A lot of randomness today… First Diohgé wasn’t very happy when he came back inside this morning and Dave was gone. He ran all around sniffing everything and couldn’t find him. This was the run downstairs look of “where is he!?”
Random family of geese taking a walk.
And of course, the best of all… Cro-Knots! It’s a donut made from croissant dough. YUM! We celebrated my admin’s birthday today so the team was very happy!
First, a PSA on this cute pups… Always has to have his paw on you during pets.
Tonight Dave and I held the final taste test… Angel Food Cupcakes! Now, to refresh your memory, I received 8 flavors to taste in order to make my birthday dozen. Angel Food was nice enough to give me 3 of each, so we had two with our friends and saved the last one for us.
In my interview, I gave them some flavor profiles to use… Peanut butter, espresso, coconut, lemon, blueberry. I love white icing and didn’t want chocolate.
The 8 flavors they crafted are So much fun… Some examples:
– Coco-De-Leche: coconut cake filled with dulce de Leche and caramel Swiss meringue icing.
– Peanut Butter blueberry cake with toasted 7-min meringue icing.
I mean, come on!!
Dave’s favorite was the coconut blueberry cake with lemon Swiss meringue. My favorites are the “Nutter-A-Misu” (peanut butter cake soaked in espresso with vanilla whip cream and cocoa powder) AND Coconut Blueberry “Tres Leches” with toasted 7-min meringue. AMAZING.
Thanks to Angel Food Bakery for the awesome experience!
We picked up the pooch this morning from his daycare… He was so excited to see us! Jumping up and down, kisses all around.
Tonight we went over to PK & Susie’s for a Backyard Beer Dabbler… So much fun. Each of us were assigned a region if the country and brought a six pack of beer from breweries in that area. Most of us made our own 6 pack… So 18 different brews. Dave brought 8 different ciders as well. It was a blast!!
The final beers, in order from left to right, of top ranked.
The 3 brew buds…
The pooch hiding, burying and then sleeping on his bone.
I also had the chance to pick up 2 dozen birthday cupcakes from Angel Food Bakery. Remember Dave got me the cupcakes as a gift last year (the bakery makes one after my flavors…). Well, we had 8 flavors and 3 of each to try. Many samplings and its a hard decision. And I reserve the right to share more tomorrow!
(Overall flavors include lemon, blueberry, peanut butter, coconut, espresso.)
The final ring of fire…
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