tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40405051173041789642024-03-14T06:25:15.897-04:00cake balls, cookies, and more.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14025946003997351723noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040505117304178964.post-41709312332592920042014-04-29T12:46:00.001-04:002014-04-29T12:46:40.177-04:00What we have been up to<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That right there is Pork Chop, he is huge now. He was all set to play one of his final hockey games. Hubby told him they dress up in the NHL, which is obviously the next step for Pork Chop, so he had to dress up too. </td></tr>
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So what do you do when you have a sick Pork Chop and you cannot possibly watch another cartoon? You go on line and share what you have been up to. Us we have been getting so excited for the nicer weather. I totally gave winter the finger and packed up all my winter clothes. And then winter flipped me the bird and it was even colder. I cannot win.</div>
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Pork Chop is doing well, other than having possible strep throat today, so he is drooling on the sofa watching cartoons on netflix and I am trying not to kill him. Did you ever think when you were child less that you would actually prefer to go to work? Well I sort of wish I was at work except he is sick so he is a little cuddly, that is the only good part.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I try to get us to do things as a family but with the bad weather its not as easy. A few weeks back we went to the indoor driving range, and I quickly remembered why I was no good at golf. Also I hate a sport where you have to be quiet. I'm not really the quiet type.</td></tr>
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Pork Chop had a blast in hockey this year, he was the goalie and I honestly was not happy about it at the beginning of the year, but by the end I knew he loved it as he was always smiling coming off the ice. At the end of year party I baked a butt load of cupcakes and they had a lazer tag party, hubby and I played too, just wanted to let you know I place 3rd and 4th in the two games against the kids. I only rubbed it in a little. I sure rubbed it in a lot to Hubby though, he should know by now I rock at everything I do.<br />
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I think that we are really going to enjoy the summer, or at least that is the plan. I have finally gotten some help for my depression and that is giving me hope, and I can see some good days ahead, and that makes me feel good.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to play catch together, I will point out that Pork Chop was shocked each time I caught the ball. And I was all like "dude I can play sports!" And he was all "it's okay Grandma!" I think that is payback for me calling my dad Old Man for years. Darn Karma!</td></tr>
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This summer I hope to get some baking back in and put some posts up, but then again I sort of hope we are so busy that I can't. I want to enjoy Pork Chop while he still thinks I'm cool, or coolish. Which I guess is sort of past because he calls me Grandma. Sigh.<br />
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We went to the bad lands last weekend and it was the perfect day. I think that if you grew up here you would know about the bad lands. It was so nice to get out and just walk, I miss doing that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I told him to smile, and he gave me this. I think this is the start of his teen angst and I may not survive it, or he won't, either way only one of us will get out alive.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And just to prove we are the cool parents we take pictures like this. Then we tell him to eat his vegetables, just to make sure he knows we mean business.</td></tr>
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I cannot believe that it is almost April. I also cannot believe that I have not blogged in all that time. I have been doing a few fun things, and just working at not getting the blues from this weather. Its harder than you may think, I honestly think the long cold days were getting so long and dull that I was having a bad time. It isn't much better yet, but I am trying, hopefully some sun and a new doctor and I can try to get back to being a little more normal. But it could be worse right?</div>
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So what have we been up to? Well Hubby and Pork Chop and I went out for our annual Valentines day diner. We went to a nice all you can eat place, and I honestly didn't eat much. But Porky Chop loves that he can pick out what he wants, he ate like 2 cups of steamed rice, which is weird, but whatever at least he ate. By the time we left there was such a big line up and announcements from staff letting people know if they didn't have a reservation they would not get a seat. Crazy!</div>
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At my part time job one of my friends finally moved into her house, out of an apartment and she had been wanting to learn to sew. So I found this pattern on line and she was all " I must make that!!!!" And I was all, "So must I!" But I wanted to say sew but I don't think she would have gotten the joke. Whatever, so as soon as she finds a fabric she likes we can start. I lucked out and the fabric I had been eyeing went on sale for $3 a meter and I got more than enough for about $25. So I just have to get a zipper and thread and I am all ready. If I do it and I look as good as the picture then I will show you, if not I will still show you but I won't be happy about it. </div>
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I had a day off with Pork Chop during the march break. I remember growing up and my dad would take every march break off with me and my big sister. We would go to the zoo, Niagara falls, down town Toronto, the science centre and the cn tower. It was awesome, but cold. We would be in snow pants walking around the zoo. Only bonus, dad couldn't say no to us, so we got to eat lots of ice cream and french fries. It was great. I wish I could have to memories for Pork Chop but it's not always possible with our work schedules and the weather has been so crazy, we do what we can. So I let Pork Chop pick a place to eat and a movie. So we went to Mandarin and he hardly ate anything, which is fine, lunch costs hardly anything. Then we went and saw Mr. Peabody, it was cute. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I told Pork Chop to wave for Daddy, then we texted this to Hubby and he was all. Is he eating olives and rice? And I was all, "it's better than the sushi he was eating, sushi rolls he dipped in bacon bits. I don't know where he gets his eating habits from. Honestly, but I do agree that bacon makes everything better.</td></tr>
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Do you guys go on pintrest? I know dumb question, but honestly do you? Well I don't often, and this is why. I see something and I cannot get it out of my mind. Like I found these shoes and googled for like 3 hours, and yes that seems crazy, but when you are looking at shoes on line, time flyes! Anyway I found these shoes and apparently if I had found them last spring I could have gotten them. But they were sold out everywhere in my size and I was desperate. I contacted the maker of said shoes and they are in the uk. They said they were not available any more, but that a special request had been made by another company in the uk to have them made again. So I watched the company for weeks and when they finally came in stock I bought a pair at like 7 in the morning at work on my little phone. I was so excited! I was showing everyone at work my shoes on my phone and they were all like, "so cute!" And then when I got them people kept asking me when was I going to wear them. I did once but won't again until the weather is nice, because people these shoes are adorable and I want to wear them all the time. <br />
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So lets see, baking has not been happening, my mood just makes it so I go to work then don't want to move when I get home. This however has not stopped Hubby from baking. He has made some gluten free treats for his friends at work, which sucks because I used to be the cool baker person, but I don't mind too much as long as he shares with me. I just want to bake again, or at least I want to feel like I want to bake again. It could happen.<br />
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So why is there a weird picture of me with that horrendous hair do? Well I have been growing my hair out for what seems like forever, but in actuality is probably just under 2 years. I had decided to grow my hair out and donate it for charity to make wigs for kids who have cancer. Only issue is here in Canada you cannot donate any hair that has been dyed. Which is crazy because I have been covering the gray for well over 10 years. Have I mentioned that Pork Chop is almost 10? Well It could be connected, or not, I will let you decide.</div>
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Anyway I found that locks of love in the states will take hair if it has some gray and if you have dyed it, just not bleach. Well dude that was me!! So I was doing great for a while, but then it got to the point where I just wore my hair in a pony tail, or mostly I just didn't brush it just put it up in a twist or whatever. And when we were going out to do stuff and I wanted to wear a hat I did two braids. Have I mentioned that I am pushing 37 or so. So I hated long hair, but I was all " I said I was going to do this and I will!" And I would bug Hubby or the girls at work every month or so to try and measure my hair to see if it was long enough. And on Friday it finally was!</div>
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So after work I came home and got changed and told Pork Chop I was going to get my hair cut. Then he was all "you go out to get your hair cut?" And I was all "yes, why" And he said the funniest thing ever, he said "I thought daddy cut your hair" And I nearly died, because Hubby shaves his own head and Pork Chops. I was all "your daddy couldn't handle my hair, I need professional help" And Pork Chop just gave me a weird look and went back to playing his game.</div>
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So anyway I went and had a little issue getting my hair done, the ladies at the salon were great. But one kept trying to point out they won't take coloured hair, and other stuff and I had to keep telling her that where I was donating they would and they they were all "it's going to be short if you want to donate enough" And I said bring it! </div>
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So they tied my hair into two pony tails and cut them off, poor lady stopped a few times, said my hair was too thick that my two pony tails were thicker each than most donations from one person. I hope that means they can use a lot of it then, because I have never been so happy to have a hair cut in my life!</div>
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So I got home and had to have a shower I was covered in hair bits, and it was the best feeling to wash my hair so fast. I then let it dry and ironed it, I have super wavy hair so if I leave it that way it's cute, but I like the sleek look better. Whatever.<br />
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Pork Chop was all " You look different." And I said good different or bad different? He said good, but I don't believe him. I think it's funny how short kids memories are in that way because I have had short hair many times before. Anyway I am glad I am done, because I cannot stand long hair. I was so happy I cleared out a whole section in my bathroom of hair ties and stuff, because dude my hair is short!<br />
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I have a guy here cleaning my dryer vent because apparently you can die if you don't clean it and its a fire hazard. This is the second time having it done, a few years ago they did it and the amount of lint they got out could have made a whole bunch of clothes. Anyway we are now going to be lint free, at least until I dry something again.<br />
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How have you guys all been by the way? I love checking out others blogs, but just have not been in the mood to comment. Probably "talk" to you all in the summer, yikes I need to get back on here more.<br />
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So its January! And life has been going crazy!! I feel like so much has happened but nothing at the same time. I have done a little baking, we of course had to do the annual ginger bread house, but I was all, I'm going to do this cheap and make a village and it will be awesome. It stopped being awesome within minutes when I was trying to build the houses out of graham crackers and Pork Chop was trying to eat all the candy and going on and on about how long it was taking. I was about to kill him, but figured it was the holidays and I should at least let him live until the new year. It was a hard choice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was so dumb to make this, and Pork Chop ate his weight in candy. And maybe a bit of icing, I only ate the gum drops. I swear!</td></tr>
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So what else happened? Our washing machine died, and it was about 3 weeks before we finally gave in and got a new one. We had a big front loader, but now they say the top loaders are better again, I don't care, I love my new washer and I set it up and hooked it up myself, and it was awesome and I try to find things just so I can use it. That will wear off soon, cleaning usually does with me. </div>
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I pulled a muscle in my lower region. And I went to the walk in clinic. And I was seeing a fill in Dr because of a huge snow storm. So this guy was nice, he was a little rushed and not thinking I think. So I am going to tell you all what happened, because I feel here on the internet we are able to share our best moments. So he had me sit on the exam table, with that paper thingy over my lower half, and I was sitting up and he for some reason had to run out of the room, and he did, and he left the door open, and he was yelling at the nurse for something. Did I mention that my butt, which is huge, was hanging out and the door was now open, with a clear view to the waiting room. And that the people in the waiting room all looked up to see the dr yelling. And that he then came back in the room with the nurse and they were still talking loudly and my butt was still on display with the door open. I may have died a little. So soon as he shut the door I got my stuff on and I sure as heck didn't make eye contact with anyone on the way out.</div>
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So long story short, something was pulled, I didn't get better for a few days, and there are now people in my neighborhood that have seen my butt. Life had better give me a lottery win or something, because that was just crap!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how he is sitting there beside the bowls of candy? I got one picture then he was into the candy again. Sigh every year I do it but I always think I will learn, I never do.</td></tr>
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So what else happened? All three of us got the stomach flu, poor Pork Chop got it first, he was so sick, then Hubby got it, he was so sick I was scared that he would pass out. Then I got it, on the day before Christmas eve. I was so sick I had to stay home from work and I was crying and Hubby was all, your sick it's okay, and I was all, I know I'm sick, but I want to go to work. Which is stupid because they would kill me if they got sick. I was finally feeling better by boxing day which was great. </div>
