Friday, June 14, 2013

Some Sugar for you, Sugar.

Ahh it's been far too long since I've been here chatting with you lovely folks. So here's the deal: cookie Friday.Yes.
 
People make cookies on Thursday and hand them out to other people on Friday. It's fantastic. I had the best intentions of making a huge cookie Friday post with all the cookies I've made for this event...and then my camera decided that was a bad idea and deleted all my cookie pictures. Darn.
 
But here's an old adventure I didn't get around to posting until now!
 

First of all, if you don't like sushi...get out. Now.

Just jokes, please stay. But really, once you've had good sushi you'll be hooked, I promise. And if not (there's probably something wrong with you, first off), maybe you'll like this version of sushi.

Candy Sushi.

My mother found this recipe in the Readers Digest a while ago, and I made sure to save it so I could experiment with it. And that's just what my sister and I did.

The actual recipe can be found here, or you can just kinda do your own thing.

Basically you wanna get some fruit leather, or fruit roll ups. With the fruit roll ups you'll need to line up several stripes to get one roll, but it worked for me.


We used a Ziploc bag for a rolling matt to make the process easier.

You'll also need to whip up a batch of rice krispies and some candy (stuff like gummy worms and licorice).

Alright, so once you've got the fruit rolls laid out, put a scoop of rice krispies on top of it, you'll figure out portions and stuff as you do it.

 
 
And than you want to put some candies on top of the rice krispies.
 
 
And than start rolling it up!
 
 
Taa daa! It's just that simple.
 

Proceed to chop it into bite sized pieces and shove the left over candy in your mouth.

 
I'm gonna give you all a warning before you run off and make this...the sugar will hit you eventually! You can practically taste the pure sugar when you eat this....but you only live once, right?
 
 
Go out and do something fantastic today! Enjoy,
Sydney

Saturday, May 04, 2013

Would you like that Upside Down or Downside Up?

Okay so I'll only keep writing if you promise not to judge me for the images I publish in this post. My camera had a small spazz attack and decided to not save the pictures I took the other day. So needless to say, I was left with the "ugly" leftover cupcakes to photograph and not enough care to re-setup my pictures...so say hello to paper towel backgrounds and sad looking pineapple upside-down cupcakes.
 

My friend had her birthday yesterday! The big 18, the entrance into adulthood. Woohoo! To celebrate we went to see Iron Man 3 in the city. And was it ever fabulous. Robert Downey Jr, you've done it again! If I had to pick a favorite superhero...Iron Man would win, hands-down. Is there really any kind of superpower that trumps witty humour? Yaa...I didn't think so.


Jaidyn is a huge fan of pineapples. Yes, pineapples. So After racking my brain for pineapple related cupcakes, the obvious answer hit me. Duh! Pineapple upside-down cake...cupcakes.
 
Batter
  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
Topping
  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 3/4 cups brown sugar
  • 6 maraschino cherries
  • 1 can (20-ounces) pineapple rings
*Pre-heat oven to 375*
*In each cupcake cup, put 1/2 tablespoon unmelted  butter and 1 tablespoon brown sugar. Put the pan in the oven until the butter melts (about 3 minutes)
*While this is happening, mix the butter (batter) and milk in a pot over medium heat until melted. Remove from heat once melted
*Cut the pineapple rings into quarters and the cherries in half. Once the butter and sugar is melted, put a cherry (cut side up) in the center of each cup and place a quarter ring of pineapple on either side.
*In a small bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt.
*In a large bowl whisk the eggs, sugar and vanilla.
*Add flour mixture to egg mixture and stir until blended. Add the milk mixture and stir until well combined
*Scoop batter into cupcake tins
*Bake for 25 minutes until edges are brown and pulling away from the pan
 

I've never had pineapple upside-down cake before...so with having nothing to compare it to, this recipe was fantastic!

And having a jar of maraschino cherries in the fridge doesn't hurt anyone.


Well that's my latest project and collection of sad pictures for you.

Thanks for not judging my photography skills :)
Stay golden,
Sydney xoxo