Cakes and Custard

This week we planned on making a red velvet cheesecake, but out of the blue we had a request for some cakes for a friend of a friend. We made two carrot cakes and one red velvet cake, and covered them all with Big Man's soon to be world famous cream cheese icing. We have not had a report back yet, so we're not planning on quitting our day jobs anytime soon to open a bakery. But it's still flattering to be asked.

For the "Custard" part of our title this week, we spent Sunday making three gallons of boiled custard. It's a good thing we have little egg machines running around in the back yard.

While Big Man worked on the custard, Cupcake made two batches each of molasses cookies and snicker doodles. Then being the over achiever that she is, she made a large peanut butter pinwheel. The kitchen was alive with smells.

Since it was the last weekend before Christmas, we made a special breakfast on Sunday and made deer tenderloin gravy for our biscuits.

Other food notes for the week included steaks for dinner on Thor's Day.

Odds and ends to finish out this week. Somebody (we wont mention any names) couldn't wait until Christmas to open one of her presents, and fired up her new half gallon bourbon and apple candle.

We made a new gallon of laundry detergent.

And on a special note for us, it snowed for the first time this season. Not a lot, but it still counts.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K