New Years is one of my favorite times of the year. The asian food markets in town always have the best treats and pastries for New Years and my family celebrates like crazy.

Dad always starts off by doing his food offering/prayer deals which are just comforting. It sounds a little odd but coming home from school to a makeshift table right as you open the front door is fun. There's always special cakes and a whole boiled chicken (head and all.. when I say whole, I mean whole) sitting next to incense that fills the whole house.

Dragon dances and lucky money in red envelops are like Christmas for us asian kids. (Only I get Christmas too thanks to mom so it's like Christmas part two).

This year, was actually the first time I saw actual cakes at the store though, so my mom and I got pretty excited. So, here is us Asians adapting to American life, making cakes!

Even when we do cake's it different though! All the fruit says enough for me. I can already see the inside being a light vanilla angel cake kind of deal with fruit in between the layers and the frosting being a light whipped cream. Some things are easy to conclude. And I love it.