Cake Divas Sugar Coats Rachel Rosenthal's Birthday

At performance art legend Rachel Rosenthal's birthday, Cake Divas set up a sugar-coated wonderland of candy and miniature goodies.

The red velvet mini-cupcakes were popular, but the teensy eclairs and chocolate petit-fours were swoon-worthy.

The cake was so perfect at first we thought it was a decoration. It was vegan for animal-lover Rachel.

Candy apples brought a lot of whimsy to the event

No one could keep their fingers out of the goodies

Pink champagne

Sexy cupcakes

Random chef

The birthday girl

Birthday Party Love!!!

So by the way, I LOVE SLAW DOGS! What a perfect place to hold my birthday party! I started thinking hot dogs - picnic! I had fun picking up flower and butterfly-themed decorations. Luckily I already had picnic tablecloths. Ray was so cool he had a special hot dog in my honor, based on the Japadog, but with a special Ray twist. He made up little baskets with a half-dog, onion ring, and half fries half sweet potato fries. Sooo cute! Thanks to Valentino Herrera of TrippyFood for the great pics!



Zach Behrens caught the soy bomb and birthday dog up close and personal.





As you may have seen in my other post, these are my intense centerpieces. I had YummyEarth organic lollipops and gummi bears.



Thanks to Polkatots right next door, we had dozens of mini cupcakes. The cupcakes are so moist. The red velvet cake was especially popular.







We couldn't resist getting into the cupcakes that we had arranged on a 3-tier tray before the pic, but Eddie Lin got a cool photo of me breathing fire:



Thanks to all my wonderful friends and to Slaw Dogs, Polkatots and YummyEarth!

How to Make Lollipop Flowerpots

1 sandpail

fill 1/3 way with decorative (washed) rocks

Cut out florists dry foam into shape of pail and wrap with a lot of cling wrap.

Stuff florists foam into pail, leaving about 3" at the top.

Push in pinwheel into center of the foam until it hits the rocks.

Surround with assorted lollies, especially Yummy Earth Organic Lollipops.

Fill to the top with a few inches of M&Ms, Skittles, or Jelly Bellies.



(You could try using a smaller container and use a big swirl lolly as
the center, and arrange only your lollies around the bottom. Or go
even smaller and only use little lollies and fill the flowerpot with
colored sugar)

Rocket Fizz

Last summer a riot of neon notified Burbank that there was a new store in town and it was all about fun! Rocket Fizz is here to bring back the candy and sodas of childhood, as well as hard-to-find local products. They even have a wide assortment of obscure diet sodas.









Partners Jack Cross, whose career in the field of body shops shows in his retro design, and pizza shop owner Luke Jacobeli have created a wonderland of nostalgia.

Customers wander around exclaiming, "No way!" "I haven't seen this since I was a kid!" "They have apple Abba Zabbas!" Really, did you even know they had apple Abba Zabbas?









Cross and Jacobeli chose Burbank as their store location because in many ways Burbank is a retro town, with its ancient shops, Googie signage, and of course Bob's Big Boy.

There is a patio in the back where you can enjoy your drinks and chocolate cigarettes, and they are planning to start showing B Movies there, something to foster a sense of community in the neighborhood. Rocket Fizz is open from 11am to 9pm weekdays and 10pm on weekends, but sometimes they are open even later, which saved me from an uncertain fate last Christmas Eve.



At least he went happy





I dared three people to try to fit an entire Cherry Mash in their mouths until this guy took me up on the dare.







Oh, for the halcyon days when hobos and smoking were cool



Fun with wax moustaches