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How to Make a Box of Chocolate Cupcakes for Valentine’s Day

January 21, 2014 by Jenn

What would you say is the most stereotypical Valentine’s day present to give?  Flowers?  Candy?  Jewellery?  CHOCOLATES?  According to my research on amazon, people even give perfume!  What a thoughtful gift . . . I love you but you could smell better.

Well, I thought that playing on the idea of giving chocolates as the most popular Valentine’s Day gift to give (not determined by any research!), I would make a box of chocolate CUPCAKES instead.   The cupcakes look like a box of regular holiday treats, but upon closer inspection, you realize they’re so much better and they’re in cupcake form!  By the way, if your “sweetheart” gives you candy, leave him.  You can get that stuff at the dollarstore.  I would know . . . it’s where I bought some of the ingredients for the Box of Chocolate Cupcakes I made.  Note to self:  don’t shop at the dollarstore and then tell people.  Oops.  

Do you think Valentine’s Day is overrated?  Commercialized to the point of nausea?   It seems as though the second that the Christmas decorations are put away, the stores are filling the shelves with pink and red Valentine paraphernalia.  I guess they all have to make their quota’s, or whatever it is stores do.  As do people on YouTube, which is why we have a Valentine’s day video going live in January.  Oops again. 

What is happening here?  I think they had me at “Cupid Corn”.  How I could I resist THAT!?!? 

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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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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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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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Candy Cane Marshmallow Pops

December 9, 2013 by Jenn

The weather here has been down right FREEZING!  I know I live in Canada, and I know it’s winter (well almost) but -30C is ridiculous!  There’s a wind chill to boot as well.  For the last couple of years, due to Paul’s “encouragement” I’ve tried to embrace winter.  It hasn’t worked.  Yet.  I’m trying again this year, and decided to buy a down jacket, and adult snow pants (do you know they make those things without overalls now?!)  So with my down jacket, and Ugg boots (no snowpants though . . . I’m saving those for ice fishing) we left the house yesterday and went for a walk.  For 20 minutes.  It was all we could handle . . . well, it was all I could handle.  I’m sure Paul could have gone for much longer as I’m a wimp.  My jacket kept me super warm and I enjoyed my new purchase until my face froze and my legs froze and I had those to complain about.  Complaining is what I do best after all.

After our outside jaunt, I was desperate to be warmed up, and a warm cup of hot chocolate was in order.  These candy cane marshmallow pops are super quick to assemble, and add delightful tastes to your warm cup of hot chocolate!  They would also be delicious in a cup of coffee.

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Christmas Tree Cupcakes

December 6, 2013 by Jenn

Does anyone else hate having a Christmas tree?  I’m not being a Grinch here, I’m pretty much just being lazy.  Every year Paul and I go hunting for our own Christmas tree, as well as one for my parents, way out in the bush somewhere.  Having never done this as a child (other than going down to the local grocery store parking lot) it is a tradition that I look forward to every year (even though I don’t like putting up the tree anymore).  I think the reason that I don’t like putting up the tree is because I don’t like taking it down.  When I was younger and living at home with my parents, every year I would pull all of the boxes out and decorate the house with such excitement- and then I would leave the mess for my mom to put away after the holiday.  Since Paul and I have lived together we have had a tree twice but in the recent years, we’ve only gone out looking for my parents.  I just can’t get over putting all the ornaments away and taking the tree down!  It’s pathetic.

So instead up putting up a tree in my house, I’ll happily put up a tree on a cupcake!  This is a different twist on how to make a Christmas tree cupcake, rather than just piping a huge pile of buttercream on top (not that I don’t love that variation) but this one is more for looks! 

 

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