{"id":1940,"date":"2009-04-29T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2009-04-29T09:08:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T14:08:55","slug":"thanks-for-a-great-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/2009\/04\/thanks-for-a-great-year\/","title":{"rendered":"thanks for a great year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"giant funfetti cake by pete bakes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32078869@N00\/3479936047\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3380\/3479936047_c4709a5e6f_o.jpg\" alt=\"giant funfetti cake\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>a year ago today, after spending about 70% of my reading reading food blogs, i decided to dedicate the other 30% to launching my own.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"giant funfetti cake by pete bakes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32078869@N00\/3480742828\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3647\/3480742828_8da24bf222_o.jpg\" alt=\"giant funfetti cake\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s been nothing but a positive experience, and i just really want to say thank you to everyone who reads it. i still get an incredible feeling anytime someone leaves a comment.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"giant funfetti cake by pete bakes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32078869@N00\/3480743688\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3611\/3480743688_cffb15e5c4_o.jpg\" alt=\"giant funfetti cake\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>so i&#8217;m celebrating by taking the day off. and cheating. that&#8217;s right, this here cake is straight up <strong>funfetti<\/strong>! if you&#8217;ve never had funfetti before, it&#8217;s a box cake made by pillsbury filled with tiny colored candy things that melt in the oven and give the cake a &#8220;festive&#8221; feel. what you really need to know about this cake is that you can&#8217;t eat it and not be overcome with joy. it&#8217;s almost <em>too<\/em> fun, but fortunately, the lab boys at pillsbury did sufficient research to pull it back just to this side of giddiness.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"giant funfetti cake by pete bakes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32078869@N00\/3479935153\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3580\/3479935153_1a09201bc7_o.jpg\" alt=\"giant funfetti cake\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i actually made this for the girl&#8217;s birthday last weekend (along with a &#8220;real&#8221; cake &#8211; tres leches!), but there was so much of it, i&#8217;m still working my way through. my inspriation for the finished cake was the world peace black and white cookie (LOOK TO THE COOKIE, ELAINE).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"giant funfetti cake by pete bakes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32078869@N00\/3479934871\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3642\/3479934871_bd22a8508a_o.jpg\" alt=\"giant funfetti cake\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i can&#8217;t apologize for loving this cake because, well, it&#8217;s just too good. but i wish i could send a piece to everyone &#8211; this blog would be nothing without you. thanks.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"giant funfetti cake by pete bakes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32078869@N00\/3479936271\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3376\/3479936271_3bc248622e_o.jpg\" alt=\"giant funfetti cake\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a year ago today, after spending about 70% of my reading reading food blogs, i decided to dedicate the other 30% to launching my own. it&#8217;s been nothing but a positive experience, and i just really want to say thank you to everyone who reads it. i still get an incredible feeling anytime someone leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfcoo-vi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterandrewryan.com\/baking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}