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We also had a huge ice storm, we were so lucky not to really be affected, but my poor parents had so much ice they had to have my sister get salt and get them out of the house. My mother in law was without power for days, but that woman is tough. I tell you me I would have begged for a hotel, she was all, "its cold at home, I'm going to work to get warm!" Yeah, crazy!</div>
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So we had a good but quiet holiday, which made me feel guilty we had plans to shop the week of christmas for daddies gift and clean and none of it happened. I feel like as long as Pork Chop was happy that was all that mattered, so I tried to focus on that. All I wanted was my yearly singing snow man from Hallmark, I have them all and I'm running out of room to display them during the holidays. But it makes me so happy to see them and think back on each holiday. I have gotten one every year since the second year we were married.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For our new years we did our annual Dave and Busters night. After work we headed out and had diner then played some games. It was so fun and I look forward to it every year. </td></tr>
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Most years we go skating downtown in our area and last year we stayed out all night to see the fire works, this year it was so cold we went home and played games. It was nice and not too much work. I baked some brownies for Hubby, they were a recipe I tired for Christmas diner and he loved them, and he is not a brownie person usually. And he hardly eats what I make, so I made those and by the new year he had yummy brownies to snack on. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pork Chop has been wanting a Domo for like 3 years now, but they were always huge and too many tickets. This year he scored a small one and he was thrilled!! I told him I was proud that he didn't waste all his tickets and still has a bunch to go back with.</td></tr>
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One of the things Pork Chop was asking for was a rainbow loom. Grandma and Grandpa sure made him happy when it was one of the gifts they got him. I was not so happy that he had me making things for the whole of Christmas day. I mean the boy has both arms covered. He gets very frustrated though because it is a little hard to hook so we do them together, and I bought myself one so we try to do them and he only gets a little frustrated. Apparently his friends at school are asking him to get me to make them some, I said no, but it could be a good side business right? It wouldn't be wrong to charge grade four kids $5 for a bracelet would it? Yeah I know it would be but I could be rich you know! I did make a few for his close friends but I am sick of the thing already. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See that is just a few of what he has, Hubby has to yell at him to get moving in the morning because he would wear every single one he had if we didn't stop him. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
So that is about it for us, I finally finished my training at work, so things are back to normal and I have plans to take Pork Chop to visit my old work on his PD day. I cannot believe it has been almost a year and I miss downtown, I do not miss the drive at all though, that part is nice. </div>
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So I hope you are all having a great new year so far, other than the butt thing, life is going good. I think this year is going to be great, and if not, it cannot be worse than last year, how bad can it be after my butt was on display right?</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14025946003997351723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040505117304178964.post-76229141076445090832013-11-01T23:01:00.000-04:002013-11-01T23:01:11.245-04:00Happy November!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey all! How is everyone? Miss me? Probably not, I have been missing for well over a few months now. I am just getting ready for bed but I wanted to pop in and say hey. Hubby and I had a rare date night tonight, we went to see Bad Grandpa, and I feel bad to admit I love the stupid humor of it. I laughed so hard I nearly pee'd my pants. I will never be one for mature humor. I like a good fart joke better. Just saying,I am a 12 year old boy inside. <br />
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My parents watched Pork Chop and it was just nice to go out. Last night was Halloween and it was so crummy out that we hardly put any decorations up. So sad it really is my favorite holiday. Pork Chop had his party the weekend before and we stupidly said he could have his first sleep over. Other than one kid being sick and having to go home it went well. I let the boys decorate cupcakes and there was disco dust everywhere. I will never learn. Then we had family over the day after. And it was nice but we had to clean like crazy. I never feel like a worse homeowner than when we have people over. <br />
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Hubby and I celebrated our 11th anniversary and went out to a special diner. And then walked all over downtown Toronto, and it was weird but whatever. It was nice to have time together.<br />
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Other than that my training at work should be done before the holidays and I cannot wait, I feel so out of sorts with it all, but such is life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I saw these at Walmart and I screamed for Hubby he was all like, "uh huh" whatever I was grossed out! Pork Chop was all, "They stole your idea!!" Kid thinks I invented cake pops, poor boy he is so proud of me for no reason.</td></tr>
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Pork Chop is back at hockey and loving it, he wanted to be a goalie for years, and this year his is. Help me people this equipment is costly and I still have a shoe addiction so I don't know if I will survive this.<br />
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Anyway hope to see you all soon on the web, or "on the line" Can you name that movie? Hubby won't stop saying that. Sigh.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14025946003997351723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040505117304178964.post-81314467378312989152013-09-11T17:29:00.003-04:002013-09-11T17:29:54.351-04:00I am still aliveBut I am so sure it doesn't matter. Seriously where have I been? Today is just like any other, just that I was able to get home a few minutes early so I thought I would pop in to say hi!<br />
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So hi guys! What is up with you all? Pork chop is back in school now in grade 4 he is big time now! I am doing some crazy training for my job down town, and if it goes well I may keep my job. Seriously I am stressed but its good, I hope. And hubby is doing great at his new place too.<br />
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We spent the summer trying to do some fun stuff, we went to Canada's Wonderland a bunch, and Pork Chop loved that. Me? Well I must be old because I nearly threw up a few times. Seriously I used to ride those rides all day. Well whatever, he loved it. We also went on a little family trip to this cool mall in the states. We shopped and I got some candyquik and I loved it. We went to this mall called Destiny USA, it was amazing!<br />
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Other than that I have done cupcakes and cake pops but really that is it, I don't even want to bake it seems, but that could be all the stress with trying to get this new job right. Oh well. I still check in on my favorite blogs and I still eat lots of sweets. So life is good, if not busy! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14025946003997351723noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040505117304178964.post-78472911196248816632013-06-03T21:53:00.001-04:002013-06-03T21:53:15.047-04:00I think I missed a month or so there.Hey all, I cannot believe it is June already. Where the heck has this year gone? I have not done anything really, we have been trying to just get by day to day. I have been spending my free time just being a bum, I feel like I do nothing at all, and that is probably true. Pork Chop is almost done school and Hubby got a great transfer at work, he is so excited, and so am I. He really deserves it! I am finding working these two jobs keeps me busy and any free time I want to just sit around and not move. Since the weather is nicer we are getting out a bit, and no baking at all really. I miss it but I just am not motivated, which is a shame because I love it. I have promised some cake pops at work, so that has to happen, but other than that nothing people. Feels like I'm in a rut, but I don't have it in me to get out of it. I think I need some motivation, or just a kick in the pants. I hop on here every now and then and think about posting but I find that I just don't have it in me. I feel sad about that, but I think I have to focus on me right now, because I feel like I am slipping into a funk and I don't want to be there. Anyway life could be so much worse, I have it pretty good if you think about it.<br />
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Just wanted to pop on to say hi to you all, I know I have visitors here every day and they are all probably thinking I am not here, and I should be. I hope I get back to me soon, I feel like all these great things are happening and I am just watching them. Anyway love hearing from you all, and trust me I am still here, just not as much as I wish I was.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14025946003997351723noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040505117304178964.post-89883075355164852062013-04-29T09:05:00.000-04:002013-04-29T09:05:40.519-04:00I have been so busy!!!Hey guys I just wanted to pop on and say hi! I have been having a really hard time managing my time with this new job. I love it but for some reason the hours and such are making me lose my mind when it comes to my blog. I have been so desperate to get back to read and share, but then sitting on the sofa or being with my family wins out. I have done some baking, but not too much, which stinks. <br />
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Today is my day off from my full time job but I do have a few hours tonight at my part time work. So I have to whole day to do what I want. And what I want to do it sit in front of my tv and eat. What I really plan to do is post this, go get my toes painted and then the rest of the day will be filled with making marshmallows, doing laundry and trying to rest a little bit. I may get ambitious and dust a bit, but lets not think about that, it probably won't happen.<br />
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Anyway nothing new to share picture wise, Pork Chop is getting huge, and he can not get outside enough. Do you remember being small and when it was warm enough you would be out as much as you could? Well I do, but that is for young people, I would rather cuddle up with a good book or something, but whatever he is doing it. So I hope to get here soon, because I miss sharing all my things. I have made some stuff, nothing new, just the oldie but goodie ones. <br />
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Hope to be back at this with some new stuff in May. Enjoy the warm weather people.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14025946003997351723noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040505117304178964.post-77375457298709425112013-03-13T17:46:00.000-04:002013-03-13T18:00:37.974-04:00Simple Shortbread, Total Fail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I have missed you all, I imagine that you are all "where the heck is the crazy lady?" And I would have to say "who me? Crazy?" And then you would roll your eyes, and I would sort of just stand there, it is just how it is you know? <br />
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Anyway I have been at my new job for over a week now, and I love it! But, I feel like an idiot, like I will never get it all. I also miss all the time I had to bake and blog. And so tonight I am jumping on to share a really simple cookie. One that didn't turn out so well for me, but you might have better luck. Anyway, life is really good, busy but good, and I hope to be back more often to read and blog. So here is a post I wrote way back last year when I was hoping to have a new cookie to share, then I never did, because it was so bad! Oh well, could be worse.</div>
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I had a dream. It was a simple dream. It involved me getting a new kitchen gadget and me using it and me making something so awesome and amazing that people would want my autograph; they would be like "you are the best thing since sliced bread!" And I would be all "duh was there ever any doubt?" And that would be wonderful!<br />
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In real life; I got a new shortbread baking pan. I was all ready to become the famous shortbread baking lady. I even bought rice flour to make it. And well; it was no dream come true if you must know. So basically what happened was I used two cups of butter and ended up with a crumbling pan of half baked and half raw shortbread.<br />
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It was not a good day. I almost cried, I was all "how am I ever going to show my face in public again?" And then I tossed out almost all of it and sat on the sofa and pouted for a while. It was one of those things where I look back now and I know how I screwed up but I am not in the mood to try again, yet. So I figure if nothing else I have a post to share my pictures of failure of and it will fill some void in your heart. You know the void, the one where you need to see how badly I can screw up and still come back for more.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can totally see how over full my pan is, but I was not going to stop.</td></tr>
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So I got this pan at the kitchen store and it had a recipe in it, but it was sort of vague. So I went on line to see if I could find out more about the pan and the recipe. Well for some reason the pan wasn't even on the manufactures site, which should have been a big sign that something was up. But I forged on I looked on google to see if there was anything special I had to do to prepare my pan. In the end I figured that seasoning my pan couldn't hurt and that is what I did. I rubbed some vegetable oil on the pan and then sprinkled some flour on it to make sure nothing stuck. Then I got to making the cookie dough.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See, I should have taken a bunch out.</td></tr>
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Short bread cookies<br />
found on the pan instructions<br />
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1/2 pound butter<br />
1/2 cup icing sugar<br />
1/2 cake flour<br />
1/4 cup rice flour<br />
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
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Pre heat oven to 350, and season your pan.<br />
Blend the butter until creamy, add icing sugar and salt, blend well. Add rice flour and cake flour and blend well. Add half of the all purpose flour and blend, add the rest of the flour and blend. Press the dough into the mold and bake until golden brown.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See all this was almost raw, I was so mad!</td></tr>
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So the first thing about this is that I have not used rice flour before and I thought that it was a neat idea and figured it would make for a nice smooth cookie. So I measure out everything and mix it all together and that is when I notice how soft the dough is, the recipe says to press the dough into the pan and it was spreadable. Also the recipe didn't say how much it made so I figured I needed to put it all into the pan. But there was way too much. So instead of taking some out and doing two batched I smoothed it out and went ahead and baked the full pan. And that is where I messed up.
