http://bumblebeescraftden.blogspot.co.uk/p/flannel-reindeer-tutorial.html

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Ingredients

Box brownie mix

Green icing (or vanilla icing with a few drops of green food coloring)

Sprinkles, mini m&m’s, etc. for decorating

Candy Canes, broken

Directions
■Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Line 9-inch square pan with foil so foil extends about 2 inches over sides of pan. Grease bottom only of foil with cooking spray or shortening.
■Make and bake brownie mix as directed on box. Cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours. Remove brownie from pan by lifting foil; peel foil away. To cut brownie into triangles, cut into 3 rows. Cut each row into 5 triangles, see diagram. Save smaller pieces for snacking.
■Stir food color into frosting. Spoon frosting into small resealable food-storage plastic bag; partially seal bag. Cut off tiny bottom corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe frosting over brownies. Sprinkle with decors.
■Break off curved end of candy cane; insert straight piece into bottoms of triangles to make tree trunks

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Getting the Pantry Ready for Cold Weather

Coats washed, Gloves and Hats ready in everyone's cubby.  

Putting Together Emergency Bags for all the Guys for Christmas

Nine Bags all lined up on the table ready to start.  

(Three for $10 at Menards)  

Write on area on outside of bags, (permanent pens comes with bags)  

Emergency 999 or * 77

Non Emergency * 999

Both * will get you Ill State Police.   

Assembly Line

Small Flashlights, Hot packs for Hands and Feet, Head lamps, 

Gloves and Small Screwdriver sets

(Add bottle of Water and Energy Bar)

All packed up ready to take to the Wrapping Area!!!

Great idea when you need to carry that box around with you.  





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Oh So ShAbBy By Debbie Reynolds shares

http://www.ohsoshabbybydebbie.com/

Easy Cheese Danish 
Ingredients:
2 cans ready to use refrigerated crescent rolls
2 8-ounce packages cream cheese

1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg white

Glaze:
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method:
Preheat oven to 350* degrees and grease a 13X9-inch baking pan. Lay a pack of crescent rolls in the pan and pinch the openings together. Beat the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and egg together until smooth. Spread the mixture over the crescent rolls evenly and then lay the second pack of crescent rolls on top of the cheese mixture and brush with egg white. Bake for 35-45 minutes until the top is golden brown. Top with glaze after cooling for 20 minutes.

Kitchen Notes:
I have made this danish using low fat cream cheese and splenda (sugar substitute) and it was delicious! Also, the amount of filling the original recipe calls for makes a VERY heavily filled danish. I have halved the filling using 1 package of cream cheese, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 whole egg, and a 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract and it was still very good. If you use the half filling method, bake for closer to 30-35 minutes.

http://kitchengirljo.blogspot.com/2009/07/easy-cheese-danish.html

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Ingredients:

• 12 cupcakes, baked in colored foil liners, cooled
• 1/4 cup each red and green decorating sugar
• 24 mini vanilla wafers
• 1 can (16 oz.) vanilla frosting
• 4 orange fruit slices
• 1/4 cup dark chocolate frosting
• 1 cup white decorating sugar
• 6 each red and green licorice twists
• 24 pink large sprinkles
• 24 mini brown M&M’s

Directions:

1. Place the red and green sugars in separate shallow bowls. Spread a thin layer of vanilla frosting on top of the mini vanilla wafers to cover. Press the top of 12 wafers into the red sugar to coat. Repeat with the remaining 12 wafers and press into the green sugar. Set aside.

2. Cut 12 1-inch triangles from the orange slices to make the noses. Spoon the dark chocolate frosting into a freezer-weight ziplock bag. Spoon 1/4 cup of the vanilla frosting into a freezer-weight ziplock bag. Place the white decorating sugar in a shallow bowl. Spread the remaining frosting on top of cupcakes and make a smooth mound. Roll the tops of the frosted cupcakes into the white sugar to cover completely.

3. Add the cut orange candy as the nose in the center of the cupcake. Add the chocolate candies as the eyes. Snip a very small corner from the bag with the chocolate frosting and pipe a mouth. Add the pink sprinkles as cheeks.

