Experiment in Cupcakes – Box Cake from Scratch and Boiled Frosting
Box white cake mix from scratch and boiled frosting make great cupcakes Continue reading
Box white cake mix from scratch and boiled frosting make great cupcakes Continue reading
Pictures and recipes for appetizers for Spane’s 8th Pirate themed birthday party. Fruit boats, cucumber boats, a cheese ball skull, cannon balls (rum balls), and a Jolly Roger cake to complete the theme. Continue reading
Black chocolate ganache covered dark chocolate cake with a marzipan Jolly Roger of Rack Rachham, with rum Cannon Balls. Continue reading
Cucumber boats are Persian cucumbers stuffed with egg salad, dusted with ground sumac, waving a flag made from egg whites and black olives. Continue reading
The menu and recipes for Spane’s 8th birthday party – Yo Ho Yo Ho – It’s a pirate themed party. Continue reading
These Day of the Dead brownies have an extra kick from Chipotle and Cinnamon that takes them out of the realm of the ordinary brownie. Continue reading
Recipes in this Post Marzipan Pixies From Other Posts Pixie Wings Double Header! Well, today you get a double header. There is a craft project and a great dinner you can try. Originally, I had the recipes for the Chicken Kabobs with Rice Pilaf and Yogurt Sauce in this post, but I decided they needed to shine on their own, and the marzipan pixies needed a page by themselves. As some of you know, I was making stuff for Noelle’s birthday and had at that point only made the pixie wings from hard candy. Now, I have completed the the pixies themselves out of marzipan. What is marzipan? Marzipan is mostly crushed almonds mixed with sugar. It differs from almond paste in that it is more firm, and more suitable for creating figurines. When I was growing up in Germany, there was a wonderful bakery that for Christmas, made the … Continue reading
What You Will Need for this Project Cookie cutter – angel shape with wing Foil Scissors Vegetable Oil – flavorless Q-tips Silicon bowls Hard Candy Hammer Waxed Paper Microwave Oven Finding A Mold As I mentioned in a previous post about making pixies for Noelle’s Birthday cake, I looked all over to find a wing mold for the pixie wings. Michaels had a mustache mold, but it was not for hard candy. Finally, I remembered that I had an angel cookie cutter whose wings would probably be just right. My next dilemma was whether to use crushed hard candy, or to make hard candy myself. I only needed to make candy for four wings, but I could not find any clear hand candy, so I purchased Jolly Rogers and corn syrup – I could do either one. Now that the wings are complete, I made the pixies out of marzipan.
A Girly Birthday Spane and Noelle are very good friends, and play together a lot. Her mother, Amber, and I sat down a few weeks ago and started making plans for the party. Amber is going to make a waterfall scene cake, and I told her I would make some pixies for it. I will be posting that when I make them made the Pixie wings, as the party is not for another 10 2 days, and now, I have made the pixies out of marzipan. But, we went to Michaels and got some great gifts to make for Noelle. You can view the album of pictures we took to see the completed projects.
On my birthday, I wanted something special. Since it was cold, I wanted chili, but not any chili. I wanted a bowl of white – Great Northern White Chili, that is. Continue reading