I put the pan on a cookie sheet just to make sure that it would not over flow. But even after 30 minutes the middle was still sort of wet but the outside was getting dark. So I pulled the tray out and let it set to cool.<br />
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I let it cool a few minutes then flipped the whole thing onto a cookie tray and it fell apart. The middle was soft and not cooked and the outsides were really crusty. I even cut it to try it. Now I will admit it was a nice melt in your mouth soft short bread, or at least the few edges I ate were. So I cut it up thinking it would set up, but it didn't. So I took a few pieces to work and no one ate them. I really cannot blame them. Just means I need to try again, and I will and it will be amazing. I won't add this recipe to my index yet until I figure it out, so stay tuned I may be brave enough again before 2014 you know.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This went to work, and it never got eaten.</td></tr>
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So this is another fast post, so much happening in my life that I have not really had any time to do any baking. If you ask Hubby he would be all "it's about time!!" And he would be right, sort of. You see, as of Tuesday I will have a new job. I finally found a job close to home, which should allow us to save some money. Which I plan to spend on candy, or pay bills. I prefer candy, just so you know. </div>
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I have been working a long way from home for my day job for almost 11 years, this job has been the one I was at just before I got married, I had Pork Chop while I was here and lots of other stuff. I am so nervous. Do you think my new co workers will like me? What if I shared my candy? Well either way, it is happening. Tomorrow, and I am so ready!</div>
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I will still keep my part time job, because I really like it, and any extra money will put us that much closer to having our debt paid down. Or you know, allow me to buy more sugar to bake with. Also I think this will mean I may have to cut my posts down. I aimed to do two posts a week, and sometimes that was just not possible. And so I am going to aim for one post a week, if I get two in, it will be a bonus. If not, well, I am still here, and you have to admit, I am awesome. And humble, don't forget, humble.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These were right on the end cap at wal mart, so I grabbed them, and then Hubby put them away and I almost forgot about them.</td></tr>
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So this simple treat was due to the fact I was really wanting something like cake, but didn't want to actually have to make it. Or leave the house to buy it. I have heard about ice box cakes for years, and I was all "seriously ice box cake, isn't that just a cold cake?" And obviously like most things, I was wrong. I went on Pintrest and found out that an ice box cake is basically wafer cookies and whip cream. And you have to let it sit in the fridge for about 4 hours for it to be ready. <br />
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Not sure if I should point out it would have taken me 10 minutes to drive to the store and buy some cake, but whatever, I didn't even have to get out of my pajamas to make this, so it was worth it, sort of.<br />
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I wanted to make this to share with my co workers and I had this plan of doing cake in a jar, but when I pulled out the jars I had, they were the bigger ones. But I figure that would be fine, more cake never hurt anyone. So I cleaned all 12 jars and got to work. And I totally just made this recipe up. Because I am smart like that.<br />
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Ice Box Cake<br />
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-2 cups cold whipping cream<br />
-1/4 cup sugar<br />
-1-2 TBSP vanilla bean paste<br />
-sleeve of chocolate wafer cookies<br />
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You can use any sort of container, I made one in a little cup so I could try it. All you have to do it whip your whipping cream with the sugar and vanilla. Then either spoon or pipe some cream into the bottom of your container, add a cookie and just layer it. You want enough whip cream so that the cookies will have enough moister. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yep that is just a big blob of whip cream, it was so good.</td></tr>
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Once you have done that, make sure to cover your cake and let it set in the fridge for at least 4 hours. I couldn't wait and tried after 3, the cookies were not soft all the way through by that point. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So after all that I got three jars people. Not enough to share at work. I put one aside for one friend there, she is never there and always misses the treats. But then I got sick and didn't go in the one day she was there. So I may have eaten them. Maybe.</td></tr>
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So I think this was really good, those cookies are very rich and chocolaty and I think the sugar in the whip cream was a must, or it would have been weird.<br />
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Anyway, I bet I will be back soon, well I have other posts ready to go, so no worries there. I just cannot believe I am going to have such a short commute, I used to spend over 2 hours on the road a day. Now, maybe 30 minutes. Maybe.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14025946003997351723noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040505117304178964.post-28976297948607904762013-02-28T07:00:00.000-05:002013-03-01T08:53:08.897-05:00Red Velvet and Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake Pops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay so this is my second recipe using that new chocolate cream cheese spread. It did not turn out as I had wanted. I don't know if it was the fact I used an actual from scratch cake and icing, or if it was that it was cream cheese icing or what, but I was not as happy with it as I am usually with my cake pops.<br />
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I will still share it because they were eaten within seconds of hitting work and Pork Chops class. So maybe it was just me, who knows. Basically I just made extra cake when I made those red velvet cupcakes and extra cream cheese icing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So this is how it all started, the icing is really a winner in my books.</td></tr>
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I did the usual and just crumbled up the cake, it was day old but I usually do day old cake, I bake it then once it cools I wrap it up. Anyway I crumbled it all up and then added enough of the chocolate cream cheese icing to get it to stick together. I should have added a bit more, but I am not used to this sort of cake pop, the box mix and pre made frosting is what I know. Anyway it worked. <br />
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Originally these were to be for a friend who had her baby in the NICU, we were going to visit, and I stayed up way late to finish them, but I was so tired that I never even decorated them. I was so embarrassed, but figured the nurses wouldn't care. Unfortunately my poor friend and her baby didn't have a good night so we had to put off our visit. Not a big deal, it actually meant I had cake pops for Pork Chops dance a thon, so it all worked out. And on a happy note, that cute little baby and my friend are now all settled at home, so Pork Chop is counting the days until he can hold the baby.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It looks so red, it didn't really stain my hands though.</td></tr>
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So once the cake was crumbled and mixed up I used my cake pop mold from My Little Cupcake because I like how uniform them are and the large size. I was doing the forming and the all the stuff in one night so I froze them. And some would fall apart or crack, so I think I really needed some more icing, but I was tired and just kept going.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can sort of see it is a little dry.</td></tr>
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I was so wanting to decorate them with something pretty, but the fact that they were even done and wrapped was good enough for me, it had been a long day at work. Anyway, they still went over well, as I said the kids in Pork Chops class liked them, and they didn't last long at work. So maybe it was just me, but in cupcake form this combination was better. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So I want to say something sort of crude, like how do you like my balls, but I will refrain Oh wait I wrote it, oh well...So, how do you like them?</td></tr>
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I think that my next chocolate cream cheese creation was even better than this one, not as good as the cupcakes but a close second. All I have to say is my co workers know me well, because one of them handed me some coupons for the chocolate cream cheese, she was all "just in case you want to make more things with it." And I so do, so that was a great treat to get.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My ball dipping set up, yep I went there.</td></tr>
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I don't know what I want to make next with this, but there will be more, trust me.<br />
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So many things have been going on recently, that have kept me from blogging. I choose to believe it's life that got in the way, when it is probably just me being lazy. I can say it, I love a good lazy day, or two </div>
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So to try and be productive and such I wanted to share my little Kitchen Aid remodel that I did for Hubby. The last time I decorated my Kitchen Aid, <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/04/ode-to-my-kitchen-aid.html">he was less than pleased. </a> Which stinks, because it was awesome!!!! But at the time I promised him that if I ever got a bigger Kitchen Aid we would decorate it how he wanted. Boy was I stupid, but whatever, I did it anyway, because I love him, and I wanted to let him know I care enough to share my mixer.</div>
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So I could not remember what I had promised him, but I went back and read that he wanted an Avengers style. And then I was all "really?" And then I figured, fine might as well. I am cool like that. I wanted to use decals, because it is not permanent and I can change it at any time if he pisses me off. </div>
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I contacted the same company I used on Etsy for my Laptop decal, the same one I used on my old mixer. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/showcase66">Showcase 66.</a> I sent them a note sort of telling them what I wanted, which was basically not helpful. I said I wanted an Avengers set of decals, and they could do whatever they wanted. They asked me who Hubby's favorite was. So I had to ask him, because what do I know about this stuff.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And I love that they send you two copies, that means you can use the others for your car or you know anything.</td></tr>
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So I sent Hubby an email.</div>
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"Hubby, for no real reason, who is your favorite Avenger, and if it's the chick I will cut you."</div>
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His reply was something like, "The green guy, the red guy, the purple guy and then the other red guy."</div>
