Suraya’s birthday was last week on Wednesday. She turned 9. Happy Birthday Suraya! For her school treats she wanted chocolate covered pretzels. That’s easy enough. Out to the grocery store I went and purchased Flipz! Yeah, I know I could have dipped some pretzels myself, but being busy with out of town guests all last week I opted to buy them instead. Besides, Flipz is what the birthday girl likes. [...]
Since my nephew heard about my hot chocolate on a stick that I made for my hot chocolate themed craft party last year, he’s been asking me to make him some. He’s my sister’s son and they live in Buffalo. They have visited Chicago twice since then, and both times I didn’t get the chance. My sister will be visiting again during her kids’ spring break, and she told me that [...]
Yes, I’ve finally had success with making homemade marshmallows… but not out of vegan gelatin. Yup, I did end up giving up on vegan gelatin. It was just not doing the job. If you recall from my homemade gumdrops post, I had some difficulty with my gumdrops… as well as the first batch of marshmallows I made. My theory was that the problem was the vegan gelatin. My theory was [...]
I had come across this pin on Pinterest, and it has inspired me to get my flower pots out… baking pots that is. I had purchased them about four years ago from King Arthur Flour. They came as a pack of six. I don’t believe KAF sells them anymore, but no worries because cupcake flower pots are easily found online. Also, you can simply use actual terra-cotta pots like Martha [...]
A couple months ago I came across a recipe for homemade gumdrops made by Trish over at Mom on Time Out. Her gumdrops looked AH-mazing… and so did her pictures!! I just had to make some too… and so I did! But unfortunately my attempt was not very successful. [plug in big sigh here] I ended up with two not so firm batches that barely survived on their way out of [...]
Valentine’s Day is only a few days away. Just in case you were looking for more ideas, I thought I’d share just a few more. I’m always a sucker (no pun intended!) for mustache crafts, so of course I loved these mustache and lips lollipops when I first saw them over at Blonde Designs. I made them two years ago for Susu’s and Suraya’s classmates. The mustache and lips were [...]
Now that I’m done with the Valentines for Suraya’s classmates and teachers and with a cookie decorating itch, what do I do with the extra cookie dough? Well, make more cookies of course and do some experimenting. I finished off the rest by making more hearts and a few square shaped cookies. Some of the dough I decided to dye pink. As for the squares, I had an idea I wanted [...]
In my last post, I shared Suraya’s class Valentine’s. Today it’s all about the teachers… Suraya’s teacher and aid. As I mentioned, I was in the cookie decorating mood. Other than the little birdies I made for Suraya’s classmates, I also made heart shaped cookies. It’s Valentine’s after all! So I couldn’t resist using my tiny heart cutter… And with it I made these tiny cookie hearts. Valentine’s is the [...]
I love gifting yummy treats in cute packaging as much as I love receiving them [hint, hint;)]. In the previous post, I shared candy cane cookie truffles, which I made using Trader Joe’s Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s cookies. Today, I will show you how I packaged them. Yup, those are winter hats that you see! With the chilly weather, tasty treats like to be kept warm too ya know! ;) Let [...]
Just recently I was introduced to these scrumptious cookies… They are Trader Joe’s Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s. I was told I must try them… and try them I did. There’s candy cane pieces in the cream center.They were heavenly I tell ya! Have any of you tried them? If you enjoy the Girl Scouts Thin Mints, then you should definitely love these. As matter of fact, I thought they were better [...]
