Totoro Cupcakes

to-to-ro and friends! I just wanna eat it all up~

Mussels!

One of my favorite seafoods! I heard somewhere that you shouldn't eat them in certain months, and that the more orangish ones are "female".

These took too long to make, so probably won't make anymore~ too tired!

Nectarines

They look more like peaches in the picture. 1:3 and 1:12

Anmitsu

I don't know if you are familiar with this dessert, but this is very popular in Japan. I like to have mine with green tea ice cream, so I made mine green tea + mochi balls + chestnut and azuki (red beans).

Sweet Stuff

I've been making some desserts.

Strawberry jello cake 1:3 and 1:12

July fourth cake 1:12

strawberry sweet roll cake 1:12

American Girl Food

I've been making a lot of 1:3 scale food lately, and I LOVE it! Although I keep having to go to the craft store for more clay, working in a different scale is so much fun.

Haagen Dazs ice cream bar

choux cream puffs

grapes

scones

assorted vegetables

Pasta Machine and Clay

I finally got a pasta machine (no more bulging right bicep!) since I have been getting orders for 1:3 scale. I felt like I was making food for Gulliver ... no, Paul Bunyan.

My little helpers~ they do all the clay mixing~ (yeah right, I wish!)

I also tidied/color coordinated my clay box  (which is now a mess).

Sunny Day!

Have a great Sunday!

Projects

It's been a week since I've blogged! Here are some stuff that I've been making/keeping myself busy with.

short and sweet.

I made Mardi Gras Cake and Minnie Kitchen Pie for my American Girl customer, made some grapes, scones and Minnie Kitchen mix-n-match cupcakes.

I LOVE the pina colada cupcake. It's the one with the coconut frosting, pineapple slice and cherry topping.

I use polymer clay to make all my foods, and as you can see the American Girl 1:3 scale is HUGE (for me at least), so I got a pasta machine to knead my clay! YAY! no more arm falling off! Will update with that in a different post.

Whoopie Pies

Maru-chan: "Do you want a banany?"

Blair: "Uh..."

Maru-chan: "Okay, I give you whoopie pie"

Blair: "Deal"

I need to get Maruchan some new clothes. I personally want her to wear a cute long sleeve shirt with leggings to hide her ball joints.

Cheese and Dried Fruits

I made some dried fruits - prunes, dates, apricot, mango and pineapples

I personally love how the pineapples turned out. Maybe I should gloss the prunes...

I finally got my lazy butt to make a cheese board! I still need to make figs, crackers and olives for the deluxe board. So much to do, so much time, but so little motivation. Someone motivate me!

Maru-chan

meet my new baby Maru-chan

"Get me outta here!"

She's stuck in the picnic basket...we'll see how she escapes.

Steak dinner

I made a steak dinner with rib eye steak, baked potato,  baby carrots, brussels sprouts and asparagus. I love how the brussels sprouts turned out but I think I'm gonna have to gloss it a bit. 

I got new plates by the way! So excited to be able to actually "present" my food.

pound cake and brownies

lemon pound cake

brownie with vanilla ice cream

I can't wait for my dishes to come! I'll finally get to make some real food!

Happy V day!

I made royal buttered crumpets in celebration of Prince William's announcement of his best man and maid of honor. HA! That sounds so cheesy....(actually I was planning to make it yesterday but coincidentally they announced today)

Rainbow cake and Lobster

My friend had sent me a picture of a rainbow cake she had made, so I had to make it too (mine is not edible....)!

My first attempt at a lobster. I will be making more today....but boy does it take patience, patience, and time!

Everyone have a great weekend!

more boar and some peach pastries

I made a custom order in 1/4" scale and some peach pastries. I regret sprinkling the sugar powder...looks quite messy! I will have to re-do them tomorrow :)

1:3 scale

I made some 1:3 scale food for my American doll customer! I used to love Felicity (although I couldn't pronounce her name when I was younger) and Samantha :)

po' boy 1:3 and 1:12

buffalo wings

Easter Egg Cupcakes

I got a little too excited with my extruder so I made a little too much easter cupcakes. 3 eggs on top of grass...I initially wanted to do it on yellow cupcakes but realized that grass grows from soil, so had to change it to chocolate!

 I love how the green grass icing looks so real and "unhealthy".

Next up is apple pie and peach pie.

Working Monday

I finished up my boar's head order that will be shipped to Europe, and made some Strawberry Shortcake and buffalo wings with celery sticks.

A tribute to last year's super bowl winner

New Orleans' most famous beignets and po'boy

And remember my king cake and oysters? My friend Barbara made them into beautiful New Orleans themed earrings!

And an etsy treasury on new orleans themed items!

www.etsy.com/treasury/4d4c5d8bb9df8eef86364727/nola-state-of-mind

Getting Connected!

The past few weeks I have been discovering all these social medias (which I still don't really know how to use). Now I have deviantart, flickr, and facebook. Someone please become my first friend on facebook. I am so lost and lonely and I don't even know how to link the site! Just search for minnie kitchen :)

by the way, I made a sandwich prep board and the yellow stuff on the bread is mustard just fyi...

Eggs Benedict and Baked Potatoes

I went a little mini crazy last night and made all these foods that I was craving.

I always crave eggs benedict on Sunday mornings but can never get my lazy butt to make the hollandaise sauce!

Baked potatoes! I remember loving the wendy's broccoli and cheddar baked potato when I was a kid.  Well I made it with different toppings, but what's wrong with this picture? It's so blurry.... maybe time for another camera. But in the end its always me~ hehe

Sesame cupcake and Blair with a hot dog

I finally took a picture with all of them together! and realized that there was no purple character in sesame street ... they should recruit Barney

Blair knocks down grover to show off her hot dog

Baby got back.........ribs

How corny! Probably because of the corn dogs I made earlier...haha. But I did make baby back ribs and glazed them with honey barbeque sauce.

I also added my july fourth flag cake to the table- it is topped with blueberries and strawberries

yum yum~

I think this picnic table is becoming a july fourth barbeque picnic.

And for all of you who asked about the paper plates : a quick tutorial! All you need is the perfect egg carton. I will try posting a pic of the brand when I go grocery shopping next time, but if you look closely on the bottom of the carton, there are parts where it has contours that look like plates. You need a mini eye to find this- be crazy!