tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23967923405849195072024-02-19T05:23:34.017-05:00Cute Little Muffins!Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00915023585637330792noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2396792340584919507.post-3008095345549894992013-03-03T20:20:00.000-05:002013-03-03T20:20:40.436-05:00Cute Little Muffins is Moving!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi muffins! Thanks everyone for following my blog for over the last year! If you are new to my site, feel free to browse through past posts. But from now on, I will be blogging over at the new <a href="http://www.cutelittlemuffins.com/" target="_blank">Cute Little Muffins</a> website. This site will also be where you want to go for products and pricing and to learn all about Cute Little Muffins! Thanks again! <span style="color: red;"><b>@<span style="color: #38761d;">--,--</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maxine said it right! If you follow me on Facebook, you've already seem my Maxine birthday cake. This was a yellow cake with a pastry cream filling. Buttercream frosting, and marshmallow fondant to make Maxine!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm kind of loving making things out of fondant! I'm getting the hang of things and it is becoming less intimidating. How I made Maxine was by printing up a picture of her. Then I traced her on wax paper, cut out all the individual pieces, and traced the fondant around the wax paper pieces. I believe she came out pretty decent for my second fondant endeavor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maxine is always being a crabby patty. I don't believe she has any right to complain about birthdays though, seeing as she never ages. C'est la vie! Either way, there will always be cake!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are a crazy amount of peanut butter pie variations on the internet. And you know what? They all consist of the same ingredients. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet, some looked more promising for me to try than others, ha! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honestly, pictures really influence me trying a recipe. Unfortunately, <i>I </i>took a bunch of pictures of this chocolate peanut butter pie I made yesterday, but lost them all today. =( Amazingly enough, we didn't eat the whole pie yesterday, and I had a last minute chance to snap pictures of this sweet beauty! =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I always like to find different crusts to try as opposed to graham cracker crusts. I think it's because people are just expecting that for a pie such as this, so I like to surprise. I myself was really surprised to find that there were no solid chocolate short dough cookie recipes on the internet, so I used one from class last year and rolled it out for the crust in this 8in foil pie pan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the crust baked and cooled, I added something more to the crust before I spread the filling into the pan. I used some hot fudge topping (by Smuckers- I've been meaning to do homemade, but that hasn't happened yet) and spread a layer on the crust before I added the peanut butter filling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The basic peanut butter pie filling you'll find on the internet is peanut butter, cool whip, and confectioner's sugar. I added some vanilla to it and a little extra peanut butter than what it calls for. After popping it in the freezer for a bit, I topped it with a thin layer of whipped topping, then drizzle more peanut butter and hot fudge sauce on top. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a pinch, you can freeze this for a a couple hours, and then it will be ready to slice in to! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love! My most favorite muffin loves peanut butter and chocolate, so this is my go-to for his birthday! Happy Birthday to JP! =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00915023585637330792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2396792340584919507.post-30806058158875919602013-02-14T23:14:00.004-05:002013-02-14T23:14:33.869-05:00Pink Ombre Swirl Cake- CLM's style!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slowly playing catch up! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the course of this year, I'd like to take as many birthday opportunities as I can to practice different kind of cake techniques. I took a quick twist on some Pinterest inspiration to create this pink ombre swirl cake for my grandma's 75th birthday cake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seriously, the most time consuming part of frosting was dying the buttercream different shades of pink. Making swirls with a star point wasn't nearly as scary or intimidating as this picture seems!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The inside was a white cake, 4 layers, with two layers of pastry cream filling and a single layer of strawberry sauce in the middle. I really need to start trying different cake recipes, as well as buttercream recipes. My go-to is a bit sweet, and it's time to start searching around for the perfect frosting for each ocassion!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you aren't on a sugar load from Valentine's Day! Love!!! It's safe to say I need a quick sweet time out..... ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These little penguin dudes are fighting the cold by flying west! Long overdue special delivery for one of my most special little muffins!!! <3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This occasion's adventure involved mention of monkey cake pops. After establishing a theme, I saw these standard monkey <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&biw=1025&bih=428&tbm=isch&tbnid=hbPHxCVtK2BNeM:&imgrefurl=http://www.birthdaydirect.com/fisher-price-baby-its-boy-beverage-napkins-16-p-25504.html&docid=7_4ZeS_fUbqJ4M&imgurl=http://www.birthdaydirect.com/images/75883-fisher-price-baby-boy-beverage-napkins.jpg&w=600&h=600&ei=TO39UISbBPKx0QGYjoHYDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=487&vpy=90&dur=1341&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=132&ty=146&sig=106816120602294654696&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=145&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:91" target="_blank">decorations</a> and decided I would turn it into sugar! It turned out to be the perfect time to try making homemade fondant, which I've been wanting to tackle for awhile. I know very little about fondant still, except that it tends to taste like nothing or blah, and usually can be a little pricey at the store. I take a lot of pride in doing things from scratch as much as possible, so I searched for fondant options and found things <a href="http://shawntheparsonswife.blogspot.com/search?q=fondant" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://seddy5.