I am fairly certain that these are the best cake balls I have ever tasted! TT thinks so too and enjoys them straight from the freezer as the chocolate shell is hard and inside is moist and firm. They are rich like a truffle and so different from the usual cake and frosting mixture. It's a no bake treat, so it takes no time at all to put together!
I wanted to do a test run of these as I'm thinking about making some in the colors of my sister-in-laws nursery colors for her upcoming baby shower in May. For this batch, I just used some dark eating chocolate I had in my pantry for the coating.
Take a bite into this Lemon Drizzle cake, and you'll be taken to another place. A
place so wonderful that your body goes into autopilot, and 10 seconds
later you come back to reality and realize that you've just taken so
many bites that half of the cake is gone. And you didn't take any pictures. In fact, you only took five. Oops!
Just when we thought Winter had passed.....Mother Nature is having the last word. Though for some of us, Winter seems not to have been
that severe. March arrived with winds and warmth, well sort of.... and now
we're turning towards April.......
I had the rare opportunity to attend this exclusive lunch class with Executive Chef Michael
Stebner, who co-created (with Dr. Andrew Weil) True Food Kitchen.The focus of
True Food
Kitchen is to promote an anti-inflammatory diet while using seasonal,
simple and pure ingredients. The menu included Chickpea Bruschetta, Baby Arugula, Frisee with goat cheese salad,
Fettuccine with Kale Pesto and Chocolate Icebox Tart. Love'n The Kitchen was so sweet and gave me free reign to take pictures and roam about the room! Love'n the Kitchen is proud to be the only cooking school
in Arizona, exclusively sponsored by SubZero-Wolf. They feature state of the art, professional equipment and a talented
staff. See some of the Beautiful kitchens I photographed. Classes are taught via live demonstration,
with plenty of interaction and time for questions. You leave with
the recipes and
inspiration to re-create the dishes for those you love.
It's time for the next installment of SRS and I am excited that JJ let me participate in this event. It's such a great way to learn of new food bloggers and network with them. Oh, it's also a great way to gather some new recipes from others and to get our blog seen more and share our recipes and crafts with others.
My SRS partner for the month was Erika from Learning the Ropes...One Recipe at a Time
(http://learningtheropesonerecipeatatime.blogspot.com/)
Erika is a stay-at-home mom and lives with her family in Kansas. I had such a hard time picking a recipe of hers because she has so many good ones! I must have spent a few days looking over all the great pictures of her food creations, trying to figure out what I wanted to make. Her pictures are mouth-watering! After many hours of deliberating, I decided to go with the Peanut Butter Cup Mini Cheesecakes. The reason being is because I just bought a mini cheesecake pan that I have been wanting to use but hadn't come across anything to use it for. When I saw her posting for these little cheesecakes, a light bulb went off in my head and I was off! I had all the ingredients except for the mini peanut butter cups so I picked those up during an errand to Target. I decided to go with the dark chocolate mini cups as TT and I really enjoy dark over milk chocolate.
Weddle it be?
What is this new explosion of gender reveal parties? They are
CRAZY! I remember when we didn't know the sex until the baby came out the chute!! Well, okay I'm dating myself now, but, this is some serious fun!! And don't you ever think I am not going to be in on "Some Serious Fun"!! It is usually given by the expectant parents and instead of the party goers
surprising the mommy-to-be with a shower, the baby's parents surprise their guests
when they reveal the gender of their sweet child. I mentioned the idea to my daughter in passing, when we first knew she was expecting. A few weeks later, she said let's do it!! I was ecstatic! When the idea of "Gender Reveal" started it was with a few photos of a small group,
cutting a cake etc. Now they have developed into some serious all out events!!! Some do “Cravings” as the theme of the snacks, which is totally hilarious,
as all pregnant women would agree. At the end of the party they opened a
box of balloons with PINK OR BLUE balloons in it. And some do it really over the top with fireworks! There are themed parties with pink and blue shamrocks around St. Patrick's day or pink and blue costumes around Halloween.
My sister-in-law and her husband are expecting their first baby this summer and they wanted to reveal the gender with a party! I wanted to make these cookies for them as "favors" for guests to take with them and enjoy. I did a tutorial on rolled sugar cookies over the holidays with these Christmas Cookies
I used a variation of a basic rolled sugar cookie recipe from Glory over at Glorious Treats. She also has a great royal icing recipe that I like.
Rolled Sugar Cookies
