Mardi Gras!!!

Well Miss A's daddy, Hungry Hank, is from Louisiana so we could not miss the opportunity to do a Bento Box for Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday! So we have a Mardi Gras mask sandwich with ham and bread, an extra piece of ham in a ribbon fold on the bottom, edamame and pretzels. We also have some strawberries, blueberries, and flower cheese accents!! Yummy!!

Disney Princess Jasmine!!

We surprised Miss A with her vacation pre baby trip to Disneyland. Hungry Hank my hubby has a sister that lives in LA so we are flying there to see her and then headed to Disneyland. Thought this was the perfect spot for a 7 month prego like myself and a wee little Disney Princess enthusiast Miss A. So this weeks Bento Boxes leading up to her trip will be a nod to the princesses or Disney! Of course we will have a salute to Mardi Gras!! So we have the first princess Princess Jasmine. We just watched Aladdin last night. There are some amazing Bento Jasmine's out there but again the challenge has been making the Bento's out of what we would call "American normal" ingredients! haha. So We have a quesadilla cut in triangles on the bottom and a tortilla Jasmine with fruit roll up, cheese, twizzler lips, and corn earrings! We then have some corn, grapes and turkey roll ups at the top! Happy Monday....hang in there everyone!!!

Chocolate Topsy Turvy...

This weekend I had the pleasure of making a fabulous cake for a very fashionable little girl. I have never done a fondant covered cake and especially a chocolate fondant cake. Of course this was technically the second cake, the first cake had an accident. I had to deliver the cake Friday evening so I made all the pieces slowly during the week. Then Thursday late night I finished the cake....but...as my drawing shows the cake fell! People kept asking what happened so thought I would show my funny drawing!!! haha. Soooo around 2am I started the second cake and worked until wee hours of the morning, got in a cat nap, went to work, and then came home and finished it up! BUT I must say it turned out pretty good! The purse is fondant and rice krispy treat, the sunglasses and perfume bottle were done with my cricut cake along with the flowers. The first cake had hand cut flowers, but did not survive so the second set of flowers on this cake and the precious little girls name was done on the cricut cake cutter. I must say it was quite easy and fast!! Next week I have a motorcycle cake so I am looking forward to that!!! Not to mention Miss A's Bento Box lunches this week. We leave for Disneyland in a week so this weeks theme is of course Disney Princesses!!!

Monkeying around....

Well...this little monkey was a nod to my bumbling and clumsy self and was done quite rapidly this morning. I have a two tier cake I am working on for this amazing little girl and last night as I finished up the cake I dropped it...I was not monkeying around but I sure felt a fool...so at 2am I started again. I got a quick cat nap and when I got up this morning I had a plan! And oddly enough still energetic and excited! Sooo this morning I quickly made a monkey sandwich with turkey tongue and ear accents. I have black olive eyes and a kalamata olive nose. A banana of course, some cherry tomatoes, mandarin oranges and a few slices of cheese. Alexa was pleasantly pleased. Now off to work so I can quickly come home and finish this cake for an evening delivery that requires an hour drive to get there. PLEASE big money no whammies and all goes well on the trip over!!!

Hopefully I will be proud enough to post the pic of this little troublesome cake. BUT I will prevail! It just makes me stronger and proves I can pull through in a pinch...let's hope! haha

Just keep chanting for me...big money no whammies!! Remember that show? I love that saying. Were they red? Those little whammies?

Fish Food!

One of Alexa's friends at school brought a boiled egg to school yesterday, so Miss A was set on a boiled egg or two for lunch. We googled some ideas and decided on a fish, but she wanted two "kissy fish" as she calls them! So here we have an underwater scene of two boiled egg fish with olive eyes and mouth. They have carrot gills and fins and the seaweed is shredded carrots and green beans. We added a few strawberries as a top border and Alexa wanted a few olives thrown in for good measure.

Mickey and Minnie

So this is my sad sad attempt at a Mickey and Minnie. I have an early start this morning and have to get on the road so I may have to round robin back to this again and try again someday. BUT...here they are Mickey and Minnie as requested by my Miss A!!! Mickey and Minnie are cheese and seaweed (which she will not eat, just decoration) and the hat and bow are little picks I found online. Then we have some leftover sweet and sour chicken from last night and some pretty red ripe tomatoes. I am also throwing in a fruit roll up for her dessert! See ya tomorrow!!!

Planes, Suns and Automobiles?

Good moooooorning! We seem to be on a transportation theme this week....rocket ships and space ships yesterday and today we have Plane and Race Car. I found a cookie cutter set for $2 at TJ Maxx or Marshal's, can't remember! I am a huge fashionista bargain shopper! I got them because...well there is a boy in my tummy that will probably not appreciate all the flower, shoe, and dress cookies as much as Alexa! Well Alexa thought they were for her lunch and I did not want to disappoint! Except...she did not want the train....she just wanted the car and plane. Sooo we have a ham and cheese race car sandwich with black olive wheels. Pretzels for the road and a cheese & fruit roll up checkered flag. The plane is rice krispy treat with a blueberry sky and the peas...well I had to throw in a veggie but Miss A convinced me to put a smiling cheese sun on top of it!! So...Planes, Suns, and Automobiles....(I must say that Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is one of my fav Steve Martin and John Candy movies! CLASSIC!) And yes, I made homemade rice krispy treats last night because I am using it for a cake this weekend!!! :) Have a great one!