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/how-to-make-marshmallow-fondant.html" target="_blank">there</a> about marshmallow fondant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And oh my goodness, it was completely wonderful! There were a lot of rules and long winded explanations of how to go about this process on the internet, but seriously all it consisted of was microwaving a bag of mini marshmallows with a couple tablespoons of water, until it become damp. I mixed for a little, then tossed this in my Kitchenaid with the dough hook and powdered sugar. I didn't really measure too well, just kept slowly adding the sugar until the mixture formed a solid mass that came off the side of the bowl, similar to mixing bread dough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As an extra added bonus, it tasted great! How can you mess up marshmallow and sugar though, right?! Well, you probably can, but I've been fortunate to not have any issues with that yet.... ;-) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unrelated to the fondant directly, the mat that the fondant is sitting on top of is a pastry mat from The Pampered Chef. No words can express how much easier this makes rolling out fondant, cookie dough, pie dough....sometimes I feel like a baking snob with all my kitchen gadgets, but honestly, it just makes things so much easier, and if it makes it easier to do what I love, then I don't think there is anything wrong with that! =)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I felt pretty proud of my first fondant go around! There is always so much I learn every time I bake, and once I finish one project, my mind is right on to the next! Yes, I have two and a half months to plan a super cute, yummy Christening cake for a cute little munch and over half a year for a special little peanut's first birthday cake, but I just can't help it, the possibilities are endless and it makes me so happy to be doing something I love!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The saddest part of all of this? When this happens....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, not sad, but bittersweet maybe? Ha! I can't help it, I spend so much time planning and baking and creating, and then it is gone. Which is the point, but it becomes a part of you. Happy that it was fun to do and people enjoyed, but sad that it's all over....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't mean to toot my own horn or anything, but I really wish I had a piece of that cake right now! HA!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay cake lovers, it's birthday cake time now!!! Stay tuned for what's to come after this weekend!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goodbye for now, from all my little monkey pop friends!! Creating some little penguin pop friends for them sometime this week... ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy New Year!!! I hope this post finds you well in 2013, warm and cozy and stuffed silly of Christmas cookies! I sincerely have been missing those
4 days straight I spent baking cookies...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Italian Christmas cookie platter- Italian Twists, Ricotta Cookies, Almond chocolate chip biscotti, almond spritz and cuccidati</span></span>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm working on creating a link to a picture page of cookies, as I've done for the cake pops. Because everyone knows that just because it's not the holidays anymore, doesn't mean that sometimes you still don't need a delicious, comforting platter of all your favorite cookies!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The festivities began with some cream
cheese cookies, which is a pastry type cookie filled with preserves
(here I choose strawberry and pineapple preserves). The recipe came from my grandma</span>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My most favorite cookie, the peanut butter blossom! Always a mistake not to make a double (or triple!) batch.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grabbed this ginger cookie recipe from<span style="font-size: small;"> my #1 muffin at my Christmas cookie swap! Smaller<span style="font-size: small;"> and less chewier than hers, I'll work on perfecting <span style="font-size: small;">the deliciousness for next year. ;-)</span></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Grandma's sugar cookie recipe here. Always a crowd pleasure! The delightfulness of my airbake baking pan <span style="font-size: small;">bakes a perfect cookie every time! </span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Strawberry preserve thumbprints here. <span style="font-size: small;">Melted in my mouth shortly after <span style="font-size: small;">getting out of the oven- the chopp<span style="font-size: small;">ed up peanuts and strawberry <span style="font-size: small;">jam<span style="font-size: small;"> are a perfect pb&j moment!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Only the beginning, the first <span style="font-size: small;">tins of cookies to be delivered!</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Grandma's It<span style="font-size: small;">alian <span style="font-size: small;">Twist cookies came next, decorated with a buttercream recipe from <span style="font-size: small;">class.