Project Happiness Bakehouse

The client wanted a Barbie Candy Land cake and in fact ordered just the regular 8×3 cake. But as I was preparing the moist chocolate batter, I realized that I needed a two-layer cake to come up with what I have in mind!

I came up with this! An 8x8x1.5 base and 6×4 top. Not bad huh?

It was also my first time to use the FMM funky tappits so imagine my fear that everything will not turn out right! But guess what? I did it and the client loved the cake so much

Ms. Vivian asked me to bake a cake and 24 cupcakes for her dear daughter, Marga. The theme? BARBIE PRINCESS CHARM SCHOOL.

I searched online but found none so I have to make something inspired by the new Barbie movie. We came up with this:

Inspired by Barbie’s school uniform in Barbie Princess Charm School, we came up with a cool cake with Barbie’s vest on top.

For the cupcakes, we came up with the usual Barbie toppers, hand bag, shoes and hearts in various colors.

Love it? I do. These beautiful cupcakes earned a short feature in La Mode GV Miao’s facebook page! Soooo cool

I love these cupcakes because it’s so kikay. So me….

During my time lovers look forward to their anniversaries but for some reasons, more and more lovers today celebrate MONTH-SARIES. Our bakehouse have been receiving orders for monthsaries, mostly the girl’s gift to the boyfriend. Isn’t it sweet?

Here are some samples of the monthsary cupcakes that we made so far:

Why not? they’re affordable, fully customize-able and you can say your love with our cupcakes!

Visit PH Bakehouse to see more of our products or send us an email: inquiries@projecthappinessbyiris.info

Tiny, my 2 year old oven suddenly died. Prolly she got too tired from all those baking – who wouldn’t? This little oven from Kyowa baked ALL the cakes of PH Bakehouse :) Got her from SM in 2009 and she never stopped baking since.

Two nights ago, she showed signs of death. After baking for more than 12 hours, she lost heat. I let her rest for a few hours and used her again, she did well so hurray! But guess what? 24 hours later, she began emitting smoke while I was baking 3 cakes! Waaaaaaah! We had to adjust the thermostat every now so as not to burn our cakes.

Anyhoo, everything went well and here are the cakes we’ve made on that fateful day of November 6, 2011.

To see more of our products, please visit http://facebook.com/phbakehouse

xoxo

I haven’t been blogging for quite sometime now. My delicate pregnancy, sleepless nights and my unwillingness to attend blogger events are taking its toll. I am always tired and I have nothing to write about.

But one more thing that’s keeping me busy (well, aside from being awake all night, nursing my little one – Lana) is our bakehouse,  Project Happiness! We’re always busy especially during weekends but I make sure to pop a recipe or two in between orders, it’s keeps me sane and yes, human.

Won’t keep you waiting for so long, here’s what making me sane (and other people insane!) lately:

chocolate chip banana muffins

carrot walnut muffins

Love them and hate me.

xoxo

Perhaps these three words are the most abused every summer. On our case, we’ve overused it as we went to places where sand, sea and seafoods were of abundance and yes, we’re not getting tired of it. Our whole family would always love to go swimming and fishing

Moving on, I’ll be sharing some photos of the fresh catch we got in Leyte:

That’s my husband, fishing! but instead he got a…
CRAB! super LOL moment! hahaha

super duper fresh fish (I forgot the name), I can’t describe it’s freshness. We grilled it and cooked the rest into tinola (yes, di lang manok ang tinotola sa amin!)
The fresh shrimps which is only costs P175/kilo

The sugpo which we bought for around P280/kilo
That’s how huge they were! very cheap for it’s price, right?

I have tons of photos here to share but for now, let me have my brekky first

Ciao!

Yay! I finally got the chance to visit the famous Larsian BBQ in Cebu City!

We were in Cebu last June 1st and I grabbed that chance to try out the place and damn, the food (and the experience as well) was awesome

If you’re a grilled food lover, then you will surely love Larsian. It’s like a heaven of grilled street foods at very affordable prices

The prices, as I have said are quite cheap compared to most ihaw-ihaw stores here in Manila.

To give you an idea:

Squid @ P70/each
Blue Marlin @ P60/each
Andohao @ P55/each
Petso @ P50/each
Chicken Skiin @ P12/stick
Chorizo @ P15/stick
Yummy puso (rice) @ P3/each

Some points to consider before going to Larsian BBQ:
- It’s a grilling place, so don’t expect that you will still smell good after eating there
- they don’t have spoon and fork, so prepare to eat by hand. They provide plastic to cover your hand and wash areas to clean after eating.
- they’ll be serving you puso (pus-o) in baskets, don’t worry you can return the excess pieces of pus-o hehe (true! pwedeng ibalik ang sobra!

Larsian BBQ is indeed a must try when you visit sugbo. Kaon ‘ta!

Larsian BBQ
Fuente Osmena, Cebu City
(near Chong Hua Hospital)

I’m just giddy happy and I want to share it to all of you

Summer officially started last week and the best way to beat the scorching heat? By indulging on Selecta Hershey’s Ice Cream Collection!

My personal faves? Hershey’s Kisses and Reese’s. Trust me, you’ll never go wrong with these two!

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Talagang kay Sarap ng Weekend ‘pag may Pure Hershey’s Happiness!

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When my boyfriend from college introduced me to DCM2V Tapsihan back in 1997, the place left a small spot in my heart. Not because I was with my boyfriend (oh hi, Vince!) but because the tapsi tastes really special.

Fast forward 2011, I went back there again, this time with my family and my sister. The place is still how I imagined it to be – quiet and peaceful despite its near-highway location The place looks deserted because we got there on a weekday and on a non-peak hour, 4PM! But at night, it’s jam packed with cars and people.

I half expected their tapa recipe to have changed over the years but no, it’s still soft and yes, it still melts in my mouth It still gave me the nostalgic feeling of eating the tapa at home whenever there’s a free bingo going on.

Tapsilog is one Filipino breakfast favorite that, I guess, will never be forgotten. Every Filipino I know always look forward to eating this all-time favorite dish

Tapsi tayo?

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