Wedding Sweet Table-Black and White

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.

  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 Megan Ursini.  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.

I could eat these all day, I used simple black and white sprinkles.

Simple but great, chocolate covered pretzels.

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.

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.

A close up of the vanilla ones, yummy!

Cute baby whoopie pies.

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.

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.

This was a throw away cake stand, it was perfect to match 

The best from scratch cupcakes ever, Here!

More rod pictures.  And yes I know I am immature.  No need to point it out.

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.

These Gluten free cupcakes were the bomb!

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.

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!

I could eat these all, only three ingredients and I have a baby donut maker so super easy.

Super yummy, and super simple, Nutella donuts.

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.

And these little macarons that were a little over done, sorry.

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.

Here is the base for these great chocolate chip cookies.

And those brownies, oh those brownie are good!

Another nice picture.

I cut those brownies way too big, but whatever, if you cannot handle it, you need to leave it alone!

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.

Stuffed Brownies, Three Ways

  Before I start this post I just want to say how saddened I am by what happened on Friday.  I have been home with a bad cold or flu or something.  And I was watching movies all day. I did not hear about the horror until I picked up Pork Chop from day care.  He had seen it at day care, and I had to try to explain to him that those kids were now in heaven.  That even the man that did this, is in heaven.  I had to try to explain suicide to an 8 year old.  It was not something I ever wanted to have to do this young.  He seems fine, but I hurt for those that were affected.  I just had to make mention, as I just don't know how you can go on like nothing happened.  I wrote this post a few weeks back.


So I love brownies, but not just regular ones. I mean those are good too, but I need something more. Be it just a fudge frosting, or a mint layer, I need it.  So I had this really smart idea to stuff some of my brownies. And by smart idea, I saw it on another blog where they put stuff in their brownies and I figured I could do it too.  And I did; sort of.

My plan was to make three kinds.  Two of the options turned out well, the other, well lets just say I cried a little over the loss of sugar.

  So to start I used the awesome brownie recipe I got from Glorious Treats.  Here is the post with it, but these are for Mint Brownies, which are amazing.  You just need the brownie base for what I did.

This is the left over mint filing, I froze it then rolled it out then cut it with a cookie cutter.

These are the fillings I used.  The top is the chocolate covered salted caramels, and then the marzipan. I got a log of it and just cut it into circles.

To start I used about 1 TBSP of brownie filling.

  I wanted to use up the left over peppermint patty filling I had.  I had frozen  it and kept it for just this very thing.  And I also think this was the worse of the three.  But live and learn, right? I also made marzipan filled brownies and salted caramel ones.

I don't know how something so yummy can look so gross.

So I baked the first layer of brownie for about 5 minutes, I figured that it would help keep the filling from sinking.

And I was running out of brownie batter so the filling was not totally covered.

 So to start I mixed up my brownie batter and I used muffin tins, I lined them because I didn't want to chance anything from the filling burning onto my pans.  I cut up the log of marzipan into circles, if you buy the tub or block of almond paste, just roll out and flatten balls of it to fit into the tin.  Then I rolled out and cut circles of mint with a cookie cutter, and the caramels they were just easy.  I found these large caramels covered with chocolate and sea salt at the drug store.  So I just had to unwrap those.  I out should have done a few less as I was running out of brownie batter by the last batch, but you know me, I kept going even though I knew it would not be great.

It's hard to see but those are the chocolates in the there, they were the perfect size!!

So to start I put about 1 TBSP of brownie batter in the cupcake liner, then I baked it for about 5 minutes. I then worked one filling at a time.  The marzipan could have been cut thinner but oh well. Basically I would put the filling in then try to cover it in a bit more batter. It worked well for the caramel ones, the others, not so much.

My mint.

Like this right out of the oven they didn't look too bad.

But as they cooled I noticed the mint was getting hard and the brownie was sinking.

One they were all baked I let them cool fully.  I then got to work icing them.  I used this really great fudge sauce I found on line, and it works so well.  And with that tempt I have to admit I cannot for the life of me find the frosting recipe I used! This was the left over I had in the freezer from a few months back.  I promise I will find it and share, really it was awesome!.  Anyway just pretend you know the frosting I am talking about.

There were the caramel ones, they were the best.  Also the ones I made the least of. Because I may have eaten a bunch of the chocolates before I thought to make these.

 So when I was ready I microwaved the frosting to make it pour able  and I filled the cupcake liners to cover the brownies.  Then depending on the filing I decorated them.  

All ready to frost.

It's hard to see but this is the salted caramel ones, so I sprinkled on some flaked sea salt, just a pinch.

These are the marzipan ones, I put on silver balls, because I don't really know what else screams marzipan.

 Once they were all iced I let them set up and brought them to work.  I kept one of each to try.  And I may have said it before, but the caramel ones were to die for.  Like I will make those again, for sure!

You can sort of see the filling, so good!

The mint ones were a fail, but at least I tried.  I think maybe if I make these with the mint filling covered in chocolate it may work better.