This [cake] is bananas, B!A!N!A!N!A!S!

Apologies to Ms Stefani, but look at this, would you?

Pretty foxy huh?  You'd never guess they were *gasp* banana flavoured.  I don't know if you can see from there, but I even did teensy little stamen things on the flowers (spent a looong time picking out yellows out of the hundreds and thousands mixture... boy, do I suffer for my art).  Not that I brag or anything, you understand... I'm just particularily proud of the fact that I managed to hold my gorge for an hour and a half while I was baking these.

So, obviously, I didn't eat any, but word on the street is that they were pretty tasty.  Chocolate icing, of course (well, kind of a ganache-icing hybrid creature), and the white is white chocolate packet icing.  You know those little tubes that you see in the supermarket?  My parents got me a bunch of them for my birthday this year, and I have to admit to being a little bit snobby of them at first, but they are pretty awesome, especially the white chocolate (sorry, white chocolate fudge) one, which is just darn delicious.  I even secretly nick into my fridge to put a little dab on my finger... mmm, so illicit, so sweet.

As I write this, I'm in Hamilton (Hamz, to those of us in the know, or Hellmilton if you're a roller derby kind of girl).  The weather is actually darn good, there was fog yesterday morning but hot air balloons!  Whoa!  I got all excited and started leaping around and pointing at them, but by the time I was doing that, Ma and Pa had both left for work, but I'm sure they would have given me "ooookay" type looks if they could.