The Crafty Penguin: The Basic Cake Pop (Plus Other Tips)

The Crafty Penguin: The Basic Cake Pop (Plus Other Tips): "Cake pops, a Bakerella creation, are a lot of fun to make because they can take on so many personalities. When I made Penguin Pops in Aug..."

This is my new favorite baking website. And I really want to try and make cake-pops sometime soon!!

But for now, I am very happy to say I am doing about a baking project a day for the guests on our ranch. Yesterday was cheesecake, today was flourless chocolate cake, and tomorrow will be key lime pie.

Hopefully some smores cupcakes and cake pops in the future!!!

Anemone Geyser

This is a video of my favorite geyser, Anemone Geyser, erupting. It is is the upper geyser basin, about a 10 minute walk from Old Faithful. It goes through a complete eruption cycle about every 10 minutes or so. Because it is so small, the eruptions are very small, but are still entertaining. It also is neat because its actually 2 geysers that are connected, and one will typically fill and erupt after the other one is done draining.

Glacier National Park

For 4th of July weekend, we went to Glacier National Park. It is an incredibly beautiful place, and I got to go on my first backcountry camping trip since I was 13. We went on a 4 mile hike to Avalanche Lake, which is a beautiful lake created by an avalanche, and has all these pretty waterfalls on the trail up to it, and falling into the lake from above.

A really pretty waterfall from the river flowing from Avalanche lake that you see on the trail

Avalanche lake and the waterfalls! We walked into the lake and it was very cold...well, my friends thought it was cold (but nothing compared to antarctica). The water is really pure because it comes from glaciers

After our hike to and from the lake, we started on our backcountry trip. We hiked 5 miles into our campsite that was on Lake McDonald. Our site was right on the lake and it was gorgeous!

The view in the morning from our camping site.

The next day we hiked the 5 miles out...which went quicker then the five miles in, but we were much more tired at the end.

At the end of the trail. We made it!!

Here are some more random pictures of our trip...

Heading into the wild!

Getting ready to leave the campsite

Hanging out at Lake McDonald