Happy 20th Birthday, Mark

Gotta love steak for your birthday.

Shannon's 16th Birthday Family Party

Luckily, I found the cheesecake at Costco this evening for Shannon's birthday cake. I suppose I hadn't looked in the right place yesterday when I was at the other Costco in Orem. When I spotted it I had to purchase the enormous $38 jar of Nutella for Shannon because she's crazy about the stuff. It turns out that she isn't the only one. Emily Shelton in our ward also received the mega-jar for her birthday the week before. The older you get the less of a surprise most of the gifts are on your birthday and the same goes for Shannon. She knew about most of the gifts except for the Nutella. --Gotcha!

Cookie Boss

Bradley and I concocted an idea late last night to honor Jefferey J.'s 18th birthday.  Last year no peers remembered his birthday, so Brad wanted to surprise him at school this year.

Brad left early, 6:30AM, for Jazz Band and I got to work on what Brad thought would be a large chocolate chip cookie.  After watching several episodes of Cake Boss on Netflix last month I was inspired to make a pizza cookie.  Fondant stored from Ayn's wedding was ready to be tinted to colors of cheddar and pepperoni.

Here's want I did:
First, the sugar cookie dough patted into a 14" round cake pan and bake 20 minutes.

Then roll out the red fondant with sprinkles of ground pepper. I thought the touch of spicey heat would taste good with all that sugariness.  Thin the pepperoni with a ball tool.

Apply the red tinted apricot jam.  Whitney's clean, delicate fingers did this job.

Grate the orange and white fondant.  Apply pepperoni.


Broil momentarily.  Bob's propane torch browned the top of the pizza.

Voila!
Bon Appetite, Jefferey:)

Here's a video of the cookie presentation. Click here!