Love and Lots of Sugar
My take on the “tree” cupcake-cake that’s all over Pinterest right now. (I’m doing this one again later this month, with leaves instead of blossoms.)
I’m sad that sakura season is already over. It feels like it went by so fast this year. Of course it always goes by quickly - that’s kind of the point - but I felt like it lasted longer last time. This year, it just flew by. Only one more sakura season left before we move back to the States. The fact that I’m ridiculously allergic doesn’t change the fact that it’s beautiful, and I’m going to miss it like crazy.
Tea, Earl Grey, hot. With a very small amount of very expensive cherry blossom honey. I despise tea, but I can actually tolerate this for some reason.
The travel mug is one of this year’s Starbucks Sakura mugs. It’s 8oz, or a “short”, which yes, actually exists outside of America. Go figure.
There’s a ridiculous amount of chocolate in this cake. Devil’s food cake with ganache filling and a ganache glaze under chocolate fondant, with ganache piping and modeling chocolate flowers. I think I gained a pound just typing that.
Literal Yoga: tree pose with a tree.
In the two sakura seasons I’ve been in Japan, I’ve taken literally thousands of pictures of cherry blossoms. I think this one is my favorite.
