can talk for hours of course!)

Out of 20 minutes of shooting... I managed to salvage 4 minutes to sum up the experience. Don't judge! Haha I'm still learning..

White Cheddar and Caramel Popcorn

So I'm happy to report my internet presence is starting to ramp up again! (Just in time to take on continual learning at work of course so we'll see how good I do haha) but in the meantime I had the opportunity to sample some of Orville Redenbacher's new creations!

CARAMEL & WHITE CHEDDAR

I received this product free/complimentary for testing purposes but all opinions are my own." So far it's delicious! Loving the white cheddar for sure. The caramel is super sweet but still pretty good I must say.

My only critiques for the flavors would be that the caramel popcorn was SUPER sweet so I found myself digging through trying to find the white cheddar kernels more often then not. However that's a me thing- I'm just not big on sweets. 

 

I also found the packaging ridiculously large for the amount of popcorn actually inside the bag. Huge bag, huge box- which got shipped Canada post? Couldn't have been cheap. I get it they're trying to look competitive next to maybe a not so premium flavor- but it was a bit of a disappointment when I opened the bag.

However overall I did enjoy the product and I would definitely buy it again for a special treat on movie night or if I'm just having people over.

Thanks Orville Redenbacher and to Influenster Canada for giving me the opportunity to try this out!

Light Alfredo Sauce

I love Alfredo sauce! But I'm not a big fan of cooking with heavy cream so here's my delicious recipe for a light Alfredo sauce!

1/4 cup Margarine
1 cup Milk
2 tbsp Flour
1 Clove of Garlic (or 1/2 tsp epicure's minced garlic)

1 1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese

Fresh Parsley for garnish

Melt the butter down in a saucepan over medium heat. Add milk and flour and let simmer for 2 minutes while stirring constantly.

Add garlic and cheese and whisk it up until thick and creamy!

Enjoy!