</span></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, on to the Christmas cookies! <3 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">@<span style="color: #38761d;">--,-- </span></span></span></b></span></span>Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00915023585637330792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2396792340584919507.post-2405335882949722872012-12-05T22:48:00.003-05:002012-12-12T17:51:51.141-05:00Lemon Poppyseed Cookies<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I could bake a batch of cookies every single day, for the rest of my life, for the sole reason of being able to watch people's reaction as they bit into said cookies, I would be the happiest girl that baked cookies in the world. There is a simple kind of joy I can't express that comes along with knowing that something you created is being enjoyed by others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I would definitely start with this cookie here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I never really thought of myself as a picky eater, but the person I eat food with the most would beg to differ. (For starters, I don't like mint or onions- seriously, what's a girl's tastebuds to do?!) Anywho, I have all sorts of exceptions and rules for all things lemon. Lemon in water- no way. Lemonade- sign me up! Lemon meringue pie- not so much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which is why I was skeptical of my recent desire to make these lemon poppyseed cookies. I think subconsciously for the last year, I've been randomly daydreaming about these lemon poppyseed muffins I made in baking class. They seriously were the best muffins I had ever tasted in my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See? I'm salivating right now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyways, a super simple cookie. The hardest part about making these cookies was locating poppy seeds in Wegmans, due to the very kind customer who bought out all of the poppy seeds the day before, in a quest to make poppy seed bagels. Which I'm all for, but just not when I'm on a mission for poppy seeds, you know what I'm saying?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Definitely glad I tried these out- would be a nice change up on a Christmas cookie platter, but definitely looking forward to a summer picnic to bring these little jobbers too! =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b>Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Recipe adapted from </i><b><a href="http://www.bakerita.com/lemon-poppy-seed-cookies/" target="_blank">Bakerita</a> </b></span>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1½ cups all-purpose flour</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">½ teaspoon baking powder</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">¼ teaspoon salt</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1-1.5 tablespoon poppy seeds</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8 tablespoon unsalted butter, at room temperature</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2/3 cup sugar</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 tablespoon lemon zest</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 teaspoon almond extract</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 large egg</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">½-1 cup confectioners’ sugar</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1-2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">½ teaspoon almond extract</span></li>
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and poppy seeds. Set aside. In a separate bowl, use a mixer to cream together the butter, sugar and lemon
zest on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix
in the almond extract and egg until blended. Mix in the dry ingredients
on low speed just until incorporated.</span><br />
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apart (these cookies worked well using a cookie scoop). Bake for 9-11 minutes (mine were good between 11-12 minutes with an air bake baking sheet) or until cookies are set and just
beginning to brown at the edges (do not let the tops brown). Allow to
cool on the baking sheet for a minute, then transfer to a wire rack set
over wax paper to cool a bit before glazing.</span><br />
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extract and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Add lemon juice or more confectioners' sugar to your liking, and to get a good consistency to drizzle over cookies. Glaze the cookies and let the glaze set
before serving. Store in an airtight container.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yields 18-24 cookies</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Positively refreshing! Lemon lovers everywhere will enjoy! And maybe even some on the fence about lemon! *wink wink!* </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanksgiving was relatively quite, baking wise. Just whipped up some things I have been practicing- apple pie and a pumpkin roll, along with the usual Thanksgiving suspects, my cute little turkey pop dudes! They are one of my favorite pops to make!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used chocolate candy wafers this time around from the bulk section of Wegmans, and it was seriously perfect. Covered the cake pops and hardened so much nicer than any Merkens or Wilton brand I usually used. Wish Wegmans carried a larger variety of colors- may need to inquire where they get them from!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope everyone is continuing to give thanks for all the wonderful things in their lives, especially in lieu of the holiday season! So much to be thankful for (and a good reason to celebrate with sweets)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christmas cookie baking, here I come! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For quite awhile now, I've been wanting to try out making a pumpkin roll. I was really surprised at how easy it was! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Less of a surprise was how delicious it turned out. =) I went with the <a href="http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Pumpkin-Cake-Roll-4" target="_blank">Taste of Home Pumpkin Cake Roll</a><span style="background-color: #f6b26b;"></span> recipe, and was not disappointed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Swirly looking desserts are so fun. <3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also used a <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pumpkin-bread-iv/detail.aspx" target="_blank">new recipe</a> this year to make some pumpkin bread. It was pretty much pumpkin pie, in bread form. Major yum attack!<span style="background-color: #b45f06;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I really can't believe Thanksgiving is next week! Looking forward to my favorite pumpkin dessert, pumpkin pie, then on to Christmas COOKIES!!!! Can't wait!</span></div>
