Showing posts with label sweet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweet. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2011
I'm Ridiculous
I was thinking I would like to get some cards made up, not that I'm looking to start up a new business or anything just yet, but it would be nice to have something handy with all my info (phone #, email, blog address, etc) on. Which lead me to thinking; well, I'll need a cute logo made up with my name on it, which got me thinking, (yup here's the ridiculous part); maybe I should change my blog name (AGAIN!) Was thinking 'Sweet Treats' (is that redundant? Is there any other kind of sweet?) Or maybe 'Sweet Designs' 'Sweets By Jen' Can you tell I'm partial to the word 'sweet'?
Monday, June 20, 2011
A Sweet 31 Party
I decided to host a small party with my favorite things: sweets and champagne. I made chocolate cupcakes with a beer buttercream (made with Deschutes dark IPA), chocolate covered strawberries, brownie bon bons, cookie pops, & my favorite peanut butter cookies topped with chocolate chunks.
I invited a few friends, put on a pink dress, popped a few bottles of champagne and it was a sweet success! Thanks to all that came over and celebrated with me, I wish I could have invited more people but unfortunately I have about a 4 person max occupancy in my teeny house!
You can make your own brownies, or buy a box mix, (if you decide to do the box option I highly recommend Ghiredelli's). Make the brownies and let cool.
Scoop or cut out about a tablespoon worth of brownie, or larger/smaller depending on how big you want your bon bons. Mold into a ball, brownies are so moist you don't need to add anything. Just stay away from the edge pieces, they won't make a very smooth ball. You'll have to think of other ways of disposing of those.....there's a slim (OK, maybe extremely likely) chance I ate mine.
Cover in chocolate. For mine I melted semi-sweet chocolate chips with about 1 tablespoon of butter per bag of chips, and a little less then 1/4 cup heavy cream. I wanted the chocolate to set up pretty good, so I didn't add as much cream and butter as I usually would for a ganache.
Set on waxed or parchment paper to dry, but while wet sprinkle with sprinkles, nuts, or whatever else you want to decorate with. I did mine some with colored sprinkles, some with a chili/chocolate sugar, and some with a citrus sugar.
Refrigerate until party then devour!
I invited a few friends, put on a pink dress, popped a few bottles of champagne and it was a sweet success! Thanks to all that came over and celebrated with me, I wish I could have invited more people but unfortunately I have about a 4 person max occupancy in my teeny house!
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| My Son really liked my dessert themed birthday |
The peanut butter cookie and chocolate cake recipe I posted already but the brownie bon bons are AWESOME and super easy:
You can make your own brownies, or buy a box mix, (if you decide to do the box option I highly recommend Ghiredelli's). Make the brownies and let cool.
Scoop or cut out about a tablespoon worth of brownie, or larger/smaller depending on how big you want your bon bons. Mold into a ball, brownies are so moist you don't need to add anything. Just stay away from the edge pieces, they won't make a very smooth ball. You'll have to think of other ways of disposing of those.....there's a slim (OK, maybe extremely likely) chance I ate mine.
Cover in chocolate. For mine I melted semi-sweet chocolate chips with about 1 tablespoon of butter per bag of chips, and a little less then 1/4 cup heavy cream. I wanted the chocolate to set up pretty good, so I didn't add as much cream and butter as I usually would for a ganache.
Set on waxed or parchment paper to dry, but while wet sprinkle with sprinkles, nuts, or whatever else you want to decorate with. I did mine some with colored sprinkles, some with a chili/chocolate sugar, and some with a citrus sugar.
Refrigerate until party then devour!
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