Ugly Christmas Sweater Cake

Hello Blog world! Long time no post. 
I had to dust off the blog today and post these fun cakes we made tonight to save these memories forever!

Sophia and I made these Ugly Christmas Sweater Cakes we saw on Pinterest and it was a blast! 

Sorry about the "so so" photos, we were more focused on the project than getting the "perfect blog photo" which is just fine with me these days!!

 This was my cake:

And this was Sophia's cake:

You can tell which one of us is more OCD. Ha!

HIGHLY suggest this project - it was easy, fun and full of great memories!

Happy Holidays

Escape to Paris Tea Party

Last year for the St Andrew Catholic School Gala I donated a themed tea party and some of my very best friends bid and won it! 

How LUCKY was I to not only donate to a great cause but also host some of the most kindest, lovely women I could ever know. 

The theme was.....Escape to Paris!!!

Here are some pictures, I hope you enjoy. 

I just wanted to post this so that I always can look back and remember what a fun and amazing time this was. 


A memory I really, really treasure. 

Themed sugar cookies were a buttery, soft dream....

Thank you to my DEAR FRIEND KIM for this beautiful dessert stand!!! LOVE! 

Although the first two courses were delicious, the dessert tray stole the hearts of all...swoon! Every tea party in Paris needs macaroons!

A delicious and decadent salted caramel tea was served. 

Champagne anyone??

I had a few takers on that! Love these ladies! 

I hope you enjoyed your Escape to Paris! 

Here is a little party gift from the hostess!! I gave each guest a beautiful tea cup with homemade cream cheese mints! Smooch!

Sharing with Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage for her
"No Place Like Home" Link Up found HERE!

Snowman Nose Cookies in a Jar

Snowman Noses 

Cookies in a Jar!!

 We were inspired Disney's Olaf and the 

scene where he loses his NOSE:

And going back through my past
posts one of the most popular of ALL time
were my GRINCH PILLS in a jar!

LINK TO POST CLICK HERE

So we merged the idea!

In an effort to keep things

fast & easy, I used store bought

mini round sugar cookies and I

cut them with a sharp knife into 
little triangle shapes. 

These cookies would work great!

We then used Betty Crocker cookie icing

in white and colored some orange.

Photo Credit: WalMart

It worked great!
~EASY ~

Using a Wilton tip #2, we piped

out the noses and covered them 

with some orange sugar to add sparkle!

We decided to add a cute

Snowman cookie face 

at the top of jar!

The cookie face was made with the
same Betty Crocker Icing in White. 
The nose was made from the orange icing
left over from making all the little noses.
Once dry, we added the eyes and mouth with an Americolor Edible food writer in black. 

You could easily add a orange tic tac for the nose
and food coloring applied with a toothpick. 

The link to the printable we

used can be found by clicking 

HERE - Our Best Bites

Hope you like this fun idea!

Making Sweet Memories,

Sophia & Mom 
Read About Us Here!

Linking up to some GREAT parties HERE!
Tidy Mom

Hostess Ho Ho Reindeer - EASY! NO BAKE!

Hostess Ho Ho Reindeer Treats!

Here is what we used:

Hostess Ho Ho's

 Reindeer Cupcake Decorating Kit from Wilton

Small Sugar Google Eyes from Wilton

Red Sixlet's for Nose

Our Imagination!

We did use a bit of Edible Gold Glitter

spray on the girl's antlers for added

SPARKLE!

If you can't find the Wilton Kit, you can use the 

following items for your reindeer face:

*Pretzels for Antlers

*Mini marshmallows cut in half for eyes

*Food coloring can be applied to mini marshmallow with 

toothpick to get eye color in center of marshmallow

*Red M&M for nose

These are really so easy and fun. We whipped 

up a whole box of these and the clean up was 

a BREEZE! I love NO BAKE items for those

busy working days when we want to make

a fun treat but time is limited. 

Anyone can do this, and if you make these

we would LOVE to hear from you!

Please Pin & Share!!

Making Sweet Memories,

Sophia & Mom 

We often can be found linked up to several 

GREAT blog parties that can be found HERE!

AND:

Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons!

Tidy Mom

Treats from Thanksgivings Past!

Turkey Pudding Treats

LINK HERE! 

Pumpkin Pie Vodka Shots

LINK HERE

Tepee Cupcakes

LINK HERE

Cornucopia & Turkey Cookies

LINK HERE

Color Your Own Thanksgiving Cupcake Collar

Color Your Own Cupcake Collar

Visit the Links Below Each Picture!

Making Sweet Memories

Sophia & Mom

No Bake Taco Sugar Cookies! CUTE!

No Bake Taco Sugar Cookies

How CUTE!

Made these quick and fun

treats for a "Mexican Night"

get together with good friends. 

Very excited for the kids

to see and eat these. 

Thanks to Party Pinching

for the great idea. 

Instructions can be found HERE

Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

A good friend of mine is going through a

bit of a stressful time with her Dad being

quite sick, and knowing that red velvet is a

favorite of hers, I decided to make her some

RED VELVET 

WHOOPIE PIES!

Can you believe that this was my first

time EVER making a whoopie pie?

I used a recipe that I have had

coveted for a LONG time from

Brown Eyed Baker

It was awesome. Check it out.

Perfect for your Valentine!

Have a great week!

Zombie Chocolate Vodka Pudding Shots ~ Adult Halloween Fun!

Zombie Chocolate Vodka Pudding Shots

Which way to the party?!?!?!

SO. WICKEDLY. EASY. 

Me Me Me!!!

