We've returned!!

bet cha all were wondering when we were going to update next didn't ya? or maybe not considering the fact we have NO readers..... anyway, no we didn't die from a heavy cream induced heart attack a la the cinnamon cream cheese pie, my camera ran out of batteries, and i have yet to find the charger >=\ oh well.

so today is J's birthday!!!! he's 18, which pretty much sucks for me. he's going off to college in the fall, so i'll just be by myself =( since it's his birthday, what better way to celebrate than by baking a nice cake. sweetened with stevia of course. a quick update on the steiva situation, you MUST buy the little like .7 oz bottles of stevia (which they actually DO carry at rasin rack) like, you MUST. you don't want any fillers or anything at all in your stevia. that's why we kept having to use so much! hahaahh, we're dumb. we use the "sweetleaf" stevia brand, and we don't use QUITE as much as Lisa Jobs calls for... if you use too much it will give you that signature bitter aftertaste that our dad just LOVES (sarcasm). so anyway, J decided on a chocolate cream cheese layer cake with rasberry glace in the middle and frosted with rasberry icing. he likes rasberries. so we made it =D yesterday, because stevia desserts are like pizza. you have to wait a day so they taste better haha.

in case you were wondering, we've gotten much better at making desserts, hence the fancy sounding cake. the brownies which falied so misrably the first time we made them are now our favorite recipie!!! we even took them on vacation last week, although there was no room in the fridge for them, and i didn't know what was wrong about keepin ghtem on the counter anyway, but a good half-batch of them molded!!!!! WTF!!!!!! stevia is not cheap either. J almost ate one anyway, but mom stopped him. ok, well, if i ever find my battery recharger, i'll be sure to upload a pic. it's really pretty with nice pink icing. so manly. just like my brother. j/k of course. he just likes rasberries.

actually, what he really wanted to do was make a vanilla layer, a blueberry layer, and a rasperry layer, and cover it all in chocolate frosting. then, he said, we could call it an american flag cake covered in poop!!! O.o i had a more sophisticated idea, a pineapple cake filled with coconut butter and frosted with pineapple-coconut frosting. and then you could garnish it with shaved coconut!!! a pina-colada cake. but no, he just wanted his poop covered american flag cake. we compromised on the above mentioned cake. *sigh* boys have no taste.