what's your ultimate birthday cake??

Hi all!

It's almost my birthday and the last two years i've always make a cheesecake, the years before it was always a chocolate cake.
But this year i want to try something new!

So i was curious to know what's your ultimate birthday cake!!
Let me know and inspire me!! :)

Raspberry muffin à la Coeur de sucre

Delphine from Parfums de Gourmandises has a theme for the month of May: Cupcakes May.
She has already made 3 differents cupcakes for this month and i was charmed by her Raspberries cupcake.

Here are mines:

I've made them for Hubby and i but also for my friend who's jut became a mother. She liked my cupcake ;)

As i will have some free times coming weeks i hope to post more often on what i've baked, cooked, sewed and gardenned ;)

See you very soon!!

Last chapter on garden construction and more....

Our backyard is ready!!! Last weekend i've planted all my tomatoes, cucumber, eggplants, letuce and strawberries in my veggie garden.
Monday Hubby and I also placed the bright white gravel which is the finishing touch of our backyard.

We are happy!!

Last month Hubby and i went to Italy for the first for the holidays and we had found a nice  (as it seemed) hotel in Toscany. Our destination was Montecani Terme, north of Toscany  and later on we would drive southern to Chiancachino. The nature there was beautiful as it was green and all was blooming

 But we had to acclimate to different way of living, like lousy breakfast in the hotel, the different kind of coffee and that in Italy a lot of things are a bit hidden. But the coffee is really good there and the food and gelato's are great!!

And we were lucky to have sunny weather!!

Ciao!!

Let me introduce you to...

Zuko and

Hercules

The gardenning adventure is going on....

H. and I decided to let someone do the big job in the garden and we also changed our ideas about the style we wanted.

No, the veggie garden has not disappeared!! but the pond becomes a long term project.

That's how our backyard looks like after one day of labor:

a juicy news

Last week i ordered a juicer! I read a lot about how healthy it is for you to drink fresh juice of fruit but also from vegetable. I decided to give it a try as it's very difficult sometimes to eat enough vegetables

so this is how it looks like:

Nice isn't it??

so yesterday, after the gardening, after the  cookies, i made some fresh juice.

3 stalks selery
grapes
2 pears, doyenne du comice

And the result is.....Green!

Delicious chocolate chip cookies

Yesterday, after my work in the garden, i still had need in cookies.
so i went to my favorite cooking blog, parfum de gourmandies and check if Delphine also had a nice recipe for cookies.

And of course she has ;) I made her peanut butter with chocolate chips cookies (recipe) and they are really yummy!