Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

This week marks the 108th birthday of one Theodor Seuss Geisel. If that name doesn't mean much to you, perhaps "Dr. Seess" will ring a few more bells.

A prolific children’s author, Dr. Seuss may have written in a type of English that didn’t always make perfect sense, but his universal appeal is unmistakeable. His 46 children’s books have been loved by pretty much any child and adult who picked one up. This Friday, the good doctor would have turned 108. Alas, he passed away in 1991 after a battle with throat cancer after many years of poor

Dr. Seuss’s books are jam-packed with imaginative characters and playful rhyme – some of his most celebrated titles include best-sellers like Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.
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I wanted to make some cookies to send home with Trevor's classmates in honor of the Dr. Seuss!

ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH.....

THING 1 AND THING 2
GREEN EGGS

THE CAT IN THE HAT
I got all my fun ideas from HERE.

Happy Baking!
Jen

Cupcake Creation

I've seen this several times and always want to try it. A cupcake made in an ice cream cone. Really not that hard at all. You can use any cupcake recipe you have and just bake the batter in the ice cream cone. I set the cones in a baking dish and baked for 30 min. They cooked just perfect. But the interesting thing about this - the cone got a bit mushy. Not what I would have thought after baking it!!! I used regular sized cones and mini ones as well.

I had a recipe for an icing that had Golden Graham cereal in it and used that. These creations were just okay....Looks much cuter than it really tasted I think.
But Trevor did enjoy his bite sized version!
HAPPY BAKING.
Jen

Valentine's Day

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! This weekend I realized I hadn't made any Valentine's for fun so I got myself busy.

And here's what I came up with!!!

"I'm BUGGY for you"
"Bee Mine!!!"
I thought this was pretty cute from THIS website.
"You are TOAD-ALLY Awesome!!!"

I tried to make another frog from a heart and think I would have been okay had I not put the bow where it is - sort of looks like a funny nose! Oh well, it was too late by the time I realized it.
"Will you be my LOVE BUG?"
I found this idea here....

Have a great Valentine's Day everyone!
Happy Baking.
Jen

Spider - Ific Valentine's

I'm back and ready to get into cookies again!!

I got this idea from Sugarbelle. I thought it was a great one since Trevor has been working on a Spiderman poster for a few weeks now. And much cuter than the Valentine's I could get in the store. I decided to make my own to go with the cookie to give to his classmates. I only made one minor change from Sugarbelle's idea which I found here. I just can't get myself to use the markers they make for icing much. I don't like the look of it most times. So I went with the old fashioned way.

Since Trevor has been working on this coloring of Spiderman for several weeks now, I think we are in the superhero phase! And he LOVES his spiderman jammies he has and the "web" glove he uses.


I didn't find any cute Valentine's in the stores to buy so I made my own. I think this is definitely a market where money could be made.




And here is the Valentine Card I came up with to attach to the cookies..:) I made it easy for Trevor - I just scanned his signature so he wouldn't have to do it 28 times! That would have been more work for me than him to actually get him to do that - LOL


Happy Valentine's Day!
Jen

You are Toadily Awesome

For Valentine's Day, I have tons of frogs out! So for our company last night I decided to make some Valentine Frog Cupcakes!

I found the BEST recipe - Graham Cupcakes with Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting found here. Both the cupcakes and the frosting were delicious and I TOADIALY recommend both of them. Once the cupcakes were made it was one to creating the froggies! Here's how they turned out!



I thought it would be a cute touch to put my Valentine saying on the plates with some Royal Icing! What do you think?
Ribbit Ribbit!! (I think that's the frog sound, right? LOL)
HAPPY BAKING
Jen

Birthday Celebrations

With a few birthday's I wanted to recognize, I couldn't decide what to make!! So I made a little bit of everything.....


These cute little penguins were an idea I found here on Glorious Treats blog.
I like bright colors for winter birthdays!
And what says winter more than wanting to get away to the tropics, right? After all, I am about to head in that direction myself!
Happy Birthday to some family and friends in January!

Happy Baking!
Jen

Browine in a Choclate Basket and Crockpot Hot Fudge Cake

Here are a few things I've baked over the past few weeks I wanted to share with you. Both are yummy and did turn out for me!! That's always a bonus in my book.

Did you ever think you could make a cake in the crock pot? Well, neither did I. When I saw this recipe, I was intrigued and had to try it out. Very simple preparation that takes only about 10 min. You put all the ingredients in the crock pot and let it do it's thing for 4 hours. But I was pretty skeptical when it was done because it seemed to be too gooey on the bottom for me. I didn't think I had cooked it long enough. So I tried again and made another batch. Well, that batch turned out the same way. I finally decided it's supposed to be gooey - hence the chocolate fudge name. And that when you cut the cake you flip over the piece so the gooey part is on top. And then it really has hot fudge on it. It is very, very tasty I have to say. But very rich and very gooey! So this little cake will feed a lot of people since they are only going to want small pieces. But I highly recommend it. I found this Hot Fudge Cake from Taste of Home website here.

I ran across these Brownies in a Chocolate Basket from Cake Whiz website here. The chocolate basket was what caught my eye. It looked so simple to do...and it actually was one of those things that was a simple as it looked!
Taking the bottom of a bowl, I wrapped it with parchment paper and then put a bit of shortening on that like the recipe describes. Melted my chocolate and put it in a squeeze bottle and went to town squirting it all over to be a bowl like shape. I was very doubtful while doing this and pleasantly surprised with the results.
It did take a lot of chocolate, so you want to choose your bowl carefully. The first one I did was much too big and used way too much chocolate! The brownie that you can't see inside the basket was pretty good as well. I had planned this for a vegan friends visit one night. A vegan does not eat meat, dairy or eggs. Presents a problem with a brownie you say? Not with this recipe that uses applesauce instead of both of those. Eggs only serve as a leavener in baking so the brownie was just a bit denser than what you might be used to. But this was tasty in my opinion. Something different to try. I actually did like the taste and would make it again!
Off to bake this week for another special occasion!
Happy Baking.
Jen