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<br />Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00915023585637330792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2396792340584919507.post-62727676338005731142012-11-07T17:14:00.005-05:002012-12-12T17:52:47.144-05:00Mommy Cookies! <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two years ago (to yesterday's date) was my first major cookie making extravaganza, making wedding cookies for a couple of muffins very near and dear to my heart! It was a very exciting time for me, as this was the first time I was really using my brand new PINK KitchenAid mixer, which, at the time, I had no idea how much would completely change my life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As this year approached, I am happy to be able to make what I'm calling "Mommy Cookies" in this blog post (as opposed to the <a href="http://thehumbledhomemaker.com/2011/06/first-year-breastfeeding-mini-series-2.html" target="_blank">Lactation Cookies</a><b> </b>they are being referred to here), for my same special muffins, for the sake of their new baby girl "mini muffin" addition in the family! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the story with these cookies- they are basically packed with all sorts of nutritional goodness, along with some sweet yummy touches, that helps a breastfeeding momma with milk production. Testimonies on the internet say it really makes a difference, in addition to some first hand stories I get to hear myself! And it makes for a full, well fed baby! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best part is, these cookies just ain't for mommies! Which is totally awesome, because they taste super yummy and are a fun alternative to a regular chocolate chip, peanut butter, or oatmeal cookie.......because it's everything rolled into one! Everyone else just doesn't reap the benefits that momma and baby get.... ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you've got a new mom in your life, whip up a batch of these cookies for her! She will be sure to be super appreciative! No time to get these in the oven? I'd be happy to package these up for you myself!</span><br />
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....<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with this cassata cake I made for a 25th anniversary party!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simple and sweet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luckily, I have a bunch of buttercream left over to practice some cake pipping with. Just one of the many things on the baking to-do list....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now on to Thanksgiving preparations. Many exciting things on the back burner beyond that! Looking forward to an abundance of sweet, sweet baked goods!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did these cake pops for a summer work picnic this year. I'm trying to warm up while remembering the good times I had putting these together...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Also tossed these watermelons into the mix. I made a white cake, dyed red, and added chocolate chips in there for the "seeds". I dipped them first in white (for the rind, or course!), then in green candy melts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Next time I'm definitely adding watermelon flavoring to the candy melts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm really reaching for warm thoughts, aren't I? I'm looking for my gloves this weekend. Sigh. No matter what the season though, it all still tastes yummy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are visiting my page for the first time, welcome, and thanks for checking out my sweet, yummy baked goods! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feel free to read through old posts, but most definitely check out all of my cake pop designs on the left side of this page or by clicking on the Cake Pops Design tab at the top of this page. In case you are very new to cake pops, a cake pop is crumbled up baked cake, mixed with frosting, rolled into shapes and dipped into melted candy. They are a perfect bite sized alternative to cakes or cupcakes, and better yet, they are usually a lot cuter! I'm constantly coming up with new ideas for events and holidays, so if there is something you would like to see, feel free to ask me about it! With the holidays approaching, a lot of new ideas and designs are coming that you may want to be a part of!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please give at least a week's notice for holidays, and order soon, as I may fill up before the holidays are here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have fun picking out some sweet treats to try! Thanks again for reading my blog!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few weekends ago, a couple of my co-workers and I put together a baby shower for a sweet little bundle of joy on the way! We realized quite too late that we got a tad bit carried away with things, but when there are sweets and babies involved, how can one seriously put limits on the cuteness you can create?!</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me also mention that it was Winnie the Pooh themed, and for a baby girl. Let me also go ahead and answer the question that must be lingering in your mind right now- why yes, it <i>was</i> a pink, cutie pie explosion! </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, of course, you know I went there. