What I've Been Up To!

This year has been busier than most for me, but in a good way. :) Just weeks ago, I have started my own business selling cookies and so far, it has been a success! It's a very small business, being run mostly by me and my husband (I do all the baking and the work, and he helps out by bringing them into his work and selling them to his coworkers), but it's really off to a good start. I'm so excited that I'm actually getting requests and orders of a dozen!! However, since the whole thing is fairly new, it still has lots of room for growing and improvement. I've just ordered some business cards and I still need to get some pastry boxes and a Costco membership so I can start buying ingredients in bulk for a good price to help me earn profit. This will be very important, especially if I'm going to branch out to Korea (my brother is stationed there and has ordered cookies from me and soon will be helping me sell them where he works as well). It's going to be a lot of work, but I think I'm on the right track. I just need to give it time and be patient is all. In the mean time though, I'm really having fun doing this, as I really love to bake and it just feels so good knowing that people actually look forward to the days I sell cookies! ^_^

It's kind of funny, the reason why I actually started this little business... I've always wanted to run my own bakery, but my love of baking isn't what spurred this idea into action. The real reason behind it was actually so I could help fund my newest hobby of Pullip (and Dal, respectively) collecting. xD For those of you unfamiliar with them, Pullip and Dal are both Asian fashion dolls that are part of the same line and company (they were originally being manufactured by Jun Planning, but are currently manufactured by Groove). They've got rather large heads and slim bodies, and have an almost anime-like quality to them. There are also a few others in the Pullip family as well; their names are Isul, Byul, Taeyang, and the newest addition, Yeolume! I think they're such beautiful dolls and I've become quite captivated by them! I've even started a new blog dedicated to them to (hopefully) attract Pullip lovers from all over and to write reviews on the dolls I personally own! If any of you are interested, please check it out at iheartpullip.blogspot.com! 

Hello Kitty Strawberry Marshmallows!!!

Just a couple of hours ago, I went out to dinner with my husband. After we had finished eating, we decided to stop by this sushi place/market nearby to grab some pocky, and lo and behold, I spotted a package with a picture of Hello Kitty on it! Of course, with my sick obsession of all things Hello Kitty, I had to find out what it was, and it turned out to be a package of strawberry marshmallows with strawberry jelly filling! We landed up grabbing a pack, and the clerk had told us that these marshmallows were so good and so addicting, that she landed up eating two packs of them at once. xD I've never really been a huge fan of marshmallows (I only like them in cocoa and s'mores), but I figured I'd try them out and see if I liked them or not. Anyways, if I happened to hate them, I could always just give them to my husband, who will eat almost anything. 

So! Once we arrived back at home, I opened the package right away and examined them. They were actually really cute and round in shape, and quite small, too~! <3 I popped one in my mouth, and I was pleasantly surprised by how sweet these little marshmallows were and how much softer and fluffier they were compared to Jet-Puffed marshmallows. The strawberry filling had a nice flavor. I was expecting it to have a grossly artificial taste to it, but it actually tasted very much like normal strawberry jelly. Now I'm hooked on these sweet little heavenly puffs! I just can't stop eating them! x3 Lols! It has easily become one of my favorite snacks. I feel like rushing out and getting more! I can definitely see why that clerk ate so many. ^^;

They're almost gone..... :(

Doughnut Obsession~!

I have a new food obsession! xD This time around it's doughnuts. ^.^ It's crazy, because I had three yesterday (splurge day), and I'm still left wanting more! :O I am really amazed that the Savemart near my house has a great variety of doughnuts for sale, and I'm even more amazed that they're actually good! I used to be so against getting doughnuts from grocery stores, since a lot of the ones I had before weren't so tasty, too! Plus, buying them from Savemart is also a lot cheaper than buying from an actual doughnut shop.

Some of the ones I love that they carry are the ones with the M&M's on them, as well as the ones with the pastel colored frosting and coconut (which has become one of my favorites). :3 They also have a really fun one with crushed Oreo cookies on it with a gummy worm in the center! xD Doughnuts sure seem to be getting fancy these days! There's so many different kinds and flavors available everywhere, and I want to try them all~! *drools* I heard that some places have red velvet cake doughnuts and ones sprinkled with bacon! (They seem to put bacon on everything these days, too... I don't really like bacon, but I am kind of interested in seeing what it tastes like on a doughnut). I still really like the simple doughnuts too, though, especially apple fritters and maple bars! ^_^ I used to get those all the time when I was little! Every time my family picked up doughnuts, I always chose the same thing over and over again, and I never got tired of them.

Speaking about when I was little, I used to eat doughnuts very strangely... I used to scrape off the frosting of the maple bars and just leave the bread part alone. It was similar with the case of the apple fritter, too. I'd only pick at the outer part of it where it was covered in glaze, and once I did that, I was finished. It was really a horrible waste... ;_; Those weren't the only things I ate weirdly, either. I also ate corn dogs and ice cream bars in an odd manner. For corn dogs, I ate the breading off of it first and then I moved on to the hot dog, and for ice cream bars, I started by chipping away at the chocolate shell and then saved the ice cream part for last. My family used to tease me all the time about the way I ate things. Lols! I was always an oddball, even back then......