From the category archives:

cakes

Baking a Tinkerbell Cake With My Daughter

by Mitja on August 1, 2010

It was a marathon week and the grand finale was making a cake for Citrus’s birthday.  I thought I had all of the supplies on hand but it was only at 9pm the night before the party that I realized I was missing a few things. 
Those are the times when you learn that most Singapore stores [...]

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Birthday Word of the Day: Dragées

by Mitja on July 27, 2010

Citrus turned five years old on Saturday.  She is officially a big girl and is proving it more and more each day with defiant acts of independence.  I hear parents say all the time that they cannot believe how fast time went by with their children, but I have yet to truly feel that.  I [...]

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There Will Be (Unicorn) Blood

by Mitja on July 7, 2010

If you had told me that one day I would be sitting in Southeast Asia ordering a unicorn piñata for delivery from the United States, I never would have believed it.  But if you told me that I might one day see a group of small children beat the crap out of an effigy of a soldier it would seem plausible.  [...]

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Happy Birthday, Elysia!

by Mitja on July 7, 2010

Ah, the challenges of baking a cake with a chilled frosting in a tropical country and transporting it to the office before it melted.  It was accompanied by Hainanese chicken rice, the closest thing Singapore has to a national dish, and a grande chai latte from Starbucks.
Elysia turned 39 today.  35 weeks pregnant with our [...]

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Birthday Party 2009

by Mitja on July 27, 2009

One girl, two cakes.  And I put frosting all over Barbie.
Citrus has been counting down the days until her fourth birthday since she turned three.  Last year we went to a local carousel in Maryland and invited a few friends from preschool and elsewhere.  But in Singapore — at least our corner of Singapore — [...]

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