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He used their actual names, what do I know, I was just glad my hubby was smart enough to not even include the girl in his list.</div>
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So I sent that info off to the store, and then had to endure Hubby asking me why I wanted to know, and that could it be this, or this or what could it be. I told him to stop pestering me that no matter what he thought it was, it would not be as cool. I mean it is cool, but when you have a comic book nerd as a Hubby, they think of dolls ( action figures they call them) or books ( graphic novels) Seriously I told him, just pretend I never asked, it will be something silly. So he sort of gave up asking, because in his mind, I was getting him a personalized Avengers action figure with kung fu grip or something. Silly man.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cut the pictures out and worked one at a time. Just smooth on and rub it well with a credit card. And yes I know that totally sounds dirty, but it's my blog so I can put smutty descriptions in here if I want.</td></tr>
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Showcase 66 sent me some great ideas, and I was all, "that is great, I love it!" Because the idea looked really cool, and it was sort of nerdy enough that I didn't get it, so I knew Hubby would. So I just had to wait for the decals to arrive and I was going to get it all done.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Please ignore the flashy pictures, I was in a rush.</td></tr>
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So when they arrived I was so excited, but I had a cake to make for Hubby and he was in the house with me. So I made the cake and told him I needed stuff from the store, or gas for the car or something. I cannot remember really. He went out and I raced to get this thing done. Now I should tell you I got this done in about 10 minutes. First, I went back to check the email that I got to show me how the layout was and then I wiped my mixer off and stuck everything on. Now I had to alter it just a tiny bit, as the picture they used had no handle on it, but no big deal it still worked out awesome!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I know all these people, Iron Man, The hulk and The Arrow, and no I didn't google that. I am just that good!</td></tr>
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So I got it all set up and put it back on the counter, but sort of sticking out so Hubby would see it when he got home. And he never noticed it, he is super that way, totally notices everything. Which actually works out for me. I may have been piling stuff in the basement, around my craft table in a crazy way. And it was looking like a mountain but he never noticed. Until this week, so yeah, usually the not noticing works in my favor.<br />
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Anyway I finally had to say "can you look at my mixer it was acting funny" <br />
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And he was all "you just used it, it was fine."<br />
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"JUST LOOK AT IT!"<br />
Seriously, that a hint man!<br />
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And he giggled and said "neat!" then he sat down and ate diner. And that is how I geeked out my Kitchen aid. And made my Hubby the coolest mixer ever. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the chick, she got put at the bottom, where no one will see her. Stupid hot chick in tight stuff.</td></tr>
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This is going to be one simple post, because I am doing so much this week and the next few don't look to be any simpler. This is a good thing, lots of great things happening, just need to learn how to deal and it will be better before I know it.<br />
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Anyway these are the cookies I made with Pork Chops little friends. He had these two little sisters over for a play date and we made cookies. I just made basic chocolate chip cookie dough and they got to put in whatever they wanted. <br />
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So here they are, I used this <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2011/10/perfect-chocolate-chip-cookie-base.html">recipe. </a> And I put out a whole bunch of stuff, they just focused on eating all the rolos and using the heart sprinkles. Technically this is a kitchen sink cookie, but they just put in those two things.<br />
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One of them asked if my mixer was a kitchen aid and when I told her yes, she told me "that's a good brand. She is 9 I think. And the younger one ate more cookie dough than she baked, she kept licking her finger and rolling her cookies so hers are the ones up top, all puffy because the dough was worked too much. She handed me the bowl with some dough still in it, and said I could eat it. Keep in mind her hand was in her mouth as much as in the dough, so I said thanks and scooped the rest out onto her tray.<br />
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It was fun and a nice way to get them into something they may not know about. Pork chop sulked on the sofa because he wanted to crack the first egg and I said guests first. I cannot win.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not too bad, and they went home with the girls, so no need to eat them all and feel badly.</td></tr>
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So firstly I want to say happy Family day to my Canadian readers. I hope there are a few of you. Not sure what our plans are today, but I hope it involves lots of sleep. That would be my kind of family day. Either way we both have the whole day off, so maybe some skating, or X box connect bowling, or sleeping. I could do either. Anyway that is that.<br />
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So last week I posted about the Chocolate Cream Cheese I tried, and how <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2013/02/philadelphia-chocolate-cream-cheese.html">it was amazing.</a> Anyway, I loved it. I got a few comments from some people who said they loved it, or they had not tried it and even a few saying they were not fans. I can get that. I really would have hated it too if I used it as a spread for toast. Honestly I do think that is what they were going for, but I was having none of it. Anyway I made some yummy frosting with it, and used it two ways. This is the first way, and by far the best of the two.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite spatula, it may be for Halloween, but I use it all year round. I am a rebel that way.</td></tr>
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I had promised Pork Chop some red velvet cupcakes during the week, and when there were none at the store I said I would make some. I found a great recipe I love on My Baking Addiction I first posted it <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/05/red-velvet-b52-cupcakes.html">here.</a> And have since made it many times. So I set to work, I doubled the recipe I have listed. I wanted enough for cupcakes and a cake to make cake balls.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made 48, Pork Chop ate 2 I think.</td></tr>
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Pork Chop complained the whole time about wanting one right now, and then when they were all done he said he didn't want one but he said I should frost 10 for him and leave 10 plain for him. I made mini ones, and he hates frosting, so I compromised and put 7 plain ones in a container. He ate one after it was all said and done. Sigh.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are they not pretty? I tried to do a rose with the icing, but then I got lazy and just did swirls, but whatever, there are sprinkles so they are totally fancy!</td></tr>
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So the frosting, oh my gosh the frosting was awesome! I know that classically red velvet is meant to be a cream cheese icing combo. So in that vain I made my frosting with the new chocolate cream cheese. I have to say, I actually liked it better than plain cream cheese icing. And my friends loved it, they were sneaking back to the break room every so often to eat another one. I cannot blame them, I did the same thing.<br />
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So this icing was a little different as the cream cheese is a spread and much more watery. So I just sort of winged it and it was not too hard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I saved these take out containers they are the perfect size, and they didn't cost me anything.</td></tr>
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Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing<br />
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(keep in mind this made lots, enough for 40 minis cupcakes and a bunch of cake pops, I still have some left over, I am going to use it soon, don't you worry!)<br />
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-1 1/2 tubs chocolate cream cheese spread<br />
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So start by creaming your butter, you want it smooth with no lumps. Then beat in the cream cheese spread and beat until it comes together. At one point it looked like it was just going to be a huge failure, but I kept mixing and it was fine. Add your icing sugar 1 cup at a time, and mix well to make sure you don't add too much. Now at this point I tried it and I felt it needed vanilla, so you can add it now, or before the sugar, either way. I didn't need any milk as I found that I used so much icing sugar, but whatever you have to do, you do it.<br />
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So then I just piped a little swirl on my cupcake and sprinkled on heart sprinkles, because I had them out and was way too lazy to get different ones. Then I ate a few, and then packed them up for work.<br />
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It really was a nice frosting, not overly chocolaty and you could tell it was cream cheese but it was not too cheesy if you get what I mean. So yum, this is going to be a favorite for sure.<br />
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I also want to share a funny story about Pork Chop and these cupcakes. A few days after I made them we were hitting the grocery store after Costco, I suggested sushi and he was all over it. He likes the veggie ones. Anyway we are walking in and I ask if he wants a cupcake, he tells me yes, a red velvet one. I told him sure, but why won't he eat the ones I made?<br />
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"yours aren't very good actually."<br />
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Said with a straight face. My own Pork Chop, said that, to me! I just laughed because dude has his issues, and if one of them is that my cupcakes are not the best, well I can deal.<br />
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Then we are at the bakery and he saw a chocolate mousse cake.<br />
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"OMG that is gross, a chocolate mouse cake!!!!"<br />
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I told him it was a mousse cake, no one would bake a mouse in a cake.<br />
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"That is still gross, moose in a cake is gross."<br />
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I just didn't know how to answer that really. The guy at the bakery was laughing a little, and Pork Chop was looking at him like he was crazy, as we walked away he says "I bet he doesn't like moose in his cake either."<br />
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I told him he was probably right. Things like that make having kids worth while, they are so funny and they don't even know it.
