Chocolate Strawberries…mmmm

My middle daughter wanted to make chocolate strawberries today.  We had just  bought fresh strawberries yesterday for cereal so much for that thought. 

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Apricot Sorbet…

I used the basic fruit sorbet recipe to make an apricot sorbet  just used the same amount of apricot as I did for the blueberries and strawberries combined  and about 1/4 cup lemon to keep it from browning as it chilled.
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Homemade Sorbets…

Got a new attachment from Santa for Christmas so we made homemade sorbet for new-years eve.

I am using a kitchen aide ice-cream maker attachment to make these.  The recipes are my own to make these and are listed below in the read more section.
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Gingerbread houses

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kids made thses with their dad, originally uploaded by sunshine's creations.

The kids made these with their dad. My children had fun right before thanksgiving making gingerbread houses with their dad. I some how misplaced this photo.

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Halloween fun

Here are some recipes and fun things to do this season.

• Carmel apples  use the next recipe cooked to the hard ball state and the recipe how to make the soft caramel can also be used for caramel apples

so much to do so little time

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Sugar is Sweet…and so are these

 

I have been playing with cup cakes, butter-cream frosting and royal icing  as of late.  Here are a few pictures of that playing around.
My kids had fun with all the cupcakes pictured because they got to eat some of them.
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Caramel Apples

Last week for family home evening the girls and I made caramel apples from scratch.  MMMMM so good!  We used this recipe from the Anderson’s that I posted a few years back just cooked it a little longer to the hard ball stage to make the caramel a little more ridged so it would not slide off of the apples.  Place on a greased cookie sheet to cool and enjoy. Please let me know if you make some and if you enjoyed them.

>We ate cake..

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My husband surprised me with this cake.  Thought I would share it with you.  So cool!  To see how she did this go to her blog cake notes.  Those are real bamboo knitting needles on the cake but the yarn is food.

>Let them eat cake…

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A little over a week ago.  My husband came home from work  telling about his new co-works wife and the website she has about her hobby making cakes.  I stopped by it and took a look she has several pages of cakes but enclosed in this post are just a few of my favorite ones from her site.  If you check out her blog say Wendy sent you.  For this being her hobby I think she has done a wonderful job.  The other need part is to go through her pages and see how she has progressed in her art.  I wish her many more hours of fun and enjoyment working/playing with this art-form. She is self taught in this hobby similar to I am in most of my hobbys. I did however take classes years ago when I worked at a craft shop to learn how to make cakes and decorate them (the class was free becasue at the end of class I would ring people up for the supplies they wanted to buy so instead of a paycheck during that time for working I got to take the classes).  If you have not ever done this I recommend it (cake decorating that is not working at a craft shop).  It is a fun project to learn how to do and even more fun to see the happiness on your families face when you bring the cake to the party.   The first two wedding cakes in this post are are very elegant to me they show pension for hi detail and simplicity at the same time.

I love the giraffe on this one so much wimsy.

 Oh the flower one in the vase is cupcakes so pretty would be great for Mother’s day or Valentines.

 

 All the photos in this post are from cake notes blog I do have permission to use them they are not my work.

>13… Snow queen

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During this month my oldest daughter became a teenager in years. She has been there mentally and attitude-wise for a long time. I always let them pick special things for their birthdays. She wanted to make cream cheese mints to share at school on her birthday. So we pulled out the supplies (some have gone missing which was sad to not have all the molds any more because we wanted to make roses). Since her birthday is in December, the Christmas month, she wanted to make Santa instead.

I have made more progress on the snow queen. I am now thinking up other uses for this pattern; watch for them in the future.