Merry Christmas 12/24/10

I just want to thank everyone for following my blog and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. My 1 year anniversary for this blog is exactly a month from now and I'm excited.




I might start doing more (food - food) dishes next year. My baking has slowed down a bit with my carpal tunnel. I won't be doing fondant for cakes anymore, well maybe ones or twice, definitely not a lot. I will focus more on cupcakes and cookies next year.

Again, thank you for all the comments and feedback.





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Jingle BALLS, I meant the cake balls silly! 12/21/10

I just want to share the cake bites ( I prefer to call them cake bites instead of balls, LOL). I made these for the kids teachers, along with the tote bags.


I made a cherry chip cake with crushed peppermint candy cane and red velvet. I dipped them in red and green Wilton candy melts. I sprinkled some with colored sugars and sprinkles. The boxes I got from the Dollar General and some at Big lots. The tote bags are made by me. I know you see a lot of bags, but I had the kids picked the bags they want to give to their teacher. My daughter wanted to give to three teachers so I had her picked 3 and my son has 2 teachers.



The totes I gave away.



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Cupcake Wreaths 12/13/10

My last post was a Cake Wreath, so I figured I would make cupcakes as well. They are much cuter and so much easier to make. They are small enough to lug around it's bite size. No cutting involve :-) and the kids loves it.

I used a Wilton leaf tip for the wreath and I'm not sure what those sprinkles are called. LOL! SO use any red round sprinkles you can find.

"Merry Christmas"

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Cake Wreath 12/7/10

I love wreaths, specially CAKE Wreaths. This cake was super yummy. I made this a year ago for Christmas. So sorry for the photo, this was before Santa brought me my good camera.

"Happy Holidays"

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Fudgy Brownie Pecan Pie... RECIPE! 12/1/10

The title got me too. Sounds yummy doesn't it? I've never had pecan pie, EVER. I've been wanting to make it for a long time but never had the urge to really make it. So when I saw this from Bakerella's site, I knew I had to try it. I know hubby, likes pecan pie, but this one has brownies on them.

So here's the recipe that I got my Bakerella's page. She has 2 versions on her site. The Fudgy and regular. I picked the fudgy one of course. LOL!

SUPER-FUDGY VERSION
3/4 cup melted butter
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 Tablespoon self-rising flour
3/4 cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups pecans

1 package brownie mix and ingredients listed on the box

2 frozen deep dish pie shells or 2 frozen pastry roll

DIRECTION:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Place brown sugar in a large bowl and work out lumps. Add flour and stir together until the flour disappears.
• Add corn syrup and vanilla. Stir until thoroughly until combined.
• Add melted butter. Fold into mixture until it disappears.
• Loosely beat two eggs in a separate bowl and fold into mixture until the eggs disappear.
• Stir in pecans and set aside.
• Prepare brownie batter as instructed on package.
• Remove two frozen pies shells from freezer and divide brownie batter evenly between the two. (Deep dish for fudgy version and regular-size for the brownie version.)
• Spoon pecan pie mixture evenly between the two pie shells.
• Bake fudgy deep dish version for about 40-45 minutes. Place a large sheet of foil across the top of the two pies for the last 10-15 minutes to avoid pie crust from browning too much.
• Bake brownie regular pie shell version for about 35 minutes.
• Remove from oven and cool.

Soooo, fudgy or not they will be good. I baked this for Thanksgiving and I gave one of the pie to the in-laws and they loved it.

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