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So I made a cake. And I may have mentioned before I hate making actual cakes. I am more of a cupcake kind of gal. My theory is that if you make cupcakes, you can mess a few up, and you can also eat like 20 and not feel as badly. But if you make a cake, you only have once chance to decorate it, and not screw up. And I usually screw up. And you cannot eat 20 pieces of cake without looking like a pig. Or so I have been told. Anyway I was planning on letting Pork Chop do another<a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/02/birthday-cake-for-daddy.html"> gummie cake for Hubby</a>. But he just ends up pulling all the gummies off and not eating it. So this year I had a plan. I was so going to make him a super fancy cake. And one that he would totally eat!</div>
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Well one of those two things turned out to be true. I'll let you guess which one. But if nothing else I tried a new recipe, and I got a cake stand thingy finally. I had been using a lazy susan for over 20 years, so there you go, cake for Hubby, baking item for me. Win win!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how fancy that is? I paid $20 at a sale, not sure if that is a good deal, I don't want to know if it's not though.</td></tr>
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So to start I googled and pintrested a bunch of things. I had the idea of a snicker doodle cake. Since that is Hubby's favorite cookie and he really likes the muffins I make. I was totally thinking, there is no way I can lose. Just so you know, I lost; big time. <br />
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So I found <a href="http://smashedpeasandcarrots.blogspot.ca/2012/11/snickerdoodle-cake-recipe.html">this cake </a>on a blog called Smashed peas and carrots. Best part about it, it is a cake mix based cake. I love that! So I got everything I needed and set to work. Now keep in mind Hubby was in the same area of the house as me, so he just played X Box with Pork Chop while pretending to not have any idea what I was doing. Good man Hubby, keep it up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See it actually doesn't look too bad, I swear when I have no one to impress my cakes sort of work out. I mean I was trying to impress Hubby, but I use other methods to impress him. Cake does nothing for him. Just so you know.</td></tr>
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Snicker Doodle Cake<br />
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-1 box white cake mix<br />
-eggs called for on box, plus one more<br />
-butter in place of the oil called for on the box<br />
-milk in place of the milk called for on the box<br />
-1 TBSP cinnamon<br />
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Mix it all together and pour into your prepared pans. Bake at 350 until tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Allow to cool then remove from pan and allow to fully cool on cooling rack. I placed the cakes in the freezer after they cooled to set up.<br />
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Frosting<br />
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-2 cups butter<br />
-1 cup brown sugar<br />
-2 TSP cinnamon<br />
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-6-7 cups icing sugar<br />
-milk if needed<br />
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Start with room temperature butter, I just usually cube it up on a large plate before I start measuring out the other stuff, and it is usually good by then. So cream the butter, add the brown sugar and cream again, add vanilla and cinnamon and mix well. Mix in your icing sugar and if needed add milk until it is the consistency you want.<br />
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Once that is done you are ready to assemble. I started by leveling my cakes, they didn't really need much, but knowing my luck if I didn't there would be trouble. So I did that then I put a blob of icing on the tray I was going to put my cake on and placed the first layer of cake. Then I put a layer of icing, then the next layer of cake. Then I frosted the whole darn thing. I was going for a rustic look. <br />
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And just in case you were wondering, a rustic cake can be all bumpy and swirly and no where near smooth. I am good at rustic. <br />
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Then I wanted to have Pork Chop write on the cake, you know, to do his part. He was all, "I'm nervous!" which is his way of saying he doesn't want to do it. So I said try it on the scraps of cake, and he drew two lines and said he was done. I was fine with that, I figure at least he was in the vicinity of the cake when it was made, so that totally counts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am really proud of the fact I can blur out his name, not too proud that if you really try you can still read it.</td></tr>
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So I just used one of those tubes of gel you get at the store, because I didn't want to bother making icing or colouring it. It cost over $2, which is a total rip off, but at the same time, it allowed me to not have to do anything, so it sort of paid off. And I blurred out Hubbies name to protect him. And to hide the fact I totally forgot a letter in his name and squished it in later. He was all "really?" And I said "shut up, I went snow boarding with you! And made you a cake, your name? It doesn't matter!" Or something like that, I may have just given him a dirty look, who knows, I was tired. </div>
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Anyway we didn't get to eat the cake for like three days, we were doing stuff, like eating diner out and having free birthday deserts, so there was no time for cake. And when we finally did have it, we thought it was too much. I think that if I cut the layers in half and made it a four layer cake with thinner icing layers it may have worked. As it was we tired to eat it, and Pork Chop liked the cake part. But I ended up sending it to work with Hubby, and then Pork Chop was mad, and said he wanted more. I will tell you now I ended up making him a tonne of red velvet cupcakes to make up for it, and that he didn't eat more that 2 I think. And not even on the day I made them, like days later. Sigh. </div>
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Also I think this as a cupcake would be good, so it is not a loss at all, I really did like it. Hubby, well here's to another year with a cake he won't eat.</div>
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Oh and just to show you how much I love him, look what I did.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you look at this picture first, I look all cool, like I am totally into boarding. Truth is, that is the instructor behind me. He just let me go and I was falling, again. it was a very painful gift to Hubby. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made Hubby take a beginner lesson with me, again. He knows what he is doing, I have gone once before, and I was scared and didn't want to do it alone. I have to point out, other than Hubby and me, the other kids were all under 10. Man I felt old.</td></tr>
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Okay, before I get started, I want you all to know that I am over the moon that we finally got this product in Canada. I read about it on some blogs I think and right away I was all "We need to move south!!" And Hubby just rolled his eyes, and said something about liking being around family or whatever. But he hates cream cheese, so I cannot really expect him to get it. But I know you guys will. Seriously I have only used this a few times already and it is going to change your life. I know, dramatic, but I just need you to understand, you need this item, right now!!!!!</div>
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Anyway, I saw on face book we finally had this and I went right to the store after work with Pork Chop, I had to bribe him by buying him a pound or so of olives, but I got what I went for. As I was cashing out the cashier was all "have you tried that, it looks weird!" And I was all "I have so many plans for it, you need to try it!" And she sort of just gave me a crazy look, because she probably doesn't understand the impact this is going to have. Or something like that.</div>
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So for my first try I just wanted something really simple, because I wanted to actually try the product how it was made. Trust me I already have about 50 ideas in my head, and I don't have the money to buy that much cream cheese. If you are out there makers of Philly Chocolate Cream Cheese of the Gods, feel free to send me about 100 tubs. That should last me at least a month. Give or take.</div>
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So firstly, I had no idea this product was a spread before I saw it, I always assumed it was in block form. I didn't really care, I got two tubs and I bought these super fat lady finger cookies. I figure simple would let me really try it. And Oh. My. Gosh! It was good. <br />
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So it looks like this is being marketed akin to Nutella. But with I think 50% less sugar. It was on the tin foil label, but I was in a rush to taste it, so I sort of tossed that out fast. Anyway. I don't agree. Nutella is it's own beast, I mean it is thick and rich and super sweet and almost like peanut butter. Where as this, well it's hard to describe. The flavour is out of this world, and the texture is perfect for spreading, or if you are one of those weird people that likes fruit, it could be an instant fruit dip. But I won't go there. Sorry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I didn't put too much, I was being stupid, you want to put lots, trust me.</td></tr>
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In my first use, I just made cookie sandwiches. I just spread a bunch in between two soft cookies, and then I ate them. It was so good, it has this almost tart kick to it, like a sour cream. But it was sweet but in a way that is was not over powering like Nutella can be. I personally don't think I would eat this on toast, it is just not the same to me. But the things I have planned, oh you just wait.. I am honestly going to spend a lot of time with this and make a few things. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Try to ignore the fact my fingers are almost as chubby as the cookies.</td></tr>
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I really liked the taste of it just like this, and even found myself using it as a dip for cookies. It really is good. And I sound like a girl with a high school crush, and gosh darn it, I am so happy with this. I have read about products and waited for them only to feel blah about them. So far this is a keeper. So stay tuned I have plans, and I will be sharing them. Then I will invest in cream cheese stock, or just hoard the stuff.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So these only lasted 12 hours and that is because I was sleeping, they were gone really fast.</td></tr>
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These are super easy to make, and they are tasty and they are cute. Three really good things in a treat. I first saw something like this when my friend Staci made them. She showed me and I was all, "seriously, chocolate and sprinkles, why did I not think of that?" </div>
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So I have not been doing much baking the last few weeks, burn out and my dad in the hospital just left me not wanting to make anything. But I felt it was about time I send in a treat for Pork Chops hockey team. So I suggested these and he was all "Marshmallows!!!!!!" Do I know my boy or what?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love sprinkles, in case you didn't know that already. I wait all year just to use these heart ones!</td></tr>
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So I would prefer to make these with home made marshmallows, but that would totally defeat the point of a simple quick treat. And kids don't care one way or the other, as long as it is full of sugar, they will be happy. So I grabbed a bag of large marshmallows, not the jumbo camp fire ones, those are crazy! Maybe next time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just used an old take out container, it was wide enough that Pork Chop could work with it easily.</td></tr>
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Anyway Pork Chop actually wanted to help me so he washed his hands while I got our stuff together. It was still January, but I figure Valentines day needed to be celebrated sooner rather than later. So I just mixed some white sprinkles with these heart sprinkles. And there you go, instant valentines treat!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And since we rolled the marshmallows in the sprinkles, not too many fell on the floor.</td></tr>
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I melted the chocolate and got Pork Chop to set up the marshmallows, he was so proud as he kept telling me he was making a pattern. It's times like these I love him, other times, well I love him, but I want to hurt him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making his pattern.</td></tr>
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So once that was done we had to put the sticks in, and Pork Chop did almost all of them himself. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putting the sticks in the marshmallows. Also quick cute story from Hubby. Pork Chop now plays on my lap top, and one morning it said something like "windows needs to close" and he was all "but the windows are closed!" And pointed at the house windows. Man sometimes he is so innocent it kills me.</td></tr>
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Then I said, "I have to take a picture!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He is too big, I may have to stop feeding him.</td></tr>
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And I did, and he didn't really smile so much as he looked like he was trying not to hurt me. Whatever, I got it. So once we got that done, we worked as a team. I would dip the marshmallows and tap off the extra chocolate and he would roll them around in the sprinkles and set them back on the parchment paper to dry. It seriously took us like 10 minutes, not even.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was so thinking this didn't look like 1000 and started counting, when I got to 50 and realized there are probably more than 1000 in there, they are thinner than the ones you would buy here thought but they work fine.</td></tr>
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Then as they dried he went and got a drink and I got out the plastic bags and twist ties. I really like using the twist ties, they are so much faster to work with than ribbon. But they cost a lot at the baking store, like $30 for 1000, which really isn't much, but I can get that many ribbons cut and tied for less than $2. I may have to rethink it, I don't know. Anyway, I got these off of ebay, they were 1000 for under $2, free shipping too. So they are amazing, and I hope I don't run out soon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All ready to be wrapped.</td></tr>
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I love how cute they are. And Pork Chops team seems to like them too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had to share this picture, he is so big he just jumps on the counter to get things. I used to do that as a kid. I tried a bit ago when I needed something up high, but I almost broke a hip, so I use a chair. Man I am old!</td></tr>
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So I hate fruit in deserts. It's like you are almost trying to get me to eat healthy. I am not fooled by your chocolate and sugar covered fruit. I know it's fruit and no way and I going to fall for it! That being said, I have a few exceptions, but then again, I am a whole ball of confusing rules and they are not to be explained. So just know that I know what I am talking about. Okay?<br />
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So I have seen these strawberries many times, and I had never made them before. I promised them to my friend when I was doing her wedding, and then I realized I had not made them. And I sort of knew what I was doing, but not really. I had the idea, and I had no time to look it up. So I just did it and they turned out really well. Other than the fact I hate working with white chocolate, they were super easy. And other than the fact that I never took any real pictures at the time, this is what you get. I was at the store and the strawberries actually looked nice so I planed to do a whole tutorial about them. Then I actually got to it and wanted to hurt someone. Lucky that Pork Chop and Hubby were at hockey.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I gave up after four, the chocolate was all crappy and I was tearing the green part out trying to dip them. So the rest were just covered in milk chocolate and I ate them, and got sick. It must have been the fruit, it was too healthy and my tummy revolted.</td></tr>
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Firstly my stupid white chocolate was too thick and I was just not able to get a nice dip on, in the end I got one half decent strawberry. And that is all your getting. I did get a great comment from Tam and I am going to try her way one of these days, just not today.<br />
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So to start, you need clean, dry strawberries with the stems on. Milk (or dark chocolate) and white chocolate.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the only one that half looked like a real good one. I didn't even take a picture of the strawberry I piped on, no idea why, I may have been just ticked off with the whole thing.</td></tr>
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So I wash all my strawberries and lay them out on paper towel, rolling them into new dry paper towel a few times. If they are wet it can ruin your chocolate. So then you need to melt your white chocolate, this will be the "shirt" of your tuxedo. So hold your strawberry by the stem and dip it as far as you can in the white chocolate, shake a little to get the extra off and place it on parchment paper to dry. Now if you know what you are doing with white chocolate, this will be easy. If you are like me, you will try and your stems will rip off, and you will have gloopy strawberries. Even though you thinned it out with paraffin crystals and everything. This will result in you giving up after four strawberries. Just so you know.<br />
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Anyway let those dry while you melt your milk or dark chocolate. I also envision someone doing an 80's version with baby blue chocolate. That so has to happen!!! Anyway, once your chocolate is melted you start double dipping your strawberries. I think this will be the only time you can actually double dip without it being gross.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I took this picture to show you my cone making skills. Which really are not skills since they are pre cut papers, I just roll them together.</td></tr>
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So holding the strawberry by the stem, dip it on an angle so you cover one side then the other, doing it so you have a v of white chocolate showing still. I was going to get action shots, but by this time I just wanted to toss it all out the window. So whatever. <br />
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So once that is done you can decorate them. There are a few ways to do this. I took the fastest way, which should be no surprise to any of you. I used a parchment paper cone and piped on the buttons and bow tie. If you want you can use edible markers or even sprinkles. How cute would two heart sprinkles be as a bow tie? Anyway you can do whatever.<br />
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Now when you are storing these you do not want to put them in the fridge. They are best the day of, but if you have to keep them over night just box them up and leave in a cool environment. If you put them in the fridge they will get condensation on them. I usually just put mine in the fridge because no one else but me will be eating them. Pork Chop just takes the chocolate off and eats the strawberry, which is crazy. What kid removes the good part and eats that fruit. Only mine it seems.<br />
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Anyway, they were at hit at the wedding, and I ate these ones only to make sure no one saw how bad they were.
