Questionable Projects

A 9-inch plushie takes on American life

baking

  • Completed

    Today I finished the marble cake I made on Sunday and I have to tell you the results were very unexpected. We started by making a chocolate cream cheese frosting and then we got the cakes out of the freezer to frost. I put my professional swirls on the cupcakes with the cut off tops Read more

  • Incompleted

    It’s been so long since my last blog post! It’s not that I haven’t been doing things, I just haven’t had time to blog about them. Like have you seen me on the top of this faux stump? Or the girl and I inside this culvert? This weekend I did things that didn’t get finished. Read more

  • Heritaged

    So this story ends with me and my friends looking at my baking book and thinking about what I should bake next, but it begins inside an old trunk. Perhaps you noticed someone new in that last picture. This is NuNu, but before I can tell you about him, we have to talk about the Read more

  • Squeezed

    Yesterday my goal in life was to make the Lemon Tart with Almond Crust from my Bakeshop Classics cookbook, page 101. The girl got me all the ingredients we needed and even ordered a citrus juicer from Amazon so we could juice all the lemons ourselves. The first thing we had to do is make Read more

  • Mitted

    This weekend was kind of crazy because the girl had to work again, taking pictures of people winning pie contests and stuff at a festival, but the Quad Cities River Bandits were giving away oven mitts at the game on Satuday and I really wanted to go. She had only one hour to make me Read more

  • Sweetened

    So last week I was looking over the girl’s shoulder while she was reading her email, and she got this message from Amazon saying she would really like this cookbook. She hit delete, but I was like, Wait, that looked like a good book! So she undeleted it and we looked at it on Amazon. Read more

  • Doubled

    This morning there was a wonderful breeze coming in from the window when the girl got out of bed, and I thought, there’s no way I want to leave this place right now. She wasn’t sure about leaving me home alone while she went to work, but I assured her that if I could survive Read more