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yep, that definitely happened. </span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best part about making these is that I had help, ha! In all seriousness, it is so much more fun cake popping when there is some one else to squeal in excitement with over what you have created. Although you best be believing I gladly do that out loud to an empty room while cake popping by my lonesome. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was the first one we made. It was perfect- we could not recreated him in his perfection, but we came darn near close! </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I seem to be on a cassata cake kick lately (making one for an anniversary party next weekend!), and knowing how the momma-to-be feels about cannoli filling, I decided to make a tiered cassata cake for the Khloester.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is simply just a dense white cake with a chocolate chip cannoli filling in the middle. And it's becoming quite a big hit when taking cake orders lately!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All in all, it was loads of fun! The favors were colored honey pots (we had mums as the centerpieces), </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After fleeting thoughts of party planning, our day was over and we had one happy momma-to-beeee! I'll stick to the sweets in the meantime, but if you had an idea for a party you'd like to have, I wouldn't think twice about planning a whole party all over again! Such fun!</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is something to be said about practicing a baked good
before show time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lucky for me, I have fantastically wonderful, hungry
co-workers that like to eat cake. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, here’s the backstory- I’m making a tiered funfetti
wedding cake this weekend (what could possibly be better than a lifetime of
love and sprinkles?!). Anywho, as a fellow lover of all things funfetti, this job
lead me into some deep thought. If you want funfetti cake, you want it the way
you have always had it, right, with the assumption that we are talking box mix.
But now that this whole baking thing has spiraled my life out of control, I
realize there are substitutes to box cake mixes. I thought that perhaps a white
cake recipe with sprinkles thrown in might be a refreshing change to the
funfetti box, and taste a little yummier, due to the homemadeness (I just made
that word up, right?) of it all. So, I had to do it. Funfetti Bake Off 2012.
Box versus scratch. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This activity wasn’t merely to see which cake would taste
better. I wanted to see if you could taste a difference, if people could
determine which was the box mix and which was the scratch recipe, and why they preferred
their respective favorite cake. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>White cake + sprinkles</u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Funfetti box cake</u></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Before I go any further, I will admit that I incorrectly
guessed which cake was mine (ha!). Feeding cake to a bunch of scientists
brought up flaws in my research design (I did not randomize which cake would be
feed first to each person- eek!) but we muddled through in the name of sweets!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Drum roll!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Along with a few outside sources, the funfetti box cake mix
was overwhelmingly chosen, 5-3! While both cakes were good (at least this is
what my sources claimed….), the box mix was favored for its lighter and
fluffier texture. The white cake mix I was using was from one of my baking
classes, a recipe typically used in a professional setting, which was a little
denser and richer (which was favored by a couple for that reason), and since
people more often are eating box mix than professional cakes of this manner, I
think that is ultimately why it was picked over the scratch recipe- people are
just used to eating those box mixes. My mother had a few choice words to say
about people growing up on box cake mixes, but I will omit her comments. = ) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would be interested to try this again, with a different,
lighter white cake mix. That would be truer to the box mix and possibly taste a
little fresher. In the meantime, I adamantly support giving people exactly what
they want, so I’ll be going with the box mix for the bride this weekend! I can’t
handle the thought of choosing the tub frosting over homemade buttercream
though, so that’ll be the choice of frosting. I can’t wait to place the cute
cake topper on the top tier, that the bride made! A full report will be up this
weekend! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today’s events made me anxious to collect more recipes and
learn more about different cakes and their textures. I’ve been meaning to
collect all of my recipes and organize them into an app on my phone, so I’m
making that my new priority, and then collecting more recipes from there. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the meantime, let me know if you have any other baking
experiments for me! My co-workers would love you for it! ;-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now go throw some sprinkles around your kitchen!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Lots
of random things going on, and little blogging about it! Mostly cookie related
things though....</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
few weeks ago I whipped up these little peanut butter chocolate ganache
sandwich cookies. They tasted exactly like a peanut butter blossom (the peanut
butter balls with the Hershey kisses in the middle). Which are a personal
favorite of mine. So this worked out in my favor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
could potentially be a cookie I make again. It would make a nice addition to a
lovely Christmas cookie platter. If nothing else, I will definitely be using
