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that's what she baked.
Adventures (and misadventures) in the kitchen from a novice baker.
Cinco De Mayo Murder Mystery Party
I know, it’s the Veinte de Mayo and I’m currently listening to Beyonce and baking a Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, but I couldn’t skip sharing…
I actually just wrote a bunch of stuff and then the internet froze and I lost it and I don’t want to write it again so I’ll try my best to summarize, and share some links. I would totally be cranky about it, but my apartment smells so lovely now and I’ve been so productive today, so I’m not going to let internet loss/tumblr fudge bring me down.
My dear dear friend Shannon and I purchased a kit from this website and put on a Murder Mystery Dinner Party in my apartment.
There were 15 people seated around 2 tables in my kitchen, a tight squeeze, but everybody was friendly about it. There were chips and salsa, plantains, tacos, empanadas, beer, margaritas, and things I probably don’t even remember. Everybody was so committed to their character that people who didn’t know each other before the party, still didn’t know real first names by the end of the party. It was all “Zangelina Jolie this” and “Barry Drewmore did that.” I didn’t make this stuff up, but it was legit.
Shannon provided a majority of the food, Tyler helped too, and I covered desserts. I made a flan which wasn’t super pretty but tasted totally great. I also made a Tres Leches cake, following a recipe from The Pioneer Woman.
That cake wasn’t looking too promising, either, but one of the best things about cake is, you cover the mistakes with frosting. Which I did. And all was well.
Now I want to use sweetened condensed milk all the time.
The end.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! (trying to make a tres leches cake)
Oo oo oo! I forgot to say what kind of cake I made in my class last weekend. It was a margarita cake! When class starts, we usually get a small packet of recipes and then the instructor/chef sometimes does a demo and talks about some techniques we might use during that class. And following my baking class last weekend, I was going to a bridal shower and bachelorette party for my dear friend Laura. Her and Will (another great pal… I take credit for introducing them) are getting married on Cinco de Mayo, and a margarita cake could not have been more perfect.
Pictured: (top) I brought the cakes to the bridal shower and they were a hit! (below) As part of the evening festivities, we went to The Melting Pot, a fondue restaurant in Boston and dipped yummy bites in fancy chocolates. The bride to be is sporting a fantastic sombrero.