4. Cut the licorice twists into 12 6-inch lengths for the bands of the earmuffs. Insert the 2 cut ends into either side of the cupcake for the headband. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting. Pipe a dot of vanilla frosting on either side where the licorice enters the cupcake. Add the like colored vanilla wafers as the muffs. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes.

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3 Ways to Serve Pumpkin Pie by Sweeter Than Cupcakes

Hi, I’m Courtney from Sweeter Than Cupcakes. I love to fill my time sewing and baking then sharing things I learn along the way. This post was inspired by the dessert table I did for my daughter’s recent shabby chic pumpkin first birthday. With Thanksgiving around the corner, I put together a few new ways to present the traditional pumpkin pie. This is just a new spin on a classic.

Materials Needed:

• Prepared pumpkin pie – I simply mixed and baked the pumpkin pie based on the directions on the can of pumpkin puree. The only change is to omit the crust. Bake the pie filling in a greased pie dish without a crust.
• Cool Whip
• Packaged roll out pie crust
• cookie cutters
• push pop containers (you can find these here)
• canning jars (I used 4 oz. regular mouth jars)
• piping bags and large round tips
• cookie sheets

The three techniques I will show you are cracker style, push pop pie, and pie in a jar. For each technique I baked the crust before assembly. Let’s get started!

Roll out the pie crust on a floured surface. Cut the dough into your desired shape. For the cracker style, I used a flower cutter and a round cutter around 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter. If you cut these too big, the flaky crust may not hold up to the topping. For the push pops, use the container to cut the crust circles. For the pie in a jar, use the canning jar ring to cut larger circles.

For the cracker style and push pops, lay out the crusts flat on a cookie sheet. For the pie in a jar, press the crust discs to the bottom and slightly up the sides of the jars. You will bake the crust in the jar. Prick the crusts with a fork. Bake the crusts at the recommended temperature but reduce the time. For me, the cracker and push pop crusts took about 8 minutes, but the jars took the full recommended time. Let the crusts cool.


Fill you pastry bags fitted with large round tips with the baked pumpkin pie and Cool Whip. 
Cracker Style Pumpkin Pie

For the crackers, pipe a small dollop of pumpkin pie on the crust.



Then top with Cool Whip.

Push Pop Pumpkin Pie

For the push pops, begin with dropping a crust disc to the bottom of the container. This disk may be slightly large for the bottom of the push pop. As you can see in the photo, I gently broke up the crust a little to get it to lay flat. (Don’t worry, no one will notice!)

Pipe in the baked pumpkin pie and Cool Whip layers. Top with another crust disc. This one should fit just fine. Repeat pumpkin pie and Cool Whip layers ending with a nice swirl of Cool Whip.

Mini Jar Pumpkin Pie 
For the pumpkin pie jar, pipe in a thick layer of the baked pumpkin pie, and top with a nice swirl of Cool Whip.
Do one variation or all three. Either way, guest will be pleasantly surprised by a unique presentation. By the way, these help with portion control too! Most importantly, enjoy!

Tip:Keep the Cool Whip piping bag chilled in between use. By the time I got to the pies in jars, my Cool Whip did not stay quite as smooth.

Courtney, you did a great job!!! I am so inspired to serve my pies in a nontraditional way this Thanksgiving! Thank you for sharing it with us!
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Inspiration Friday: Baker's Twine

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012

Inspiration Friday: Baker's Twine

Hmmm... I'm having a serious crush on baker's twine. For some reason, it grabbed my attention about 2 years ago as I stood in the craft isle and Martha Stewart's mini spool of the red and white twisted yarn caught my eye. Perhaps it's the simplicity of it all that I love so. Or maybe it's because the candy cane stripes just seem so festive. Either way, I present my humble ode to baker's twine for your enjoyment today... drool away...

all through the house...

Wrapping it up with craft paper...

Or not... newsprint works just fine!

Just by itself, it's still great!

Now is the time to secure your purchases in time for the holidays.

Thank goodness it's not just for Christmas!