the peanut butter cookie recipe I found <a href="http://www.justputzing.com/2012/09/peanut-butter-and-chocolate-cookie-sandwiches.html"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a> for this recipe, in the future. A major
peanut butter cookie recipe keeper! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More
recently, I decided it was time for some more pumpkin desserts. Whipped up a
moist, wonderfully delicious pumpkin cookie recipe that my momma has, and that
we usually make every fall. I'm not a big fan of nuts in my desserts, so I
usually omit them, but I ALWAYS put raisins in this cookie, which makes them
extra yum! I left the raisins out of some of them though, to try and please all
of the people, all of the time...I left some plain, some with raisins, some
with chocolate chips, and then frosting on the rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Personally, they also need cream cheese
frosting. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cute
and yummy! This delectable pumpkin tasting left me with an extensive list of
which pumpkin dessert to try next, which is becoming quite the dilemma, because
there is only so much time in a day. I HAVE decided though that I will be
trying a pumpkin roll for Thanksgiving, which I've been wanting to do for a while,
but haven't yet! But what else in the meantime? Pumpkin pie squares? Pumpkin
cheese danishes? Pumpkin biscotti? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then,
while in Wegmans today, I completely forgot about pumpkin bread. I nearly went
home and made it right that second. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yesterday
was a spontaneous chocolate chip cookie day. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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love taking orders and planning days on which I will bake, but as far as I am
concerned, the best days are the ones on which you wake up in the morning and
have no idea that you will be baking and enjoying cookies by the end of the
day.</span></div>
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I love cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I never really dived into the pie making realm until I took classes earlier this year. Now, I'm pretty sure I could make pie dough all day, day after day! It's the only thing I prefer to make without my mixer- I love kneading the cubes of chilled butter into the flour- it's practically therapeutic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also, I love making the lattice crust. I'd like to get fancy and make pretty designs on the top crust. However, maybe I shouldn't make it too pretty looking though....who would want to eat it?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One the other hand, I soon discovered that peeling, coring and slicing apples isn't my most favorite thing in the world, ha! But I'm excited to try more pies in the near future. =o)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tomorrow should be exciting- I'm planning on checking out a brand new <a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120912/CITYANDREGION/120919757/1002" target="_blank">Barnes and Nobles culinary store</a> in Niagara Falls, which is part of the NCCC Culinary Arts program. I'm hoping I don't come home with half the store! Maybe I'll just pick up a fun cake book or two. Yay! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Feel free to ask me to practice my pie making skills for you! ;-) In the meantime, go eat something delicious!</span><br />
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I love made up days like these. Who claims this day as National Homemade Cookie Day? And why wasn't it me? And why October 1st? Who has all of these answers? </div>
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I am unpacking from moving, and procrastinating in a big way. My mother supported my move to make cookies though, despite my baking stuff being all over the place. Perhaps she just wanted to reap the benefits of the end product....? We went with oatmeal, which ended up being a wise choice. </div>
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While in line at Salsaritas last winter, a father and his little girl were in a heated discussion about her choice of cookie for dessert- oatmeal or chocolate chip. He made the final decision of oatmeal, and his reason being was- because it has oatmeal in it, it is healthier for you. Seriously, dude? Did he have any concept of how much salt he was about to consume in the tacos he was about to eat? </div>
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That was not the reason I went with oatmeal today. But they sure were yummy! Still some blogging to catch up on, in addition to baking an apple pie I've been meaning to make. I picked apples a couple weeks ago.....if they have been in the fridge, how long do they last?</div>
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There is still time to celebrate homemade cookies today! Have some for dinner! That's what I did! ;-)</div>
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Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00915023585637330792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2396792340584919507.post-59223900721568044462012-09-17T13:48:00.001-04:002013-02-18T19:09:44.181-05:00Business cards!!<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good news! I'm going to start blogging more again! Aaannnnddd....I've finally got business cards! =o)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aren't they so cute?! Just as cute as all of my muffin loves out there!!! <3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also started a facebook page for the baked goods. Planning on uploading everything I've baked thus far, and beyond, soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Excited about fall weather and being able to bake more without it being 100+ degrees in the kitchen. Got a few exciting projects on the way, but keeping it hush hush for the time being....wouldn't want to spoil any surprises for any readers expecting my baked goods soon.. ;-)</span><br />
