Movie themed cupcakes

My youngest son Jarreds school always shows a christmas themed movie on the last day of school before the winter break.....this year it was Polar Express. It is also his birthday on Sunday and he will be 7. Every year I either take a cake or some kind of snack to school for his birthday. This year because the last day of school fell on the Friday before his birthday and it was the last day before winter break I thought that I would tie the theme of the cupcakes in with the day and so I made popcorn (marshmallow) cupcakes.



I made a vanilla sponge cake for the cupcakes you could use boxed cake aswell and all I did was add a little frosting to the top of the cupcake and I cut a cross into each and every mini marshmallow and placed them ontop. I cut the wrappers out of lined christmas scrapbooking paper and printed the popcorn signs and pasted them on there.

So the next time there is a movie night this would be a special little treat thats easy and fun for all.

See you at the movies
Jacki

Saltine cracker candy

I have to thank my very good friend Christie for introducing this wonderful little tidbit of heaven to me. Anything that is simple, cost effective and delicious works for me. This is a really cool little surprise to arrive at a christmas party with or even a cookie swap or just simply to enjoy infront of the traditional christmas movie night with the family. You could make this in a variety of flavors you could even add nuts or raisins or m&m's there really is no limit to how interesting this candy can be!

what you'll need:
Saltine crackers
1 cup of butter (2 sticks)
1 cup of brown sugar
1 bag of chocolate morsels

Line a cookie sheet with either parchment paper or aluminum foil and then line it with the saltine crackers. In a saucepan on low heat melt butter and then add sugar boiling for about 3 min or until the sugar has dissolved and its a nice brown syrup. Pour the sugar and butter mixture of the saltine crackers and spread with a spatula so that all of the crackers are covered pour your chocolate morsels on top of that and leave it to stand for about 4-5min so that the heat can melt the chocolate. Spread the chocolate over the top of the crackers and butter mixture and once its at room temp, place it in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. When its cold and the chocolate is set and hard, break it up just like you would chocolate bark. Enjoy I know we do!

Merry Eating
Jacki

Hoping Santa doesn't get stuck in my chimney!

I had a call from a guy on Thursday night around 9.45pm to order on of my cakes! I almost felt a little giddy at the thought of someone calling me that late willing to pay any price in order to have one of my cakes at his party.

I had no idea what I was going to do and he gave me carte blanche on the cake so this is what I came up with. I must say I had so much fun with this cake and while busy with it some friends arrived for a visit and I happily went about my business even having my friend paint some stuff (she was quite excited to get a little involved). Truthfully this cake was alot easier that I had expected it to be. I will certainly be making this a Christmas regular! the only piece of Fondant I used was the white for the snow, otherwise the rest is modelling chocolate. This is one of my favorite cakes I have done so far!

Can't wait to hear what you guys think of it!

Stay warm
Jacki