{"id":184,"date":"2013-03-13T18:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T09:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelraab.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2013-03-13T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T09:27:19","slug":"dans-31st-birthday-hash-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Dan’s 31st Birthday Hash Bash!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, we celebrated Dan’s birthday with our running group (aka our hash). It was loads of fun, but before I get into that I have monumental news:
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\nI went for a run today! It’s my first run back from my achilles injury. It was slow and a little painful (not in my achilles, but all my unused muscles!) but it was great to just get outside again. I came home and stretched and iced immediately. Hopefully I’ll be pain free tomorrow as well and can head back out again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But back to Dan’s birthday!<\/p>\n

Since he was turning 31, we made it an ice cream themed party, like Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors<\/a>. It was a big hit! In addition to having a sundae bar, I made 60 cupcakes! You have to have cake and ice cream at a birthday, right?!<\/p>\n

This was the first cupcake I made. Snickerdoodle! I followed this recipe<\/a> and they turned out great!
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\nDan’s favorite drink is an Irish Car Bomb<\/a>, so while on that web site for the Snickerdoodle cupcake I noticed a recipe for car bomb cupcakes. I made them and they were a huge hit! The recipe<\/a> took some time, but was pretty easy to follow. To recreate the flavors of the beverage, you make a chocolate cupcake mix with Guinness beer, fill the insides with Jameson whiskey- spiked ganache, and top with Bailey’s buttercream frosting.
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\nThe Bailey’s frosting was very sweet and I didn’t want it to overpower the cupcake, so rather than my usual giant puff of frosting I piped it on in somewhat of a flower pattern with a new tip I haven’t yet used. Needless to say, it needs some practice!<\/p>\n

I was especially excited because this would be the first time I was using my new cupcake courier!
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\nOh, the joys of city living. About to get into some packed trains with 48 cupcakes!
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We had a turnout of about 40 runners for running club that night! It was so great to see everyone. I think the celebration, as well as better weather, drew more people out tonight. <\/p>\n

Once everyone returned from the run I presented Dan with a gift: I had shirts made for everyone who came out tonight! I took our running club’s logo hare and gave him a birthday makeover, complete with ice cream. He loved it and so did everyone else!
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\nPhoto by Kyle Fagan<\/a>
\nMy friend Annmaree took his picture. My good friend Kat and I! She’s over here with the Army, and sadly her time is up in Japan in just a few weeks \ud83d\ude41 The woes of expat life- no one stays in one place very long!
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\nThe night continued with cupcakes, ice cream, drinks and mingling. Before everyone left, I made sure they got a goodie bag! I whipped these up on my Cricut this week, some of Dan’s favorite American candy \ud83d\ude42
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Last Friday, we celebrated Dan’s birthday with our running group (aka our hash). It was loads of fun, but before I get into that I have monumental news: I went for a run today! It’s my first run back from my achilles injury. It was slow and a little painful (not in my achilles, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,85,110,275,5,255,181,276,272,271,11,168,130,274,171],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baking","tag-birthday","tag-cricut","tag-cupcakes","tag-dan","tag-f3h3","tag-fitness","tag-goodie-bags","tag-hash-house-harriers","tag-injury","tag-japan","tag-party","tag-running","tag-shinagawa","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}