birthday cake

birthday cake
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Brithday cake for a friend's father, an avid skier. I tried to make it look like ski tracks in the snow, but I couldn't resist adding some sprinkles and pearls. I hope it was delicious.

Co. in New York

We spent some time in New York over the vacation, and went to a new pizza place in Chelsea named Co. The crust was really nice, if a little bready, and well baked in their gas Earthstone oven. Their tarte flambe had limp kind of greasy onions on it, not the traditional crispy finish, but still yummy. The plain marguerite was just right. Worth a stop if you're in NY, but beware. It is quite trendy and often crowded- no reservations taken.

guitar cake

guitar cake
Originally uploaded by pizza on earth.

I'm not the first to make a guitar cake, but I must say it came out pretty good. Only the guitar strings aren't edible. It's a lovely moist devils food layer cake with vanilla buttercream inside.
It's hard to believe my little Remy is 18.

Birthday dessert

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Jay picked out a birthday dessert for himself for me to make, from Pierre Herme Desserts by Dorrie Greenspan. It has a brownie type cake on the bottom and a light filling of vanilla pastry cream with whipped cream and cagnac folded into it. The golden raisins were soaked in cognac and scattered about as if they just don't care. It looked lovely with the skinny beeswax candles.
Only Remy declined to eat it.