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Okay you need to make these now!! Wait, read this first, because I am super witty, but then, go make these! I made these out of desperation last minute and I can tell you right now, I have made them again already. These were a last minute treat for my hot Friday night date. Which is to say, I stayed home with Pork Chop and my friend and her baby came over. You would have thought Santa was coming the way Pork Chop was acting. He loves his little cousin so much. He is always "she is so cute!" "She is my favorite baby ever!" And when I asked him the night before who was coming he said "Hannah, the cutest baby ever!" I love how much he loves her.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is pretty much all you need, but I forgot to picture the vanilla bean paste and the cinnamon. Just try to pretend it's there.</td></tr>
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Anyway, my friend was coming over and we were going to order pizza and let the kids play. And by play we mean, Pork Chop would totally just stare at Hannah. He did get to hold her and she was all up in his face. Literally, poking him in the eye, and pinching his cheeks and what not. With her little chubby baby fingers you could not say no. And Pork Chop was not going to stop her, he was in heaven! Makes me feel bad for not having a brother or sister for him, but then I think about the 9 months I couldn't eat hardly anything and I totally get over it.<br />
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So this was the fastest desert ever. I looked on pintrest for something easy and quick. And this is what I found. It was called a cream cheese square, which is kind of gross. So I renamed it a cheesecake bar, because that sounds classy. <br />
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Here is the link I<a href="http://piarecipes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/cream-cheese-squares.html"> found.</a> Basically you need just a few things and it was magic! I was worried that it would be weird as there were no eggs, and I figured the cheese part would be runny and gross. I was wrong, but don't tell anyone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See when I opened the tube I was trying to keep the dough together, the cut lines kept falling apart. If I go to the states I am going to get a whole bunch of the sheets and freeze them and never share.</td></tr>
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Cheese Cake Bars<br />
found on Piarecipes<br />
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-2 tubes of 8 count crescent rolls<br />
-2 blocks of cream cheese<br />
-1 TBSP vanilla ( I used vanilla bean paste, because I am fancy like that)<br />
-1 cup sugar<br />
-1/4 cup sugar<br />
-1 TBSP cinnamon<br />
-1/2 cup butter (the recipe said margarine but we don't have that so I used butter.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The filling was thick but easy to spread, sort of.</td></tr>
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So this is great, you pre heat your oven to 350. Spray a 9x13 cake pan with cooking spray. Roll out and press a tube of rolls into the bottom of the pan, try to get the seams together. I hear in the states they have the rolls in a tube but it's a sheet you cut yourself. I need those.<br />
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Cream the two blocks of cream cheese, add the vanilla and the 1 cup of sugar. It will be firm, but spreadable. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the dough. Be careful to make it even and not smoosh the dough. Then roll out the other tube of rolls and lay on top. Do not press it down or you will make a huge mess, just do your best. <br />
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Melt the butter and pour it over the top of the bars, then mix the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle that on. I sort of globbed it on by mistake, but it was all good.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how blobby my sugar mixture is? Well it worked out.</td></tr>
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So then you bake it until the top has become crispy and the butter is no longer really there. It takes my oven around 18-20 minutes. Remove and cool. I then place it in the fridge to help the cream cheese set up, it is very soft when you serve it at room temperature.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how perfect the top was, even though I made a mess. It smelled so good, Hubby came in the house and was all "what are you making!" as he ran to the kitchen. You could see his heart drop when I said cheese cake, poor man, he was hoping for something he would eat. But it did smell amazing.</td></tr>
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So I cut it up and we ate it, and then I got a tummy ache. So I sent half of it home with my friend. Pork Chop wouldn't even look at it, but what else is new. Hannah who isn't even a year old yet was trying to get at the plate, but her mom gave her nibbles of baby cookies. Which is sort of cruel, but she is too young to know yet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really didn't think there was enough filling but it turned out to be the perfect amount. So good! And so easy to cut, I thought it was going to smoosh.</td></tr>
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I think this is the best treat I have made in a while, it was so good, and it lasted well in the fridge. I can see making this again and again.
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So there is nothing I love more than pumpkin. Well almost nothing, but pumpkin makes me very happy, not sure if it is the thought of fall or the yummy smell of it when you are baking. Whatever it is, I love it! So I knew that when I saw these super cute bake and serve mini loaf pans I had to make it pumpkin something.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you see all those eggs, 15 and three cups of butter. Man there was so much, that should have clued me in before I started mixing it all together.</td></tr>
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Now I found these super cute pans at the local Winners which is like a warehouse, but not really. They have home stuff, clothing and such and it is all brand name, just last years style and such. Anyway, I love that store. I went after Christmas and was digging and found about 8 packs of these things. They were for $1.80 on mark down, so for 8 tins for $1.80 you cannot go wrong. They are all different styles, but who cares right? It means I don't have to wash tins and they are cute. Win win people!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So I was stupid and used my hand blender to beat those egg whites, took forever. Next time I just clean out my kitchen aid bowl. And I love how I say next time, like I would do something this stupid again. Never mind, I probably will.</td></tr>
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So to start I sort of wanted to do a bread, but a sweet one. So pound cake is what I thought of. And so I went on line and looked for the perfect cake. Basically it had to have pumpkin in it, so it was not too hard to find. I found<a href="http://blog.streaminggourmet.com/2009/10/26/pumpkin-pound-cake/"> this.</a> The Streaming gourmet made it sound yummy, and easy. And I also figured I needed to triple the batch. Sometimes I am just stupid, this is one of those times. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The batter really lightened up with the egg whites, but it was so hard to mix by hand. Stupid wimpy arms.</td></tr>
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Pumpkin Pound Loaf<br />
By the Streaming Gourmet( altered slightly)<br />
This makes one loaf, I tripled this.<br />
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-1 cup butter<br />
-2 1/4 cups all purpose flour<br />
-1 TSP baking powder<br />
-1/2 TSP salt<br />
-2 TSP pumpkin pie spice<br />
-1 cup sugar<br />
-5 large eggs, separated<br />
-1/2 cup pureed pumpkin<br />
-2 TSP vanilla bean paste<br />
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Pre heat oven to 350 and prepare your pans, if using paper ones like I did no need to prepare them other than putting them on a cookie tray.<br />
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Sift all dry ingredients together and set aside. Cream the butter then slowly add the sugar and cream together. Blend in egg yolks one at a time, making sure to fully mix after each one. Add the pumpkin and vanilla and fully mix.<br />
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Add dry ingredients in three additions mixing by hand, I used the machine, there was a lot of batter.<br />
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In a different bowl beat egg whites until they form soft peaks. Once done fold into the pumpkin batter to fully mix it. At this point I was swearing up a storm, there was so much batter and I was getting tired. But it turned out okay, maybe not as fluffy as was intended but it worked.<br />
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Place into your pans and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. It took about 20 minutes for my mini ones, she said over an hour for the large loaf pan. Allow to fully cool.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7lgjzMFbBOs/UO9IFEqZCHI/AAAAAAAAFEw/hCOKl4iG3qw/s1600/2013-01-08+18.43.40.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="193" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7lgjzMFbBOs/UO9IFEqZCHI/AAAAAAAAFEw/hCOKl4iG3qw/s320/2013-01-08+18.43.40.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just used a larger ice cream scoop, and filled them like I do my cupcakes. I did use the back of a spoon to spread it out a bit as the batter was super thick.</td></tr>
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So I wanted to triple the batch so I could have enough to share with lots of people. This meant I called Hubby in a panic needing more eggs, I needed 15 and only had like 13. I may have also been in my sweat pants and tank top, after changing after work. I never thought I would need that many, so that is why a normal person would fully read the recipe before they start. Also if I had only made one loaf the can of pumpkin I had would have been way too much so it made sense at the time. I swear.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tPn9SOnDK3Q/UO9IGsCsOlI/AAAAAAAAFE0/oyENRgRA1lc/s1600/2013-01-08+19.12.07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="302" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tPn9SOnDK3Q/UO9IGsCsOlI/AAAAAAAAFE0/oyENRgRA1lc/s320/2013-01-08+19.12.07.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how pretty? I have a convection oven so they baked pretty evenly, but if I did it again I would turn the pans half way, the ones at the back were darker than the ones at the front.</td></tr>
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I ended up with 32 of these little cuties. I ate one right out of the oven because I was not convinced it was baked through. It was but it was light and I was sad, I thought a pound cake should be dense. And it was not. Oh well I figured no one else had to know, I would just tell them it was pumpkin loaf, not pound cake. But after they cooled over night they became perfect, so I was thrilled.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G8fx4w0VATQ/UO9IGkcNMKI/AAAAAAAAFE4/ijjLHL52tDs/s1600/2013-01-08+20.36.50.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G8fx4w0VATQ/UO9IGkcNMKI/AAAAAAAAFE4/ijjLHL52tDs/s320/2013-01-08+20.36.50.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh gosh, don't you just want to eat that with a spoon. I wonder what it would be like to freeze cream cheese icing and make it sort of like an ice cream. I now have a new mission, cream cheese ice cream. I can feel my tummy hurting already!</td></tr>
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I wanted to frost them, but not too much. So I decided on a glaze. A cream cheese glaze. I could have eaten just that, but then I would have probably been sick for days. So I refrained, I have some control you know.<br />
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Cream Cheese Glaze<br />
by me, just tossing stuff in a bowl<br />
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-1 block cream cheese<br />
-1 TBSP vanilla bean paste<br />
-milk and icing sugar as needed<br />
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So cream the cream cheese. And yes I know that sounds redundant, but cream cheese really isn't creamy if you get me. Anyway, do that, then add your vanilla. Once you have done that add a few TBSPs of milk and then add sugar. Add sugar until it is thick as you like, I wanted it to have some body, not a watery glaze, so it was spoon able but it was really thin. Does that make any sense? No? Well just do what you like, I won't judge you; too much.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I kept getting glaze on my fingers putting these into the bags. And then I got lazy and just started wiping them on my pants because I was going to bed right after so they would be in the laundry. I was so tempted to just keep licking my fingers, but I figure that is gross, and well, gross.</td></tr>
