Birthday Recap – so how DID that castle cake come out?
Answer: pretty kick-ass! We worked on the castle cake Friday night to make sure it was finished. (We meaning that I did the work, while Emily applauded and Jonathan offered suggestions and broke some of the ice cream cone turrets.) This is the fondant Princess who lives in the castle. The look on Abby’s face [...]
Birthday preparations continued
I know it’s out of hand. But man, is this birthday stuff fun! I spent last evening cutting out a princess and crowns for a game of pin the crown on the princess (of course!) and panicking that I didn’t buy any prizes for the game. Oh well. In the meantime, here are the pictures [...]
Let the insanity begin
Next Saturday is Abbalina Ballerina’s Royal Birthday Tea Party. A small contingent of young princesses of the realm will be descending upon the house in an effort to help Abby celebrate 3 whole years on this planet. Which, really? Really, really? Three years old?? No way. But I digress. Because I am INSANE, I promised [...]
Random Sevens
So I was catching up on the ol’ Google Reader and Ryan over at This is Reverb has a post about sevenses and how he likes them. Then suggested the theme of seven for today. And since I had no better idea, here ya go. Missy’s List of Seven Perfect Foods 1. Turkey dinner with [...]
Italian Cheese Bread!
This is the last of the baking posts for now. I’ve had fun challenging myself with photographing the craziness that is my kitchen at Christmastime. I got a little better at learning the settings on my camera, got flour on my neck-strap and thoroughly enjoyed this process. Thanks for coming along with me! From Christmas [...]
The Last of the Cookie Craziness (but not the end of Baking Season ’09)
The last kind of cookies that got any votes in my little poll was Almie’s Peanut Butter Cookies. Mary voted before them because I’ve baked them for her before and she knows how good they are. From Christmas Cookies 2009 This is one of those good, old-fashioned recipes with simple ingredients that produces a really [...]
Sticky Buns and Butter Cream Loaves: A Love Story
ACK! Blogger.com got mad at me and posted this too early! Kuchen recipe coming tomorrow. Entire narrative arc ruined! Curse you, Blogger.com! Or a love handle story. Ha! I crack me up. From Christmas breads These are but two of the million things you can do with a recipe of Kuchen. It’s very forgiving that [...]
Your Basic Kuchen
From Christmas breads I know it doesn’t look like much, but many of you wanted me to post the recipe for my sticky buns. And that is a good thing so that I’m not the only one who can’t fit into my jeans. But you can’t make sticky buns without Kuchen. Which is German for, [...]
Cookie Craziness Continues: Lemon Squares
I have a confession for you. This is my Grandma Grace’s recipe. I dug it out a couple years back when I was looking for something I could make sugar-free for Jan. Something where I could replace all the sugar with Splenda. And thus I made sugar-free lemon bars, and Jan gets her own pan [...]
Cookie Craziness: Part the Third – Skor Bar Cookies
Alternate Title: Would you bake something we ASKED for already??? I can do that. A runaway winner in last week’s what kind of cookies should Missy bake contest was the Skor Bar/Heath Bar Cookie. The reason I refuse to be more specific about what kind of candy to use is that I never know what [...]
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