Posted on 18 August 2009 by fruittart
Yesterday I took one of my girls to school for the first time. I was not one of the parents with a video recorder, a camera that looked like what you might expect from a National Geographic photojournalist, or even a point-and-shoot camera snapping up photos of every step she took to the front [...]
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Posted on 12 June 2009 by fruittart
Despite protests from Tartlet 1 that Barbie cakes are a special treat for the 7th birthday (and Only The Seventh Birthday!), Tartlet 3 requested a Barbie cake for her 6th birthday, at the end of May. I have posted earlier about the Barbie Cakes I made for Tartlets 1 & 2 for their respective [...]
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Posted on 4 June 2009 by fruittart
The end of May was a busy time for the Fruit Tart household — a farewell party, a reception for visiting friends, an end-of-year picnic for preschool, the blog’s birthday, and Tartlet 3’s birthday. For two of these I made trifle. At the end of April I made a trifle with Alton Brown’s [...]
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Posted on 19 March 2009 by fruittart
Tartlet 1 has been doing the baking lately. She made a variation of Banana Chocolate Chip bread and muffins. She also made my birthday cake — dark chocolate with mini chocolate chips stirred into the batter. I think she’s off to a great start and, judging from the speed at which her [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2008 by fruittart
Today was Tartlet 2’s birthday. Or, in a Cake Wrecks worthy entry, it was her birtday. Yes, on close inspection it really *does* say BIRTDAY! I noticed it right away at the Meijer bakery, but they had smooshed in the writing already by dropping the H, so I didn’t think anything was to [...]
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