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So once that was done I put them in clear plastic bags that I pack my cookies in. They are pleated so they flared enough so that the cake fit perfectly. Then I just tied them with ribbon and put them in the fridge to set up.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bRY9gFhA66s/UO9IVUnpX3I/AAAAAAAAFFE/QFyxKjpyzjs/s1600/2013-01-08+21.01.16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bRY9gFhA66s/UO9IVUnpX3I/AAAAAAAAFFE/QFyxKjpyzjs/s320/2013-01-08+21.01.16.jpg" width="223" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how pretty? You just pull up the white frill on the wrapper and it pulled apart, there was some glue so you had to work at it, but it was still not too bad.</td></tr>
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I took a bunch to work, and they were eaten and loved. Or so I am told, one guy said his co workers were mean and gave him the one with the least icing. I felt badly, but not badly enough to share the one I had packed in my lunch. <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eifuR9jqO8Y/UO9IdfgMbmI/AAAAAAAAFFI/-tNKb7W1gf4/s1600/2013-01-09+17.12.10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="174" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eifuR9jqO8Y/UO9IdfgMbmI/AAAAAAAAFFI/-tNKb7W1gf4/s320/2013-01-09+17.12.10.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how cute it is? </td></tr>
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These are great to eat out of the wrapper, just pull it apart and eat. I liked slicing it up like a big loaf cake and eating each slice like it was huge, and then I felt like I was pigging out, when really I wasn't Well not as much anyway. I think these would make cute gifts for the holidays, which I am sure those wrappers were really made for. Either way, I loved them, but would not triple the batch again, because I thought I was going to die mixing it all. And no cake is worth death, even if it is covered in cream cheese icing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I couldn't eat a whole one at one sitting, it was too much, but I sure tried.</td></tr>
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So last September I did my first, and probably last, wedding table for a friend. I say last because I just don't think I have that much time to do something like that again. I loved it, but until I am rich, this will be it.<br />
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Anyway, it was for a smaller wedding of about 50 people. I took three days off work and baked my little heart out, with some help from my mom and sister. I finally got the professional pictures so I get to share them here. They were all taken by the wedding photographer <a href="http://www.ursiniphoto.com/">Megan Ursini</a>. It was really nice to see some good pictures of my treats for a change. But don't get used to it, this is not that kind of blog. I do snap shots, and some times they are in focus, but usually not. Anyway I thought I would show you all the pictures then link the recipe posts to them in case you want to try making them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I could eat these all day, I used simple black and white sprinkles.</td></tr>
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Simple but great, <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/03/chocolate-covered-pretzel-rods-and-bark.html">chocolate covered pretzels.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I linked to these down below, but those are baby pies, the bride wanted a crunch so I rolled them in chocolate covered rice puffs. Oh and the black candies are Sixlets, seriously those are so good.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is an artistic shot. And this is why I will never be good at pictures, I am just thrilled when they are in focus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A close up of the vanilla ones, yummy!</td></tr>
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Cute baby <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/05/whole-lot-of-whoopie-pies-that-is.html">whoopie pies.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made lots because it was just easier to make whole batches of items than it was to cut the recipe. So there was lots to be had.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mom said the ones with the regular swirl didn't look very professional. I said as long as it was vanilla and not chocolate icing, it was all good. No poop icing here, at least this time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a throw away cake stand, it was perfect to match </td></tr>
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The best from scratch cupcakes ever, <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/03/cupcakes-from-scratch.html">Here!</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More rod pictures. And yes I know I am immature. No need to point it out.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So these were the first attempt at gluten free for me, and they were killer. I was so paranoid I didn't even put sprinkles on, because I don't know if those have gluten. Do they? Please someone tell me, I don't want to google it.</td></tr>
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These <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/10/gluten-free-chocolate-cake.html">Gluten free cupcakes</a> were the bomb!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are my first attempt at these, and they turned out great, I have a post coming up about how to make them. Sorry I'm way behind on that one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the one and only time ever that my white chocolate melted and was perfect. And then I was cocky and thought I could do it again that way every time. Well never happened again, stupid chocolate!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I could eat these all, only three ingredients and I have a baby donut maker so super easy.</td></tr>
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Super yummy, and super simple, <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/08/nutella-donuts.html">Nutella donuts</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Again, I got cocky, I made these once before and they turned out so I was all, I can do this no problem. They didn't turn out perfectly, but whatever, people still ate them.</td></tr>
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And these little<a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/09/macarons.html"> macarons</a> that were a little over done, sorry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Okay so I made two kinds of brownies, using the same brownie base. I found that awesome chocolate frosting recipe on line, and now for the life of me cannot remember where. And that stinks because Hubby actually liked the frosting. Sigh.</td></tr>
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Here is the base for these great <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2011/10/perfect-chocolate-chip-cookie-base.html">chocolate chip cookies.</a><br />
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And those <a href="http://cakeballscookiesandmore.blogspot.ca/2012/05/chocolate-mint-brownies.html">brownies</a>, oh those brownie are good!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cut those brownies way too big, but whatever, if you cannot handle it, you need to leave it alone!</td></tr>
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So apparently the biggest hit was the strawberries, weird. Considering how I feel about fruit as desert. But whatever, I filled the table up a few times and then headed home to my mom and Pork Chop. I was happy to have been able to do something like this, made me feel sort of professional, but not really.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my new sets of spoons, these are actual Nordic Ware bundt pan spoons! I know right, how cute!</td></tr>
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So I like to collect things, and I usually go crazy with my collections. Just ask Hubby, you should see all the scrap booking stuff I have. That I have not really touched in a while. It's okay I will one day. I mean just this week Pork Chop wanted to look at his baby book and read about how he was born. Only because he was asking how babies were made and then he was all, "I want to look at my book and see me as a baby!" And I sort of want to share with you all how he thought babies were made, but then again he might read this one day, so no go. Anyway.<br />
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He was a really cute baby, even if he did give me the finger. Don't believe me? Well he did!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I know he is too cute for words, and how do you ground a baby for being rude? And how can I not share that picture over and over again right?</td></tr>
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So anyway, my collections. I have one for measuring spoons and cups. I have more spoons than cups because spoons take up less room. I have a shadow box with all the spoons in it. And Hubby was way against it, I seem to take up a lot of room with my stuff. I mean come on, he has like 6 huge boxes of comics. They may be in the basement, but they are still there you know. What is one little shadow box? Nothing really. And Hubby is so good he was all, "you need a bigger one now!" And this is because mine is full. I think I would marry him if I hadn't already! And then I think about the comic books and then I realize I might not. Just saying.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the super cute spoons I got this Christmas. I bought two of them myself. I have issues. My sister got me the cute silver ones. And I got Hubby to hang them, and then I was all "that's not where I wanted them!" And he wanted to kill me, but I was just joking, I had to pick on him. He knows if I use the power drill there are holes all over the wall, so he was lucky he did this fast.</td></tr>
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So for the holidays I always give Hubby a list of what I want. But this year I was all "I don't need anything!" Because I have the tendency to buy myself things when I see them. There may be an issue with my control of spending. Maybe. But I bought two sets and only because they were on sale. I love to go to the outlet stores, they are called Winners and Home Sense. They are both the same company. And you can find some fun stuff! <br />
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Anyway, I was on pintrest looking for spoons, and saw the Swiss Army set. And I screamed a little bit. Then I set to finding it. I did and sent the link to Hubby and he was all "is this a hint? And by the way for an unrelated issue, I may need to use the Pay Pal account for something" He is really good at being stealth about things. I had no clue. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These ones look like mixing bowls, how cute are they?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This set it friggin huge! I mean like I had no idea how big it was, and I love it!!!</td></tr>
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Now my measuring cup set is not as big, because I don't have as much space to store them. If I had my way I would have a cute shelving unit for them, but as it is my house is filling up and so are my walls. So I keep these in my china cabinet. And I love them. I have a few others, which I should take pictures of and share, I will one day. Anyway I only got one set this holiday. And I paid full price for them. I know, I am nuts. But they were so cute! I also ask my mom to get me spoons or cups when she is traveling, well I did once. I have a nice hand made set from England.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how pretty? I got them at Pier one for under $20.</td></tr>
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So these ones are adorable, they don't really stack well, but seriously I can use them as little mixing bowls and pour stuff out. So they are practical if nothing else. Oh and they are made of bamboo. So they are panda food too. Or something like that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one is the smallest, 1/4 cup I think. Seriously how cute is that!!!</td></tr>
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Anyway I have an addiction and I may or may not spend time googling things like "cute measuring spoons" or "fun measuring cups" or "why do I not have all the cute measuring spoons ever made!" that last one doesn't really help much if you really must know.<br />
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And in case you are wondering, no I don't actually use them. I have simple plain old measure spoons and cups that are sort of ugly. But that is what collections are for right? Just to look at. <br />
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Oh and if you know of any super cute spoons or cups that I need, my birthday is coming up and I bet Hubby needs some ideas!
