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!
