Baking Birthday

We celebrated Leia’s birthday a few days early since she’s going to her mom’s tomorrow and then off to college in Arizona. And I forgot to take a single photo…

Remember the salmon tea sandwiches she fell in love with on our cruise? We decided to try duplicating them today… and as a surprise, I also made a copycat version of Pazooki, her favorite restaurant dessert. 

Two kinds of rolls, two brands of smoked salmon and three flavors of crème fraiche* later, she said King’s Hawaiian rolls, smoked lox and the plain version of crème was a perfect match. Hooray! (*Who knew crème fraiche was so ridiculously easy to make?? The dill and horseradish versions were pretty tasty too.) 

We used this recipe for pazooki (here) and it tasted as good as the restaurant version, especially with ice cream on top. Leia wants to try a s’mores pazooki next, wonder if there’s a copycat recipe of that available yet…

While she did her laundry tonight, I made copies of all her favorite grandma recipes for her to take to college. Anybody surprised they were all desserts??