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Anyway, the in laws came over for the day, which is tradition. And I made dessert. I wanted to use my baby bunt pan, because nothing is cuter than a baby bunt cake, am I right?! So I went on like to find a cake, I didn't want a heavy cake because my in laws don't like a sugar over load like I do. </div>
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I still don't know why I married into this family, it's just weird. Although it does mean more cake for me, so it sort of works out.</div>
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So, as usual google is my friend, I spent about 10 minutes looking for a recipe and found<a href="http://www.hanielas.com/2012/09/classic-sponge-bundt-cake.html#.UPazI6wqaAg"> this.</a> It sounded easy and light so I got to work and even got all fancy and sliced strawberries and stuff.</div>
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So to serve this I sliced up some fresh strawberries and mixed in some raspberries. I did this ahead of time and just left them in a covered bowl in the fridge until we were ready. Then I whipped some real whipped cream, I added some vanilla bean paste and sugar. And it was really good actually. But I am still against fruit in my stuff, I have rules people.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the chocolate batter, that looks like poop. I seem to have a lot of poop like looking stuff on my blog. That is weird.</td></tr>
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So that was my Christmas day dessert, and it was better than the yule log. Only because it was way lighter. Which again, is wrong, I usually love the over the top chocolate and sugar, but after the huge meal we had, this was just right.
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So apparently cake batter cookies are a thing. I have been reading about them on line for a while but never got around to them. Which is weird, because I love me some cake mix. But whatever I never made them. Then as I was rushing around on December 23, trying to make a yule log and get stuff finished, I realized we needed Santa cookies. Now this is all my fault, I mean it usually is, but I tend to blame Hubby or more usually Pork Chop. So take this in, because I probably won't admit fault again for at least another 12 months.</div>
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So my company holds a huge kids party for Christmas every year, although they call it the "Holiday Party" But Pork Chop knows better, there is a Santa and gifts, and food and fun times. So whatever you call it, it was happening. And as every other year Pork Chop got to sit on Santa's lap and tell him all the great things he wants and what not. And Santa is awesome, he looks at you as your kids asks and watches to see if you nod yes or no to the things, then he commits or tries to talk around the issue. Then this year he asks if Pork Chop is going to put out cookies for him, and in usual Pork Chop style he just nods and says "umm hmmm." And I say, I and I'm telling you this only because I know you guys know I never do the wrong thing, I said "Oh we will for sure, home made cookies too!" And then I walked away with Pork Chop and thought, "wow, I'm an idiot." </div>
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Yeah yeah, I know, but it was said and I hoped it was one of those things Pork Chop would forget about, like you know, brushing his teeth.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think it looked sort of gross actually, it tasted good, just looked like poop with lots of rainbow bits. Okay now that just made it even grosser, sorry.</td></tr>
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So fast forward a few weeks to the night before, the night before Christmas, the 23 of December if that was too confusing. Anyway I ask Pork Chop what kind of cookies he wants to leave for Santa, and he says "home made ones" Well I froze, and I was like "oh yeah, WE promised him those didn't we?" I was hoping he would have said chocolate chip or even gold fish crackers or something. But no, that little bugger remembered. I swear if I didn't think he was so cute, I would hurt him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was his way of helping, see the mess of chips, yep anyone else would have gotten two broken legs for this.</td></tr>
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So I was all, "I don't want to make any!" But I said it in my head, what I really said was "great! Lets make some cake cookies!" And I told Pork Chop to wash his hands to he could help. I googled and found the easiest recipe I could. And then I grabbed the holiday chocolate chips we had got a month ago and got to work. Pork Chop helped out by cracking one egg, then declaring he was done. I was done too, but I still had cookies to make. So I mixed them up and told him he had to help put some chips on them. Then he proceeded to cover the cookie tray in them, and I told him "thanks, I can finish" and I ended up scrapping chips off the tray and onto the cookies. Bless his heart; I wanted to kill him.</div>
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I cannot remember what recipe I used, but there was an egg and butter so <a href="http://busycooks.about.com/od/cookierecipes/r/cakemixcookies.htm">this one </a>would be close. Anyway they were baked and they were really soft, like so soft when I piled them up they sort of stuck together. And it made a bunch, and I was not going to my part time job for a few days. So I took some to the neighbor and then we put out some for Santa. Sad to say a bunch also went into the trash.<br />
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This year Pork Chop said his friends told him that their parents eat the cookies. He says "you don't eat them do you?" I said no way, I can eat cookies whenever I want, and that daddy hated my baking. He bought it, I think. Anyway they were good, but too cakey for me, is that even possible? I don't know, but I should try it again, when I am not stressed out about pleasing the "Big Man in Red."<br />
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Okay first of all, I know its like way passed Christmas, but I warned you, I got all crazy and baked stuff in December, so this is one of those too good to miss things. It is a cake, but in jelly roll form. And before you get all "yule log? who wants to eat something that looks like a long?!" Trust me, you want to, this is good!</div>
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So the reason I picked a jelly roll to make was two fold. One I wanted to make something for Christmas eve diner at my parents. I also wanted to use the jelly roll pan I got a while back. I mean I had a huge gift card for the kitchen store so I got lots of stuff people. The awesome jelly roll pan being one of them. It even has a snap on dome lid, now idea what I need that for, but I did.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To make the paper stick I just sprayed the edges of the pan then just a line of spray down the middle, then I put the paper on. It stuck perfectly.</td></tr>
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Anyway, so that is what I did. I spent about 2 hours, or maybe more, I cannot remember. Looking for a good sponge cake,I wanted chocolate so that was the issue. Also I didn't want it to be hard to make, because I was in a rush. So what I found was <a href="http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/chocolate-cake-roll-114589.aspx">this</a>. It was on the Kraft site, I just wanted the cake, so I didn't do the icing.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how pretty! You still have to help it out and spread it out.</td></tr>
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To start you set your oven to 350 and prepare your pan. I used the new Pam baking spray, but you do whatever works, you can just butter and flour it. Then you lay a sheet of parchment to cover the bottom of your pan.</div>
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To make the batter, melt the chocolate and butter in a microwave safe bowl until it is melted and smooth. Add the sugar and mix well. In the bowl of your mixer beat the eggs for a few minutes until they get thick, mine never really did, but whatever. Mix in the chocolate mixture and blend well. Add 1/4 cup flour and the baking soda and mix. Then alternately add the rest of the flour and water, in a few additions. Beat well. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And all done. Now if you did it the right way this would actually be all rolled up in a towel. But I have never done things the right way before, so why would I start now.</td></tr>
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Pour into the prepared pan, and use an off set spatula to spread it evenly, it won't spread out on its own much. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cake springs back when you press on it lightly. Remove it from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Then take a clean dish towel or parchment paper and flip the cake onto it to finish cooling. ( now the recipe says to sprinkle the cake with icing sugar and flip right out of the oven onto a dish towel, then to roll it up and let it cool. This is the way you should do it really, but we never did that in school, but Hubby pointed out that we used a lot of simple syrup on the rolls at school, making the cake really moist and that stopped it from cracking. So just be aware, I did it sort of wrong.)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh this looks so good, and I really thought I put a thin layer, I ended up with a lot more icing than I needed. </td></tr>
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Then you make your icing. I had this picture of a nice Biscoff icing. And I was so excited, but then I made it and it was too sweet. And I know I just said that, and I know how stupid it sounds. But it was so sweet I could hardly eat it. I was so sad. I did try to put a really thin layer, but you know how it goes. I think if I did it again I would thin it by folding in some whip cream. Oh well, just in case here is what I did.</div>
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Okay so once I had it all ready I was going to assemble this sucker. I left the parchment on the cake as you can use that to roll it. In theory. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little better, you can see the stupid thing cracking on the right. You can also see the cake carrier my mom gave me, she had it from the 70's. Can you tell by the colour?</td></tr>
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So I took the icing and spread a nice even layer on the cake, all the way to the edges. I tried to make it thin, but obviously I didn't. Whatever. Now at this point you could add something like sliced berries. But you all know how I feel about fruit in my deserts, but if you want to, now is the time.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See, a proper jelly roll would have a swirl, mine well, I'm not saying anything.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See I can ice a log looking cake, those are easy. But smooth cake, no way! Although I know a trick for log cakes involving parchment paper and some crazy moves. I may share that one day.</td></tr>
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Then starting at one end, the wider end, fold over the cake, peeling back the parchment then with the cake towards you, the parchment paper can be pulled towards you to continue to roll the cake. Then place that on your serving tray. As you can see my cake was too long, or my tray too short, either way I just cut the ends off and ate those. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now I thought I would pipe a swirl for each serving. Smart right? Then I cut a slice and that would have been like three servings, so not so smart, but it looked good.</td></tr>
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Then you are ready to finish your cake. I just slathered the whole thing with frosting, not worrying about how neat it was, this is supposed to look rustic. Then just because I pipped some swirls and stuck some candies in that my Aunt got me. So cute. Then I took pictures and was all, "look how amazing I am!" </div>
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Then I put the lid on my cake and smooshed it all. Then I was all "I am so blaming this on Hubby!" And I did, and that made me feel a little better, just a little.</div>
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So then I kept it in the fridge until the next day and we had it for diner. The cake looked good, only way you could tell I screwed up was by looking at the slice, you can see how the cake cracked, and it was not perfect. I love how nice these are to slice. But it was way too sweet, at least the icing was. Anyway, it was good, smooshed and all, and I will try again, but I will so do the towel roll thing. </div>
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I have been on a bit of a peppermint kick it seems. In actuality I just didn't want to toss out the left over candy canes I had Pork Chop crush up. So I was really just being lazy, but you know that right? And I bet that this will come as no surprise that this post is from way back in December. I know, I got way ahead of myself and did all this baking and then ran out of time. So you may notice a slight holiday feel to the things I am planning to post soon, and you can just keep them in mind for next Christmas; okay?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sad thing about this post, all you get to see are my balls, (HA!) and a bowl of crushed up candy. Pretty lame if you ask me.</td></tr>
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Basically this is a two picture post, because I bet you are sick of seeing pictures of my balls. And yes I just said that. And yes, I know how it sounds. And yes, I am thankful my mother never reads this. </div>
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So anyway. This is basic, but yummy. And that is all you need to know. You are basically making a regular cake ball, but before you get too far you need to have peppermint extract and crushed candy canes. If you do not have a Pork Chop of your own to do your candy cane crushing, you can totally skip it. I just happen to have one, and he likes to smash things. </div>
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So to make these you bake a cake, any old cake you want, but as you know I prefer chocolate cake mix cake. So anyway you bake and cool your cake, then crumble it up. Then instead of adding frosting, add some peppermint extract first, I don't know how much, just as much as you want, if you like a lot of mint, add a lot. Anyway add it then mix, then add enough frosting to get it to how you like your cake ball mix. You are not going to need as much as usual, but still add it. Then do your cake ball thing, make the cake balls, dip them in chocolate and decorate how you like. I did it with the crushed up candy canes to add some extra mint and crunch. It's what I do, I use the left overs so I don't have to clean them up. I'm smart that way.</div>
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