Jewelry Party

These past few weeks I have been cleaning through my jewelry box and noticed I have a lot of jewelry I am not using.  Most of it is real gold and fashion jewelry.  I am more now a fashion jewelry gal since you can dress your wardrobe along with your accessories. Don't get me wrong I not giving up my 14kt gold jewelry.  I could pass it down to my kids, just like some of the pieces my Mom did for me.  My co-worker is having a Jewelry Party this weekend and wanted some cupcakes. So of course my jewelry box was my inspiration.

This is what I came up with.
 

Cornbread Cupcakes with Honey Frosting

When I left the Caribbean to move to the south some of the food choices like grits, chicken and waffles, and collard greens was not very appetizing to me. It took a while for me to get accustomed to the South recipes but I am getting there. When it came to cornbread it depends on the person making it. I not a die hard fan of cornbread but create it in some of sort of dessert, I am a Southern girl all the way :).

Kellogg's has a take on cornbread cupcakes I just added a twist by adding grated cheddar cheese, and two tablespoons of corn to the batter. I also added some mascarpone cheese to the frosting.

See Allyou for this recipe. 

Let's Play Golf

Last night I made vanilla cake pops that looked like golf balls.  I had a blast making them, because they actually look like golf balls.  But I took it to another step to make it look like a golf bag with golf balls.  As I scrolled down my favorite craft store - Michaels, I came across a big white ceramic mug.  And then my mind start flooding on how to decorate it.  But I kept it simple and went straight to the sticker section and picked up some 3-D vinyl stickers.  And there I had it, golf cake pops.  This is a perfect gift for Dad who loves golf on Fathers Day! 

Blueberry Scones

Last weekend I made some scones.  My fiance loves scones, the last time I made some strawberry scones and he ate majority of them.  Everyday he ask when you going to make some scones again. So I decided to surprise him and make some scones with his favorite fruit, blueberries.

 I counted the batch I made and it was eighteen scones.  Between my kids and myself we had eight, yes he ate the other ten by himself throughout the day.  But can you blame him, don't they look scrumptious?

Go over to King Arthur Flour for this awesome recipe!  

Valentine Cookies

Today is my 10 year old daughter Valentine class party.  She was responsible for the cookies.  Of course since Mommy is a baker I had to go all the way out.  You should of seen her face light up this morning as she walked out with her box.  My heart was full of joy that I made some awesome treats,and is the coolest Mom in her class. 

Mickey Mouse

My fiancé niece birthday is today.  She turned 13 years old today.  Today is also Friday the 13th.  Spooky but awesome.  For her birthday she told my fiancé she wants a Mickey Mouse cake. What? You are about to be thirteen and you want a Mickey what?  It made me laugh.  She is so obsessed with Mickey from the doll down to the book bag.  But I loved the fact she still want to remain a child and not grow up too fast.  I had already had planned out in my head how awesome I want make this cake.  But since she wanted to carry the cake to school she could not bring a cake since she would have to use a knife to cut the cake.  So the next option was cupcakes, but not everyone loves fondant so we settled for a pull a part cupcake. 

I wanted to get the face as close as possible to Mickey color complexion.  I never did a pull a part cupcake.  If you think cakes are a piece of work, pull a apart are no joke.  But at the end of the day I think I did an awesome job, and course she jumped up in joy and loved her cupcakes.

Happy Birthday Ticauya Brookes.  Go Mickey!

Banofee Pie Cups

Until last week I did not know what a banoffee pie was.  When I saw the ingredients I know I had to try it.  A banoffee pie is actually a pastry with bananas, and toffee from boiled condensed milk also known as dulce de leche baked on a pastry crust or a graham cracker crust.  The name Banofee derived from the words banana and toffee.  Some recipes versions include coffee, others had chocolate.  I decided to omit the coffee and give it a try and do chocolate shavings on top of the whip cream. 

Ingredients

·   1 tin of condensed milk

·   1 9 inch refrigerated pie dough or

·   2 ripe bananas, sliced

·   1 1/2 cups chilled heavy cream

·   Cocoa powder to decorate

DIRECTIONS

1.      To make the toffee boil the unopened tin of condensed milk in water for two and a half hours (this can be done well in advance). Leave to cool.

2. Bake piecrust according to package directions.  Cool for 20 minutes and then snap up in pieces.
3. Please pastry pieces in the bottom of pasty cup.
4. Scoop toffee over the pastry.
5. Cut bananas into 1/4-inch-thick slices and pile over toffee.
6. Whip the cream until soft peak stage and dollop over the top of the bananas.
7. Shave chocolate shavings on top of the cream  and chill in the fridge until ready to serve.