Baby Shower DIY: Owl Theme

As promised here are the goodies that her best friends and I concocted for my sister's baby shower! The theme was owls. At first, I had no clue why she was obsessed with them but after working with everything, Owls can be PRETTY CUTE!

the decorations

Diaper Owl Cake ( tutorial here)  

the desserts

BIG EYE Owl Cupcake Recipe(HERE)

My scary melon baby (Here)

A lot of the guests wouldn't touch the crib because they were scared Chucky might come out of it or something.

Homemade Watermelon Lemonade 50/50 Punch with ginger ale

This was a hit! We used real watermelon and store bought lemonade and blended them together. Then added Gingle Ale to taste. It is pretty easy to do and was very refreshing.

From afar you couldn't tell which was the real cake  (L) versus the diaper cake (R). My aunt did an amazing job making the diaper cake!

and I wasn't sure if I should post my version of an owl cake pop but here it is...

WARNING: IF YOU OWN ANY PET CHICKENS, COVER THEIR EYES. 

It is my first time making any sort of creative cake pop so of course the first times always the most hardest -slash- ugliest. I mean COME ON, look at the cake pop on the right, it looks like the brain exploded.


CLOSE UP OF EXPLODING BRAIN 

But at least it tasted good!


Our generation's most popular motto:

Congrats to the happy couple on their bundle of joy!  

...and if you didn't get a chance to see their city hall wedding- They are HERE. So beautiful!

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P.S.

Everyone's been asking us when we are going to have kids and my honest to god answer is... I have no FREAKING CLUE. I hope not soon. SO STOP ASKING ME! 

I find that to be the most annoying question you can ever ask a married couple especially newly weds because general opinion of people getting married is to have kids. BUT I am in the group where we want to be married because we want to be committed, not to procreate.

ok- I am no longer venting.  BUT.... now it JUST got awkward....

Posting now!

I Baked a Cake....

  

from scratch! 

It was difficult and long and most likely won't ever do this again because it was hard :(

Can you guess who it is?

My friends were guessing a dinosaur or a lizard. And they were right!

It was suppose to look like this ( the bottom right green one)....

......... I just told people that it was abstract yoshi
*** OPPS- The above was written September of Last year! I was so busy planning last semester that I forgot about this blog post. 
Here are the photos if your curious of what it eventually looked like. This was the recipe I used (HERE) Obviously it's not as amazing but at least I tried!

Us trying to make Yoshi's scales. We used chopsticks to make the small details when the ziplock bag trick did not work.

 

It's a little cute right????


There was a Colleges Against Cancer Bake Sale so I also made another cake roll for that. The pink ribbon was definitely easier to make. 

If you do try making this, let me know what you drew out and if you have any extra tips! 

HUGEKINs AKA Cake Pops

OKAY I am going to admit this. 

CAKE POPS SCARE ME.

I've eaten them and they taste great but the whole baking them scare me. I've heard stories of how difficult it is and I don't even want to get into that ( e.g. my friend Hanhie Poo).  If they make machines for perfect cake balls, it must be hard right???

My viewpoint of them changed after reading a blog post from 'a Beautiful Mess'. They make baking Cake Pops easy-peasy so I decided to make some for Chinese New Year last weekend!

I followed the recipe..sortof. 

Apparently 1 box of cake mix makes ~50 cake pops but I was only able to make 25 -____-!!! Therefore my Husband called them HUGEKINs because you needed to take a break in between bites from being so HUGH and Sweet.

Recipe:
1. Bake the cake as instructed on the box. I used Red Velvet because Red is a lucky color for Asian New Year and hey its red velvet!
2. Wait for the cake to cool and then add in the frosting. I used the 12oz Cream Cheese Frosting but other recipes have used 16oz. I thought 12 was just fine to use.
4. Mash the frosting into the cake. This can be done with clean hands BUT I don't really like that so I used a fork instead.
5. Roll into ball shape (a inch all over?) and place onto cookie sheet.
6. Freeze for 30 minutes or so.  I used both the Freeze and Refrigerator (refrigerate for 2 hours or so) method and with the freezing method, the icing for the cake balls looks ALOT BETTER so freeze it!
7. Melt the white chocolate and add 1 tablespoon of oil to prevent seizing.  I used just regular white chocolate chips and melted them in 15 second intervals up to 1 minute.

8. Gently dip the cake ball in the white chocolate using a fork. I didn't have lollipop sticks so I placed them in mini cupcake liners.

Funny or Not-So-Funny Story: I showed these to my dad and he starts LAUGHING OUT LOUD- like seriously laughing. My response, 'Dad- they don't look THAT BAD'. I still have no clue why he was laughing at me. I guess that's where I get my random outbursts of laughter from.

Once you started eating these HUGHKINs, there is a little surprise hiding in underneath.

One thing you should know about me. I LOVE shopping the after holiday sales aisles.
LOVE IT.
When I saw the red lace paper dollies, I couldn't resist. I only bought 1 pack after getting the evil eye from the husband. I wanted to be a bit crafty and use my leftover dollie sheets from the wedding and the red heart and BAM romance and cuteness right there!

 I forgot where I got this idea from but I think its a cute idea to use it as a labeling tool.

Yay for day-after Valentine's Sale!