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Our friend Bettina is a graphic designer who used to work with my husband. She was throwing a baby shower for a friend and wanted owl cupcakes. She didn't know how to make her vision come true and asked me what I thought. I showed her these Annies Eats Butterfly Cupcakes I told her we could do something similar I took lots of my baking supplies over to her apartment last Thursday and we spent a few hours working on owls. :) They turned out very cute! She designed and printed the shower invitations that we used to trace. The Supplies Microwavable bowls Colored candy melt Wax Paper Toothpicks Disposable piping bags Piping tips, the smallest round tip possible Owl image for tracing The process 1. Melt outline chocolate in the microwave for 1 minute, stir well 2. Scoop melted chocolate into the piping bag 3. Place wax paper over the image you are tracing 4. Trace the outlines 5. Pop in the freezer and continue tracing outlines 6. Once outlines have hardened melt your next color in...

Happy New Years Eve everyone! January 2009 Lemon Lime Pound Cake February 2009 Orange Slice Jello Shots March 2009 Potato Slabs April 2009 Soft Snickerdoodles May 2009 Chinese Chicken Salad June 2009 Coconut Pie July 2009 Pina Colada Cupcake August 2009 Anthony's Mac N Cheese September 2009 Thai Cooking Class Results October 2009 Jalapeno Popper Dip November 2009 Meatball Eyeballs December 2009 Sour Cream Crescent Rolls

Menu Antipasta Cheeses, meats, and olives with crackers Salad citrus vinaigrette, apples, walnuts, blue cheese My husband made the vinaigrette. I know it had fresh squeezed orange juice and a few tablespoons balsamic, tablespoon honey, a few tablespoons olive oil, add salt and pepper to taste. Sadly no photo of this salad. It was time to get the dinner rolling! Pasta mac n cheese My husband made the mac n cheese. I have typed up his recipe before but he keeps changing it up every time to make it better. This time he added some mustard for bite Sour Cream Crescent Rolls Moms sour cream crescent rolls Southern Living recipe Ingredients 8 oz Commercial sour cream 1/2 c Warm water --105 to 115f 2 pk Dry yeast Butter or margarine; melted 1/2 c Butter or margarine 1/2 c Sugar 2 Eggs; beaten 1 ts Salt 4 c All-purpose flour Preparation Place butter in a small saucepan, and bring to a boil. Remove from heat; stir in sour cream and sugar. Cool mixture to 105 to 115F. Dissolve yeast in warm ...

So I have two quick and easy recipes to share for those who are looking for something to make for the holiday last minute ;) Chocolate Fudge 1 8 ounce package cream cheese 3 squares unsweetened baking chocolate 1 square semi sweet baking chocolate 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 cups powdered sugar Beat cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth. Add the vanilla and beat. Add the melted chocolate. Pour into a square pan and stick in the fridge for several hours. Slice up your fudge and eat. This is a soft fudge recipe Peanut Butter and Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Inspired by this recipe. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Peanut-Butter-Cup-Cookies/Detail.aspx 2 packages Pillsbury simple peanut butter cookies Mini Reeces Peanut Butter Cups Christmas sprinkles Take the peanut butter cookie and rip in half. Roll each half into balls. Take the ball of cookie dough and place in a mini muffin tin, ungreased. Bake in the oven at 375 degrees for 8 minutes Take out and immediately press an unwrapped PB cu...

Thank goodness I had planned in advance for this meal. We already had our ingredients before it snowed two feet this weekend. Last night we put together Mongolian beef, with jasmine rice, vegetable egg rolls, and slaw. Anthony thought this was one of our better stir frys Mongolian Beef We used this recipe with a few slight changes Mia Cucina-Marisa We put some fresh ginger through the garlic press, had snowpeas instead of green onion, and we have this spicy pepper oil we use to stir fry instead of using peanut oil. Also we bought fajita meat that was already cut into strips. It was still flank steak, we just didn't have to cut it ourselves :) shortcut! Asian Slaw We bought some shredded cabbage and shredded carrot and pine nuts. I wanted to recreate a thai lime sauce but I was missing quite a few essential ingredients like LIME and fish sauce! An Asian sesame ginger salad dressing was what we ended up using.

I did not have a camera at the cookie swap but the host took a few. I wanted to share how impressive the spread was! I really loved a lot of the cookies we tried this year. I wish I had more of the recipes

I was invited to a work happy hour party at a coworkers house yesterday. I asked if I could make something and the reply was to make a cake. I didn't have a lot of time so this is a white cake mix, but I did color the batter so it was Christmasy :) Next time I would have even less white batter. I split the mix evenly into three bowls but I'd rather have more red and green batter than equal amounts.