Fluffy Bakes a Bridal Shower

Fluffy has just returned from High Tea in Aptos. Ok if this is all greek to you - Fluffy is yours truly, High Tea was the Bridal Shower for one of the brides-to-be, and Aptos is outside Santa Cruz (about 1.5 hours outside of San Francisco for the non-Californian's). This weekend was the big bridal shower showdown of 2005, and it being my first hosting event and one with hands on experience, I would say it went quite well. Special mention to Ritter Gifts for selling the Victorian Tea Cups (party favors), Bristol Farms for their amazing tea selection, and Foodnetwork.com for their recipes. We feasted on cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches and cantaloupe and prosciutto sandwiches lovingly de-crusted by the bride. I suprised myself with domestic capabilities and included cheesecake cupcakes with cherry filling, brown sugar shortbread, amaretto raisin scones and lemon bars. (Side note - adding the lemon juice to the baking soda-flour mixture produced some 5th grade science results - think of the erupting volcano!) In all a fun trip!

Which brings me back to home and back to school. What a week this promises to be - Wednesday is the much anticipated Sardi's event and then Spring Break baby!