6-19-11 (L-R) Ashlynn, Camrynn, Jasmynn, Me, and Josie

Hey Young Chefs!

On Father’s Day, I had my Cupcake Cutie Birthday Bash! It was so fun! First, we made cupcake tacos. Cupcake tacos are made with a small tortilla inside a ramekin baked at 400 degrees for 7 minutes. When cooled, you add the lettuce, cheese, and ground meat. On top, you pipe sour cream to make it look frosting. Sprinkle cheese. Add a grape tomato as a cherry. Isn’t it cute?!

6-19-11 A cupcake taco

After we ate our cupcake tacos, we made Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes with a Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting. I used fresh strawberries. Yum!

6-19-11 We made Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes with a Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting

Then, it was present time. My best gift was my new cupcake cutie room!!! Everything is cupcakes!

6-19-11 My new cupcake room!!!

Another one of my presents was a Susan Spicer cookbook from my mom and dad!!!

6-19-11 A Susan Spicer cookbook!!!

Next, we had a cupcake collage contest. We had to tear pieces of construction paper up to make the cupcake. We only had 20 minutes to finish. It sounds like a lot of time, but it’s not. It was hard.

6-19-11 Everyone holding up their cute cupcake collage

We all voted who won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. I got every vote except mine. Can’t vote for yourself. I won 1st place, Camrynn won 2nd place, and Josie won 3rd place! We got some pretty cool prizes.

6-19-11 Me, 1st Place, Camrynn, 2nd Place, Josie, 3rd Place

Then, we all created chef hats! ( If you want to know how to make them, I blogged it in an earlier post.)

6-19-11 We all created chef hats

Finally, we decorated plain canvas bags with fabric paint. We all designed our own cupcake on our bags. Here are the different bags.

6-19-11 Look at our creative cupcake bags

After that, we all went to bed. But, whoever was the first to fall asleep was going to get creamed. I creamed Ashlynn. She didn’t even notice. I forgot to take a picture. Sorry.

I had a blast at my party. And so did everyone else.

Cool Kids Cook and Eat Cupcakes!

Bon Appetit, Kid Chef Eliana

6-9-11 Soleil and I at Hanuama Bay

Hey Young Chefs!

On Thursday, we went to Hanauma Bay, which used to be a volcano crater. But, it eroded and formed Hanauma Bay. Hanauma Bay has so much coral and fish. It is such a great place to snorkel. It is about 10 miles east of Waikiki.

6-9-11 The beautiful clear water and plenty of coral.

Here I am, kissing a fish. ;<3 LOL

6-9-11 Me kissing a fish. LOL

This a is a wonderful picture of a rooster walking on the beach of Hanauma Bay.

6-9-11 A beautiful rooster at Hanuama Bay

After we go back to our hotel to take showers and change, we eat dinner at Alan Wong’s Pineapple Room for my birthday dinner. It is an upscale restaurant in Macy’s. The first food item I ate was bruschetta.

6-9-11 Eliana makes a perfect bruschetta with tomatoes, chevre, macadamia nut pesto, and olive tapenade

Next we ate a watermelon and tomato salad. It was compliments of the chef. Watermelon and tomatoes taste so good together.

6-9-11 A tomato and watermelon salad compliments of Executive Chef Lance Kosaka from Alan Wong's Pineapple Room

I ate off of everyone’s plate. I had so much food that I can’t remember what I ate. LOL

For dessert they brought me an ice cream cake. Also, we each ordered our own dessert. Plus, we had two palate-cleansing sherbets. We had seven desserts all together. NO JOKE!

6-9-11 Happy Birthday Chef Eliana from Alan Wong's Pineapple Room

This is me and Executive Chef Lance Kosaka. He was so nice. We all liked him a lot. He even gave me a birthday present: He gave me sacred sea salt from the island of Kauai. I was so happy! What a special gift. Thank you Chef Lance!

6-9-11 Me with Executive Chef Lance Kosaka from Alan Wong's Pineapple Room

I had an awesome time at Hanauma Bay and Alan Wong’s Pineapple Room!

Cool Kids Cook and Visit5 Hanauma Bay and Alan Wong’s Pineapple Room!

Bon Appetit, Kid Chef Eliana

Hey Young Chefs!

It’s me rockin out on my guitar! I’m having a Diva Rockstar Party! I mailed out big guitar invitations and they are really cool! At my party we had makeup, hair and nails. My sister Soleil is a makeup artist and she is fantastic at doing makeup. Here is a picture of my sister doing Bienelyn’s makeup.

Here is a picture of Soleil and I together.

In this picture Soleil has beautiful pink and purple leopard eye makeup. I have a guitar on the right side of my face. Here is a picture of the pretty table that we set up.

On the table we have hot pink, black and zebra table clothes, champagne flutes, flowers, a pink and black feathered boa, four glass blocks, candles, glitter star sunglasses and even guitar shaped glitter all over the table too! At the top, by the flowers, is the invitation. Here is a picture of the goody bag.

We put together an awesome goody bag. It has stickers, a blowup microphone, necklace, bracelet, body jewels, eyeshadow, lip gloss and even Eliana’s Diva Party Mix CD! WOW! What a goody bag. The goody bag and all the things in it had the girls’ names written in it. Here is a picture of my friends and the cake.

This cake is made out of mini cupcakes and it is in the shape of a guitar with 9 candles. those cupcakes were delicious! Yum !Yum! Here is a picture of all the girls being rock stars.

I received all kinds of cool birthday gifts Nana, PawPaw, Uncle Gary and the kids all gave me guitar hero and Lady Gaga CD for my birthday! By the way I LOVE Lady Gaga. Here is a picture of the birthday gift.

Each girl got their own CD an album with their face on it and a title for it too! Here is the picture of my album cover.

My album cover name is Divalicious!

Cool Kids Cook, have awesome parties, and get creative in the kitchen!

Bon Appetit, Eliana