

Posted in Celebration Cakes.
– May 25, 2009
One of my favorite new acquisitions is a mold to make flower and butterfly lollipops. A little hand painted (chocolate) detail and some luster dust (think glitter) and these are ready for spring.

Posted in Chocolates.
– May 18, 2009
One of my favorite baking blogs is Bakerella. I love the creativity and that so many of the ideas are outside-the-box. One of her creations is the cake pop. The what? The cake pop. We are talking cake and frosting, smooshed together and covered in chocolate. Yes, chocolate!!!Basic instructions are here.
I had some cake and frosting around (shocking, huh?) so I decided to try my hand. I wasn’t quite patient enough with the chocolate to get a thin smooth coat or decorate it like a bunny. But they were really yummy anyway.
Here are the ingredients:
When you put it all together you get yumminess.

I am looking forward to upping the fun factor, but enjoying the end product for sure!
Cake Details:
Cake: Chocolate Birthday Cake mushed with vanilla-lime buttercream
Icing: Enrobed in red melting chocolate
Decoration: Rainbow sprinkles
Posted in Musings and Inspiration.
– May 15, 2009
We love Disney! This year we descended on the Orlando area for school vacation week. We had a great time exploring the parks, flying with Dumbo and swashbuckling with the pirates. All that activity requires serious snacking.
These pretzel pops were going to be an activity for the kids, but when three women are up late in the kitchen with a pound bag of chocolate, well… chocolate for everyone! I also learned that this is a goodie you can make using only a mixing cup and a butter knife. You have to use what you’ve got– and our condo kitchenette was not set up for culinary adventures.
Aren’t those sprinkles adorable? I am convinced that googleing any set of three random words will generate a product you can buy from a website somewhere. These were a product of “disney sprinkes purple.” Sugar and pixie dust all wrapped up!

The craft store actually sells pretzel bags sized for the rods which made them easy to throw into a backpack for the days outing. Mmmmmm.

Posted in Chocolates.
– April 27, 2009

I love spiced linzer cookies. These were yummy filled with raspberry, apricot, and nutella. Yumm! The perfect ending to a fantastic meal with “the family”.
Linzers are really fun to put together. It took a while to get the powdered sugar to coat the spice cookies just right, but once you pop ‘em together they are delicious.
Details:
Cookie: I pulled the recipe for spiced linzer cookies off of a website, but now I can’t find the exact one! There are lots of good ones out there though.
Filling: Raspberry jam, apricot preserves, nutella
Posted in Cookies.
– April 13, 2009
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