hello kids,
my fault if my last blog was hella weird and awkward for some of ya'll. but n e hu, if ya'll don't know by now Juls 21st bday has just passed recently on the 25th of April. nigga is finally 21 and don't need me to copp the alcohol anymore. haha.... he's pretty siked! (: so on his birthday he had planned to go Go-Karting with just his boys, as i 'pretty up' for him for dinner. i had made reservations at this Thai Restaurant - Rin's Thai Restaurant in Noe Valley for his bday with everyone else. so i wasn't bout to sit around home all day and wait til dinner, i thot i bake him a birthday cake and some cupcakes for his friends just a THANK YOU for comin thru to celebrate Jul's birthday. so here is the process of the baking. nothing means more than cooking for your love on the reals. its the way to a man's heart mang, thru their tum tums :D Now I aint no chef or cook, so i used the pre-mixed batters for the cake & cupcakes (lol). I made a devils food chocolate cake with strawberries (his favorite) and Red Velvet cupcakes.
First off I copp'd some fresher than freshhhh strawberries then rinsed under cold water.
Now it's time to slice them Vertically down the membrane. 
When the strawberries look as if its almost a HEART its perfect.
I had already baked the cake in a 9inch round pan that's non-stick (best to use nonstick to prevent any breaking to the cake plus less of the pain having to scrub yo shit afterwards). 
Now get a piece of wax paper pop that baby upside down onto the wax paper and let cool in fridge (if you're in a rush like me) for a good 15 minutes. Now take it out and leave it upside down, get a cake knife and slice it in half horizontally across so you have two layers and cream the middle (bottom layer only). 
Now with those Heart shaped strawberries slice them into semi-thin slices and place them on that layer. 
Btw, i just used canned frosting; but i use the EXTRA FLUFFY so its lighter and easier to spread, ya feel me? oh yes, the white chocolate chips are used for the red velvet cupcakes to give it a sweeter kick, if ya'll never had red velvet;
its originally not that sweet by itself. so i thot i popped some white chocolate chips into each cupcake for a little BOOST of sweetness. i didn't end up using the sprinkles for the cupcakes, i thot its too kiddy and not as yummy when theres a crunch to the cupcakes, PERSONALLY i didn't want them on it this time. lol. oh yes, make sure u have cupcake cups in handy, cuz this occasion is individual cupcakes to each person to have; it's much more convenient when its in a paper cup. Alright as i was saying, put the top layer back on; layered on top of the spread like so... 
then be sure to spread the frosting all over the cake. as i was doing all this Gizmo was chillin in the dining room just lying there wondering wtf i was doing running around the kitchen left and right. haha....
now back to frosting. so i finished frosting the rest of the cake. 
then the best part for me personally is DECORATING this bitch with TLC mang.
so i placed a couple strawberries around the rim of the cake and i had melted some Ghiradelli chocolate chips and drizzled some designs over the cake by doing so i just used a regular fork. as you can see, i had many left over strawberries there in the corner because i originally WANTED to place one sliced heart strawberry on top of each cupcake.
but i thot about it, it wont make sense to do so cuz the tastes dont mix. strawberries, the berry flavor on a red velvet cake mix. no no. so i had left over strawberries for thee familia to munch on. hahha... Now... on to the cupcakes.
so with the batter i fit 12 at a time to bake. oh yes! be sure to have TOOTH PICKS in hand so u can poke in the center of the cup cakes or cakes to check if its ready.
usually they are ready when barely any slobber from the mix stain the pick. now they are ready to be baked!
after they're done, take them out and place on top of a wax paper (so its a easy clean-up) and let cool BEFORE YOU START FROSTING kids!
be sure to wear oven mitts while handling the non-stick cupcake pan that just hopped out of the oven, PLEASE DONT BURN YOURSELF!
after they're cooled off you can feel free and frost them, but u can also skip this step if you don't prefer frosting on your cupcakers.
when i had ran out to copp them strawberries at Safeway for the cake, i also grabbed myself two GIANT PINK DONUT boxes in the bakery section, they should be right by the donuts. THEY'RE FREE! so ya'll know where to get them if ya'll need'em! (:
so after baking i had to wrap his gifts real quick before i started to get ready. yea he likes Hennessy as you can tell. lol, so i grabbed a smaller bottle for HIMSELF to drink; but of course his nice self shared with his boys.now on to dinner, we ate at Rin's Thai Food Restaurant; i had yelped this place. the food here is pretty good and the service was not bad either. feel free to check out their YELP review by clicking on the name link.
so on to opening gifts. here he is opening a gift from our homegirl Griselda.
now my gifts. i got him a 2 set of Yoshi Blade, if you guys don't know what it is. please go look at their infomercial. lol.
he seemed to really like his gift. he was like 'oooh! i cant wait to try these out!'
then perfect timing they bring out his birthday cake and we all sang him happy birthday :D 
after dinner we decided to go bar hopping down on Broadway street. we went to our first TITTY BAR at Condor on broadway. the girls werent all that hot, but this one chick was CHEEKIN' (aka she has booty), so my homegirl manda&i bought him a PRIVATE VIP LAPDANCE from her. her name was Isas, i'm pretty sure it's her stripper name. she was like a punk rocker type chick, tatted up and everythang; she was really friendly. she was the prettiest one there. lol. then we went over to next door to our first STRIP CLUB. lol. then went back to homie Omar's place and just kicked it and made thee bf drink some more til he was GONNNNNNNE. hahha....
i think he had a GREAT time. what'chall think? heh. alright, until the next blog guys & girls. i hope ya'll have a great weekend! toodles! *deuce deuce*- LOVEVA
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