Life's Tidbits

I’ve recently become somewhat obsessed with making truffles. Right before Easter my friend came over to hang out and was interested in learning how to make truffles.  I had been dying to try out this new truffle recipe and decided it was the perfect time.  I told her we had to document the process as this was a recipe I had been planning to blog about.  So …. we collected all the ingredients, got the camera ready and the truffle making began!

Here we go … it’s truffle yummilious time!!

Get the recipe and full blog post here.

With chocolate mustaches as the baby shower favor completed all I needed was to make the favor tags.  I ordered card stock to print the tags on and started designing them in PhotoShop.  I wanted the design of the tags to be similar to the custom invitations I made so the “paper products” would mesh.

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Here’s the final product:

A while back I found this blog post about chocolate mustaches.  I had been wanting to make them for a while.  After purchasing the chocolate molds on Amazon along with the lollipop sticks they sat in my cuboid waiting to be used.  I considered making some for a friend’s bachelorette weekend, but ending up making a cake instead.

Then one of my besties got pregnant AND she found out she was having a BOY!!! Finally, I offered to through her a baby shower and after a bit of research decided to do a “little man” themed shower.  Check out the DIY invitationsfor the baby shower.  FINALLY these mustache molds were going to come in handy!

I considered making the mustache chocolates as cupcake toppers, but decided they would be perfection as a thank you gift for the guests.  I bought the chocolate molds and lollipop sticks on Amazon.com, however I also found molds at Michael’s made by Wilton.

Here are the directions on how to create these adorable lollipops.

When the husband and I hosted a Super Bowl party this year a friend made these cute little oreo truffle footballs.  These little guys were extremely addictive.  So yummy!!!!!

Our friend was kind enough to share the recipe with me after a few reminder *wink wink*.  Although I’ve been meaning to make the truffles for a while there hasn’t been a good occasion to give the recipe a try.  We had some friends over this weekend to check out the new place so I made the oreo truffles as a littler treat for  our friend.  They were a big hit!

Find the recipe and read the rest of the blog here.

I have always loved me some chocolate. Make that a molten lava cake a la mode and I’m ALL IN!  As someone with a serious sweet tooth I often make restaurant choices based on their dessert menu.  On weekends when I was home from college my mom would ask me where I wanted to go to dinner. I would almost always opt for The Lyceum (which apparently is now closed - just found that out when Googling it).  Anyways, I found Paul Deen’s recipe for Molten Lava Cakes and decided to give it a whirl.  Let me just say it is YUMMMMMOOOO! I could eat it everyday, but everything in moderation, right?!

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