On today's episode: Chris gets his first order and its Panda cupcakes. Did he learn his lessons from the last time?
First off, apologizes for taking so long to write this, should have been posted a long time ago but work has been kicking my ass. As I was drinking a lot last night and am now recovering I finally have some time to write something.
(At some point I become the first to be tipsy, so my co-op student asks me "is this what happens when you get old?" Ouch.)
Secondly, I've learned not to underestimate the power of cheesecake over women. Chocolate may be number 1, but I've come to believe that cheesecake is number 2. Case in point. I baked a cheesecake recently and brought it to my karate class. One of my sensei's (a woman, just to be clear) hugged me. Its that powerful.
Ok, so after last time, my sister showed the picture of the panda cupcakes to her boyfriend's niece, and as she liked Kung Fu Panda she wanted them for her birthday party at the end of the week. So, sweet, my first "order" and also my chance for panda redemption.
The party was Sunday afternoon, but due to work I couldn't start on them till the Saturday night. I was going to post my step by step details of the panda build, but I didn't have my camera and didn't log what I did so heres a vague recollection of how it went:
7:30 Start making cupcake batter, I decided to go with white chocolate
8:00 Cupcakes go in to oven, have about 25 minutes to kill, start playing Starcraft
8:30 Cupcakes go out, mini cupcakes go in, another 15 minutes to kill, more Starcraft
9:00 Start frosting the cupcakes and applying the Oreo crumb fur and putting on the arms, turn on the TV, flip channels till I get to the Bachelor Pad, this looks interesting enough
9:45 Oh snap! So much drama. That Elizabeth is a troublemaker. Start working on frosting the heads.
10:30 Start putting on the facial details
11:15 Assemble head and body. Done!
So the next day I go to drop off the cupcakes. If you remember from last time, several panda cupcakes died a horrible death during transport due to crazy driving, so I decided to drive extra carefully. I kept thinking of that GI Joe episode where the Joes are transporting explosive crystals, but then Cobra ambushes the convoy with the Joe's family members. So devious!
Fortunately the cupcakes arrived without incident or ambush. The cupcakes were a big hit. Definitely lesson learned this time!
Next episode: Chris throws a party and has to bake and decorate a whole bunch of things in less than three days. Can he do it?
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