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Monday, March 19, 2012

Spring Tea Party Tuesday ~ Butterfly Cupcakes and Inspiration

Welcome to a Spring inspired

Tea Party Tuesday!

A special mention to Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage

who is hosting our Spring Tea this week!

"The butterfly counts not months but moments

and has time enough." ~ Tagore

"Butterfly, you dance on the wind with grace,

knowing not the dangers you face.

Happy and whimsy you glide so high.

Butterfly, be lost in the deep blue sky."

~Sophia and I

Pound cake petit four covered in poured

fondant with a delicate fondant butterfly accent.

"Living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have

sunshine, freedom and a little flower" ~ H. C. Anderson

Chocolate cupcake with Chocolate buttercream &

decorated with fondant accents.

"Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time"

~D. Chaskin

I made these sugar paper butterflies

using edible sugar wafer paper and a paper punch.

They attach to the cup with a dab of karo syrup

and melt in your tea for a whimsical accent.

"If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies."

Happy Spring Tea Party!

Many of my recipes can be found HERE on my Recipes Page

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TEA, INSPIRATION & TABLESCAPES:

Rose Chintz Tea Time Tuesday

Martha's Favorite TeaCup Tuesday
Tea Cup Tuesday at Artful Affirmations
Tuesday Cuppa Tea at Antiques and Teacups

Tabletop Tuesday

A Return to Loveliness

Pink Saturday

Bernideen's Tea Time Blog
The Tablescaper ~ Seasonal Sundays
Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons - Friday Craft and Food Linky

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Lucky Charm Candy Bark Treats

Do you want to make some

Lucky Charm Candy Bark Treats?

Thought so!!

So here is what ya do.

Get some of this...

Melt it.

Next,

Stir in a bunch of this...

Spread to desired thickness on wax paper and

let harden before breaking apart in delicious pieces.

Enjoy!

I LOVE LUCKY CHARMS CEREAL!

CRAFT/RECIPE AND SWEETS BLOG PARTIES I OFTEN LINK TOO:

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Monday, March 12, 2012

St Patrick's Day Tea Party with a SUGARLICIOUS GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to a CRAZY fun St Patrick's Day

Inspired Tea Party Tuesday!

I will be sharing some fun things from blogland

and a few ideas of my own and a

SUGARLICIOUS giveaway so read on friends.

First up, let's start the tea party with some out of this world neat Shamrock Tea Sandwiches!

When I saw these amazing cucumber sandwiches my

jaw hit the floor, I was in LOVE!

Photo used with permission

Please visit Will Cook For Smiles and tell her how great this is!

I am bringing these St Patty's Cupcakes to tea this week.

I used my edible printer and backed the image to fondant.

..........easy, whimsical and so fun.

I downloaded the images from Hopscotch Studios.

Next, let's DECORATE for our Tea Party with some fun St Patty's Printables. Check out these awesome designs I purchased

from Wants and Wishes Design Etsy Store

for Sophia's Birthday Party this weekend.

I thought this set was amazing and quite a DEAL!

Photos via Etsy

Get them for yourself right Here!

I also personally think I need to get this

fun Shamrock Tea Set from Tea Pots & More Online Store.

I LOVE THIS SET!

And last but not least for our St Patty's Tea

this week, Sophia and I made some decorated

St Patty's Marshmallows this weekend using edible food writers.

Inspired as ALWAYS by Meaghan

@ The Decorated Cookie Blog

That is a purple butterfly sticker on her face to match her purple coat!!

Meaghan recently released her book, Sugarlicious

which you can buy HERE.

It is FULL of great and easy to do sweet ideas.

I will be GIVING AWAY a copy this week in honor

of Sophia who is a HUGE decorated cookie blog fan

and LOVES to use edible writers on marshies!!

We have made many a memory and had many laughs

doing these easy, quick and fun edible crafts.

Thanks Meaghan.

Just leave a comment if you want to enter.

If you follow on Facebook or Twitter, let me know

in a separate comment for an additional entry!
Please leave your email if you are a no-reply blogger.
I will announce the winner next week and post
it on my Facebook Page!

US Residents Only Please

WHEW!

Sharing with:

TEA, INSPIRATION & TABLESCAPES:

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Martha's Favorite TeaCup Tuesday
Tea Cup Tuesday at Artful Affirmations
Tuesday Cuppa Tea at Antiques and Teacups

Tabletop Tuesday

A Return to Loveliness

Pink Saturday

Bernideen's Tea Time Blog
Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons - Friday Craft and Food Linky

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The Tablescaper ~ Seasonal Sundays

Saturday, March 10, 2012

St Patrick's Day Cupcakes

One week from now, on St Patty's Day,

my sweetie pie, Sophia will turn 8 years old!!

