Creating Amazing Food
Here’s three adorable bunny rabbit sugar cookies to decorate. Simple decorating makes sweet smiles for you Easter or spring events. Have hoppin’ fun! All you need: Sugar Cookies (see Recipe below) Royal Icing (see recipe link below) Candies Decorating bag or ziploc bag Toothpick Food color gels Sanding sugar (optional) Mini jelly beans…
It is always fun to decorate and bake with kids. My friends daughter Kinley (age 8) joined me in filming and decorating a variety of spring inspired sugar cookies. Here are three ideas for you. All you need are: sugar cookies (recipe below) royal icing (recipe below) food gel colors decorating bag or ziploc bag…
Cookie decorators are artists. I am in awe of the handiwork of many of my favorite decorators. As a sorta-good decorator I want a perfect canvas for my artwork. I have tried many cookie recipes to get the perfect flat and dense surface to decorate. After trial and error, THIS is it! This sugar cookie…
I designed this cake with the beautiful colors of candy melts. Not only did I create an array of melted candy melts, but used as a bottom border and drip. Candy melts are easier to find these days. I remember when they were only at cake decorating stores. Today you can buy online, in craft…
I have a blood orange tree in our yard. Last year it yielded hundreds of oranges, so I thought this year would be either none or maybe some. Yet, this year’s crop was double last years. I have given away more oranges than I can count. They are the most reddish oranges I have ever…
What to do with candy melts? They aren’t just for cake pops and candy molds. I had fun designing this cake. I made the candy melt rainbows the day before as it does take some time melting the candy, along with cooling to firm up. I melted the candy melts in the microwave for 60…
We had such a fantastic time at my Kid’s Baking Class – making a variety of pancake flavors. I taught the kids that with a basic recipe you can make different varieties by adding new ingredients, as long as it doesn’t compromise the base. The six pancakes we made were: Chocolate Chip Pancakes – add…
I love working with a standard recipe and making alterations to make a variety of different flavors. At my recent baking class for kids we made three different muffin recipes with one standard recipe. We made: Fresh blueberry muffins Chocolate chip muffins Chocolate-Blood Orange muffins (I have a blood orange tree!) Using this standard muffin…
Yes, made from scratch baked good are the best – BUT, there are times you need a quick fix and a mix does the job. But, I have found tweaking the mix a little gives a homemade taste. I do this with making brownies. Adding extra cocoa, using butter instead of oil, and adding chocolate…
Oh, what to do with all the left over chocolate from the holidays? Make a chocolate candy cake – of course. When I offered to make a friends 65th birthday cake I knew exactly what I wanted to do. With a lot of candy from the holidays, I incorporated it into his cake. I made…
