So, some of you may or may not know about my other food review blog, The Darling Foodie, but I’ve decided once again to merge that blog back with this one. Why? Primarily because I can’t stand WordPress. Maybe because I don’t know how to use it, maybe because it won’t let me run ads on it, or maybe because it always crashes on me when I’m uploading pictures. Either way, I’m a blogger user and I’m gonna stick to it.
bee’s knees & a giveaway.
I was roaming around Albertson’s the other day, in search of something cheap to buy so that I could get cash back when using my debit card. Immediately, I went to the bakery section. After passing by various cakes, bite-sized brownies, and lofthouse cookies, my eyes stumbled across this pretty little thing. There were actually four different designs.. a butterfly, a bee, a flower, and something else that I can’t quite remember.
So why did I choose the bee? It was the cutest one! And plus, we need to save the honey bees! Did you know that honey bees alone are responsible for 1/3 of the crops that we eat? If honey bees were to become extinct, the human population could only survive for 4 years before becoming extinct as well (according to Albert Einstein). The weird thing is, no one really knows why they are dying out. We know that hives are experiencing Colony Collapse Disorder, where bees desert their hives for no apparent reason and die. Haagen-Daz has been really active on saving the honey bees and you can even find more information at their website, HERE.
To be honest the cookie wasn’t very good. It was a lemon sugar cookie with royal icing, but I was never really a fan of lemon baked goods. At such a steal for $1.99, it doesn’t hurt to buy the cookie just to look at. 🙂
I’m almost at 200 followers and just wanted to celebrate with a giveaway! I’m giving away a pastry dough scraper from Crate & Barrel. The rubber grasp makes it easy to grip and work with, while the ruler on the stainless steel comes in handy when trying to measure out the dough (one side is in inches and the other side is in centimeters.. perfect!).
For a chance to win, just leave a comment with your favorite sugar cookie shape by next Monday, August 3rd, 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Good luck!
A win for the Lakers!
My last day of undergrad classes are officially over! Hooray! I celebrated with the bf by going to Crumb’s Bake Shop after school, and what did I see? A Lakers cupcake! How fitting for tonight’s game. Luckily we also got the W… Maybe I should buy a Lakers cupcake for every game as a good luck charm since it seemed to work tonight. 🙂
Excuse the poor lighting, I didn’t have time til after the game to take a picture because I didn’t have my camera with me. I even made the bf wait the entire day to eat it, since I wouldn’t let him take a bite out of it without a decent picture first. Ohhh wellll. This one was a plain vanilla cake with buttercream frosting and it was PERFECT! So moist and flavorful, just another reminder of why I love Crumbs so much. And just for kicks, me and the bf driving the cupcake back from Crumbs…