St. Patrick's Day

I celebrated St. Patrick's day last week by bringing in cake truffles to work.  At some point, I had purchased shamrock sprinkles on a whim and figured it was probably a wise idea to put them to use, as they can only be used once a year.  I went with cake truffles this time instead of cake pops, as I find putting them on the sticks and dipping the balls of cake in the melted chocolate (hoping that they don't fall in) to be rather tedious.  Placing them in tiny truffle papers makes them look a little classier, in my opinion.  Either way, they were a big hit at work.

I started out with a vanilla/white cake base and added some green food coloring to it for a little holiday surprise.  I mixed the cake with some leftover Funfetti frosting I had in the fridge (this accounts for the multicolored specks that you see in the picture above).  Once the cake balls were formed, I put them in the fridge for a little bit to harden up.  Afterwards, I dipped each ball into some melted white chocolate.  I accidentally thinned the chocolate too much, so the green cake was sort of visible through the candy coating.  Once coated, I sprinkled with green and set them aside to harden up.

settling in

Well, you may have noticed some changes around here.  I redesigned the blog (again) because I am fickle.  I decided that having a blog dedicated to just my baking endeavors was rather limiting (as I only have time to bake so often, as noticed by my lack of updates lately), so it made sense to make a space where I could write about whatever I was working on.  Or for whatever was happening.  Or for whatever people use blogs for these days.  Life, I guess.

In my photography world, a lot has been happening.  I had an opening reception for War of the Worlds at Booklovers' Gourmet in Webster, MA on Saturday afternoon.  That show will be on display until the end of the month, so please go check it out, buy some books, and have some snacks if you are in the area (55 East Main Street in Webster, MA).  On Saturday evening (it was a busy day), I was lucky enough to participate - along with many other talented artists - in the ALL VISUAL Boston slideshow event at Spectacle in Jamaica Plain.  It was a very cool space filled with very cool people.  I am looking forward to another event coming up this summer.

I also found out that one of my photographs from Notes on Change was selected to be exhibited in the Behind the Lens show coming up at the Keirnan Gallery in Virginia.  I've never shipped any prints anywhere to be shown, so this will be a new experience and something different for me to fret over.  I have some other things brewing in the background that I'm very excited about, but don't want to spill the beans about yet.  Suspense.