Peanut Butter and Jelly Pop-Tarts

Peanut Butter Crust:

1 1/4 c. all purpose flour
1/4 c. powdered sugar
1/4 c. butter, cold and cut into cubes
1/4 c. peanut butter
pinch of salt
1/4 c. ice cold water

Combine all ingredients in a food processor or with a pastry cutter until combined.  Knead into a ball. Chill for 1 hour.  Roll out 1/8" thickness, cut into 4"x 6" rectangles. Spread 1/2 t. peanut butter on one side of the rectangle.  Add 1 tsp. jelly, any flavor.  Fold over and press sides together with a fork.  Poke holes with a fork to vent top.

Bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes.  Brush tops with milk about 10 minutes after they've been in the oven.  Bake until they are golden brown.  Let cool slightly. 

Peanut Butter glaze:

1 T. Peanut butter  (To make jelly glaze, substitute 1 T. jelly)
1 c. powdered sugar
1 t. water

Mix all ingredients together.  Brush tops of each pastry with glaze.

Maddie's Birthday Cake, my first fondant cake!

So, finally the reason the blog exists... I had never used fondant before, until now. Marshmallow Fondant, try it!  I made my niece's birthday cake.  

Maddie wanted an Ariel themed birthday party, including an Ariel cake. It took me 3 days, 24 eggs, 10 pounds of powdered sugar, 7 cake mixes, 2 cups of oil, 3 cups of shortening, and a whole lot of exhaustion now.... but it looked pretty and she loved it! I am pretty darn proud at my first attempt to make a fondant cake(s)!

The top layer clam shell was strawberry icing and coconut cake.
The middle layer was triple chocolate butter cake with chocolate cherry butter cream, split in 4 layers.

The bottom layer was butter vanilla cake with strawberry filling and vanilla buttercream.

Clam shell top layer, Pink Coconut cake, strawberry icing, gold sugar and edible pearls

Vanilla Buttercream and Strawberry Cake, two layers because Mom said it didn't need to be four (even though the reason layer 2 is 4 layers was because she said it should be.... Moms are weird like that.)

Chocolate Cherry four layered cake, middle layer

The final product!

Miss Maddiecakes! I can't believe she's already 4!

White Chocolate Godiva Cheesecakes

My friend, whom I haven't seen in 8 years, since we worked at Disney together, was in town tonight from New Mexico and we had a chance to visit. I made these tasty, nommy morsels of White Chocolate Cheesecake goodness. We had a Seafood Baked Ziti for dinner, which I will have to post the recipe for as well, but for now....

White Chocolate Godiva Liqueur Cheesecakes (yield 1 dozen)


12 vanilla sandwich cookies, for crust
1 pkg cream cheese
1/4 c. sugar1 egg
1/4 c. sour cream
1/2 c. white chocolate chips or 4 oz. white chocolate bar, chopped -melted
1/2 vanilla bean, pulp scraped
1/4 c. White Chocolate Godiva liqueur

Beat cream cheese and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add egg and sour cream, mixing at medium speed. Mix in white chocolate, liqueur, and vanilla bean. Beat on high for 3-5 minutes. Line 12 cupcakes with paper liners. Place one cookie in each liner. Pour approximately 1/4 c. cheese cake batter in each. Bake at 325 for 30 minutes.
 
White Chocolate Whipped Cream
 
1 c. heavy whipping cream
4 T powdered sugar
3 T. White chocolate godiva liqueur
1/2 t. vanilla

Whipped it up. Piped it on!