Today was Aaron's birthday and we went to the Naples
Grape Festival. The best thing I found there was candy apple
with a GRAPE candy coating. They called them grapples. Not to be
confused the the grapples
I have written about here before.
By the way... if you put a singing sparkling candle on
someone's birthday cake, be sure you don't have other candles on the
cake that the singing sparking candle may pop open and be melted by.
Heh heh.
As part of my birthday weekend we went to the New York Wine & Culinary
Center for a wine and food pairing class and lunch. The
center is a place to learn more about New York State food and wine. In
the picture above I am actually tasting different kinds of New York
fruit juices.
At the center you can take cooking classes, taste wines or eat
at the restaurant. There are classes for different kinds of pesto,
strawberry and chocolate, baking with berries...
Saturday was my friend Doug's birthday and we went to his bowling birthday party. Check out his awesome cupcake birthday cake.
I have not been bowling in years... as you can see from that fabulous split I produced. I won't be joining the pro tour anytime soon. (but if I did I would need this bowling ball and bag!)
Today was Lauren's big one year birthday party. I made her one of my bunny cakes... but what I was really excited about was a candle I got at the Chinese grocery store. A Happy Birthday singing candle! You light it... it shoots sparks into the air while it plays Happy Birthday, then the flower bursts open with six lit candles. Wooowee!
