Motorcycle Cake - Homemade Birthday Cake

Special Birthday Cake

        Is anybody's birthday coming?   Here I will introduce how to do a special birthday cake for your friend.

        My friend likes motorcycle very much. I want to make a homemade motorcycle cake for him.

Steps:

1. Print a picture, cut it out and put it up on the cake as a template for cutting the cake and just a coffee cup for the wheels. 

2. The body of the bike is yellow cake.  The wheels are chocolate cake. Both were just box mixes baked in 9x13 pans.

3. For the frosting you can prepared tubs. I used a lot of food coloring (blue, green, red) to get the grayish color for the engine. You can use M&Ms to trace around the blue just for fun. The details make it: used M&Ms for headlights, tail lights and exhaust.

4. Use chocolate frosting and sprinkles for the dirt, spraying out the back.

5. Put the candles on the back part of the cake so it looked like it was flame coming out of the exhaust when the candles were lit.   

       It is a homemade birthday cake.  Also, I wish your friends will like it.

Here is Special Birthday Cake .

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Sweet Memories Confectionery - Sweet Place

        When I saw this store's name, I thought of my blog.  
        "Sweet Journey" and "Sweet Memories".
         Sweet Memories Confectionery is a family-owned business residing along the main thoroughfare in the city of Millbrae, CA at Shaw's Plaza aka "the old Shaw's building."
        Sweet Memories carries all types of candies from decadent chocolates to sour gummies, from fun novelty candies to candies from long ago and everything in between.  They also carry fresh fudge from a local fudge maker.  You can aks them for a free tastes.

        Sweet Memories offers ice cream.  It is rich, creamy and delicious cones, shakes and sundaes.  Fresh pastries to go along with their gourmet espresso drinks.  
        Have a seat at one of their tables and enjoy free Wi-Fi as well.




Ice Cream Flavors:
Banana Nut
Chocolate Chip
Coffee
Cookie 'N Cream
Mango
Mocha Chip
Rocky Road
Strawberry
Vanilla
Coconut-Pineapple......




Sweet Memories
1395 El Camino Real
Millbrae, CA 94030


Hours:
Mon   Closed
The - Sat   12pm-9pm
Sun           11am-9pm






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Mrs.Field's - Famous Cookies

Mrs. Field's

        I passed by this cookies strore many many times.  Yesterday, I decided to try their cookies.  When I got home, I searched the internet and found it is so famous.  It is the first sweets store which I can found in Wikipedia.

        Mrs. Field's Cookies was founded by Debbi Fields (b. 1956, Oakland, California) in the late 1970s. She and her husband, Randall K. Fields, opened their first of many stores in 1977 in Palo Alto, California, selling homemade-style cookies which quickly grew in popularity. 

       

         I bought a Cinnamon Suger, a Peanut butter.... and a Cookie Cups.

        This "Cookie Cups" is a little sweet to me, but not that kind of too sweet of other cupcakes.  I like its color that is why I bought it.

       Now it is close to Christmas.  Mrs. Fields has some holiday sets for you with free shipping.

Mrs. Field's

3251 20th Ave # 249,

Stonestown Galleria Center,

San Francisco, CA 94132

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Bi-Rite Creamery - Organic Ice Cream

      Bi-Rite Creamery is committed to creating ice cream in a responsible and sustainable manner. They are proud to be the first ice cream shop in San Francisco to use Straus Family Farms organic dairy to create their ice cream. They strive to create unique and exciting flavors that are made with local, organic or sustainable products.

Bi-Rite Market

        Their Coffee Toffee ice cream is made with coffee from their local Ritual Coffee Roasters and almond toffee that they make here in their shop. They Honey Lavender is created with organic dried lavender and honey that is gathered in Sonoma especially for them, less than 40 miles away. Their Rocky Road is made with house made marshmallows and house made chocolate covered almonds. Their Roasted Banana is created by roasting organic bananas with brown sugar until tender and caramelized.

       All of the granitas, sorbets and popsicles they make are made from fruits that are sourced from local organic farms and orchards. Their concord grape granita and popsicles are made from grapes grown on their own farm in Sonoma.

        Not only do they care deeply about their ingredients, they also care about the impact they have on their environment. They use cups and spoons that are biodegradable, their sugar cones are made from organic ingredients, and they source their ingredients as locally as they can. Their tastes are served on metal spoons that don't create waste. In doing so they save over 500,000 plastic spoons from filling their landfill every year.

Ice Cream Flavors ( Flavors change, please call for daily selection )

Vanilla

Salted Caramel

Chocolate

Chocolate Coconut (vegan)

Ginger

Mint Chip

Honey Lavender

Coffee Toffee

Ricanelas (cinnamon with snickerdoodles)

Roasted Banana

White Chocolate with Raspberry Swirl

Malted Vanilla with Peanut Brittle and Milk Chocolate Pieces

Brown Sugar with Ginger Caramel Swirl

Balsamic Strawberry

Cookies and Cream

Toasted Coconut

Creme Fraiche                

Sundaes 

Banana Split

With caramelized bananas, vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, and toasted walnuts

Brownie Sundae

Housemade decadent brownies with vanilla ice cream, chocolate and burnt caramel sauces, whipped cream, and candied pecans

Toffee Sundae

Housemade almond toffee, coffee toffee ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, and marcona almonds

Berry Sundae

Ginger ice cream, berry compote, crumbled lemon gingersnaps, and whipped cream

Sam's Sundae

Chocolate ice cream with bergamot olive oil, maldon sea salt and whipped cream

Seasonal Sundae

Afternoon Snack - Roasted banana ice cream, housemade graham crackers, caramel sauce and whipped cream.

Or make your own sundae with the ice cream, toppings, and sauces of your choosing!

