Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread

I found this idea in the summertime on StumbleUpon and thought it was so great. I completely forgot about it until just the other day when I was home looking through my StumbleUpon favourites and I saw it again! I thought there would be nothing better that day to make that bread and enjoy with a hot cup of coffee. So I made it!

I didn't get a photo of the final product as my mom
pulled it out of the oven and started munchin on it!

 This Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Bread is super yummy and super easy to make! I'm not the greatest at making dough, so next time I will use my bread maker thing for making the dough! This cinnamon bread is awesome because you can just pull it apart in little slices! It would be great for Christmas morning or a brunch item as it is easy to make and serve!


Here is where you can find the recipe and more pictures of the delicious bread.

I hope you try this recipe, and have a wonderful Christmas!!

Kaits :)

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Christmas Cookie Dough Pops

This is so exciting! I love having so much time off this holiday season to make so many goodies! I found this awesome idea online for Cookie Dough Pops. Similar to cake pops except they are made of cookie dough, obviously!
They are SO delicious, who doesn't love cookie dough? Its better than eating the baked cookies! They are also extremely cute and for the most part mess free when you are eating them!

The recipe is simple. Make your favourite kind of cookie dough. I used the Kahlua Chocolate Chip cookie dough. The only difference is you substitute each egg for 2 tablespoons of milk.

They are so easy to make, they look great, and they taste delicious!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!


Kaits :)

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Hot Chocolate on a Stick

For the Craft Sale that Seleena and I did as a fundraiser for our trip to Africa we made chocolate candies, candy bouquets, peppermint bark, and the best seller, Hot Chocolate on a Stick! These ended up being a gooey disaster, but we wrapped them up to make them look pretty for our craft sale. They still sold really well and we should have had more. 

I was thinking of something that I could make and take to my co-workers during the Christmas season, and I thought of making these again! The second attempt went much better once I learned how to read a recipe the right way! As it turns out we put wayyy too much condensed milk in the first time, that is what made them extra gooey. This time, sticking to only one can of condensed milk, they turned out fabulous! 

 Basically, you heat up a mug filled with milk and you drop these babies in a give it a stir. You will taste the best hot chocolate you have ever had! Rich, smooth, and creamy! If you prefer, you can eat it right off the stick as a delicious piece of fudge and marshmallow!

These turned out to be the perfect winter gift for anyone! Who doesn't like a warm cup of hot chocolate? 

Click for Printable Recipe
 

Kaits :)

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Craft Sale!

I have got so many views in the last while, but I haven't posted in what seems like forever. I also haven't done much baking or anything since school started again. It's hard to squeeze that in no matter how much I'd like to!

I have a table booked at the Candy Cane Lane craft sale in Regina for November 19th!  I have lots of great ideas and will be making lots of Christmas treats! I will be sure to take pictures and post them so everyone can see and try to make some holiday treats yourself! I am so excited and I can't wait to get going on this project!

All the money I make will be going towards my Africa trip. I am going to Africa May 12-25th and the money will go towards the volunteering I am doing with building facilities in the community, teaching children English and literacy skills as well as working in conservation of animals like crocodiles, leopards, and cheetahs. 

I cannot wait to get started and keeping everything posted, I feel like I've somewhat neglected this blog in a while, and I would like to keep it going. The holidays are coming up and there are so many things I am planning on making! Stay posted for lots of yummy treats to come! 

Kaits :)

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Mickey Mouse Cake!

Last weekend, I got a request for a Mickey Mouse cake for my boss's daughters birthday. I did a bit of scrambling and was able to find a Wilton Mickey Mouse pan in perfect condition on UsedRegina for SUPER cheap! I whipped up a quick vanilla batter and got him in the oven. Decorating was a bit more tedious. I used a star tip and piped that all over, it took a long time and I ended up with a very tired and sore hand in the end. The hardest part of this project was to make the black icing. I don't care what people say.. black is by far the most challenging colour to make, especially from the Wilton colour gels. Oh boy, I used almost a whole tube of black colour in my icing and it still looked green. After I gave up with trying to colour it to be the perfect black and started to pipe, it slowly turned in to a richer colour of black!

The good thing was the my boss thought it was awesome and said his little girl would think so too! I sure hope they enjoyed it as well!

Kaits :)

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Wedding Cake & Cupcakes

 

This is by far the biggest project I have taken on! Two-hundred cupcakes and a cake for a friends wedding. I was more than thrilled to accept the offer a while ago from a friend I have known all my life to make her wedding cake. I prepared for weeks to make these and I think they turned out awesome!

I took two whole days off work to bake and decorate all the cupcakes. I made One-hundred vanilla cupcakes and one-hundred chocolate. I made two-hundred gumpaste flowers, dusted them with pearl dust and finished them with pearl beads in the center. I got the petunia shape cutter and mould from Flour Confections. I have come to love that website, they have quick shipping and they are awesome people to work with. The icing is a traditional buttercream which I made myself. 

 I would do another project like this again. Although at times it is stressful, I think the fun factor of it all outweighs anything negative about the experience. I didn't get a very good picture of the cake, which sucks, because it actually looked awesome and I surprised myself even. I also missed out on the cake cutting, but I am really hoping someone else was able to snap a picture, I'm sure their photographer did anyways. Here is everything put together:

 Kaits :)

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Rubber Ducky Cake!

My sisters friend, Jenna, asked me if I would like to make her son, Keegan's, first birthday cake. Do I want to, umm, YES! So I asked what they would like. A rubber duck. I thought, I want to make this cake awesome! Keegan is the cutest little man! So I started looking at rubber duck cakes to get some ideas. Hmm, nothing seemed right until I found out Wilton made a 3D Rubber Duck cake pan, which, I had to get my hands on. I called around and no one seemed to carry the pan. Before leaving work one day, I told my sister, maybe I should check the North end stores. Sure enough, I came across the pan at the Rochdale Bulk Barn. I was so excited and after work we went to pick it up. Once I got the pan I wondered what I would make the rest of the cake look like since this little pan wasn't going to feed thirty five people. 

I got it. A bubble bath! The night before I wanted to bake the cake I went online and found a Wilton discussion form of people discussing how their experiences were with making this particular cake..the majority of the results were it didn't. So I thought "Oh Crap, I should have tried this out a few times." I came home from work and got at it, I measured what the pan could hold and did everything right. Twenty minutes into baking the cake I remembered, "Oh ____, I forgot to spray the pan with cake release!" I was in such a rush and my mom left the kitchen a mess when I got home that I completely forgot! What a rookie mistake though! I baked it nevertheless and the top came off wonderfully, the bottom not so much, so I did it a second time and it worked. The only flaw was that this time I didn't use as much batter as I had the first time because I ran out and it didn't fully rise, but I think it still looks pretty good! I used the marshmallows to make it look like the rubber duck was floating in a bath tub!

 

Kaits :)

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