Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a minty Shamrock Shake.
Photo by captured by cathy
2 cups vanilla ice cream
1 cup milk
8 drops green food coloring
1/8 teaspoon mint extract ( or amount for desired flavor)
Blend well and enjoy!
Green shamrocks are made by melting green candy coating and placing melted candy in a candy mold. Once hardened, pop candies out and garnish your St. Patty's Day treats.
I am so excited to share these free printable recipe cards that can be customized by you. Yes, that is right -- simply choose a design, fill in your recipe title, ingredients, directions and then print!
This is brand new and we still might have a few bugs. Please give it a try and then give me feedback. If you can think of a way they might be improved, please let me know!
Below are instructions to walk you through the process. Once you are ready to give it a try go to Printable Recipe Cards.
The first step in creating your recipe cards is to select a size. Cards can either be 6″ by 4″, or 5″ by 3″. Two large cards or three small ones will fit on a single sheet of US letter.
If the lower check box is checked, the same recipe will appear on all cards. If not, a different recipe can be placed on each one.
Once a size is selected, click "Next Step" to move to the recipe entry screen.
The tabs at the bottom allow quick editing of any part of the recipe card.
Use the appearance tab to select a background and layout for the recipe card.
Enter the name of the recipe, along with the name of the person that created it.
Enter ingredients for the recipe. The toolbar can be used to insert special characters, such as 1/4 and 1/2 measurements.
Use the directions tab to enter instructions on how to make the recipe.
Once all details of the recipe have been entered, use the "next stage" button to move forward. This will either move to the next recipe, or the print preview screen.
At the print preview, clicking the link to the left will display a full size preview in a new window. If everything looks the way you want, just click the print command to create your new cards!
Now you are ready to give the Free Recipe Card Maker a try!
Enjoy!
Welcome to our Sweat Sweet Shoppe! If you are alarmed by red dye, excessive amounts of sugar and under age workers turn away now!
If not, stick around and see how we made loads of homemade taffy!
Here's our recipe
2 1/2 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup light corn syrup
1 1/3 cups water
2 tablespoons butter (plus lots extra to butter hands, we probably used over 1/2 of stick of butter on our hands)
1 teaspoon salt
1 - .21oz (6g) package unsweetened, fruit-flavored drink mix (like Kool-Aid) (we used cherry)****however I used Great Value brand from Wal-mart and those were the measurements on the package and it said it made two quarts of drink. On the Kool-Aid packet that makes two quarts it has different amounts (far less) I would still only use 1 packet since it is still flavoring the same amount of water.
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Butter large jelly roll pan or a cookie sheet with sides really well.
In a medium saucepan, stir together the sugar and cornstarch. Add corn syrup, water, butter and salt and stir well until butter is melted. Bring to a boil over medium heat and stop stirring. Cook mixture until candy thermometer read 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). This takes some time to get it to 250 degrees. Once it approaches 250 degrees watch very closely because it cooks quickly at the end. Immediately remove from heat. Carefully stir in vanilla and drink mix. Stir well. We should have stirred ours more-- notice some bits of drink mix (dark spots) on our taffy. Pour mixture onto buttered baking pan. Allow to cool enough to handle, about 15 minutes.
Once the taffy has cooled enough to handle, butter hands and begin pulling. (It starts kind of translucent)
Then pull...and pull...butter hands again...pull...
and stretch...pull...more hand buttering...pull...
It will become more opaque and lighten in color depending on the attention span of your workers! This takes about 10-15 minutes of pulling.
Pull into long ropes and cut with buttered scissors.
and cut!
Wrap pieces of taffy in pieces of waxed paper
and give it a good twist on each end.
Finished!
Sweet!!
The girls from from You've Got Supper are back with a simple party idea for the Superbowl.
Susan and Michell write...
If you’ve already had enough chili during the play-offs, change it up with a selection of “no fuss” paninis for your Super Bowl party. Arrange platters with the ingredients for each panini and let your guests put together their own crispy, grilled sandwiches to watch in front of the game. They may even be inspired to make their own creations. Serve them up with salt and pepper kettle chips, fruit salad, or your favorite side soup.
Mozzarella and Proiscuitto Panini
Cuban Panini
Don’t fumble dessert! For a Halftime Sweet Fix, we recommend keeping the panini press fired up. Put out a platter of white bread, thinly sliced pound cake, and croissants. Let your guests mix and match the fillings. Here are a few of our favorite combinations:
Nutella and bananas
Apples, cinnamon, and sugar
Brie and dark chocolate
Dark chocolate and strawberries
Note from Cindy - I use an indoor grill like this
You might also be interested in You've Got Supper's Superbowl Fiesta Menu, with Saints Rajun Cajun Shrimp Quesadillas and Colts Corn Quesadillas. You can even print off the shopping list! It doesn't get easier than that!
If you need some snacks you might try these Superbowl snacks -- Spicy Buffalo Dip and Honey Mustard Glazed Pretzels.
A heavy heart.
I have tried not to think about it, actually keeping myself quite busy, but thoughts keep coming back. The complete devastation in Haiti is overwhelming. The pictures on the news of the blood flowing down the street made my heart hurt and my stomach ache. I feel so powerless and have tried to ignore those nagging feelings to do something. So today I am frivolously baking again but today trying to make it worthy.
Please consider doing something --anything!
To say thank you for your generosity, Steph at the DailyDigi and I have a special gift for you. Send me an email and tell me that you have made a contribution to a charity of your choice (no amount too small) and we will e-mail you a special download for printable heart cupcake toppers, printable cupcake wrappers, printable valentine papers and also digital files that you can manipulate.
Individually we might seem small and powerless, but together we are big! Together we can make a difference! So for every mommy without their baby today, for the babies without mommies, for everyone that lost all that was important to them, for everyone that lived through the terror.... --- lets just try to do something. Together in our little gestures we can show love, share kindness, provide comfort and give hope!
Make your favorite chocolate cupcakes or prepare purchased cake mix. Let cupcakes cool.
1 - 7 oz container marshmallow cream
1/2 cup softened butter
1/3 cup powder sugar
1 tablespoon water
1/4 teaspoon salt
With electric mixer beat ingredients together until fluffy. Add in a few drops of red food coloring if you like pink filling like we do!
Attach a large tip to pastry bag and fill with cream. Insert tip into cupcake and fill until cupcake slightly expands.
12 oz semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream (must be heavy cream -- half and half will not work)
Place chocolate chips into a bowl and pour cream over the top. Heat in microwave until chips are soft. Allow mixture to sit a minute to continue melting the chips. Stir well. Let mixture come to room temperature. With electric mixer beat until fluffy. Fill pastry bag with large star tip and pipe onto cupcakes.
Enough frosting and filling for 12-15 cupcakes depending on your frosting and filling style.
If you feel you can't contribute financially, consider donating something you have made to Craft Hope to help raise money.
If you are one of the sweet families selling Hot Chocolate for Haiti, maybe whip up some cupcakes with the toppers and wrappers to sell along with your hot chocolate!