We are having a crazy fun party!

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Hi Friends! To celebrate the awesome birthday month
of my daughter, Sophia, I will be dedicating several posts
to the deliciousness that is the LUCKY CHARM CEREAL.

Let's start the month off with some snack mix!

How about taking some Lucky Charms Cereal and

turning it into the most amazing, mind blowing

snack mix you have EVER had for St Patrick's Day.

What you need:
Lucky Charms
Green M&M's
Peanuts
Pretzels
White Melting Chocolate
Green Sugar Sprinkles (optional)

How to:

Take your Lucky Charms (about 6 cups)

and separate out the Marshies!

Take the cereal WITHOUT marshies add pretzels, peanuts and well..whatever you want, then spread it out on a rimmed baking sheet or pour into bowl to get ready to mix with the chocolate.

Melt some white chocolate and pour over and mix well.

I ended up using about 2 bags of the wilton white

chocolate melts in the Colorburst pastel.

Next add the magically delicious MARSHIES

and some GREEN M&M's. I had some green sugar

sprinkles and tiny shamrock sprinkles that I added

to be really ~~GAUDY~~ FESTIVE! Oh yaaaaaaaaa.

It is so so so good and easy.
Trust me...have I ever steered you wrong? :)

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Tea Party Tuesday ~ Memories with my sister, Paula

My sister, Paula came to visit on Thursday and

stayed for the weekend.

I took her to my FAVORITE Tea Room

called, The Mad Hatter Tea Room.

For a look at the tea room, visit their site by clicking Here!

Here are some memories for
Tea Party Tuesday this week.

It was a lovely spread!

They serve so many wonderful treats for their
4 course tea service, but my favorite is their
pecan chicken salad! YUM
The salad is made with pecans, chicken, craisins, green pepper
and a "secret spice". Very Tasty Indeed!

Another fun twist was that I had recently made
some fun cupcakes for my neighbors son's birthday and
she surprised me with a gift certificate to the Mad Hatter!

This lovely cup was just calling my name, so I
obliged and snatched it up!

I love you Paula!!

The recipe I share with you this week is
one of making memories:

Take a spoonful of time,
mix it with a dash of compassion and love.
Snuggle for 10 minutes and life will taste
pretty darn good if you ask me!

Sharing with:

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Rose Chintz Tea Time Tuesday

Martha's Favorite TeaCup Tuesday
Tea Cup Tuesday at Artful Affirmations
Tuesday Cuppa Tea at Antiques and Teacups

Tabletop Tuesday

A Return to Loveliness

Pink Saturday

Bernideen's Tea Time Blog
Tablescape Thursday

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Pot o' Gold Rainbow Cupcake Push Pops!

Pot o' Gold Rainbow Cupcake Push Pops

Be Warned. I love St Patty's Day.

My daughter was born on St Patrick's Day so

I have become VERY fond of lucky charms

and all things shamrock and green.

I RELISH the fact she was born on St Patty's.

Ya see she was actually DUE ON ST PATRICK'S DAY.

However all were not so excited for us and this fun delivery date. The story goes that when they estimated my due date the

RN and ultrasound tech both chimed in unison,

"Well don't get so excited..NOBODY ever

goes on their exact due date!"

Kill joys

Good thing I'm not NOBODY!

Nine months later, out she popped right on cue!

This picture CRACKS ME UP!

Man she is a CUTE CHUMPKINS!

God love her for complying with my scheme to prove them wrong.

That's my girl!

So back to cupcake pops.

I made these Pot o' Gold Rainbow Cupcake Push Pops because I absolutely love trashing my kitchen and spending hours

cleaning up bowls of colored batter and gold luster spray.

The fun different thing here that ya want to know is how I made

the little gold nuggets - I thought I was so
clever coming up with this.

I took a bag of these....

and sprayed them with this....

Now, if you don't keep edible gold luster spray on

hand, maybe use some rolo's in their gold wrapping.

Just a thought.

Or go buy yourself some gold luster spray, it is fun to have.

To assemble, I put the nuggets in the bottom, then I made a

BUNCH of mini rainbow cupcakes and
topped them with some white frosting.

I did only use the top of the mini cupcakes to make

it all fit, thus I had a bunch of random cake scraps left

which I ended up making a fun looking trifle with.

Hope you like these push pops for St Patty's
or any rainbow themed party.

Stay tuned for some AMAZING ways to utilize

lucky charms in the month of March.

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Spring Tea Party Tuesday ~ Butterfly Cupcakes and Inspiration