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Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00915023585637330792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2396792340584919507.post-53221288516381677462012-07-19T22:59:00.003-04:002012-12-12T17:55:49.145-05:00Mini Blueberry Muffins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">As you might imagine, I have a lot to catch up on. In the meantime, let us talk about this incredible blueberry muffin recipe I came across, and the results it produced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tonight I was pondering how timing of eating a baked good really makes a difference. These muffins were one of those things where, all though I'm positive they will still taste heavenly tomorrow, just nothing can beat one of these little jobbers coming warm out of the oven and right into my tummy! I'm pretty obsessed with all things chocolate that are warm out of the oven, but I don't think I do enough with blueberries- the explosive taste they have, warm out of the oven, when you bite into it and it pops in your mouth, is spectacular! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also on <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/to-die-for-blueberry-muffins/" target="_blank">AllRecipes.com</a>, I originally found this recipe at another site I like, <a href="http://www.simplysifted.com/2012/07/17/best-blueberry-muffins/comment-page-1/#" target="_blank">Simply Sifted</a>. Only now am I reading all of the reviews on allrecipes.com. Since this is the first time I've seriously made blueberry muffins, I'm feeling kind of guilty that it took a lot of people that wrote reviews here such a long time to find the perfect muffin recipe. Still, helpful to read reviews sometimes for fun substitutions and tips! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I actually halved this recipe and made mini muffins instead of the full. I still baked at 400 degrees, for about 14 minutes (make sure to do the toothpick test), and got about 9 muffins. Which was awesome because I got to try the recipe out without having too many muffins lying around, not knowing what to do with them. **wink, wink** I'm beginning to like mini muffins way more than regular sized muffins, I like the way you can just pop them right into your mouth!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">3/4 cup white sugar</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">1/2 teaspoon salt </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">zest from 1 lemon (do not skip this step!)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Make muffin batter. Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and zest. Separately, combine vegetable oil, egg and milk. Mix in with dry ingredients. In another separate bowl, toss blueberries in 1 T flour and then fold in blueberries (Simply Sifted says this will help stop them from sinking in the batter, and my berries mixed quite nicely!). Fill muffin cups right to the top. (For mini muffins, I find that filling a cookie scoop with batter and pouring it into the muffin tin works perfectly).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Proud of my first cake go around! =o)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">@</span><span style="color: #38761d;">--,-- </span></b><b style="color: red;"><br /></b></span>Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00915023585637330792noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2396792340584919507.post-1845455656845939622012-03-19T22:19:00.000-04:002012-03-19T22:19:56.620-04:00Baking Bliss....<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I pretty much blinked and my spring break from classes was over! It was awesome that I had the opportunity to go away for a work conference in the same week of break, so I wouldn't miss any classes, but now I'm feeling like I need a whole other week off to recoup... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before I went away last week, I was able to travel to a magical, wonderful place, filled with all the joys a baker could dream of....in a very uncertain location of William St and Bailey Ave. Also uncertain is the name of this joint....google maps will tell you that your destination is Bake Mark USA, while the sign out front very much says Maple Leaf Foods. No worries- it was wonderful inside! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I realize this is just some bowls and dough scrapers, but it's really not. And yes, I have mixing bowls and spatulas. But honestly, you can never have enough. And in all different sizes. Now that I'm learning more about the way things need to be done and in what order, it's necessary to have separate bowls for everything. Dry ingredients. Wet ingredients. Measuring out egg yolks. Egg whites. Chocolate chips. Everything. And the scrapers are perfect for folding in certain mixtures with others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's time. It's been put off for way too long. I am now the owner of three different sizes of round cake pans- a 6, 8 and 10 inch pan. And of course, some cake boards to get me started. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pretend these pans are the cake. Envision the prettiness I will create with said pans/cakes. I want to get started immediately. Sadly, there is only so much time in a day...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And last, but not least....a cannoli shell roller! I completely forgot all about this crucial tool! I attempted making cannolis a few times last year with my pizzelle maker, and everything went just fine, but it was hard to roll the pizzelles before they cooled and hardened. This should hopefully make life a tad bit easier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love falling asleep at night on a day when something totally unexpected happens. When I woke up that morning, I had NO IDEA that I would be the proud owner of a cannoli shell roller! Life is so wonderful that way...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bad news about all of this?? I think it's safe to say I'm running out of storage room for all my kitchen tools....let's just say I spend a lot of time day dreaming about my future kitchen someday! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Life is so good.</span><br />
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