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United Kingdom – Chocolate chip chocolate scones
Chocolate chip chocolate scones If you’ve read my post about the Sunday roast, you already know about my schizophrenic scone dough that thought that it was wall putty. Now in our blogoperative “Around the World in 12 Dishes” Red Ted Art posted a scone recipe and Valerie encouraged me to give it a try and see, if we could put our own spin on the traditional recipe, especially in order to entice Nico to also give … Read entire article »
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Quick chocolate or cherry pie filling croissants
This was our quick dessert for our quickly improvised Lady Bug Café for Valentines Day dinner. You will need: A Pillsbury crescent tube (2 or 3 if you are more or want more) Chocolate chips Cherry pie filling I laid out the dough like you normally would to make the crescents. Then I put 3 cherries from the filling in the middle (biggest area) of the crescent triangle, then I folded the dough over and sealed it to the bottom … Read entire article »
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Pretend play – baking
If you have been following “Glittering Muffins”, you will have noticed a thing or two about Nico, one of which is a certain affinity towards cooking and baking. Nah, who am I kidding, the kids loves to cook and bake, real and pretend and ever since he was really little he always came back to this and the other day he showed an amazing display of focus and diligence in his quest for the perfect … Read entire article »
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Valentine’s Day filled waffle bowl cakes
Two days ago was the Kool-Aid icing and yesterday was the Valentines Day filled mini muffins, today is the final post in this series. A while ago I was trying to come up with ways to make something else than mini muffins (Nico’s favorite) and after talking with my mom about it for a while we came up with ice cream waffle bowls! And the best thing about it is that it is super-easy to do! You … Read entire article »
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Valentines Day filled mini muffins
So yesterday I told you about Kool-Aid icing, today we’ll talk about what we made to put the icing on it. Yep you guessed it, mini muffins! You will need: Mini muffin tins Paper for mini muffins White cake mix (required on the pack, oil, water & eggs) Cherry pie filling and or chocolate chip If you followed the recipe for the mini muffins for the firemen, we had put down Betty Crocker as the brand for the cake mix, since … Read entire article »
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Valentines Day Kool-Aid icing
Baking a little something special for Valentines Day, I thought we could make a special pink icing to go with it. You will need: White icing 1 packet of cherry Kool-Aid powder I didn’t make a lot of icing cause we aren’t big on icing in this house, but I’ll tell you what I did. I put some regular white icing into a bowl (about 1 heaping tablespoon) and added about a 1/4 of a teaspoon of cherry Kool-Aid powder … Read entire article »
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Homemade fruit Rollups (Strawberries)
About 3 months ago, I found a recipe for homemade fruit Rollups that included only 2 ingredients! So far all the ones I had found didn’t sound much healthier or less sticky than the original but that one sounded interesting. So I tried it and it worked! Normally those easy ones always turn out to be more work than they say but this one really wasn’t. You will need: 2 cups strawberries (originally called for organics but … Read entire article »
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For the firemen on Christmas eve… (pretzel twists with chocolate and M&M)
After reading a bunch of peoples traditions on Family Fun from Disney, Valérie and I really liked the “Surprise a Public Servant” one. We had been to the firehouse not long ago (Nov 6) after Nico was really into an episode of a kiddy show on firemen so it seemed like a great fit for us. So Valérie explained to Nico that normally people get to be with their family on Christmas eve but the firemen we had … Read entire article »
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Baked play dough ornaments
Since the plan was to have Nico do (or at least help us with) all ornaments for this year’s Christmas tree, we had looked at modeling clay to do some of them and it worked out ok, but we found that it was very sticky and when it came down to details (such as thinner parts) it was not very easy to handle and chances were that it would have broken, so Valérie had looked … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christmas, Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts
For the firemen on Christmas eve… (mini muffins)
After reading a bunch of peoples traditions on Family Fun from Disney, my husband and I really like the “Surprise a Public Servant” one. We had been to the firehouse not long ago (Nov 6, 2011) after Nico was really into an episode of a kiddy show on firemen so it seemed like a great fit for us. So I explained to Nico that normally people get to be with their family on Christmas eve but … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baking, Cooking/Baking, English, Home, Muffins
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