Sunday, December 12, 2010

First round of Christmas baking...

 Cranberry Bliss Bars & Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Well if you enjoy Starbucks cranberry bliss bars, then you will loves these because they are very similar.  They are topped with a cream cheese icing and craisins.  Not too chewy, but not too crunchy!
The chocolate peanut cups are my favorite. You only need four  ingredients, but it does take time to let the chocolate cups form.  All you need is peanut butter, icing sugar, butter, and hershey kisses.  You need to line a mini muffin tin with paper cups first, and then once you have melted some of the hershey kisses (or you could use chocolate chips) you brush the melted chocolate in the sides and bottom of the paper cups.  You can then put it in the fridge for 20 minutes.  You then check each chocolate cup and add more melted chocolate to the thin areas.  Then put in the fridge over night.  The next day you tear the paper cups away from the chocolate and you have a nicely formed chocolate cup that is then filled with a peanut butter, icing sugar, and butter mixture with a hershey kiss to finish it all off.

 Christmas Cupcakes
I did three different kinds of christmas inspired cupcakes for a christmas party I was attending.  The four cupcakes with the darker icing are hazelnut/nutella cupcakes topped with a gummy snowman or christmas tree.  Then there are chocolate cupcakes topped with buttercream icing and a christmas wreath.  Then there are pumpkin cream cheese cupcakes with fondant gingerbread cut outs and gold sanding sugar.

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