snack saturday
Red Velvet Cupcakes
1 pkg. (2-layer size) chocolate cake mix
2 Tbsp. red food colouring
125 g (1/2 of 250-g pkg.) Brick Cream Cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
3 cups icing sugar
1/2 cup thawed Whipped Topping
1 square White Chocolate, shaved into curls
PREPARE cake batter and bake as directed on package for 24 cupcakes, blending food colouring into batter before spooning into prepared muffin cups. Cool.
MEANWHILE, beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl with mixer until well blended. Gradually beat in sugar. Whisk in whipped topping. Spoon 1-1/2 cups into small freezer-weight resealable plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small corner off bottom of bag. Poke hole in top of each cupcake with handle of wooden spoon. Insert tip of bag into hole in cupcake to pipe about 1 Tbsp. frosting into centre of cupcake.
FROST cupcakes with remaining frosting. Top with chocolate curls. Keep refrigerated.
excitement is building
I have been way too quiet here this week. Jim is out of town; his first trip away since October; it's been weird not having him home.
On the crafting front; doing the fabric wreath last week has aggravated my carpal tunnel to the worse I have ever experienced. My wrist is actually bruising; I can't spend more than 5minutes on the computer than I'm done for a few hours. Handwriting? Don't even mention it; I can barely hold a pen. Thankfully, I'm in for a massage tomorrow and I know Sharon will fix me up pretty good. And yell at me while doing so lol.
As a result, there has been little crafting done. I have been working on more Dollie Quilts. I have 4 finished, and this one ready to put together than I can quilt them.
But all of this will soon be on the backburner. Tomorrow, the 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in Vancouver. On Sunday, we went and saw the Torch pass through our town.
It was such a fantastic, amazing thing to see.
Than, getting home Jim gets a phone call from his boss. That phone call resulted in these...
Four tickets to see Canada Women's hockey team take on Slovakia Saturday evening. We are BIG hockey fans here; this is HUGE for us. Tickets are row 6 behind the penalty box. Never ever could I have imagined getting to see an Olympic event of any kind. This is a once in a lifetime experience and we can not wait.
GO CANADA GO!
On the crafting front; doing the fabric wreath last week has aggravated my carpal tunnel to the worse I have ever experienced. My wrist is actually bruising; I can't spend more than 5minutes on the computer than I'm done for a few hours. Handwriting? Don't even mention it; I can barely hold a pen. Thankfully, I'm in for a massage tomorrow and I know Sharon will fix me up pretty good. And yell at me while doing so lol.
As a result, there has been little crafting done. I have been working on more Dollie Quilts. I have 4 finished, and this one ready to put together than I can quilt them.
But all of this will soon be on the backburner. Tomorrow, the 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in Vancouver. On Sunday, we went and saw the Torch pass through our town.
It was such a fantastic, amazing thing to see.
Than, getting home Jim gets a phone call from his boss. That phone call resulted in these...
Four tickets to see Canada Women's hockey team take on Slovakia Saturday evening. We are BIG hockey fans here; this is HUGE for us. Tickets are row 6 behind the penalty box. Never ever could I have imagined getting to see an Olympic event of any kind. This is a once in a lifetime experience and we can not wait.
GO CANADA GO!
quilt monday
When I pieced this quilt, I called it the Ugly Quilt. I had made this quilt for a baby boy but I hated how the girl version turned out.
I will admit, I don't mind the quilt as much once it was quilted. I donated this one to a local organization that helps teen moms.
Quilted with Cotton.
I will admit, I don't mind the quilt as much once it was quilted. I donated this one to a local organization that helps teen moms.
Quilted with Cotton.
snack saturday
Triple-Layer Mud Pie
1-1/4 cups chocolate Baking Crumbs
1/4 cup non-hydrogenated margarine, melted
3 squares Semi-Sweet Chocolate, melted
1/4 cup canned sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup chopped toasted pecans
2 cups 2% milk
2 pkg. (4-serving size each) Chocolate Instant Pudding
2 cups thawed Whipped Topping, divided
MIX crumbs and butter in 9-inch pie plate; press firmly onto bottom and up side to form crust. Mix chocolate and condensed milk until blended. Pour into crust; sprinkle with pecans.
BEAT 2% milk and pudding mixes with whisk 2 min. Spoon 1-1/2 cups pudding over pecans. Stir 1/2 the whipped topping into remaining pudding; spread over pudding layer in crust. Top with remaining whipped topping.
REFRIGERATE 3 hours.
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