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New Year’s Ball Drop Cupcakes: New Years Cupcakes

December 27, 2013 by Jenn

Are you ready to PAR-TAY?  These cupcakes are!  They are covered in streamers, confetti and a ball drop for countdown . . . I don’t think I could have crammed more “party” onto them if I had tried. 

I’ve never been to Times Square on New Years Eve, and I don’t think I’ll ever try (way too many people) despite my love for NYC, but watching the ball drop is pretty much the biggest iconic symbol of this holiday.  New Years eve is one of those holidays that I have a love-hate relationship with . . well, it’s pretty much a hate/hate relationship.  There is always the pressure to do something whether it is to find a party, to hold a party, to pay money for a party (ya, right!), or hide at home with the lights off and the door locked (me? never!).  The overwhelming urge to be in bed by 9:30 that night usually kicks in and I’m barely able to stay awake for the 12:00 countdown.  I hope you have a better attitude that I do when it comes to NYE . .  and I hope you have better plans than we do!  If you do, make sure you brag about them in the comment section as I’d love to hear about them and live vicariously.  I think if we lived in a bigger city, we might have more to do, but that is not the case right, now so I’ll be on the couch. 

 

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Happy Holidays!

December 24, 2013 by Jenn

Ruby has a hot new sweater.  Actually it’s an “ugly sweater” but I think she looks super cute.  She hated wearing it, but then when I took it off, she wanted it back on.  Or at least that what she told me by sniffing it and pawing at it.

Merry Christmas

I hope the holiday season brings your family and friends together for some relaxing and laughs.  We’ll be heading out to spend some time with Paul’s mom and with my parents over then next couple of days and we’re looking to relax! 

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How to Make a Gingerbread House

December 22, 2013 by Jenn

This is the third video in our three part series on baking with Gingerbread.  If you haven’t yet, make sure you check out the recipes for how to make Gingerbread Dough, and Gingerbread Men.  This video is my favourite though as it was so much fun to make.  I vaguely remember trying to make a gingerbread house from scratch as a teen but I think I tried to use cake or something as I remember the edges wouldn’t stand up or go together.

I did a lot of research before starting this project and the best tip I read was to use a soup can to keep the frame of the house up when you’re putting it together.  It totally works and makes building the house so much easier.  Did you think that I was classy when you saw my jar of Jamie Oliver pasta sauce?  HAHA…I wanted to use my No Name soup of vegetarian chili but thought that might make me a little trashy for the viewers.  Gotta keep up appearances!

Anyway, take this project on as you’ll LOVE it.  It’s such a fabulous family task and you can let the kids go crazy decorating it.

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Gingerbread Man Recipe

December 21, 2013 by Jenn

 

 “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m a marbled gingerbread man!”

When I think of Christmas baking, of course gingerbread men come to mind!  Making gingerbread men requires a really good dough recipe, so make sure you check ours out, because rolling out cookies to cut can be a pain in the bum.  You can decorate these gingerbread men however you want, but I wanted to make sure that I showed you a different way to do them, in case you were up for a baking challenge this holiday. 

Marbling the royal icing creates a really cool effect . . . almost psychedelic . . . and it’s surprisingly easy when I show you how to do it.  You can use any colour combination that you want- I went with the traditional red and green, but I think pinks and purples would be pretty too.  Pretty much any colour goes for Christmas now.  I was at Target the other day and the Christmas bulb pack they were selling had pink, purple and aqua in it, wrap that up in some white sparkly garland and you totally have a non-traditional, but beautifully decorated house!  I should have bought that stuff . . . what was I thinking?  I’m off to go get it.

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Gingerbread Dough Recipe

December 21, 2013 by Jenn
This is the first in a three part series on making Gingerbread!  We start out with how to make gingerbread dough, then gingerbread men, and finish off with a gingerbread house.  The smell and taste of the gingerbread wafting through my house made me so nostaligic for the holidays passed.  The taste is like no other, and is so festive.  
 
The video has been up for a couple of hours now, and I have already received a number of questions about substitutes for molasses.  Firstly, I would never ask a baker for a substitute.  Obviously if it’s in the recipe, it is necessary.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve received the question “Do I need to use ___?”  Well, duh.  Of course you do.  It’s part of the recipe.
 
 Back to molasses, yes there are substitutes like honey, corn syrup, maple syrup etc, but you will 1. sacrifice the flavour, and 2. the cookies will not be roll-able.  If you’re happy with that, then by all means, substitute out molasses, but don’t say I didn’t warn you! 
 

 
 
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Snowman Push Pops

December 20, 2013 by Jenn

I’m annoyed.  Our blog was “hacked” or a “bot” got it or something else annoyingly cyber and my post where I wrote really witty and insightful things about these snowman push pops was lost.   Now what am I supposed to say?  These snowman cake pops are . . . cute . . . easy . . . fun to do with kids . . .  and those other kinds of description words that teachers tell you never to use when writing.   Since my inspiration is all tapped out, make sure you teach your children NOT to be hackers.  It’s frustrating when you’re trying to make a living online.  

Complaining over.  

I’m going to make these push pops again so I can be happy.   They really are ADORABLE!  And simple!  See what I did there? 

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Melted Snowman Smores Cookies

December 13, 2013 by Jenn

The melted snowman cookie and cupcake has been making it’s rounds around the internet for quite awhile now.  Being that it is such a cute idea, I knew I had to do it, but I wanted to make sure that I had my own spin on it.  So instead of simply making a melted snowman, I thought that a SMORES version of it would be fabulous!  It may not be summer, but nothing goes better with warm gooey marshmallows than chocolate!  

 

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Hot Chocolate Push Pops

December 11, 2013 by Jenn

Continuing on here with our Hot Chocolate theme of late, I’ve made a tutorial on hot chocolate push pops!  I adore push pops.  If I had kids, this would be the only way to serve desserts.  It would totally save the mess of cupcakes smeared all over faces, and tables, and clothing.  Or maybe I’m just imaging I would have prim and proper children who would daintily nibble at the push pop.   Hmmm, kids are sounding better and better!  They’d be like the Downton Abbey babies…but without the nannies, or servants, or castle.

To make these Hot Chocolate Push Pops you will need a batch (or two depending on how many pops you want to make).  If you haven’t tried my homemade brownie recipe, make sure you do!  It’s so good . . . but a box mix will work just fine too if you don’t have time for scratch.

These push pops are very simple to assemble.  The only challenging part is cutting the brownie with the cookie cutter!  I had indents on my palm, but after a couple pushes, I smartened up and used a knife (I was smart enough to show that in the video).

 

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