this saturday lan invited me to a family dinner with her in-laws and we had a true vietnamese feast. naturally, my contribution was dessert. since ryan was going to be in attendance at this dinner, he was the
limiting reagent and thus i had to make some sort of pound cake. (yes, i'm very proud of my chemistry reference in that sentence!!!) i used the lemon poppyseed pound cake recipe from the joy of cooking, but of course, the boys were weirded out by the poppyseeds so i left that part out. lan had this tin with super cute mini bundt molds that i just had to test out. here they are fresh out of the oven:
unfortunately the mini bundt molds were so small and had so many angles and corners that the cakes got stuck!!! robert, lan's husband who is a brilliant engineer, froze the cakes so they would shrink. then, following the advice from the joy of cooking, we had to bang the bundt tin against the countertop until finally they all popped out. isn't that great advice? bang and dent the counters until the cakes are unmolded! hahaha. it was worth it though because aren't they cute?!?!?!? robert's family is not big on dessert, but everyone asked for seconds (we served each cake in quarters)!
lan shared the pictures she took of the boys on their birthdays in the dart gun jerseys that i made! naturally long is the one who is aiming the gun AT the camera. hehehe. and that's the limiting reagent himself on the far right!
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