Address

3692 18th Street (@Dolores)

San Francisco CA 94110

Hours

Sunday - Thursday

11am - 10pm

Friday - Saturday

11am - 11pm

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Doris Sweet Journey Podcast - Garlic Ice Cream

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The Stinking Rose - Garlic Ice Cream

The Stinking Rose

        Do you like garlic?  It is good for our health as we all know.  We cook it in many ways.  Have you ever thought about if it is added into ice cream, what the kind of taste the ice cream will be?

       Garlic ice cream is served in a restaurant called “The Stinking Rose”.  In this restaurant, all the dishes are made with garlic.  They get the garlic from Gilroy - garlic capital of the world.  If you have allergy to garlic, you might not want to go there. 

       Garlic ice cream does not have too much garlic in it.  At the beginning, you seems like have a vanilla ice cream.  If you taste for a while, you can taste a little bit garlic, just a little bit. Over all, it is taste good.

        However, you might not want to have too much food with garlic.  I had a slide of baked bread with garlic sauce and a little chicken meat with garlic, about 2-3 cloves garlic.  Then I had a big ball of garlic ice cream.  A few hours later, I felt dizzy.  I am sure I do not have allergy to garlic.  Maybe I had a little too much in one time.  So I recommend you try a little garlic ice cream at first time.  If you feel good, you can have more next time. 

        I hope you will enjoy GARLIC ICE CREAM.

325 Columbus Ave

(between Vallejo St & Broadway St)

San Francisco, CA 94133

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How to make Green Tea Ice Cream - Homemade

         This week I will tell you how to make Green Tea ice cream without an ice cream maker at home.  It is easy to make.  Also, you can add and change the ingredients.  If you want to make Vanilla ice cream, just change green tea powder to vanilla.  

         Are you ready? 

You need to prepare :

1 Container Half and Half Mike (473 ml)

4 Egg Yolks

1/2 Cup Sugar

2 tsp Green Tea Powder

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Scoopful Ice Cream - Just so so

       In the this posts, I will continue to tell you the place which is not good enough to taste.  If you still want to have a try, you can go there.

        Scoopful Ice Cream is located in the second floor of Tanforan Shopping Center.  I went to the cinema to watch movie.  I saw this ice cream shoppe, so I decided to taste ice cream there.  

       The owner of this shoppe is very nice.  I tasted two flavors than I chose "Coffee", "Caramel with peanuts" and "Coconut".

       To be honest, "Coconut" is a little too sweet. "Caramel" is just so so.  "Coffee" is not too bad.  If you ask me whether I will have it again, I will so tell you NO."

        This is what I had.  "Coffee", "Caramel with peanuts" and "Coconut". Ice cream looks good.  

        Here is a tip.  If you want to buy some snacks to have when you watch movie here, you might want to buy the food and snacks inside the theater, because you are not allowed to bring the food you buy outside into the theater.  I do not like this rule!

Scoopful Ice Cream

226 Tanforan Shopping Center, 

San Bruno, CA 94066

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37 Degrees Dessert Cafe - Small but Cost more

        In the following two posts, I will tell you two places which are not good enough!  If you still want to have a try, you can go there.
        37 Degrees Dessert Cafe is place to have desserts in Sunset.  It opens until midnight everyday.  Usually from 11pm to 1am, there are still a lot of people.  
        I went there several times, but no seat for me.  I thought it should be great, thus so many young people are there every night.  Final, I went there the right day.  But....I disappointed.  Maybe there are few cafes closed at 1am, so people choose to go there, not because they have really good desserts!





        "Chocolate Mousse" This is a half of strawberry.  You can see, it is not fresh.  Also, mousse is very small.













        "Curry Fishballs"

       
        "Bird's Nest with Coconut"  It services not as much as Creation Dessert House.  And it is over sweet. It costs $12, more expensive than what Creation Dessert House costs.

         “Pork Chop”  It is so salted.

        Small chicken wings 

 

37 Degrees Dessert Cafe
1155 Taraval St 
(between 21st Ave & 22nd Ave)  
San Francisco, CA 94116
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Ice Cream At Home

        Today, I will introduce some ice cream you can eat at home, without going to some ice cream store.  You can taste this delicious ice cream whenever you want.  Here they are......

        This is "Lotte Yukimi Daifuku Petit Trio Frozen Mochi Ice".  It is ice cream with mochi outside.  Each one is single piece.  There are 3 flavors in it.  There are 21 pieces in this box.  

        The white one is vanilla flavor.  The green one is green tea flavor.  And dark red one is chocolate flavor.    It tastes very smooth.  Little single packages are easy to carry.  I recommend this one.





        Also, there are other this kind of ice cream products.  You can have a try.  Many Japanese market and Chinese market sell these Mochi Ice Cream.

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100% Sweet Cafe - Sweet Place

        100 Sweet Cafe is a Hong Kong sweet cafe.  Many yong people come here to chat with friends.  
        This cafe is not very big, but a lot of customers.  If you come late at meal time, you will be waiting in a long line.  




        “Milk Tea Pudding”
I recommend this one.  It is a little sweet.  The taste is between pudding and mousse.










        This is one page of the menu.  They have many different kinds of desserts.  All  of them look like delicious. 











        "Mocha with ....."
I do not like this one.

        “Mango GiGi with tadpoles”
 Mango is very fresh.  Tadpoles is not real.  It is a kind of jello.  It is interesting to try these tadpoles.

       




        Also, if you are hungry, they have some dishes for you.










100% Sweet Cafe
2512 Clement St
(between 26th Ave & 27th Ave)
San Francisco, CA 94121
Hours:
Mon-Thu, Sun 3 pm - 12 am
Fri-Sat 3 pm - 1 am

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