dispatches from the world's smallest, sweetest kitchen

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Merry and Bright

When I went to post about this year's Palentine's I realized that I only had two posts in 2014, which didn't seem right - I certainly felt like I did a bunch of baking last year. So, now I'm digging through old photos - first up: the dessert table from my holiday party, a green and white sugar celebration.



 
These lovely little meringues  mess with your head (they look minty, but were actually maple flavoured) - and totally worth it.




But I did make mint chocolate cupcakes:



The gingerbread variation on the cookie dough truffles might just have been better than the original.


Vanilla-Mint chocolate chip wreath cookies:
Pumpkin spice cookies
Chocolates

Like Nigella, I couldn't resist the snowflake cake pan - though I suspect I don't have the same kind of available storage that she does. Oh well - WORTH IT!


Sugar cookies - about half of the time I spent making this table was on the merry and bright cookies.  The gift tag cookies are sitting on an misshapen edible plate I made out of mints - a project to be refined and tried again. 

There were also some mint chocolate chip marshmallows - but they tasted much better than they photographed.  Oh, and then there was this sparkling white cranberry sangria - which I may still be recovering from:

Did I mention that I made the "merry and bright" glitter banner?  Because I DID.



It was a lovely, sparkly, green evening.