Pampered Chef

There's been a lot of Pampered Chef stuff flying around here lately! I had a party in November, one friend had one in January, and another friend just had one last Saturday. We all scored awesome free stuff and I couldn't be happier with my stuff! Of the long list of things that I ordered the last time around, I got this bamboo serving set. I purchased bamboo spoons and scrapers and such a while ago and just love the look and feel of them. So I set out to replace anything that I could with bamboo. I love the idea of a bamboo ladle. 

Anyone out there into apples? There's a crop out there - organic Fuji apples. BEST APPLES EVER! Seriously these are probably the best apples that I've ever had in my life. I buy a lot of apples lately as we can't seem to keep them stocked for very long, so we get all the varieties all the time. Something about the crop that is in stores now, they're so sweet, juicy and crisp. I feel like I've been having an apple affair. 

In my recent post, I talked briefly about my brother having a baby soon, well the due date for that baby is now April 9. They're getting married this weekend, and I am making their wedding cake. I'm a bit nervous as this is my first official wedding cake (and hopefully my last). It won't be something you see out of a magazine by any means, I can't pipe to save my life or make flowers or designs. It's going to be a very simple 2 tiered cake with fresh flowers. My sister gave me the idea of a lily or tulip, and I think that's a great idea. I guess a simple cake is better than no cake right? That means that I have a good two days worth of baking and mixing ahead of me.

I plan to make one tier white butter cream cake, and the other devils food cake. I've made both these recipes before and am confident that they will come out. I can make these a couple days ahead and freeze them. I plan on transporting the cake unstacked to the church and then building it there and I can only hope that SOMEONE out there with an eye for small detail will notice something and give me their brain for a little bit. If it looks like shit, I know it will taste amazing. Whats kind of crazy about this is that I've considered taking those cake decorating classes at JoAnn Fabrics.  I'm sort of kicking myself for not doing it when I first thought about it. 

Aside from some laundry, I plan on going to the RE store today. It's a big store on the edge of town that  people take old materials to, like when they rip it out of their house but it's still got life in in - you can find some pretty cool things! You can find large slabs of granite for like $100 or cool old doors, or old stained glass. It's a cool place to look for treasures because sometimes they end up there!