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Chutney Restaurant

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http://www.chutneysf.com/

Today I had a nice relaxing day at the spa. The girls got together and went to Burke Williams to celebrate the end of our friend Susan’s finals. I had a wonderful 80 minute deep tissue massage… and I still wished it was longer… I can’t believe how time flies when you’re getting a massage.

The thing I love about Burke Williams is that you can enjoy the facilities afterward… the jacuzzi, cold and hot steam rooms, sauna, shower, parlor, tea, lemonade, fruits… so nice. It’s worth the expense once in a while.

After enjoying our spa day, we went for dinner at Chutney… Pakistani and Indian food. It’s not in the best neighborhood of SF but that’s generally where you can find good eats for cheap.

We ordered too many things to name… my favorites were the biryani and okra. I think we have eight plates of food along with 6 pieces of naan and it only cost $13 per person and we were stuffed!

Best to go with a group or for takeout I think.

Chutney
511 Jones Street

Hello Kitty Cake

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Since my bear cake failed, I had to come up with something to bring to our potluck. I signed up to bring cake so I quickly mixed up some strawberry cake mix and used my new Hello Kitty silicone cake pan. I used the leftover mix to make mini cupcakes to surround the Hello Kitty’s head.

I love Hello Kitty! (Not like you didn’t know that already.)

At the potluck no one wanted to cut into her head so I did the honors… just like my birthday cake.

We had a good potluck, too much food for our little pharmacy group at Mt. Zion so I still have half the head to eat for breakfast and snacks… we’ve been eating too many sweets…

Williams Sonoma Bear Cake Pan

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http://www.williams-sonom…cake&cm_src=SCH

I bought this very cute Build-a-Bear cake pan from Williams-Sonoma that allows you to bake a cake in the shape teddy bear sitting up. The bear is in two parts and you use frosting to “glue” the two pieces together.

I cheated a bit and used Devil’s Food cake mix instead of making my own cake but I did make my own butter and cream cheese frosting.

Here are the two sides cooling on a wire rack.

I think next time I’ll try the cake recipe on the back of the box. The mix out of the box doesn’t seem to be dense enough so the cake is a bit “floppy”.

I baked the cake itself on Wednesday and let it cool overnight and attempted to frost it on tonight prior to our holiday potluck tomorrow afternoon. Well it turned out to be quite a disaster as the frosting wouldn’t harden so the two sides wouldn’t stick well together. I tried to salvage it by putting the frosting on the bear but my frosting wouldn’t spread well so my attempt of using it to seal the bear from the outside failed… so sad.

So now this poor bear will be our breakfast and snack for the next few days…