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Profiteroles:
Tyler Florence's Profiteroles

Instead of ice cream, I made a vanilla creme filling similar to an eclair:

• 1 (5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
• 2 1/2 cups cold milk
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Prepare the vanilla pudding using it's directions.  Meanwhile beat the cream until soft peaks form.  Add the sugar and vanilla.  Fold the mixtures into one another and chill until serving time :)


Hot Chocolate on a stick:


1/2 cup heavy cream
One 14-oz can sweetened condensed milk
3 cups semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 T vanilla

Heat the cream and sweetened condensed milk over medium-low heat until it starts steaming, stirring periodically. Remove from heat and add chocolate. Stir and let sit for 10 minutes, then put back on medium-low heat and stir with a whisk until chocolate is completely melted and shiny. I then added vanilla. Pour chocolate into prepared pan and spread chocolate as level as you possibly can. Let sit overnight (12 hours or so).

Chocolate Cupcakes with Earl Grey Meringue

Food Network's Recipe

Sneak Peak

Apricot Macaroons

Earl Grey & Chocolate Cupcakes

3 of the cake stands i made.

These ones are tea cups and plates that i got FOR FREE at Airman's Attic...

FREE craft project, yes please.

Hot Chocolate on a stick

Chai Marshmallows

Here it is prepared...

Tea cup and Tea pot sugar cookies

Stuffed Peaches

*Note:

I did not like the way the hot chocolate on a stick turned out... it was more like fudge.  I wanted HARD chocolate squares...

BUT prepared, that was the most delicious hot chocolate i have ever tasted.  

I mean fudge and milk... where was that going to take a wrong turn?

More on the Shower later... :)

Give away dinner

Do you have a dinner that you ALWAYS make if you have to deliver dinner to others?  Or have people over?  What is it?

I realized today that i ONLY ever make Lasagna or Chicken Enchiladas or a Veggie pasta bake if there is a vegetarian in the house... 3 dinners... that's it?  I need something new in my repertoire.  

I realized this because i am currently making a lasagna for the neighbor who kindly let me use their phone and entertained Jack and I while Nick came to let us into the house... i locked myself out and forgot the car key inside... WHOOPS!

Oh well, i had a hankerin' for Grandma's Lasagna anyway :)

I am vowing to NOT buy anything else crafty until i make 15 crafts with the things i already own... READY... GO!  

I get ADD craft edition... 

(Maybe saying it out loud or at least in the blog-o-sphere will make it real)  (Saying blog-o-sphere reminds me of the creepy kid on GLEE!)