Valentines Celebration for the Kiddos!

Check out this Valentines spread for my Kiddos! They thought it was a wonderful sight after school! I didn't let them eat everything at the same time, lol, although my oldest wanted to!

The chocolate covered strawberries are placed on top of chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting! My husband was in heaven, so was the youngest...(check out the pic below)

 A quick basket for the boys, took about 5 minutes or less to put together. Use a package of sucker sticks or wooden skewers, add a glue dot to the stick choice and attach to the chocolate! Glue dots are extremely sticky and hold up to the pressure of a King size candy bar vs a 18 month old!!! lol (he couldn't get it off the stick and he was trying pretty hard! Check out the pic below of Hunter enjoying wearing a cupcake!

Till next time, Happy Crafting!

Babyshower Cake

I made this baby shower cake for my Cousin. This is all colored fondant, except for the cake topper (which is chocolate) 

Close up :)

This cake topper is molded white chcolate. I used the chocolate cup mold and made 2 of them, then I sliced one in half and "glued" it to the bottom with more chocolate. The baby and bow are all made with fondant.

The buttons were inspired by SVG cuts, they had a freebie of a button at the same time I was making this cake. :) Go to their site and click on blog at the top. There are a ton of freebie SCAL files, enjoy! Inspiration doesn't have to stop on paper... :) 

Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Here is my trick to chocolate covered pretzels! Cost about $6.00
2 bags of Wilton Candy Melts. $2.50 a bag at walmart (can use 1 bag if you only use half a bag of pretzels)
1 bag of Pretzels $1-$3 a bag

Melt chocolate in microwave safe bowl. Melt for 30 seconds, stir, and repeat until smooth.

 Dump 3/4 of the bag of pretzels in the chocolate. Stir with spatula until nicely covered.

 If you have remaining chocolate in the bowl add more pretzels. When most of the chocolate is on the pretzels then you can dump the whole bowl onto a sheet of wax paper. Separate the pretzels on the paper, I line them up, I was in a hurry when I made these so they aren't as lined up as they normally are :)

 I was out of wax paper so I used freezer paper.  Another variation to this is to add some peanut butter during the melting process and you have some chocolatey peanutbutter pretzels, they are delicious as well. I just made a batch of them this weekend for my sons wrestling banquet, they were devoured so quickly I didn't get a picture of them.

Another Variation: After the chocolate has dried take a decorating bag, fill with white chocolate or colored wilton candy melts and melt in the microwave for 20 seconds, flip and repeat until the melts are melted. Cut a small hole in the tip of the decorating bag and zig zag across the pretzels. I have done orange and black for halloween, green and red for christmas, pink and white for valentines, red, blue and white for the 4th of July. The possibilities are endless... :) enjoy!