 I adapted the pudding shot recipe from HERE!

Chocolate White Russian Pudding Shots

16 oz Cook Whip

1 Large Box Sugar Free Instant Pudding

3/4 Cup Kahlua

1/4 Cup Chocolate Vodka (I used Three Olives) 

   

Mix and Enjoy

Touchdown!

Drink your zombies RESPONSIBLY
 

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Brain Sprinkles ~ Cookies in a Jar + Printable Tag

Who doesn't need an extra dose 

of SMART every now and then, huh?

Especially when your going BACK TO SCHOOL!! 

Brain Sprinkles ~ Cookies in a Jar!

With my sweet girl, Sophia Rose,

going back to school next week and 

now entering into the THIRD GRADE (gasp!)

I had a feeling she would require

a little brain power as she transitions

from summer's lazy pace, to school's crazy race!

How about your kiddo?

I saw an idea for brain sprinkles made of 

glitter on pinterest HERE and immediately 

knew I could make it into a fun edible craft!

These were super easy. I actually took premade

snickerdoodle cookies from our local bakery and used

a wilton 1M tip to cut out the little round circles -- or you can

use a little round cookie cutter and your own cut-out

recipe if you like! I am all for FAST and FANCY!

I used the Wilton Cookie Icing in white and fun

rainbow jimmies to decorate the cookies.

I am going to give them out to the
neighbor kids too. YUM! 

Here is the Tag in JPEG for you to cut and

paste if you like!! So easy, fun and cute! 

I also have a word document for this

if you prefer, just email me.

On another note, I just had to mention that

this past weekend marked a 10 year

landmark for me with my brain tumor. 10 years

ago last week I entered into a research study at the Mayo

clinic to track patients with brain tumors. At that time

my 10 year survival was estimated to be 20%. Yikes.

Hmmmm. Guess I beat the odds.

To celebrate, I ate some of these 

brain sprinkles and prayed for another 10 years.

Life is short, add the sprinkles.

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Patriotic Pie Crust Stars!

Patriotic Pie Crust Stars!

Looking for something easy to whip up 

for your Memorial Day BBQ??

So was I!

I loved all the great ideas, but truth be known, I

am just not feeling that adventurous lately.

These were ULTRA easy!

All you need is premade refrigerated pie crust,

milk, colored sugar and your oven!! 

Oh, ya...and some willing people to eat them up!

I cut out the pie crust with a star cookie cutter.

Then I brushed them with milk and sprinkled

the sugar on them as you see.  Next, I baked them

in my oven at 375 for about 8-9 minutes.

VIOLA!

Some other ideas from last year:

PATRIOTIC TART 

COOKOUT CUPCAKES

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Lavender Panna Cotta ~ Tea Party Tuesday!

Happy Tea Party Tuesday!!

Hope everyone had a great week.

This week I am sharing a most delicious

and easy summer treat.

Honey Lavender Panna Cotta

The Panna Cotta is infused w/ lavender (oh heaven!)

and then I used some honey to drizzle over the top.

Placed on a krumkake and adorned with

a thin fondant flower and edible sugar pearls

this is sure to delight the eyes and taste buds! 

I know I LOVED it!!!

The recipe was adapted from Tea Time Magazine and can be found and printed off my recipes page HERE!

I have been enjoying more iced tea lately and

experimenting with different flavors that I will

be sharing soon -I can't wait!!

But for now, how about a lovely 

Strawberry Iced Tea Recipe I found on Pinterest? 

Visit the original blog post at

Room for Dessert HERE!

Photo Credit

Have a great week!

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Tea Cup Tuesday at Artful Affirmations
Tuesday Cuppa Tea at Antiques and Teacups 

Tabletop Tuesday

A Return to Loveliness

Pink Saturday

The Tablescaper ~ Seasonal Sundays 
Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons - Friday Craft and Food Linky 

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

Mouth Watering Mondays, Melt in Your Mouth Mondays, Mingle Monday, Made it on Monday Sumo's Sweet Stuff Made by You Mondays Making the World Cuter Mondays Motivate Me Monday  Dittle Dattle Amaze Me Monday  Mangia Mondays Mix it up MondaysTUESDAYTrick or Treat Tuesdays Crazy for Crust Confessions of a SAHM Delicious Dishes Cupcake Tuesday Let's Do Brunch Tempt my Tummy Tuesday Mandi's Tasty Tuesday Topsy Turvy Tuesday Handmade Tuesday Tasty Tuesday Tip Me Tuesday Time Out Tuesday Get Your Craft On WEDNESDAYMrs Fox's Sweets Party  Lil' Luna Ginger Snap Crafts  Whatever Goes Wednesday Wow Us Wednesday Look What I Made Wednesday What I Whipped Up Wednesday  Whatever You Want Wednesday Wow Me Wednesday This Chick Cooks THURSDAYTastetastic Thursday Sweet TemptationsTablescape Thursday Artsy Girl Sweet Treats Thursday Sweets This Week Thursday Show Your Stuff House of Hepworths Brambleberry Cottage FRIDAYPinterest Party Fun Stuff Fridays Freestyle Fridays Tidy Mom Inspiration Friday Feathered Nest Friday Bacon Time Friday Party Sweet Tooth Friday Show and Tell Friday It's a Hodgepodge Friday Weekend Wrap Up Flaunt it Friday Sassy Sites Friday Fun Fridays Unfolded Food on Fridays Friday Flair Foodie FridayWEEKEND Show and Tell Saturday Sweets for a Saturday So Sweet Sundays The Girl Creative