farsighted, near delighted! » Brooklyn http://blog.lifeisnotaparagraph.com a constantly evolving personal blog, currently about being pregnant, soon about being a first time mommy, set in NYC Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:04:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 All about Cake Pops http://blog.lifeisnotaparagraph.com/2011/12/17/all-about-cake-pops/ http://blog.lifeisnotaparagraph.com/2011/12/17/all-about-cake-pops/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:16:58 +0000 CilSong http://blog.lifeisnotaparagraph.com/?p=5700 We recently had a Baby Shower at the cozy and chill cafe/bar Vineapple, located in Brooklyn Heights. Don’t read the reviews of them on Yelp, we had a great time and it was the perfect place to have friends hang out and relax.  No corny baby shower games or anything, just one last hurrah before the population increases by 1 in our world.

One of the things I did for the Shower was make cake pops with the amazing help of Blowuprobot and XM (bassist in Backlights).  They did a ton of work to make this shower a hit (have I mentioned that I love being pregnant?)  XM also made really delicious cupcakes.  She’s also known to make mummifed pigs in a blanket.  Anyway, they did a lot of research into this cake pop business and we spent the day before the shower making them.  I think they came out pretty good, although someone said that they kind of tasted like Luna Bars, which actually do taste okay but maybe not in the context of dessert.

Putting cake pop batter into the cake pop shape maker (much more sanitary than squishing baked cake into a ball by hand as per blowuprobot's insistence)

After being baked for 6-7 minutes

Cooling on the racks

Blowuprobot handmaking decorations while balls cool!! She's amazing!

Cake balls ready to be decorated

XM coming up with some sketches for decorating

At awe at how much one or two dots of eyes can change something from 'meh' to 'amazing!'

We made so many pops and they looked so cool!

Half eaten pop. Pretty good!!

Hanging out. Tee bone said that he was able to complete a game of Battleship while drinking Stumptown coffee w/whiskey the whole time. That is baby shower success!!!

More food from Fresh Direct (definitely recommended) and a tray of XM's animal themed cupcakes with her handmade table decorations!

More handmade decorations!

The bathroom!

Right after the shower, we rushed to Pianos in the LES to play one last Backlights show before we take a break for the baby. Badass!

 

 

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This is actually a great idea and my neighbors in Boro Park are geniuses.  The only thing I would suggest to improve this set up is putting padding under the pool.  The concrete is really hard so there’s no point in sitting in a pool of water when your ass is going numb.

update: I just noticed the sopping cardboard!

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Among the standard tacos of chorizo and chicken that they served, they also offered sesos and ojos.  I tried the sesos and it wasn’t bad.  I just wished that I hadn’t wikipedia’d ‘sesos’ afterwards.  I didn’t try the ojos but I did take a photo (top) to illustrate what eating such a taco could be like.  Reports on its taste were also, “not bad.”

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windowlights2

Both taken at about 7 pm in the same room on the same day.

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